‎Great Tank Battles of WWII - Apple TV

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Superior firepower has always been a valid strategy of war, and nothing embodies that idea more than the tank. Come learn about the history of the tank, and see some of the great tanks were used throughout history.

War & Military · 2014 · 52 min

Director Carl Fischer

EPISODE 1

Dawn of the Titans

This first part of the series introduces the first tanks being deployed on the battlefields in northern France during the First World War and describes the devastating effect these steel monsters had on an infantry confronted with them for the very first time. It tracks the development, both technologically and strategically from the Fuller 1919 philosophy through the German attack on Poland.

52 min · Mar 31, 2014
EPISODE 2

The Superior Force

The second episode starts on the morning of the 22nd of June 1941 when the Germans launched operation Barbarossa, the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union. 3 million Axis tools faced more than 4.5 million Red Army troops and were outnumbered two to one in tanks, but superior training and strategies gave the Germans the edge.

51 min · Mar 31, 2014
EPISODE 3

Death in Snow and Sand

The third episode opens with Rommel's second offensive in North Africa. The following summer the German offensive at Kharkov and the subsequent push past the River Don towards Volga and Stalingrad, later the scene of Germany's first major defeat - The Battle of Stalingrad. The scene is switched to North Africa following the continuous battle between the British 8th Army, the Desert Rats.

53 min · Mar 31, 2014
EPISODE 4

Out Blitzing the Blitzkrieg

The fourth episode sees the Germans well and truly on the retreat and the Allies are able to successfully implement operation Husky - the landing on Sicily - where General Montgomery and the American General George Smith Patton ousted the Germans in little over five weeks. On the Eastern Front General Zhukov inflicted heavy defeat on the Germans now having the new T - 54 tank available.

52 min · Mar 31, 2014

Carl Fischer

Director