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11 Jun
June-July 1944: three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot afford to wage.
11 Jun
War explodes across Western Europe. The Germans' mobile armour, airborne troops and airpower on the battlefield makes their assault unstoppable. France is ready to fall to the Nazis.
11 Jun
11 Jun
11 Jun
The Lost Japanese Treasure is thought to have been buried under the Philippines by retreating Japanese forces at the end of WWII; it is said to include relics, artwork, and gold melted down into bars.
11 Jun
One of the richest men on Earth, Aristotle Onassis left a string of broken hearts in his wake, but no romance would catapult him into the limelight like his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.
11 Jun
Bettany travels to Azerbaijan, which sits between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountain range; it was a strategic position on the ancient Silk Roads that left a legacy of diverse cultures.
11 Jun
Chambord is the largest of the Loire castles; with 220,000 tons of stone needed for its construction, it is one of the most important building sites of the Renaissance.
11 Jun
A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States to bring much-needed water to the arid American West.
11 Jun
Chambord is the largest of the Loire castles; with 220,000 tons of stone needed for its construction, it is one of the most important building sites of the Renaissance.
11 Jun
From Lugers to MG42 machine guns and the Pak40 anti-tank gun, James Holland uncovers how the craftsmanship of German weapons engineering was totally unsuited to fighting a long attritional war.
11 Jun
War explodes across Western Europe. The Germans' mobile armour, airborne troops and airpower on the battlefield makes their assault unstoppable. France is ready to fall to the Nazis.
11 Jun
June-July 1944: three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot afford to wage.
11 Jun
Hidden in the rainforest, Tikal was the capital of the most powerful kingdom built by the Maya; now new technologies such as LiDar allow researchers to reveal new secrets about this exceptional place.
11 Jun
Bettany travels to Azerbaijan, which sits between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountain range; it was a strategic position on the ancient Silk Roads that left a legacy of diverse cultures.
11 Jun
Chambord is the largest of the Loire castles; with 220,000 tons of stone needed for its construction, it is one of the most important building sites of the Renaissance.
11 Jun
A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States to bring much-needed water to the arid American West.
11 Jun
From Lugers to MG42 machine guns and the Pak40 anti-tank gun, James Holland uncovers how the craftsmanship of German weapons engineering was totally unsuited to fighting a long attritional war.
11 Jun
June-July 1944: three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot afford to wage.
11 Jun
War explodes across Western Europe. The Germans' mobile armour, airborne troops and airpower on the battlefield makes their assault unstoppable. France is ready to fall to the Nazis.
11 Jun
11 Jun
11 Jun
Archaeological artefacts from a 1937 dig had the Nazis believe that Germany was the birthplace of modern humans and that these cavemen had unleashed genocide on the Neanderthals; none of it was true.
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