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Posted Oct. 11, 2007,
Ken Burns' The War on PBS (Reality Check Two Three)
By Ann Magnuson
Sorry to interrupt our little campfest with a brutal dose of reality but... God. Words completely fail me in trying describe the experience of watching the Ken Burns' PBS series on WWII called simply The War. You could say War is Hell but Hell has nothing on this War. (Or any war.) I rarely turn on the TV anymore but happened upon the last episodes (and now, thankfully, the second airing ) of this series when I switched on the set to watch the latest finds from the Hollywood vault. I've ignored all the escapist DVDs that have piled up ever since because I can't stop watching The War.