Season 1
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Amidst global chaos, a soldier battles personal demons while uncovering secrets that could redefine loyalty and power forever.
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The second world war ended more than 70 years ago, but wars never end. For those who fought the memories are indestructible. To understand something so profound we must start before the beginning with what Churchill called, The Gathering Storm.
Japan unprovoked invasion had plunged China into war and Europe had been brought to the brink of conflict. In Italy Mussolini introduced fascism to the political landscape and Hitler dismantled democracy. Their expansion threatened neighboring nations.
Six months have passed with very little action in the Phony War. That is about to end and a new word is added to the vocabulary of warfare - Blitzkrieg.
Six months after the fall of France, V. Molotov visited Berlin to discuss how the world was to be divided after victory. He was told Britain was defeated. But Britain wasn't beaten. Just alone.
In 1941 Britain is holding its own, although it is still threatened. Japan took action that made world war two truly global, but before that, the story of the second world war is to be transformed by a single word: Barbarossa.
This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War. These conflicts remade our world in just a few decades. A story of how the rise and fall of great powers, from Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, recast nations into those who could afford, and those that could not afford The Price of Empire.