The Finest Hours of the Second World War

A survey of Hitler's early years. Nazism. His appointment as Chancellor and the men in his Government.

The Munich Agreement. German invasion of Poland. Russian invasion of Poland and Finland (the Winter War).

German invasion of Denmark and Norway. The drive on Western Europe.

German submarine and surface sea warfare against the Allied Fleet.

Operation Sea Lion. The struggle for Great Britain's skies.

Assault on Pearl Harbor. Singapore. The Philippines. Doolittle and the B-25s.

German troops invade the Soviet Union and move rapidly forward on all fronts. Their main objectives are Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.

North-African battles between the Axis and the Allied armies. Enters Rommel and his Afrika Korps. Greece. Crete and Malta.

After the naval battle in Midway the U.S.A. regain the leading drive of the war in the Pacific.

The struggle for the city of Stalingrad went into history as the most sanguinary battle of all times and it meant the beginning of the end for the Third Reich's armies.

Montgomery. Counter-offensive in North Africa. Operation Torch.

Invasion of Sicily. Mussolini's downfall. Ploesti. Invasion of the Italian Peninsula.

The battles for Guadalcanal, Munda, Bouganville and the South-Pacific area launch the thrust to the Japanese Empire's capital city.

Cassino. Anzio. Liberation of Rome. The Gothic Line. Liberation of Italy.

The Central Pacific area, with its huge distance ranges, rekindle the war between the Japanese and the Americans.

Allied invasion of Normandy. Liberation of Paris.

The greatest armoured cars' battle in history eased the way for the Soviet troops on they road to Berlin.

Eastern and Western offensives of the Allied and Soviet armies on their way to Berlin.

Eastern and Western offensives of the Allied and Soviet armies in their way to Berlin. Operation Market Garden. The Battle of the Ardennes (the Battle of the Bulge). Conquest of Berlin. Hitler's death. Surrender and end of the war in Europe.

Several naval clashes in the Gulf of Leyte led to the liberation of the Philippines. Along with the British victory in Burma, they opened the way to Tokyo.

Iwojima. Okinawa. Atomic bombs and the surrender of the Japanese army bring to a close the greatest disaster so far known to mankind -- World War II.