The Best Episodes Written By Isabelle Clarke

Spring 1944: the Allies want to put an end to Hitler's domination of Western Europe. In England, the troops are secretly training for an amphibious operation. The weather forces the commanders to postpone the operation.

On 6 June 1944, the Allied armada launched an assault on the Normandy coast. After a day of unrest, the Normandy coastline was in the hands of the Allies. The operation was repeated in Provence, and caught the Germans in a vice-like grip.

The trenches of World War I (1914-1918) gave Adolf Hitler his self-appointed mission to save Germany, but it was his natural ability to address the crowds that allowed him to take advantage of a devastated population.

Prior to his new-found prominence, Adolf Hitler was considered a mad man on the fringe of German political life. So how did he push his way into power and plunge the world into war?