Amsterdam | Nijmegen | Wesel | Cologne | Bonn | Mainz | Heidelberg | Strasbourg

In the Pacific theater, the Allies take Iwo Jima, where Navajo Code Talkers play an integral part in this success. Meanwhile, Allied commandoes and guerilla fighters in the Philippines launch a daring raid to free prisoners of war before it might be too late.  

By December 1944, troops are fighting through the Ardennes Forest in the Battle of the Bulge, where Allied and Axis forces both employ deception tactics in efforts to change the course of the campaign—and the war.   

After D-Day on June 6, 1944, the global race is already underway to build the first atomic bomb. In this episode, we explore the efforts happening in complete secrecy to stop Nazis from doing it first.   

The story of Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler’s massive surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the largest and costliest land offensive in human history.