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17 Mar
The Allies plan how to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall for years. The D-Day fleet is the biggest assembled in history, responsible for one of the bloodiest and most extraordinary battles of WW2.
17 Mar
June 1944 - American, British and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches along a 50-mile stretch. We look at the amphibious tanks and the heavy kit that weighed them down as they waded ashore.
17 Mar
Using drone-mounted radar, experts uncover a WWII German trench system revealing a daring commando raid to capture it; at sea, the remains of a tank show how dangerous the preparations for D-Day were.
17 Mar
For most people, Vikings are known only as violent looters; we dig deeper and gain more insight into who the Vikings really were, and find out why they left Scandinavia to become pirates.
17 Mar
As the Vikings attack the coasts of the Frankish empire, they encounter a different resistance; the Frankish emperor Charlemagne has no plans to give up his Christian territory to heathens and pirates.
17 Mar
17 Mar
Don Wildman examines a statue created by the world's best-known art forger, a mysterious cache of buried gold coins, and a woman whose sales technique made Tupperware a household name.
17 Mar
Is a device that looks like a typewriter in a simple wooden box really one of the most dangerous weapons in history, and why is a modern helicopter carved in an ancient Egyptian temple?
17 Mar
Michael travels to North America to explore how British rule led to armed rebellion in the USA and a loyalty in Canada that lasted until the very end of Empire.
17 Mar
The Tower of Babel is one of the most famous stories in the Bible, but was the structure that incurred the wrath of God and spawned a multitude of languages that exist around the world actually real?
17 Mar
The Allies plan how to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall for years. The D-Day fleet is the biggest assembled in history, responsible for one of the bloodiest and most extraordinary battles of WW2.
17 Mar
June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.
17 Mar
Using drone-mounted radar, experts uncover a WWII German trench system revealing a daring commando raid to capture it; at sea, the remains of a tank show how dangerous the preparations for D-Day were.
17 Mar
In 373 BCE, the Greek city of Helike disappeared beneath the waves; according to legend, Poseidon destroyed the city. It's similar to the myth of another ancient civilisation - Atlantis.
17 Mar
We look at the US codebreakers who cracked Japan's seemingly unbreakable WWII code and turned the War in the Pacific in America's favour.
17 Mar
Ramesses II was Egypt's greatest pharaoh; his capital city, Pi-Ramesses, was known to be a magnificent city, yet it seemed to have completely disappeared over the passage of time.
17 Mar
Michael travels to North America to explore how British rule led to armed rebellion in the USA and a loyalty in Canada that lasted until the very end of Empire.
17 Mar
Is a device that looks like a typewriter in a simple wooden box really one of the most dangerous weapons in history, and why is a modern helicopter carved in an ancient Egyptian temple?
17 Mar
The Tower of Babel is one of the most famous stories in the Bible, but was the structure that incurred the wrath of God and spawned a multitude of languages that exist around the world actually real?
17 Mar
The Allies plan how to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall for years. The D-Day fleet is the biggest assembled in history, responsible for one of the bloodiest and most extraordinary battles of WW2.
17 Mar
June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.
17 Mar
Using drone-mounted radar, experts uncover a WWII German trench system revealing a daring commando raid to capture it; at sea, the remains of a tank show how dangerous the preparations for D-Day were.
17 Mar
For most people, Vikings are known only as violent looters; we dig deeper and gain more insight into who the Vikings really were, and find out why they left Scandinavia to become pirates.
17 Mar
As the Vikings attack the coasts of the Frankish empire, they encounter a different resistance; the Frankish emperor Charlemagne has no plans to give up his Christian territory to heathens and pirates.
17 Mar
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