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Paul Murton discovers how Scotland was first promoted as a winter holiday. Part 6 of 6.
Combined arms operations use the force of different military corps to increase the combat power deployed against an enemy. Combining these forces needs incredible planning, decisiveness and authority. This episode explores the lives and feats of four military leaders who used the tactic to achieve victory: Bernard Montgomery, William Westmoreland, Georgy Zhukov and Norman Schwarzkopf. Part 2 of 4.
With Britain standing alone, Churchill realises maintaining control of the vital oil supply line through the Suez Canal is critical to his nation’s hopes. After the fall of the strategically important port of Tobruk, Rommel only has the defensive line at El Alamein left to cross. Britain’s General Montgomery drives Rommel back from El Alamein, but that is only the beginning; America’s rookie troops make landfall in North Africa and join the fight. Part 3 of 10.
The Business Of War: With help from large corporations inside and outside of Germany, the Nazis had conquered much of Europe—and even their victims would be turned into profit. Part 3 of 4.
The Soviet army left Afghanistan, but the war continued between Mujahideen commanders. The country fell into chaos, until a new force emerged: the Taliban. Part 3 of 4.
Our story begins with 35 years of brutal Japanese occupation, a sudden and arbitrary division of the 1000 year-old nation in 1945, followed by three more years of occupation by the U.S.S.R. in the North and the U.S. in the South. Part 1 of 2.
