This film ask why Britain spent so much of WW2 battling in North Africa and Italy. Historian David Reynolds reassesses Winston Churchill's conviction that the Mediterranean was the 'soft underbelly' of Hitler's Europe. Travelling to battlefields like Cassino, the scene of some of the worst carnage in Western Europe, he shows how Churchill's strategy became a dark and dangerous obsession.
IMDb 7,61 h 30 min201213+
