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Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to another history of the Second World War interview. It has long been

my belief that if you want to understand how societies around the world view the Second World War,

you have to look at the popular media that was created about the war for that society at any given time.

During and after the war years, these were books, films, and radio programs.

Then in the 60s and 70s, some of the most famous movie set in the Second World War would be released.

Movies like A Bridge Too Far, which is the best World War II movie of all time.

And that's a fact, and no, I'm not taking feedback on it.

Movies and television shows would continue to be released in the decades that followed,

perhaps most notably things like Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, sort of, at least in the last few decades.

Every single one of these pieces of media says something about how the creators,

and in many cases the public masses they wanted

to attract, viewed the war and understood history when they were created.

In recent decades, another form of media has become an ever greater part of how people,

especially younger people, view history.

I'm of course talking about video games. With video games consuming an ever-growing

number of entertainment hours around the world, the impact that those games have on how history

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