World War II, it's a subject we've touched on so many times throughout multiple

sucks, but we've never covered it in its entirety.

So that's what we're going to try and do today and next week.

We'll cover as much as we can and what I think will probably end up clocking it around

five and a half, six hours.

Over two episodes, not just today.

We could really spend years worth of episodes, literally thousands of hours diving into

all the battles in various theaters and combatants of this war, unlike any other war fought in

the history of the world.

And we would still not cover it all.

The scale of World War II was just so mind numbingly massive.

Estimates vary from source to source and always will, but conservatively over 60 million

people died in World War II, including anywhere from 38 to 55 million civilians to put that

number in perspective, roughly 17 million meat sacks died to the next biggest war in

modern history.

World War I.

More people died in World War II in less than a decade than all the people killed by the

Mongol invasions of the 13th and 14th centuries.

More people died than the up to 40 million people killed in ancient China during the three

kingdoms war.

They began in 184 CE and lasted for nearly a century.

Never before had the world absorbed so much human blood shed by conflict in such a relatively

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