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S1 E8 Episode 8

Documentary

TV-14

50 minutes

Jun 19, 2017

Some words transcend their origins as humble place names. Even as the names given to battles won and lost.Featuring: Peter McAllum

Season 1, 8 Episodes

Season 1 (8 Episodes)

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 1

The battles of the first world war were battles of attrition. Opposing armies hardly moving between lines of trenches. The battles of the second world war were different.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 2

The second world war involved conflict on an unprecedented scale. Its battles set new marks for the sheer size of forces deployed and for the power of their weapons.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 3

A war that reached every continent and touched every sort of terrain demanded a wide variety of strategies and tactics.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 4

Battles are almost always about territory, with the objectives of advancing the front line, seizing the port, the city, the oil field and more.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 5

Every war sees new tactics, some inspired, some desperate that try to influence the course of battles.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 6

A world war is a patchwork of actions: Land, sea, air, massive or small scale. And these stories of these actions are just as varied.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 7

Through history, armies marched to face each other on favored ground and clashed to decide a campaign, a war, an empire. With the 20th century that changed.

World War II: Battles Won & Lost - Episode 8

Some words transcend their origins as humble place names. Even as the names given to battles won and lost.

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World War II: Battles Won & Lost

Documentary

TV-14

1 Season

50 minutes

Every battle is both a victory and a defeat. Battles won and lost determined possesion of territory, of resources and of the strength to go on fighting. This is the story of the battles won and lost that decided the outcome of World War II.

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