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FROM PEARL HARBOR TO GUADALCANAL
After the disaster in Hawaii, the US employed an island-hopping strategy in the Pacific, carefully choosing where to strike in order to suffocate Japan’s sprawling occupation of the theatre
PLATAEA
2,500 years ago an alliance of a few Greek city-states defeated the invading army of the mighty Persian empire, saving Greece and securing the future of European civilisation
HITLER'S TIGER ACE
Michael Wittmann, aka the Black Baron, was a hugely successful panzer commander and propaganda icon for the Nazis. His role in the Waffen-SS left a dark legacy
DOWNFALL - THE INVASION OF JAPAN
Without a swift end to the war in sight, the Allies planned a gruelling campaign on the Japanese home islands – a potentially costly operation avoided only by the use of nuclear weapons and Japan’s surrender
AMERICA'S FIRST COMMANDER IN CHIEF
A Founding Father, military hero of the revolution and the nation’s first president – but how much of his story is fact, and how much fiction?