Market Garden
Dr Simon Trew argues that Operation Market Garden, the mass landings of Allied airborne forces in an attempt to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine in late 1944, was a risk worth taking
Potsdam Conference
Churchill, Truman, Stalin and later Attlee meet at Potsdam just before the war's close, where the final stages of battle are ...
Battle of the Bulge
Rundstedt's failed and final major offensive against the Allied Western advance shown through captured German footage...
1945: you were there
One of Britain's most prominent historians at the time, Cambridge Professor G. M. Trevelyan looks back at the end of the war...
Leading Germany into the abyss
Dr Simon Trew seeks to explain the fanaticism that kept Germany fighhting until the very end...
A bridge too far
Dr Duncan Anderson looks at why the usually cautious Montgomery gave the go ahead to Operation Market Garden, an overly ambit...
VE Day
Brenda Logie spent the Second World War singing for Allied troops. Here she remembers one performance that was interrupted by...
End of the war
RAF Sergeant Bernard Morgan remembers how he kept hold of the most important communication he received in the Second World Wa...
Western front war report 1945
Final actions of the Western Front are reviewed and reported...
Crossing the Rhine
Allied forces cross the Rhone and enter Germany...
Victory in Europe
As the war ends official and unofficial celebratiions break out...
Red devils in Arnhem
Review of Operation Market Garden, Montgomery's daring strike into Occupied Holland which tried to go 'A Bridge Too Far'...
Monty's advance on Germany
British and Canadian forces - anticipating greater success from the Dambuster raids - head into Germany...
Berlin defeated
Red Army personnel review the Hitler's fallen capital...
Berlin aftermath and surrender
Following the final battle, General Keitel formally surrenders the devastated German capital...
Battle for Aachen
The American Army overcomes last ditch Nazi resistance in the German town of Aachen...
Russians enter Berlin
IN RUSSIAN: Combat footage as the Red Army closes in on the final chapter of a campaign of extraordinary brutality on both si...
Market Garden
Dr Simon Trew argues that Operation Market Garden, the mass landings of Allied airborne forces in an attempt to secure a brid...
The liberation of Belsen
Celebrated Holocaust artist Edith Hoffman has spent much of her post war energies on recreating her experiences on canvas. He...
Aftermath of the Holocaust
Scenes from after the liberation of Bergen Belsen are documented and screened to the British and German public...
Auschwitz Camp
Footage of the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz...
Berlin: Aerial views of damage
Shots from the air of the devastated city after Germany's surrender in May 1945...
Hitler's fanaticism
Andrew Roberts argues that Hitler's ideological fixations, and a weakness for his own propaganda, fatally undermined Germany'...
The Ardennes Offensive
Dr Simon Trew explains the German rationale behind their desperate Ardennes Offensive of 1944, that came to be known as the B...
Unconditional surrender
Prof Richard Overy discusses the hopes and fears that motivated German resistance in 1945, and the effect of the Allied deman...
East v West
Dr Simon Trew tackles the question of whether the Soviet Union and the Eastern Front was ultimately responsible for the defea...
Battle of the Bulge
In December 1944, a major German offensive is launched against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region on the Western Fro...
