Get to the heart of the action with minute-by-minute accounts of some of the Allies’ most astonishing surprise attacks against the Third Reich. Listen in as experts and veterans describe how a multinational force halted Hitler’s rampage.
EPISODE 1
Stealing Hitler's Radar
Unravel Britain’s Operation Biting, a.k.a. the 1942 Bruneval Raid, which toppled a key German radar station on France’s northern coast. Map the route of this airborne assault, which delivered a clear message to Hitler with minimal Allied casualties.
EPISODE 2
Easy Company's First Assault
Look inside the 101st Airborne Division’s daring D-Day raid at Brécourt Manor, France. Discover how elite US paratroopers snuck up on German soldiers and took out an array of deadly howitzers, paving the way for Allied troops to land on Utah Beach.
EPISODE 3
Churchill Strikes Back
Examine Britain’s clever strategy for raiding Nazi-occupied Norway and destroying the fish-oil plants the Third Reich had converted into munitions factories. Then learn how these tactics became the blueprint for future Allied commando attacks.
EPISODE 4
Storming Mussolini's Island
Witness one of US Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s most audacious missions of WW II. Relive the tense moments of the Allied southern invasion of Europe, via Sicily, which would eventually bring Fascist Italy to its knees and secure victory.
EPISODE 5
Cutting Rommel's Lifeline
Sail into the heart of a Nazi-occupied harbour in Libya with a British covert ops team determined to destroy a critical Axis fuel depot. Relive their desert raid, which choked off German General Rommel’s power and changed the game in North Africa.
EPISODE 6
Secret Weapon Sabotage
Go undercover with a squad of Norwegian Resistance fighters determined to stem Hitler’s nuclear ambitions before they get off the ground. Track their daring 1943 invasion of a Nazi-occupied power plant where the raw materials were being created.
Alex Hearle
Jonathan Drake
Steve Maher
