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25 Jan
At the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis had the finest airforce in the entire world; James Holland learns how internecine squabbles led the Nazi High Command on the catastrophic road to defeat.
25 Jan
James Holland uncovers the truth behind Hitler's feared Panzer divisions and explores how the German obsession with over-engineering their armoured vehicles brought about their downfall.
25 Jan
James Holland explores the U-boat fleet - from one-man torpedoes to the Type XXI - and uncovers how Hitler's failure to understand maritime warfare held the key to the outcome of World War II.
25 Jan
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.
25 Jan
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?
25 Jan
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.
25 Jan
This episode explores moments of the war where Allied forces started to push back: the relief of Leningrad, the liberation of Paris, D-Day and the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps.
25 Jan
We witness the final moments and aftermath of World War II with the establishment of war crime trials - such as the ones in Nuremberg - and move towards peace with the creation of the United Nations.
25 Jan
25 Jan
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.
25 Jan
25 Jan
25 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.
25 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.
25 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.
25 Jan
Alexander confronts the final unravelling of Darius' power; determined to secure his place as Darius' successor, he adopts the administrative strengths of the Persian Empire.
25 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.
25 Jan
Amateur footage of frontline and civilian stories offers novel insight into life in pre-war Germany and the early days of the war. Nazi control pervades; anti-Semitism is explicit.
25 Jan
Amateur footage of frontline and civilian stories offers novel insight into life and atrocities in Germany and the occupied territories as Hitler's dreams crumble.
25 Jan
Japan stood at a crossroads after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings; on the 14th of August, 1945, Emperor Hirohito retreated to his office bunker to record a message announcing Japan's surrender.
25 Jan
25 Jan
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