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19 Sep
Britain and France declare war when Hitler invades Poland; in May 1940, the Germans attack Holland and Belgium as a decoy. As the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe strike in force, the French seem trapped.
19 Sep
The war in Europe is transformed when, on 22nd June 1941, Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi invasion of The Soviet Union has begun.
19 Sep
Fiat didn't just make cars - they also made trains and planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
19 Sep
Discover the ancient Maya city of Tikal remodelled using computer graphics; inhabited for over a thousand years, this ancient city would encompass up to 12,000 structures and two million inhabitants.
19 Sep
Our admiration for the most precious of metals dates back millennia; created in the depths of supernovas, gold has propelled innovations that have shaped the world we live in today.
19 Sep
Three relics of a fallen empire, three monuments of a time when half the world lived under its shadow; to this day you can find traces left by the Soviet Union wherever you go.
19 Sep
From around 900 CE, the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned; archaeologists are looking for any clues to help explain the spectacular collapse of the Maya civilisation.
19 Sep
Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?
19 Sep
One of the greatest palaeontology discoveries ever is made in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, but the find brought nothing but trouble and suspicion to those who uncovered it.
19 Sep
Britain and France declare war when Hitler invades Poland; in May 1940, the Germans attack Holland and Belgium as a decoy. As the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe strike in force, the French seem trapped.
19 Sep
The war in Europe is transformed when, on 22nd June 1941, Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi invasion of The Soviet Union has begun.
19 Sep
Fiat didn't just make cars - they also made trains and planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
19 Sep
James Holland explores the U-boat fleet - from one-man torpedoes to the Type XXI - and uncovers how Hitler's failure to understand maritime warfare held the key to the outcome of World War II.
19 Sep
In the final episode, we explore how Hitler dragged the world to war; fresh from invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler now turned to his next target - Poland.
19 Sep
Hitler once said that the Pope was his personal enemy; he could finally carry out his revenge on Pius XII after the Nazi occupation of Italy, so he decided to invade the Vatican and kidnap the Pope.
19 Sep
From around 900 CE, the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned; archaeologists are looking for any clues to help explain the spectacular collapse of the Maya civilisation.
19 Sep
Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?
19 Sep
One of the greatest palaeontology discoveries ever is made in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, but the find brought nothing but trouble and suspicion to those who uncovered it.
19 Sep
Britain and France declare war when Hitler invades Poland; in May 1940, the Germans attack Holland and Belgium as a decoy. As the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe strike in force, the French seem trapped.
19 Sep
The war in Europe is transformed when, on 22nd June 1941, Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi invasion of The Soviet Union has begun.
19 Sep
Fiat didn't just make cars - they also made trains and planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
19 Sep
Discover the ancient Maya city of Tikal remodelled using computer graphics; inhabited for over a thousand years, this ancient city would encompass up to 12,000 structures and two million inhabitants.
19 Sep
Our admiration for the most precious of metals dates back millennia; created in the depths of supernovas, gold has propelled innovations that have shaped the world we live in today.
19 Sep
Three relics of a fallen empire, three monuments of a time when half the world lived under its shadow; to this day you can find traces left by the Soviet Union wherever you go.
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