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Russia holds Eastern Europe

Tragedy as 'Nazi Titanic' sunk

Last dogfight over Germany

Germans begin to surrender

First civilian deaths in England

Despair and Suicide in Germany

Hitler shoots himself

US troops liberate Dachau

Hitler marries Eva Braun

Eva Braun's last days

Italians get their revenge

Nazis continue to believe in victory

Spearheading the Allied advance

Perilous times for German citizens

Berlin descends into a nightmare battle

Breakout and pursuit in Italy

Irish Guards - courageous to the end

'Halbe 1945"

Hitler's birthday as Soviet shells hit Berlin

Coming to terms with the Germans

Facing the Soviet assault on Berlin

Churchill pays tribute to Roosevelt

First British POWs liberated

Bergen-Belsen liberated

The US Army advance in Italy

The Second Battle of Narvik

The Gardelegen Atrocity

Buchenwald "beggars description"

The rape and loot of Konigsberg

First major ship sunk by dive bombers

Looting and fraternisation in Germany

Denmark and Norway invaded

The last big attack in Italy

Death of a Danish hero

World's largest battleship sunk

Allied infantrymen in northwest Europe

Slave Labourers released

Snipers and men without officers

The Wehrmacht falls back

Horror of war on Okinawa

Two heroic Bren gun attacks

Last amphibious assault in the Pacific

Me-262s jets ambush Lancaster bombers

'Hitler's Final Fortress'

The aftermath of rocket attacks in Britain

Germany's Future

Street fighting in a German town

'Fire and Movement'

The forward platoon makes contact

Brief but deadly German resistance

Airborne assault across the Rhine

'Jayhawk'

First wave across the Rhine

The Pacific Fleet readies for action

'Maximum Effort' from Medium bombers

House-to-house fighting forces SS retreat

Heroic Fight to save USS Franklin

Hitler seeks Götterdämmerung

Kuribashi prepares for his end

'The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion'

The Fate of a Mid Upper Gunner

Japanese go underground in Burma

The reality of 'Air Superiority'

Japanese sadism towards POWs

Nazi faithful still believe in victory

Kamikaze pilots find Ulithi

Escape from burning Danzig

'Death March into Russia'

Deadliest bombing raid ever

Mounting Casualties on Iwo Jima

The Bridge at Remagen

The Allies enter Germany

Soviet tanks smash into civilians

Nazis recruit children to fight

Five Medals of Honor on Iwo Jima

Panzers on the Vistula

Closing with the enemy in Burma

Young men replace casualties

Bombing of Germany reconsidered

The fate of Poland

First kill in Germany

Canadians overcome Fallschirmjäger

The Nazi Party celebrates 25 years

'Children’s Propaganda Games'

Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi

In the special custody of the SS

Fatal error over Germany

Fanatical resistance in Festung Breslau

Marines land on Iwo Jima

Surprise assault on Riva Ridge

The Only Way Out

'The Battle of Manila'

The bombardment of Iwo Jima

POW in the hands of the SS

Surviving in Dresden

Firestorm in Dresden

The Sandakan Death Marches

Pinned down in a ditch

Infiltrating American lines

'Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany'

Mustang v Me 109

Operation Veritable

US infantry overwhelm 'Waffen SS'

Close encounter with a suicidal 'Jap'

The 'Big Three' at Yalta

Resistance stiffens in the Philippines

The Mighty Eighth hit Berlin again

'Hitler Fortresse's in the East'

Vernichtung! in Sachsenhausen

Lucky to be wounded

The Execution of Eddie D. Slovik

Worst-ever loss of life at sea

Wehrmacht on the run

London still under threat

Auschwitz liberated

'Screams of the Drowning'

Last stand on a burning tank

Tension in Stalag Luft III

The race to the German border

The reality of the 'Asiatic hordes'

Auschwitz in deathly limbo

Two kamikazes hit USS Ticonderoga

Another day, another infantry attack

'Children’s Propaganda Games'

Across the Irrawaddy

Young soldier's valiant attack

Cut off and surrounded

Norwegian Resistance sinks ship

Beginning a 1000-mile march

Red Army crashes German lines

German troops trapped in the Ardennes

'Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front'

Night attack in the snow

Preparing to plunder Germany

Narrow escape for B-24 crew

Watching and waiting in the snow

Three Medal of Honor heroes

82nd Airborne counter attacks

Hit by second kamikaze in two days

'The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front'

Red Army prepares to attack again

Sudden death in London

Paratroopers vs Tigers

'Near perfect' area bombing

Desperate Luftwaffe surprise attack