Revealing the most extraordinary stories of WWII from a brand-new perspective, this series reconstructs: the battle in the skies over Britain, the hunt for the deadly Nazi U-boats, the spectacular parachute drop at Arnhem, the Allies’ bloody struggle through Normandy, the showdown at the Italian Abbey of Montecassino, and the fight for Poland as Hitler attempts to wipe it from the planet.
September 1940: A colossal dogfight erupts in the skies over southern England. More than 1500 British and German planes engage in a duel to the death.
As wave after wave of Nazi bombers head for London, they are met by the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the RAF, in a fight to defend the nation from Nazi occupation. Told from a unique aerial perspective, this is the story of the Battle of Britain.
On the 3rd September 1939, a Nazi U-boat submarine sinks a British passenger ship on route to Canada. These are the first shots fired in the Battle of the Atlantic, a ruthless six-year struggle to cut off Britain’s supplies and starve the country into surrender.
Told from a unique aerial perspective, this is the story of the longest military campaign of World War Two.
D-Day plus 1: The Allies have captured the beaches of Northern France. Now they embark on a brutal fight through enemy territory to take back Nazi-occupied Europe.
Facing the well-equipped and ferocious German forces and hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, this is the story of the bitter 2-month march to liberate Paris.
September 1944: The Allies launch a daring attack on the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a bid to bring WWII to an end. To succeed, they must drop tens of thousands of airborne troops from the sky, capture multiple heavily defended bridges, and face down the toughest of German Panzer divisions.
This is the story of one of the most audacious assaults of WWII: Operation Market Garden.
September 1943: Operation Avalanche is underway.
The Allies land on the Italian beaches of Salerno in a bid take back Nazi-occupied Europe from the South. To succeed they must fight their way through perilous mountain terrain and heavily fortified enemy territory.
The battle through Italy to liberate Rome will be one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of the war.
1st September 1939: A German battleship opens fire on the city of Danzig, the start of Hitler’s campaign to wipe Poland off the map.
From the ferocious German Blitzkrieg tactics, a secret meeting between dictators in a Nazi train bunker, a daring escape from Auschwitz, to the desperate fight to save Warsaw from complete destruction, this episode charts the untold story of the Battle for Poland.
| Executive Producer | Carlo Massarella |
| Series Producer | Lucy Haken |
| Series Researcher | Lucy Lipscombe |
| Production Manager | Felicity Chapple |
| Junior Production Manager | Rob Furnell |
| Junior Production Coordinator | Rizwan Ahmed |
| Archive Producer | Giorgia Papapietro |