Forgotten Frontlines

"Operation Mincemeat" may have saved thousands of lives.

A long and punishing battle.

A castle houses political prisoners.

Between September 1944 and February 1945, US troops fought their longest battle in history, one so punishing soldiers called it 'The Meat Grinder' or 'Death Factory'...

With the threat of nuclear weapons looming, the Allies carry out an act of sabotage.

It's hard to imagine the destruction the world might have seen had the Nazis had access to nuclear weapons. With the threat of the nuclear weapons looming, the Allies carried out Operation Gunnerside, the most successful act of sabotage in WWII.

Six Horsa gliders dropped from the skies near Cabourg in a surprise attack to take Pegasus Bridge over the One River. Securing the bridge was a crucial step in protecting the north flank invasion of D-Day and this battle's casualties were the very first of the bloody onslaught.

When Goebbles featured the SS Cap Arcona in a propaganda film about the Titanic, he never imagined the German ocean liner would meet a similar fate. This is the story of the Nazi Titanic, a floating metaphor for the war and its casualties...