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02 Feb
In May 1941, 14,000 German paratroopers supported by nearly a thousand aircraft were dropped on the island in a unique blitzkrieg operation; an airborne invasion of this scale would never be repeated.
02 Feb
Protected by a series of actions to slow down the German advance, thousands of Allied soldiers embarked on a march across Crete to meet the Royal Navy, taking them 400 miles across the Mediterranean.
02 Feb
Crete was one of the last places surrendered by the Nazis; it took more than 30 years for 4,000 Germans to be buried on the island, and claims for reparations drag on even to this day.
02 Feb
Homicide detective Rod Demery and scientist Professor Turi King visit the ancient Italian city of Verona to investigate the death of a 14th-century warlord who died suddenly.
02 Feb
Oppressed peasants led by Wat Tyler demanded change after the Black Death and challenged the English king; initial success turned violent as King Richard II retaliated and crushed the revolt.
02 Feb
The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt is a wonder of the world, but when was it built, for what purpose, and by who, and what can the earliest pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara add to the argument?
02 Feb
The House of Romanov had imposed 300 years of strict Imperial rule, but royal authority was in question for the first time. The future of the Romanov dynasty was in danger.
02 Feb
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?
02 Feb
Who instigated the Cold War? We investigate the misunderstandings, false impressions and President Truman's anti-Communism that tipped the world into decades of belligerent peace and nuclear dissuasion.
02 Feb
We take a closer look at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948; how was it formed, who played a part, and what were the true motives of those involved?
02 Feb
We often think of partisans struggling on their own during WWII, yet many clandestine networks were mobilised, organised and funded by a secret British organisation, the S.O.E.
02 Feb
Was Adolf Hitler a master of war or a maker of war? His obsessive quest for territorial domination led to early triumphs, but his refusal to listen to his generals led to catastrophic failures.
02 Feb
We look at the Nazi hegemony from 1941 to its decline in 1945; deciphered archives show us the greatest offensive of the 20th century in the East as well as the apocalypse of a ruined Germany.
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The Spanish island of Villa Winter was suspected of being a port for German U-boats and part of a larger plan to invade the United States.
02 Feb
Kraftwerk Nord West was one of the largest Nazi bunkers ever; constructed outside of the French town of Watten, it was a missile facility with storage for 108 missiles and two launch pads.
02 Feb
As the Red Army approached a forest in Poland toward the end of the war, they stumbled upon a complex containing more than 1,000 structures across 25 square kilometres.
02 Feb
A secret weapons programme in the heart of Austria could have ended badly for the Allies and may have indicated nuclear plans being concocted by Hitler.
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We travel back to the Europe of over a thousand years ago to discover what it meant to be a Viking during the Viking age and explore one of the most exciting archaeological finds of recent times.
02 Feb
Viking-age researcher Neil Price takes us on a tour to Sweden where the Vikings found in Saaremaa likely hailed from, and we explore the possible reasons behind spectacular ship burials.
02 Feb
Normandy owes its name to terrible warriors coming from the North: the Vikings. These men ravaged the Norman lands until it was ceded to them and became their territory.
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