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Relive pivotal, history-shaping events of World War II as seen through the eyes of those who fought it in this extraordinalry commemorative tribute.

This is the story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe. In September 1944, the Allies expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire....

Describes the successful Allied conquest of northwest France from June 7 to late August 1944, based upon eyewitness and official British accounts.

Study of Hitler's failure to invade England in the summer of 1940.

Recounts events in the Mediterranean during World War II, including how the inexperienced Americans gained combat experience and learned to work together with the British.

Hitler's armies smash Poland--Denmark and Norway fall--they take Holland and Belgium--and France collapses.

Story of one of the great evacuations in military history. May 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found themselves, stunned, broken, beaten, their backs truly against the wall on the sands of the north French coast.And yet it was on the beaches of Dunkirk that the seeds of a remarkable victory were sown. The evacuation of over three hundred thousand men in ships of all sizes was a logistical feat which has never been...