The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
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The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
An adrenaline-fuelled dash through nazi-occupied Europe known as ‘The Flight of the Crow', a death-defying escape across the world's most perilous mountain range, and the largest escape of world war two - by men who chose death over dishonour.
Colditz Castle, the foreboding Nazi fortress that became a university of escapology The Great Escape, and the doomed airmen of Stalag Luft Three and the most daring breakout of them all, the ‘Warburg Wire Job'.
After Pearl Harbour and their triumphant sweep across South-East Asia, Japanese armies celebrate their victory. But Japanese confidence is shaken four months later at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The United Kingdom is isolated as German forces occupy Europe. 17,000 Trains carry German armies towards the Soviet Union. With Operation Barbarossa Hitler launches Vernichtungskrieg, a war of annihilation.
In this episode of the series, we look at the dark and disturbing tale of the skeleton of an unknown woman found in a hollowed-out tree in a Birmingham woodland.
The fact that Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in his apartment in 1931 has remained a little-known footnote in the Fuhrers long and bloody legacy. The investigation concluded that she had committed suicide using her uncle's revolver.
Two of the fastest combat aircraft of World War 2, their origins couldn't differ more. The Messerschmitt 262 was the brainchild of genius designer Willy Messerschmitt and it became the first combat jet in history.
The Soviet Union produced a large variety of tanks and airplanes during World War II. What made the T34 and the Chaika stand out and become icons?
An adrenaline-fuelled dash through nazi-occupied Europe known as ‘The Flight of the Crow', a death-defying escape across the world's most perilous mountain range, and the largest escape of world war two - by men who chose death over dishonour.
Colditz Castle, the foreboding Nazi fortress that became a university of escapology The Great Escape, and the doomed airmen of Stalag Luft Three and the most daring breakout of them all, the ‘Warburg Wire Job'.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Regarded as one of the most important aircraft of the Cold War. It was a major part of the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and was also used by many other countries.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first RAF aircraft to fly over 300mph. Over half of every enemy aeroplane destroyed in the Battle of Britain was by a Hurricane, not a Spitfire.
Destroyers and Cruisers showcases ships that with their speed and firepower became the backbones of 20th century navies. We tell the incredible story of USS Laffey, the WW2 destroyer that would come to be known as ‘the ship that would not die'.
Armed with evidence from Odette, Vera intensifies her search at Karlsruhe prison and Ravensbruck, facing hurdles to uncover crucial results in Germany.
With Allied victories and the liberation of Paris following D-Day, Vera is in a race against time to locate her missing agents.
With the fall of France, only Britain stood between Hitler and complete victory in Europe. But German High Command knew that it first had to have mastery of the skies.
The world had largely ignored the growing threat of Nazism during the late 1930s and now the appeasement of Hitler was about to have terrible consequences.
From the Indian border in Burma to China, which has been at war with Japan since 1937, the war grows more savage. In Europe, despite having less resources than when he first made the attempt, Hitler renews his assault on the Soviet Union.
The war enters its third year with battlefields in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Asia/Pacific. The Battle of Midway, a battle with irreversible consequences, is a victory for the USA.
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