Matching archive film and photography to their original locations, this series charts the most extraordinary events of WWII from a unique perspective.
1942 – the Nazis develop the world’s first cruise and ballistic missiles. Can the Allies stop Hitler before he rains down terror from above?
Stalin, seeking revenge, wages a war of annihilation against Nazi Germany. Over one million Soviet soldiers charge west to launch an attack on Berlin.
1943 – Allied commanders assemble the crème de la crème of their air forces to attempt one of the most audacious bombing missions of WWII.
December 1944 - Hitler launches an all-out assault on the Western front across Belgium and Luxembourg. In small towns, vastly outnumbered Allied platoons face off against entire German battalions in a series of David Vs Goliath attacks that pits superior Nazi weaponry against American mettle: The Battle of the Bulge.
1940 - 400,000 Allied troops are surrounded by Hitler’s army at Dunkirk. Can the Allies escape and make it back to Britain to continue the fight?
+ Summer 1940: Fierce dogfights fill the skies over Southern England, as the pilots of the RAF defend the island from ferocious German bombers.
The longest campaign of the war pits the deadly stealth of the Nazi U-boats against the code-breaking genius and long-range bombers of the Allies.
The Allies have taken the beaches of Northern France. Now they face a brutal fight through enemy territory in a bid to liberate Europe.
September 1944: Thousands of troops drop from the skies over the Netherlands, as the Allies launch the largest airborne assault in history.
From the audacious beach landings at Salerno to the mountaintop stand-off at Monte Cassino, the Allies battle to liberate Italy from the Nazis.
From the first shots fired to the horrors of Auschwitz, the battle to free Poland from the grip of the Nazis is one of the toughest of the war.
