The Nazi German Blitzkrieg's most astonishing triumph, sweeping into the heart of Paris in a few sho...

The two mightiest air fleets in the world clashed in tumultuous combat over the skies of Britain and...

In a classic naval engagement, the American and Japanese Navies squared off in the carrier-to-carrie...

The annihilation of an entire army amidst the charred and frozen ruins of Stalingrad was catastrophe...

In August 1944, with the battle for the beaches won, Allied troops were advancing through Normandy....

The furious, climatic last battle of Hitler’s war. Over half a million lives were lost as the Red Ar...

The longest continuous military campaign of WWII, The Battle of the Atlantic raged across the ocean...

Hitler's plan for the conquest of Russia called for a classic Blitzkrieg offensive, which would be p...

When victory in North Africa seemed assured, Allied Planners turned their attention to Italy. The ob...

To restore American prestige in the Pacific, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized an invasion of...

During the last months of 1944, the British and Americans pressed steadily through France and Belgiu...

In 1953 the French and Viet Minh forces had been at war for seven years. The climactic encounter of...

What starts as a ripple becomes a wave, and with the United States involvement in Vietnam, it began...

While the method of "search and destroy" is the ultimate goal for any armed conflict, it developed a...

Expanding its presence in 1966, the U.S. Army sets up patrols in the south to draw out Viet Cong gue...

Viet Cong incursions in 1967 prompt the U.S. to reinforce key southern bases, unaware that the North...

Viet Cong guerrillas, backed by the North Vietnamese Army, staged a massive offensive against major...

Unlike the two world wars and the many before, the conflict in Vietnam was void of a so-called front...

In early 1968, American and allied forces fought the North Vietnamese Army in one of the most dramat...

The first of two programs on American bombing during the war, concentrates on the campaign prior to...

The air war against the north intensifies as fighting in the south escalates. The U.S. targets Nort...

The Paris Peace Accord finally brought an end to the Vietnam War, and the last U.S. Soldiers left Vi...

The U.S. withdrawal left the South Vietnamese with a well equipped but poorly led army unable to con...

In the summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men and 6,000 tanks of the German and Soviet Armies faced...

The Allies were determined to take the war to Germany both to disrupt German war production and weak...

The remarkable Soviet victory over the once mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manch...

The infamous Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii was one of the most sig...

Guadalcanal was the first major land battle of the Southern Pacific campaign. The island was conside...

This is the story of one of Second World War's most harrowing episodes. The 890 day siege of the Sov...

The campaign in Tunisia saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. The arrival...

Covering the leaders, the equipment, and the men, as well as the battles, it covers the period from...

Covering the entire Italian campaign including the battle of Monte Cassino.

This is the story of the construction and defence of Hitler's three-mile deep web of fortifications,...

This episode tells the tragic story of the "bridge too far" and the ill-fated Operation Market Garde...

Caen, perhaps the greatest major obstacle for the Allied advance inland after the landings in Norman...

Hitler's obsession with the Crimea was the source of fierce disagreements with his General staff, wh...

A vicious 14-week war between the Finns & the Russians ended in March 1940, the Finns finally surren...

The convoys that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean bringing vital supplies to Britain faced one of th...

The battle for Okinawa, chosen to be the final springboard for an Allied invasion of Japan, claimed...

In August 1943 the Romanians--no doubt prompted by merciless Allied bombing--changed sides. Thereaft...

This is the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irr...