WWII: Secrets From Above Series 1

1944 - across Britain the Allies prepare for the largest amphibious invasion in history. The Road to D-Day has begun. The Allied commanders order top-secret training exercises and develop pioneering military technology. The Nazis race to bolster their terrifying wall of coastal defences as more than 7 thousand vessels and 150 thousand Allied troops approach.

1942 – Hitler wants revenge for the relentless bombing of German cities by the Allied air forces. In a secret research facility, his scientists are developing the world’s first cruise and ballistic missiles. It’s a high stakes cat and mouse game as the Allies race to uncover the Nazis’ secrets from above. Can they stop Hitler before he gets his vengeance?

1945 - Stalin wages a war of annihilation against Nazi Germany.  On the Eastern Front, over one million Soviet soldiers charge towards the Berlin.  But to reach their prize, the Red Army must defeat several German strongholds, in a series of battles that pits Soviet military might against Nazi engineering and strategy.

1943 – for more than 3 years Hitler’s marauding armies have steamrollered across mainland Europe. The Allies can’t compete on the battlefield, so the commanders plan an audacious attack on the booming industry, which is producing German tanks, submarines and aircraft. They assemble the crème de la crème of their air forces to attempt one of the most daring bombing missions of WWII.

December 1944 - Hitler launches an all-out assault on the Western front across Belgium and Luxembourg. In small towns, vastly outnumbered Allied platoons face off against entire German battalions in a series of David Vs Goliath attacks that pits superior Nazi weaponry against American mettle: The Battle of the Bulge.

May 1940 - 400,000 Allied troops are surrounded by Hitler’s marauding army on the beaches of Dunkirk. Deep in the tunnels under Dover Castle, the Royal Navy plans a rescue mission. As the troops are targeted by Luftwaffe fighter planes and with the Nazi noose tightening, can the Allied soldiers escape to Britain to continue the fight? Success or failure could decide the outcome of the war.