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The smell of death in paradise
Disaster on the Vicenza 'milk run'
D-Day reconnaissance suffers casualties
A war barely interrupted by Christmas
'Military Dogs of World War II'
How Italy had been drawn into the war
Inside Hitler's Germany in 1943
Speer visits the Finnish frontline
Bombing Germany in 1943 - the 8th Air Force
The 'Mighty Eighth' in action over Germany
The 82nd Airborne in the Italian Hills
German soldiers admit atrocities
Black night for Bomber Command
Lord Mountbatten arrives as 'SACSEA'
"ils ne passerine pas" - 'they shall not pass'
Desperate bravery of Australian POWs
Flying to Britain to join the war
The 401st begin Bombing Missions
Shermans versus Panzer IVs in Italy
Germans counter-attack on the Eastern front
Infantrymen versus Tiger tanks
US carriers fight off suicidal attacks
Ed Murrow reports from over Berlin
Trench warfare on the Eastern front
Germans turn against Italian civilians
'Let's shoot top 50,000 Germans'
New Zealanders join the attack
The Strategy of a Luftwaffe Ace
Berliner's reel from RAF raids
'Diver' Derrick's one man attack
Tarawa - the fight for 'Bonnyman's Hill'
The second desperate day on Tarawa
Captain chooses to go down with Submarine
A pep talk from the Reichsmarschall
Millions are being trained for war
Facing Fallschirmjägers on Leros
Polish success in the Mediterranean
War in 'beautiful southern Italy'
Hitler's last Beer Hall speech
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
USS Saratoga planes hit Rabaul
Lancaster pilot determined to attack
A merciless end on the Eastern Front
A difficult and miserable Exfiltration
Mass execution of Hong Kong civilians
Landing on the Treasury Islands
Airborne Interception over London
The beheading of Leonard Siffleet
Over 400 killed in Channel action
Eastern front under 'terrific pressure'
Medal of Honor for 'Pappy' Boyington
An insider's account of Hitler and his war
A costly German counter-attack
'Butchery' on the Eastern Front
The 'Jolly Old Wailer' stirs up London
USN surprised at Battle of Vella Lavella
American Civilians murdered on Wake Island
USN strike inside the Arctic circle
SAS & Commandos leapfrog ahead
Nazis launch random attacks on Poles
Dogfight over the Eastern Front
USAAF fighters surprise the Luftwaffe
Sneak attack into Singapore harbour
The Coldstream Guards take Hill 207
Another deadly night in the Atlantic
Midget submarines attack Tirpitz
Wolfpacks return to the Atlantic
Aftermath of the German retreat
Assassination on the streets of Warsaw
Red Army face German counter-attack
Selected to Work - in Auschwitz
German counter-attack at Salerno
Fallschirmjägers rescue Mussolini
Germans turn against Italian civilians
Salerno - heroic assault by untested troops
A narrow escape on the Eastern Front
The unity of the 'English speaking peoples'
Defending Crete from the Fallschirmjagers
The Last Days of Charles Weston
Japanese cruelties in Indonesia
From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem
Germans under pressure at Kharkov
USAAF suffers over Schweinfurt-Regensburg
Soviet railway sabotage intensifies
Nachtjagd - Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943
The Wehrmacht's trail of destruction
Liberator crew die sinking U-Boat
War artist takes Italian surrender
Germans outflanked at San Fratello
Two U-boats surprised in Mid Atlantic
Solomon islanders find Lt. J.F. Kennedy
Japanese troops starve as they retreat
Heavy casualties in Ploesti raid
Medals of Honor on New Georgia
Hamburg is devastated by a firestorm
Pierre Closterman opens his score
The infantry advance in Sicily
German night-fighters are duped
Patton marches into Palermo, Sicily
The Red Army moves to the offensive
Surviving a 'rhubarb' over France
Hitler physically afflicted by reverses
'The men who flew the Vought F4U Corsair'
Hitler calls off 'Operation Citadel'
Airborne assault captures key bridge
Germans torture ordinary Poles
George S. Patton "earns his pay"
Operation Husky - approaching Sicily
'Vengeance weapon' gives Hitler hope
'Zitadelle' - the last big German offensive
The SAS attack Kasteli airfield
Wild Boars and Flak over Cologne
With the US Navy 'going up the Slot'
British General saved by Texan surgeon
A USAAF bomber crew tries to relax
Battle orders for the Commandos
Japanese savagery adds to death toll
Luftwaffe fighter attack on a B-17
The Red Army prepares for battle
French resistance leaders captured
Abuse of the Polish people continues
A prisoner snatch on the Eastern Front
The agony of "missing, presumed dead"
A deeply honest and innocent secret agent
Cholera hits POWs on death railway
