Anita Rani and Charlotte Smith embark on a poignant journey to Dorset, a region steeped in wartime history, where 80 years ago, tens of thousands of troops gathered as the Allies’ combined forces meticulously prepared for the pivotal D-Day invasion.
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The Hidden Truth of WWII episode 4: July 10th 1944, six long weeks since D-Day. Allied forces have been caught in a murderous battle trying to breakout of the invasion beachhead. The Germans have rebounded from the shock of invasion and are fighting back furiously, inflicting horrendous casualties on the Allied ground forces; the Allies need a breakthrough, and fast. Operation Cobra was a significant turning point in World War II, with the Allies breaking through German defenses in Normandy and driving towards Paris. This operation was a crucial moment in the war, as it allowed the
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The Hidden Truth of WWII episode 1: October 23rd 1942, in the remote North African desert, British and Allied troops face off against the feared German Afrika Korps and their Italian Allies. This battle will become a personal duel between General Bernard Montgomery and General Erwin Rommel. In one of the greatest deceptions of the war, photo recons help to fool the Germans into making a catastrophic mistake. The Lost Evidence recounts the moments of key battles in the European and Pacific theaters through the use of recently unearthed reconnaissance photos that were taken during the actual
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The Daunting Fortress of Richard the Lionheart: to protect his rich and strategic lands in France, the English king, Richard the Lionheart, decided to build an impregnable castle to bar the route along the Seine, thus asserting his supremacy in Normandy. Four years later, France’s King Philip besieged the site at the head of an army of 6,000 men. The Daunting Fortress of Richard the Lionheart Château Gaillard is a ruined medieval castle, located 90 metres above the commune of Les Andelys overlooking the River Seine, in the Eure département of Normandy, France. It is located
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