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Seeking to hit back at Japan, Col. Jimmy Doolittle puts B-25 bombers on aircraft for a mission that the crews have little chance of surviving.

Surrounded by the Japanese, Orde Wingate led the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in one of the most imaginative and complex escapes of World War II.

Unsung heroes: the battalion of black soldiers who were surrounded, down to their last ten rounds, and yet who helped win the Battle of the Bulge.

Fleeing from the Russian troops, Erich von Manstein devised one of the most brilliant escapes in military history Â- one that is still studied in military schools.

El general de brigada Robert Lucky Laycock fue uno de los mandos militares de Winston Churchill más temibles. Su inteligencia y capacidad de liderazgo, además de su atractivo físico, lo convirtieron en una leyenda entre las Fuerzas Especiales. Y fue además muy afortunado por conseguir sobrevivir a la guerra: junto con su comandante de brigada, el novelista Evelyn Waugh, protagonizó una de las huidas más destacadas de la II Guerra Mundial

In advance of the Allied landings at Normandy, the British plan the aerial bombing of Amiens Prison, where a hundred Resistance fighters await execution.

With 60,000 German soldiers surrounded by the Russian army, this is the story of the heroic rearguard action that allowed thousands of troops to escape.

El general de brigada Roy Urquhart, implacable en la batalla pero también humano, fue un protector perenne de sus tropas. Sólo tenía un punto débil: volar le producía mareos. Fue, por tanto, una elección verdaderamente singular el ponerlo al frente de la 1ª División Paracaidista británica en la que sería la mayor operación aerotransportada de la guerra: el asalto a la Holanda ocupada

By Easter 1941, all that stands between Afrika Korps commander Erwin Rommel and Egypt's Suez Canal is Tobruk. Australia's Gen. Leslie Morshead and his defenders are ordered to hold the Libyan port for eight weeks while the defenses of Egypt can be strengthened. The "Rats of Tobruk" are convinced that if they fail, the war against Germany will be lost.

Sadly, the Allied Forces did not manage to capture the last bridge near Arnhem. Arnhem quite literally proved to be 'a bridge to far'. More than 1,750 Allied soldiers who were killed during Operation Market Garden lie buried at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek.

As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports--the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII.

No había nada especial en Dudley Mason: criado en Londres e hijo de un chófer, se hizo marinero con 17 años. Pero más tarde se convertiría en líder de una de las grandes acciones de la II Guerra Mundial y obtendría además el mayor de los reconocimientos civiles de Gran Bretaña: la medalla George Cross.

With the Italians preparing to invade Egypt in the summer of 1940, the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) causes havoc far behind the front. But after an LRDG patrol is attacked, a tough New Zealander named Ron Moore leads the survivors barefoot through the desert, 300 miles from Allied lines.