Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by...
A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the mai...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY spec...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In January 2012 Italian divers discovered the wreck of a massive plane off the coast of Sardinia. At...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shap...
Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".