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The end of the Second World War brought destruction and liberation, relief mixed with grief. Explore the aftermath of total war.

The Luftwaffe continued its attempts to bomb Britain into submission, while the German Afrika Korps strengthened its position as Rommel, Hitler’s 'Desert Fox', took charge.

With Britain failing to fall, the Blitz drew to a close, and the sinking of the German battleship, the Bismarck, lifted the spirits of the British Navy.

Hitler had expected a decisive victory in Russia, he was thwarted at every turn and while the Luftwaffe bombed Moscow and the Siege of Leningrad began, the Soviet Red Army refused to capitulate.

As Hitler focused on Russia, the situation in the Pacific developed to epic proportions when the Japanese air force attacked the American Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December.

The Battle of the Ardennes (the Battle of the Bulge). Conquest of Berlin. Hitler's death. Surrender and end of the war in Europe.

June 5th, 1944, 9:30 PM. 13,348 men from two American parachute divisions, the 82nd and the 101st Airborne in nearly 1,000 aircraft will take off to Normandy.

For nearly five years, Hitler's Third Reich has dominated Europe. Germany braces for an Allied invasion, fortifying the Atlantic Wall with steel, concrete, and advanced weaponry.

After 18 months of preparation, the Allied Expeditionary Force launches the largest amphibious landing in history, with 160,000 troops storming the Normandy coast.

After a brutal day of relentless combat, the Allies secure a 50-mile bridgehead in Normandy.

Germany's retreat continues as the Allies liberate France and Belgium. Montgomery's ambition to end the war risks more than his reputation as the push toward the Netherlands begins.

Eisenhower approves a plan to break German lines by Christmas. With just seven days to prepare, Monty ignores warnings, rushes the largest airborne assault ever, and pushes ahead despite rising risks.

Airborne troops flood the Netherlands as 50,000 tanks surge from Belgium. However, stronger-than-expected German forces resist fiercely, causing the ambitious operation to falter.

Market Garden stalls with tragedy at Arnhem, stalemate at Nijmegen, and chaos elsewhere. Outnumbered 4 to 1 in places, even Montgomery's gamble can't overcome the mounting odds.

Eisenhower halts Monty's costly gamble as British forces retreat before destruction. Heavy casualties and strategic failures haunt the Allies, with lasting effects for the war's remainder.

After six months of retreat across Northern Europe, Adolf Hitler's forces on the Western Front are back behind Germany's borders.

American forces reel from the impact of massive surprise attack along an 80-mile front in The Ardennes Forest.

As the last Nazi offensive of the war develops, the vicious SS Panzer resort to murder, a dangerous fifth column slips into the American camp causing chaos and confusion, and the desperate defense of a key Belgian town seems doomed.

Eisenhower brings in the Airborne Divisions to reinforce the Allied front lines, a legendary US General leads a furious charge up country to relieve the surrounded town of Bastogne, and Hitler panics as the German offensive begins to stall.

The Germans launch a last desperate attack while improved flying conditions enable the US air forces to bring added strength to the battle. The troops on the ground continue to suffer the effects of the coldest Belgian winter in history.

With fuel and supplies all but depleted, the Germans withdraw and end up back where they started. With the battle won, hard questions are asked as to how such a bitter and bloody battle could catch the Allies off-guard.

The beginning of 1945 sees millions of troops assembled in central Europe.

The leaders of the world's future superpowers hold a conference in the Crimea to agree a post-war framework for Europe, and must overcome deep political division to do so.

The great rivers of the Rhineland along Germany's western border must be crossed to take the fight to the enemy's home turf.

General Bradley's army group launch operations to get over the Roer and Rhine Rivers in the centre and the south of Germany's western border.

As the allies in the west move deeper into the fatherland, they discover a vast network of concentration and forced labor camps.

The Soviet forces on Germany's eastern border, now refreshed and resupplied, are given a challenge by premiere Stalin.

The final battle of the war begins as Russian forces advance rapidly into Berlin smashing its defenders back towards an ever-shrinking last stand.

With Britain no longer facing Hitler alone, the first GIs arrived in the UK.

The American Navy got back on course after Pearl Harbour, and in the four-day Battle for the Coral Sea, they claimed victory, before defeating Japan again in the decisive Battle of Midway.

Hitler’s 'Desert Fox', Rommel, advanced at El Alamein, but with the arrival of British General Bernard Montgomery to lead the Eighth Army in North Africa, the wind of change was about to blow.

As 1942 drew to a close, the Allies were really beginning to make headway. The British made a crucial breakthrough in North Africa, and the Americans pushed the Japanese out of Burma and New Guinea.

A nation shaped by war for thousands of years fights to overcome the oppression of foreign powers.

June 5th, 1944, 9:30 PM. 13,348 men from two American parachute divisions, the 82nd and the 101st Airborne in nearly 1,000 aircraft will take off to Normandy.

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