Night fighter vs night fighter over Germany
USAAF suffer in raid on U-Boat yards
USS Bogue's planes sink U-Boat
'U-48 - The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War'
Stalin's dismay as D-Day postponed
An 'international' report on the Katyn massacre
Narrow escape for Yugoslav partisans
The Wehrmacht prepares for 'Zitadelle'
German invalids trained for battle
Perilous fate of a Japanese-American POW
Churchill argues for the invasion of Italy
Random strike hits seaside town
Last desperate hours of Japanese on Attu
Gurkha NCO wins VC in Burma jungle battle
The Allied Strategy for Europe
Goebbels alarmed by Dortmund raid
Bomber Command's heaviest raid yet
'Targets of opportunity' for the artillery
Close encounters with the Japanese
Operation Chastise - the Dambusters' Raid
The 'Dambusters' prepare to attack
The score reaches 1000 at Biggin Hill
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur torpedoed
U.S. forces land on the Aleutian Islands
Frustrations with Churchill and the Americans
Japanese massacre Chinese at Changjiao
The end approaches in the Warsaw Ghetto
Wolfpack Fink closes in on Convoy ONS 5
The Battle of the Ruhr hots up
Inside the burning Warsaw ghetto
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa
British infantry in hilltop battles
The struggle for Hill 609 continues
John Kenneally's one man attack
The Bloody Battle for Hill 609
Last letters from a Polish ghetto
The battle of the Warsaw Ghetto continues
The destructive power of 'The Gadget'
Guadalcanal and the surrounding seas
Black day for the Luftwaffe 'Gigants'
Indian and Gurkha troops in Tunisian attack
An English girl's love letter for the Gestapo
Hurricanes in Action Worldwide
A high altitude radar guided dogfight
Little cheer on the Home Front
US and British infantry in heroic attacks
Gunner Milligan survives a 'stonk'
Hitler's lies keep his Allies onside
Bitter fighting and gallantry at Wadi Akarit
Stray USAAF bombs cause disaster
Nightmare deportation from Warsaw
The American soldier on the front line
Preparing for an anti U-boat patrol
Irish Guards in 'suicidal' attack
Patton's troops advance at El Guettar
A precarious sanctuary in Poland
British armour out flanks the Germans
Heroic hilltop stand by Maori Battalion
Khatyn: another massacre of civilians
The Mareth Line battle hots up
The well supplied US Army in North Africa
One man rescue operation on a burning ship
The Irish Guards arrive in Tunisia
British preparatory attack on the Mareth Line
Stalin urges 'Second Front' in 1943
Kharkov retaken in Waffen SS counter-attack
Savage end for the Krakow ghetto Jews
'Armoured Warfare in the British Army'
'Dead in the water' - as an E Boat circles
Patton takes command in North Africa
Germans fall back on the Eastern Front
British exercise tests Canadian Command
George Watson drowns saving others
Chindits struggle through Burma jungle
Medenine - Rommel's last battle in Africa
'Operations in North Africa and the Middle East'
Disaster on the London Underground
The Rosenstrasse protest in Berlin
Berlin bombed in largest raid yet
Operation Gunnerside - the Telemark raid
Fighting to the last man at Sidi Nsir
Arctic Convoy JW53 battered in gales
British Eighth Army reaches the Mareth line
Hitler weakened after Stalingrad
USAAF face hazards of wartime flying
Operation Watchtower - Guadalcanal
US resistance stiffens at Kasserine Pass
Goebbels calls for 'Total War'
US Army's last stand at the Kasserine Pass
German retreat continues on Eastern Front
US Army surprised at Sidi Bou Zid
Hellfire Pass on the Death Railway
Churchill struck by the 'old man's friend'
Japanese withdraw from Guadalcanal
Wolfpack 'Arrow' runs amok in US Convoy
Hitler evasive over operational decisions
The Holocaust - burning the evidence
Ultimate sacrifice of the 'Four Chaplains'
The US Army starts to take casualties
A German Field Marshal surrenders
Joe Foss's last flight over Guadalcanal
Roosevelt demands 'unconditional surrender'
French Police help deport Jews
Duelling a sniper on Guadalcanal
The Italian retreat from Stalingrad
Welcome to the British Army in North Africa
Savagery on both sides on Guadalcanal
RAF Bomber Command visits the 'Big City'
'The Guns' support another attack
The agony continues in Stalingrad
Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca
Lucky escape from trapped U-boat
Living the German nightmare in Berlin
1,274,166 murdered in 'Operation Reinhard'
The long German retreat begins
The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front
Stalingrad - 'Gingerbread or the Whip'
American war machine grows ever stronger
Parkash Singh twice cheats death
USAAF General dies defying orders