BBC History of World War II

An analysis of the Battle of El Alamein. Military historian Richard Holmes visits the battlefield. Veterans recall it. The archive footage includes Rommel and Montgomery.

The Italian campaign of 1944 was considered by some at the time as merely a sideshow to the Allied thrust through continental Europe, with Allied soldiers in Italy referred to as 'D-Day Dodgers'. This program, however, with its use of archive footage and reconstruction, recounts the four major Allied assaults on Monte Cassino, the Benedictine monastery on the German Gustav defensive line, to illustrate how grueling the Italian offensive was, with massive losses suffered on both sides.

Bomber Command veterans recall how they flew missions to destroy German targets during World War II.

Operation "Market Garden" was an allied attempt to bring an early end to the second World War in the west by forcing an armored column straight into the heart of Germany. It's failure at Arnhem in the Netherlands left the way open to Russia to invade Germany from the east.