Weeks Of War
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By January 1945, the end of the war finally seemed in sight. The once formidable Nazi War Machine lay in ruins. Within Nazi Germany, Allied victory was all but assured. But on the Eastern Front, in the Pacific, and even in Western Europe many challenges still lay ahead. In this episode we see the events that occurred durin... 47:51 Expired
Spring, 1944. On the Eastern Front, in Italy, and in the Pacific, the momentum was now firmly with the Allies. By early summer, pressure on the fascist Axis powers would ratchet up with the opening of the Second Front. The war was moving into its final, violent act. 47:51 Expired
Halfway through its fourth full year, the fortunes of war were running increasingly in favour of the Allies. American strength was being felt throughout the Mediterranean and the Pacific, leaders were discussing strategies for victory and its aftermath, and the Third Reich was reeling from its catastrophic defeat at Stalin... 47:56 Expired
Winston Churchill called 1942 WWII's 'Hinge of Fate'. The German and Japanese war machines had started to falter. But everything remained in the balance. 1943 begins with the Casablanca Conference and the release of the film Casablanca. We see the events in the week of the Soviet victory in Stalingrad, and the release of o... 47:59 Expired
By the Spring of 1942, German armies were deep inside the Soviet Union, on the offensive in North Africa, and in control of virtually the whole of Western Europe. In the Far East, Japanese forces roamed freely over an area that stretched from Burma to half-way across the Pacific, from Japan's northern isles to New Guinea. ... 47:56 Expired
As Asia, North Africa and Europe grapple with the 'dark clouds' of war, these weeks of war see the British base of Singapore fall, the SS agreeing on a 'final solution' and the approval to develop the world’s most powerful weapon. But it is a single event in the Pacific that decisively transforms the war into total global ... 47:59 Expired
After the so-called 'Phony War' up to May 1940, German forces had smashed their way from the frontiers of Belgium and France to the English Channel, the forces opposing them escaped at Dunkirk, or collapsed. Nazi Germany seemed poised to exert its dominance over Europe. What happened in the weeks of war that lie ahead woul... 47:59 Expired
The first weeks of a war that was to disrupt the lives of so many did not in fact start with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, but two years earlier on July 7th, 1937, in China. The first shots were fired by the Japanese, in an incident with the Chinese Nationalist army at the Marco Polo Bridge just outside of Beijing. ...