1940 - 400,000 Allied troops are surrounded by Hitler's army at Dunkirk. Can the Allies escape and make it back to Britain to continue the fight?

December 1944 - Hitler launches an all-out assault on the Western front across Belgium and Luxembourg. In small towns, vastly outnumbered Allied platoons face off against entire German battalions in a series of David Vs Goliath attacks that pits superior Nazi weaponry against American mettle: The Battle of the Bulge.

1943 – Allied commanders assemble the crème de la crème of their air forces to attempt one of the most audacious bombing missions of WWII.

Stalin, seeking revenge, wages a war of annihilation against Nazi Germany. Over one million Soviet soldiers charge west to launch an attack on Berlin.

1942 – the Nazis develop the world's first cruise and ballistic missiles. Can the Allies stop Hitler before he rains down terror from above?

Matching archive film and photography to their original locations, this series charts the most extraordinary events of WWII from a unique perspective.