This mini-series was less entertaining than I had hoped, though perhaps partly because I have read so much and watched so many programs on the subject that there wasn’t a lot of new information for me here. But also they seemed to keep showing the same images over and over, both of people and places. I suppose it is because there weren’t very many contemporary images to choose from, but it made it less than stunning visually, to say the least. But I can’t fault the enthusiasm and energy of the host, historian Tracy Berman. She takes on the hushed and awed tones of all tv historians and archa...