Rating: 
Summary: The Sound over the Fury!
Review: This disc collection, in most aspects, might have been one of the best that I have ever seen. It appears to have been designed in great part for the classroom,where I believe it would be an excellent teaching tool. Each very well assembled episode is quite independent of the others and starts with a thorough review of the preceding one. This of course can be bypassed with a touch of fast forward. There is excellent coverage of all aspects of the war, political and military, including a very cogent explanation of the events leading to the conflict. Refreshingly, the film footage is mostly original with none of the tired images we have all seen ad nauseam. No, the only fault, but an important one, is the sound quality. The music often screeches out the narrative and renders it impossible to follow. Whoever is responsible for the musical sound track should be condemned to listen to his work in a soundproof enclave and the volume turned up to nose and ear bleeding level. It is a pity that such excellent and comprehensive work, obviously very carefully put together, has been marred to that extent by an incompetent sound track, negating almost completely what is a very intelligent narration. At least that which one can hear between crescendos. Pity!
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