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13. Episode 13
2015 - Season 1
Leon Degrelle and a motley crew of Finns, Estonians and fellow Belgians held off the three million-strong Russian army, enabling 56,000 men to escape.
12. Operation Pedestal
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For the Axis powers in 1942, control of the Mediterranean was vital. Rommel had been fighting the British in Libya and Egypt, supplied by ships bringing arms across the Mediterranean from Europe. In their path lay Malta a lone British base, on the verge of disintegration after a massive bomb attack. Did the ensuing huge gamble pay off?
11. Moore's March
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Pat Clayton, the model for the character played by Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient. Clayton’s unit targeted Kufra. But the Italians, listening in, sent out a superior force to meet and assault them. Chaos, vehicles destroyed and captured troopers until hero Ronald Moore led one of the most extraordinary marches in military history.
10. Evacuation in the Baltic
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In early 1945 nearly two million people were trapped in the German enclave of East Prussia by the advancing Red Army. The Russians had an appalling reputation for rape, pillage and murder. Told through the eyes of two of the survivors, Operation Hannibal, five times bigger than Dunkirk. Yet, outside Germany, it’s almost unknown.
9. Episode 9
2015 - Season 1
Australian Leslie Morshead and his troops held off Rommel's Afrika Korps at the crucial port of Tobruk for an astonishing eight weeks.
8. Roy Urquhart Escapes From Arnhem
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September 1944 everyone thought Hitler was finished. It was the biggest airborne assault in history - 40,000 men would descend on occupied Holland to answer the big question of how to press home the advantage and end the war. Leading the vanguard was Major General Roy Urquhart, courageous and head strong, fulfilled a textbook operation.
7. Episode 7
2015 - Season 1
In 1944, 1,500 outnumbered British troops amazingly held Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima.
6. Manstein Holds The Line
2015 - Season 1
Spring 1943 and the German army on the Eastern Front was in deep trouble.
5. Lucky Laycock's Escape From Crete
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20th May, 1941, German forces attacked the island of Crete in the largest airborne assault ever. This dramatic story of how the island is lost and Robert Laycock’s mission changes into a desperate rear guard action against German mountain troops. Watch first-hand accounts of Navy veteran's courageous evacuation and Laycock's leadership.
4. The Black Battalion
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The 333rd First Arillery Battlion, an all African American unit formed when black combatants weren't highly thought of by their white counterparts and racism was endemic in US society. They fought to slow Hitler’s last bid to win the war. They have gone down in history as the great all African American fighting units of the 2nd World War.
3. Episode 3
2015 - Season 1
America's astonishing first air raid on the Japanese archipelago, led by Colonel 'Jimmy' Doolittle. The offensive took place in retaliation for the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
2. Episode 2
2015 - Season 1
An account of one of the most daring raids of WWII - the squadron of low-flying bombers who freed Resistance fighters from Amiens Jail
1. The Amiens Raid
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Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.
