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24 Jan
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.
24 Jan
November 1944: as the Allies advance into Germany, they run into concrete bunkers, pillboxes, minefields and tank traps. German soldiers fight tenaciously to defend their homeland.
24 Jan
December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.
24 Jan
March 1945: the Allies have reached the River Rhine. Montgomery plans a giant operation to cross the river in the north, but luck hands the Americans a bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
24 Jan
The remains of 7,000 humans were discovered in the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta's Neolithic temple; could the temple reveal the mystery of who they belonged to and what happened to its owners?
24 Jan
No other family in 20th-century America has held higher status than the Kennedys, but as blessed as they seemingly were, they were also cursed by a series of tragic and bizarre events.
24 Jan
We examine key movements in the Pacific Theatre - the Fall of Singapore, the Battle of Midway and the Kokoda Campaign - Rommel's offensives in Africa, and the Allied bombing campaign over Europe.
24 Jan
The Axis forces begin to lose hold on their previous triumphs; between Japan's loosening hold on southeast Asia and Germany's growing defeats in Europe, we begin to see WW2's turning of the tide.
24 Jan
24 Jan
In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.
24 Jan
We explore the post-WWII years as Truman and Stalin emerged as rivals; from the Berlin Airlift to NATO and the Marshall Plan, early Cold War decisions shaped a tense and divided global order.
24 Jan
Eisenhower and Khrushchev rising to power marked a shift in the Cold War steering tensions through coups, summits and Space Race drama; this led to the U-2 crisis and a breakdown in diplomacy.
24 Jan
In one pivotal moment, global power moved from crumbling empires to rising nationalist forces as Nasser and Eden clashed in Suez, the Soviets crushed Hungary, and the Cold War world was redrawn.
24 Jan
JFK and Castro entered the stage as Cold War conflict hit the Western hemisphere; from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a standoff nearly sparked nuclear war before uneasy deescalation.
24 Jan
The Great Pyramids stand as a testament to Egypt's power, but the Old Kingdom collapsed by 2200 B.C. / B.C.E; what caused the fall of the Pyramid Age?
24 Jan
24 Jan
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.
24 Jan
From his troubled childhood in Austria to his meteoric rise as Führer of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler's ruthless personality and distorted worldview were shaped by his daily life.
24 Jan
To determine how Der Führer's secrets may have shaped the man behind the tyrant, we need to examine his troubled childhood and sociopathic personality.
24 Jan
24 Jan
24 Jan
In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.
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