Looks into the civilians who got caught in the crossfire, how an 11-year-old Jewish boy hid from the Nazis, an unjustly imprisoned Japanese-American who served his country, and a young woman's Blitz experience.
Uncovers the luck and determination that helped POWs endure captivity, hunger and acts of brutality, and discovers the riveting stories of soldiers who survived infamous German stalags, Japanese forced-labour campaigns, and death marches.
Gets insight into one of the war's most hazardous jobs: piloting an aircraft, explores the constant race to provide more aerial firepower, revisits one of the most daring raids, and hears from a glider pilot who risked it all the night before D-Day.
