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05 Dec
Berlin falls and the war in Europe ends. Okinawa falls with terrible losses on both sides as each prepares for the invasion of the first of the major home islands - but a new weapon is unleashed.
05 Dec
With the war over, thousands of Nazis were fleeing Europe with the help of members of the Vatican, but there was another man who declared himself an enemy of the Pope: Joseph Stalin.
05 Dec
Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland was a gamble that paid off as his push west remained unchecked; while the leaders of Europe attempt 'peace', Kristallnacht signalled the horrors yet to come to many.
05 Dec
December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.
05 Dec
We trace the story of Troy back 150 years to follow Heinrich Schliemann's quest to find a lost city and prove that the Trojan War really happened.
05 Dec
Thousands of people were dosed with LSD by the CIA; did the CIA murder its own people, poison a whole French town, experiment on New Yorkers and assassinate Bobby Kennedy?
05 Dec
Thousands of people were dosed with LSD by the CIA; did the CIA murder its own people, poison a whole French town, experiment on New Yorkers and assassinate Bobby Kennedy?
05 Dec
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain; the Luftwaffe has been deterred, but the Blitz begins as the Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
05 Dec
A turning point in the Cold War as the Rolling Thunder bombings and the devastating Tet Offensive shattered US morale, LBJ escalated the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh led fierce resistance.
05 Dec
The Peloponnesian War left Greece drained and weakened; Macedonia is poised to fill the power vacuum. This episode explores how Philip II turned a backward city-state into a military superpower.
05 Dec
In Tunisia, an exceptional archaeological site dominates the Mediterranean - Carthage - but these ruins tell another story of a city founded seven centuries earlier by the Phoenicians.
05 Dec
October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is liberated, it seems the crisis might be over.
05 Dec
Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland was a gamble that paid off as his push west remained unchecked; while the leaders of Europe attempt 'peace', Kristallnacht signalled the horrors yet to come to many.
05 Dec
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain; the Luftwaffe has been deterred, but the Blitz begins as the Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
05 Dec
A turning point in the Cold War as the Rolling Thunder bombings and the devastating Tet Offensive shattered US morale, LBJ escalated the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh led fierce resistance.
05 Dec
The Peloponnesian War left Greece drained and weakened; Macedonia is poised to fill the power vacuum. This episode explores how Philip II turned a backward city-state into a military superpower.
05 Dec
In Tunisia, an exceptional archaeological site dominates the Mediterranean - Carthage - but these ruins tell another story of a city founded seven centuries earlier by the Phoenicians.
05 Dec
October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is liberated, it seems the crisis might be over.
05 Dec
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain; the Luftwaffe has been deterred, but the Blitz begins as the Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
05 Dec
Hitler had outwardly emphasised his will for peace, yet he committed his top commanders once he came to power to a war of extermination that would secure the German Reich's supremacy in Europe.
05 Dec
We trace the story of Troy back 150 years to follow Heinrich Schliemann's quest to find a lost city and prove that the Trojan War really happened.
05 Dec
As Whitechapel reels from three brutal murders, Fred Best and colleagues at the Star spin a lone killer theory to sell papers.
05 Dec
A turning point in the Cold War as the Rolling Thunder bombings and the devastating Tet Offensive shattered US morale, LBJ escalated the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh led fierce resistance.
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