Extra Footage: The CBS London Correspondent, Ed Murrow helped to change US Public opinion on the war. In this broadcast he examines what Hitler mean't when he boasted "I will rub out their cities".
Extra Footage: Thought to be impossible to crack, a group of Polish mathematicians took on the laborious task of unlocking the German cipher machine, Enigma.
Extra Footage: With the early success of the Soviet Invasion, and the German's devastating use of the Panzer tank, Moscow looked certain to fall by the end of the summer.
Extra Footage: By the End of the war, British intelligence was so effective at decoding German encrypted radio communications, it was joked that it would be faster for a German Officer to call Bletchley Park for his orders.
Despite victory in the Battle of Britain, the country was still extremely vlunerable and night after night it's cities were hammered by the Nazis' Blitz.
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Fact
When the BBC broadcast Churchill’s famous ‘We shall never surrender’ speech, few people realised that it was actually was read out by a 37 year-old actor called, who impersonated Churchill's voice.
Check out pictures from the first episode ‘The Gathering Storm’,
including footage of cheering crowds greeting the Nazis in Austria. Take a look at Episode 1
Check out images of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the British
surrender at Singapore and savage fighting in the Solomon Islands. Take a look at Episode 5