Season 1
13 episodes
48 min. per episode
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A determined historian uncovers hidden truths about unsung heroes, sparking a global quest for justice amidst wartime betrayal.
Episodes
Elite combat units from the Second World War. The formidable Waffen-SS were renowned for their brutality and tenacity, characteristics which made them the subject of numerous Allied war crime investigations.
Britain's SOE was a covert force established in 1940 to support the Resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. Trained in radio use, unarmed combat and sabotage, many parachuted or were dropped by submarine behind enemy lines.
In this program, the soldiers whose name has become a synonym for heroism and tackling the seemingly impossible. What was the task of Britain's elite military force, the SAS, in World War II?
Tells of the British Armoured Division, known as the Desert Rats, who conducted an epic campaign against Rommel's Axis forces in the deserts of Egypt and Libya.
After escaping the German invasion of their homeland in 1939, Polish fighter pilots and ground forces played a key role in the liberation of western Europe.
In this BBC documentary series newly declassified documents are used to examine the strategic roles played in the war by thirteen of the world's regular and resistance land, sea and air forces.