The Doc Option: Watch an Episode of Ken Burns’s ‘The War’ Instead of ‘Fury’

Americans love war, and there’s no war we love better than World War II. We’ve mythologized it more heavily than any other in our history, even the American Revolution. The story is easy to digest: we swept in on the wings of eagles and rained righteous red, white and blue fury down upon the Nazis, coming to Europe’s rescue and saving all the Jews. We d…