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17 Oct
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
17 Oct
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 Oct
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.
17 Oct
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
17 Oct
Ramses I's eight-year-old son Seti becomes king and all eyes are on him; the young prince representes the future of the new royal family which has yet to assert its influence over the kingdom.
17 Oct
Known through the ages as 'Bad' King John, was the Plantagenet ruler of England and France the buffoon depicted in tales of Robin Hood or a sadistic killer fuelled by his insecurity?
17 Oct
The Habsburgs were the most powerful family in Europe for centuries; why was their destiny so fatal, and were all their tribulations connected to some kind of curse?
17 Oct
The crucifixion of Jesus changed the world; how much of our understanding of this event is true, and what answers can be found in the Holy Land to back up the Bible's story?
17 Oct
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 Oct
The story of how Persia morphed into Iran is very much the story of one family, the Pahlavis. Their reign would prove short-lived for a dynasty, but it was the most tumultuous in the nation's history.
17 Oct
The tragic histories of the political dynasties of the Bhutto family in Pakistan and the Nehru-Gandhi family in India are often compared to that of America's Kennedy family.
17 Oct
Ramses II reigned for 66 years and left a colossal legacy of monuments and temples; his reputation embodies the power and grandeur of Pharaonic Egypt.
17 Oct
Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, is famous for the Great Pyramid of Giza; his reign is shrouded in mystery but bears witness to the greatness of ancient Egypt.
17 Oct
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
17 Oct
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.
17 Oct
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 Oct
The story of how Persia morphed into Iran is very much the story of one family, the Pahlavis. Their reign would prove short-lived for a dynasty, but it was the most tumultuous in the nation's history.
17 Oct
The tragic histories of the political dynasties of the Bhutto family in Pakistan and the Nehru-Gandhi family in India are often compared to that of America's Kennedy family.
17 Oct
Ramses II reigned for 66 years and left a colossal legacy of monuments and temples; his reputation embodies the power and grandeur of Pharaonic Egypt.
17 Oct
Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, is famous for the Great Pyramid of Giza; his reign is shrouded in mystery but bears witness to the greatness of ancient Egypt.
17 Oct
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
17 Oct
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.
17 Oct
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.
17 Oct
Ramses I's eight-year-old son Seti becomes king and all eyes are on him; the young prince representes the future of the new royal family which has yet to assert its influence over the kingdom.
17 Oct
Known through the ages as 'Bad' King John, was the Plantagenet ruler of England and France the buffoon depicted in tales of Robin Hood or a sadistic killer fuelled by his insecurity?
17 Oct
The story of how Persia morphed into Iran is very much the story of one family, the Pahlavis. Their reign would prove short-lived for a dynasty, but it was the most tumultuous in the nation's history.
17 Oct
The tragic histories of the political dynasties of the Bhutto family in Pakistan and the Nehru-Gandhi family in India are often compared to that of America's Kennedy family.
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