History YMMV / TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance

* WTHCastingAgency:
** It's downright bizarre seeing Ali [=MacGraw=] being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.[[note]]MacGraw only played Natalie in the first miniseries; in ''War and Remembrance'', she was played by the half-Jewish Jane Seymour, whose looks do much better fit the character.[[/note]]
** The person behind the Arab comment was trying really really hard not to say [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "She looks Jewish"]] to Ali's new mother-in-law.

** It's downright bizarre seeing Ali [=MacGraw=] being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.[[note]]MacGraw only played Natalie in the first miniseries; in ''War and Remembrance'', she was played by the half-Jewish Jane Seymour, whose looks do much better fit the character.[[/]]

** It's downright bizarre seeing Ali [=MacGraw=] being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.

* NightmareFuel: The concentration camps, between the matter of factness from high command and the sadism of the soldiers involved. One even pisses in the mass graves to upset the prisoners. Repeatedly.

* HamAndCheese[=/=]{{Narm}}: Steven Berkoff's portrayal of Hitler in the ''War and Remembrance'' TV series. In his VillainousBreakdown in the last episode, he [[{{Wangst}} appears to be throwing a tantrum]].

* [[CreatorsPet Authors Pet]]: Victor is right about every single step of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It is somewhat offset by his appalling homelife.
** Actually Victor was wrong about what was arguably the single most important decision of WWII for a naval officers- Battleships versus aircraft.

* WhatAnIdiot: Aaron and Natalie continually refuse to leave Europe, even after Byron manages to track them down in the middle of the war. To be fair to Natalie, Byron's plan to get out was dangerous, she was advised against it by someone who had helped her so far, and she was not just risking herself but her son.
* WTHCastingAgency: It's downright bizarre seeing Ali [=MacGraw=] being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.

* [[CreatorsPet Authors Pet]]: Victor is right about every single step of WorldWarII. It is somewhat offset by his appalling homelife.

* WTHCastingAgency: It's downright bizarre seeing Ali [=MacGraw=] being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.

* HamAndCheese[=/=]{{Narm}}: Steven Berkoff's portrayal of Hitler in the ''War and Remembrance'' TV series.

* WTHCastingAgency: It's downright bizarre seeing Ali MacGraw being treated like she's some exotic temptress, who one person even says might be mistaken for an Arab.

* WhatAnIdiot: Aaron and Natalie continually refuse to leave Europe, even after Byron manages to track them down in the middle of the war. To be fair to Natalie, Byron's plan to get out was dangerous, she was advised against it by someone who had helped her so far, and she was not just risking herself but her son.

--> "Now I will return to Oswiecim [Auschwitz], where I studied in the yeshiva and where I abandoned the Talmud, and there the Jew's Journey will end. I am ready."