Check Out the History Channel This Memorial Day Weekend

The History Channel will broadcast a special three-part series this holiday weekend (starting Monday night) to commemorate those who served in the two World Wars.  The series, The World Wars, shares the stories of the leaders of World War II in terms of their stories during World War I.  In addition to the typical historians, narrators include John McCain, Colin Powell, John Major, and others. 

Here is the History Channel's summary:

An assassination in Sarajevo sparks a global war. For the next 30 years, deadly fighting rages across Europe, Africa, China and the Pacific.

Hitler. Churchill. De Gaulle. MacArthur. Patton. Stalin. Mussolini. We know them as legends. But they first learn what it will take to rise to greatness as young soldiers, fighting for their lives on the frontlines.

This is the story of a generation of men who come of age in the trenches of World War I, only to become the leaders of World War II. The lessons they learn on the frontlines shape them as they rise to power—and haunt them as the deadly fighting breaks out again. Some become heroes, forged in courage under fire. Others emerge as the most infamous villains the world has ever seen.

Theirs is one story—the story of a 30-year global struggle. A fight that will either save the world—or destroy it.

This is an interesting twist to an otherwise well-known story. And given the horrible destruction at the start of last century and the trouble brewing in the Russian and Chinese neighborhoods, it should be told again to a new generation.  Someday someone will tell the story of the young Putin of the Cold War in East Germany and the later Kremlin bully annexing parts of Ukraine.  I just hope that is the full extent of his sad and destructive deeds.