Wars That Shaped The World
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Introducing: Bear Hunt
Introducing: Bear Hunt
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Wars That Shaped The World, the stories of conflicts that defined history.
From the air and amphibious assaults of the D-Day landings, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait bringing about the first Gulf War, to the split of Korea… these stories of war are brought to life via epic storytelling based on real life accounts.
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- Introducing: Bear Hunt · 11 min350 British civilians are dead and Russia is responsible. Number 10 hits back as a hapless Prime Minister plays his hand in the age of regime decapitation.Bear Hunt is a…
- The Hard Yards · 51 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 4‘What is it that makes people go forward when every instinct is to go back? I think it’s to do with the people you’re with, not letting them down…’ The tumble of rugged hills…
- The Battle For Goose Green · 47 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 3‘He was a real leader - he had grown up with the philosophy of soldiering.’ As dawn broke on 22 May, 1982 daylight revealed the British were back - troops poured ashore in San…
- Sink The Belgrano · 49 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 2‘I wanted to get out alive - I didn’t want to die.’ The taskforce hurriedly assembled to retake the Falkland Islands departed in a blaze of red-white-and-blue and sailed south…
- The Malvinas Are Argentine · 49 min · Sezonul 6 Episodul 1It was early in the morning of 2 April, 1982, that the first British shots of the Falklands War were fired when a handful of outnumbered Royal Marines opened up on the invading…
- The Bloody Finale · 39 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 4The Crimean War had become a conflict of cruel attrition. Who was prepared to sacrifice the most men? The British and French attacked, the Russians resisted. Thousands were…
- The Fight For Survival · 37 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 3As winter swept over the Russians in Sevastopol and their French and British besiegers huddled on the surrounding heights, the Crimean War settled into a deadly pattern – this…
- Into The Valley Of Death · 34 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 2’Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die…’ Few moments in Britain’s long history have been celebrated and mythologised like the Charge of the Light Brigade, six hundred…
- The Rise Of The Russian Bear · 34 min · Sezonul 5 Episodul 1The Crimean War began in 1854 and changed the course of European history. This gruelling conflict, with the British and French alarmed by the rising threat of Russia, marked the…
- The Boers... Decisions Must Be Made · 58 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 4The war is at a tipping point. Retreats, secret meetings, religious reasoning… conventional warfare develops into vicious guerilla warfare tactics and struggle. British reprisals…
- The Inglorious Siege Of Kimberley · 43 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 3Kimberley, the diamond mining capital of South Africa and the heart of the De Beers diamond empire is surrounded by the Boers. Cecil John Rhodes - politician, businessman…
- The Empire Is Brought To Its Knees · 45 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 2The conflict had now begun and was expected to result in a swift decisive victory for the British, the world’s most powerful Empire. The butchery of Spion Kop to the resistance…
- A Single Spark Starts The Fire · 46 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 1A death at police hands is the final ingredient added to a toxic brew of British grievances against their Afrikaner rulers. For the Boers the British are little more than…
- The Nuclear Option · 49 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 4After being stunned by China’s Red Army, Douglas MacArthur wanted payback – MacArthur demanded President Truman allow him to use the US military’s deadliest weapon, the nuclear…
- They Came From The North · 44 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 3They came out of the gloom of the Manchurian winter, bugles blowing, and swept all before them – the Chinese had arrived and once again the Korean War took a dramatic turn. The…
- The Old Master’s Last Hurrah · 45 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 2Douglas MacArthur had no military equal, at least in his own mind. The veteran and hero of the victory over Japan believed he could do the same in Korea and with an audacious…
- Red Alert: The Communists Are Coming · 41 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 1At 4am on June 25th, 1950, the Land of the Morning Calm was shattered by the sound of artillery firing across the 38th parallel dividing Korea into north and south. Soon the…
- The Aftermath · 56 min · Sezonul 2 Episodul 4‘It looked like what you’d always imagine hell would.’ General Norman Schwarzkopf masterminded the US-led coalition’s crushing victory. Afterwards Stormin Norman flew along the…
- The Attack · 58 min · Sezonul 2 Episodul 3In the early hours of Sunday, 24 February, 1991, the still of the desert night was disturbed by the sound of helicopters, packed with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division…
- The Air War · 58 min · Sezonul 2 Episodul 2Welcome to the first 24-hour news war. Saddam called it the ‘mother of all battles’. American jets, he proclaimed, would be blasted from Iraqi skies. The world was glued to…
