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Battle of Ramadi: The Gettysburg of the Iraq War | Documentary
Send us Fan MailThe Second Battle of Ramadi, fought in 2006 during the Iraq War, saw the US military and Iraqi Security Forces come together to drive insurgent groups out of the city of Ramadi. In a…
The SBS: Great Britains HARDEST & Most Secretive Military Unit...
Send us Fan MailSeptember 1999. On the small south-east Asian island of Timor, demands for independence from Indonesia which had ruled over the population there since annexing it in 1976 had grown to…
The Mysterious UFOs of The First World War...
Send us Fan MailThe Great War – the First World War – had its own stories of Foo Fighters, again set against the paranoid backdrop of technology advancing seemingly out of control. The Airship Scare…
The Bombing of Rotterdam: May 14th, 1940...
Send us Fan MailOn the afternoon of May 14th, 1940, beleaguered citizens in the Dutch city of Rotterdam looked skyward as they heard the approaching drone of German bombers; through the thick,…
Where Hitler Went to Relax...
Send us Fan MailJonathan Glazer's 2023 critically acclaimed film The Zone of Interest follows the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they go about their daily lives, right…
The Anne Frank Story...
Send us Fan Mail“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” These are the words of an extraordinary young girl whose words have provided light in one of the darkest…
The Deadliest Year During The Vietnam War...
Send us Fan MailHow The "Tet" Began the End of The Vietnam War...In early 1968, while the battle for US outpost Khe Sanh raged on, General Vo Nguyen Giap of the People’s Army of Vietnam, or the PAVN,…
77 Days of Hell: The Vietnam War's Bloodiest Battle...
Send us Fan MailThe Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War... The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, a coastal province…
When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen...
Send us Fan MailThe Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the…
Battle of Huế: Vietnam’s Longest and Bloodiest Battle...
Send us Fan MailDuring the 1980s, the United States was still struggling to come to grips with its involvement in the Vietnam War and as part of that effort, Hollywood churned out a number of movies…
The MOST Feared Concentration Camp Commander of WWII...
Send us Fan MailBritish Army Sergeant Norman Midgley must have thought he had seen it all by April 1945. Even before the war started, he had seen his fair share of both the best and worst of humanity…
The Brno March: WWII's Most Evil Death March...
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we are going to examine the events leading up to and surrounding the tragedy of the Brno Death March as thousands of ethnic Germans were rounded up in Czechoslovakia…
When France Fell to Nazi Germany...
Send us Fan MailNovember 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and…
Tiger Tank: The Germany Tank That Almost Won WWII...
Send us Fan MailMany of history’s greatest armoured fighting vehicles emerged during the Second World War. These vehicles have not only come to symbolise the struggle of their respective armies in…
The Cod Wars: When Iceland & The UK Fought Over North Atlantic Fishing Rights
Send us Fan MailThe humble fish and chips. It’s still not entirely clear how or even when this quaint but filling little meal became the official dish of the people of the British Isles but what is…
The Deadliest Weapons of The First World War...
Send us Fan MailFor hundreds of years prior to the 20th century, war had changed very little with the improvements in weapon technology that did arise being incremental and slow to establish…
The PPSh-41: The Mass-Produced Soviet Submachine Gun of WWII...
Send us Fan MailPicture the scene. It is the Eastern Front in 1943 and you are a German soldier on the frontline. In the distance, you can see and hear a line of T-34 tanks trundling and clacking…
The Drugs That Built Super Nazi Soldiers in WW2...
Send us Fan MailWe are all familiar with the Nazi practices of sending Jews to concentration camps, carrying out mass executions and instilling fear into German citizens through their paramilitary…
When The Japanese Navy Safeguarded The Med in WWI...
Send us Fan MailLooking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in…
Secret Stimulants of the Vietnam War: How Drugs Forged an Unstoppable Soldier...
Send us Fan MailAugust 1964. US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the…
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