April 1, 2015 • 1h
Seeking to hit back at Japan, Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-25 bombers on aircraft for a mission that the crews have little chance of surviving.
April 2, 2015 • 1h
Surrounded by the Japanese, Orde Wingate led the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in one of the most imaginative and complex escapes of World War II.
April 3, 2015 • 1h
Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.
April 5, 2015 • 1h
Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is s...Read more
April 12, 2015 • 1h
This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action again...Read more
April 19, 2015 • 1h
In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fi...Read more
April 26, 2015 • 1h
With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousand...Read more
May 3, 2015 • 1h
In 1944, 1500 outnumbered British and Indian troops amazingly hold Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima. This is their amazing story.
May 10, 2015 • 1h
By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Les...Read more
May 17, 2015 • 1h
Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to f...Read more
May 24, 2015 • 1h
As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer disti...Read more
May 31, 2015 • 1h
By 1942, the fight between the Allies and the Axis for control of the Mediterranean is focused on tiny Malta. From there, British ...Read more
June 7, 2015 • 1h
With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc ...Read more