Up until the end of 1941, the USA stayed resolutely neutral. Not surprisingly, there was little public appetite for joining a war that was taking place many miles away and seemed to have little to do with the world's greatest superpower.
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Up until the end of 1941, the USA stayed resolutely neutral. Not surprisingly, there was little public appetite for joining a war that was taking place many miles away and seemed to have little to do with the world's greatest superpower.
With the invasion of Britain officially postponed, The Germans looked for another way to knock Britain out of the war. As an island race, Britons depended on its merchant navy to provide vital war materials, not to mention food and fuel.
A secret bunker below the Kremlin, a sanctuary in the coastal forests of Sochi and a hidden second Metro in Russia's capital are just some of the bunkers developed for Stalin, seen for the first time ever using recently declassified documentation.
Paranoid and isolated, Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha establishes his bunkerization project, which would result in the construction of more than 170,000 bunkers, including the top secret HQ in Tirana, and a bunker city known as The Capital of War.
We explore two submarines – former Cold War enemies now moored in a Kent river, and discover the story of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submariner who refused to authorise a nuclear launch.
John F Kennedy first made news in 1943 when, as a skipper of a torpedo boat in the Pacific, he and his crew were shipwrecked. We tell the story of their rescue.
The Avro Lancaster is the legendary British heavy bomber that carved its place in history with Bomber Command during World War 2. That conflict saw over seven thousand of these iconic aircraft come off the production line.
The debate about humanity's true origins becomes a nefarious fixation as SS leader Heinrich Himmler turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race.
The greatest hideout in fascist Italy's history: The Monte Soratte Bunker. Built directly into a mountainside, with security features even a Bond villain could only dream of. But could Mussolini's bunker withstand an all-out Allied assault?
Hitler's last secret is revealed: a sprawling underground headquarters at Książ Castle, complete with a spectacular network of underground complexes in the Owl Mountains. Was this intended to be the birthplace of Hitler's ultimate superweapon?
Cruelly called 'the packing case the B17 came in,' the Liberator more than proved its worth over Europe and the Pacific, patterning the B17 to deliver a blow to the axis powers in WWII however it wasn't simply a bomb delivery system.
Often called 'the forgotten bomber', the mighty North American twin delivered the first blow in the fight back against Japan, in one of the most daring and audacious raids of all time.
In the 19th century, weapons became more sophisticated and more deadly, and the results were higher casualties with devastating wounds.
Four railway journeys that changed modern history: 24-year-old Winston Churchill boarded an armoured train during the Boer War hoping for a newspaper scoop.
Small arms production hit a boom in the early 1800s with the emergence of the modern cartridge an invention that led to the lethal package.
The industrial revolution changed it all when it came to cannons as they evolved from wholly inaccurate and immobile to deadly killing machines.
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a savage and merciless attack on the Soviet Union. Now, newly colorised film and amateur home movies provide an unprecedented inside look at this brutal conflict.
It took only six weeks for the Nazi Army to conquer France, with an onslaught of tanks, aircraft and German troops. Witness the extraordinary military success of the Blitzkrieg campaign, through rare footage and firsthand accounts.
The Special Operations Executive, precursor to MI6, used a foul-smelling substance called 'S liquid' to undermine German and Japanese officers.
Nazi scientists conducted brutal experiments for an Aryan master race, while zoologists ran their own bizarre trial
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