During WWI, stalemate on the Western Front produced a new kind of warfare--a network of trenches dug on both sides of the line--and a new breed of soldier fought deep underground using shovels, picks, and explosives. By 1917, the British were staring defeat in the face and focused on a ridge in the Ypres sector of Belgium to breach enemy lines. A network of 19 mines was laid under a ridge by tunnel units--a total of almost 1-million pounds of explosives. The resulting blast was heard in London!

In June 1916, after 400 years of oppression, Arabs began a revolt throughout the Arabian Peninsula to win independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The British supported them with arms, money, and the presence of one extraordinary man: 27-year-old military intelligence officer, Captain T.E. Lawrence, who proved to be an inspirational leader and highly skilled at guerrilla warfare in the desert. We reveal the truth behind the myth of Lawrence of Arabia and follow his real wartime exploits.

Among the first U.S. Navy vessels to see action in the Pacific in WWII were the motor torpedo boats of PT Boat Squadron 3 in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion.

During WWII, one- and two-man crews aboard dangerous and stealthy mini-weapons could threaten the largest battleships at anchor. We examine Italian human torpedoes--torpedoes outfitted with controls and a seat for their drivers--that crippled the British fleet at Alexandria and Gibraltar to Japanese mini-subs that unsuccessfully struck at Pearl Harbor and British mini-subs that attacked the German battleship Tirpitz.

By the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. Winston Churchill demanded a plan of harassment, with raiding forces landing on the coasts of occupied Europe. Thus the Commandos were born, and nowhere were they more successful than on Norway's long, rocky coastline. After they liberated the Lofoten Islands, raids followed in Spitzbergen and Vaagso, fueling Hitler's fear that the Allies would invade Norway and causing him to redirect troops that could have been better used elsewhere.

After the Nazi victory in France in 1940, Britain was isolated, and among the few ways in which she could strike back was by mounting air attacks and supporting resistance movements in occupied Europe.

As dawn broke on August 19, 1942, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division troops, supported by British Commandos and U.S. Rangers, launched a major raid on the German-held French port of Dieppe. The action proved a disaster from the start.

In 1942, British agents and Greek resistance fighters attacked a bridge in Greece.

During WWI, stalemate on the Western Front produced a new kind of warfare--a network of trenches dug on both sides of the line--and a new breed of soldier fought deep underground using shovels, picks, and explosives. By 1917, the British were staring defeat in the face and focused on a ridge in the Ypres sector of Belgium to breach enemy lines. A network of 19 mines was laid under a ridge by tunnel units--a total of almost 1-million pounds of explosives. The resulting blast was heard in London!

In June 1916, after 400 years of oppression, Arabs began a revolt throughout the Arabian Peninsula to win independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The British supported them with arms, money, and the presence of one extraordinary man: 27-year-old military intelligence officer, Captain T.E. Lawrence, who proved to be an inspirational leader and highly skilled at guerrilla warfare in the desert. We reveal the truth behind the myth of Lawrence of Arabia and follow his real wartime exploits.

Among the first U.S. Navy vessels to see action in the Pacific in WWII were the motor torpedo boats of PT Boat Squadron 3 in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion.

During WWII, one- and two-man crews aboard dangerous and stealthy mini-weapons could threaten the largest battleships at anchor. We examine Italian human torpedoes--torpedoes outfitted with controls and a seat for their drivers--that crippled the British fleet at Alexandria and Gibraltar to Japanese mini-subs that unsuccessfully struck at Pearl Harbor and British mini-subs that attacked the German battleship Tirpitz.

By the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. Winston Churchill demanded a plan of harassment, with raiding forces landing on the coasts of occupied Europe. Thus the Commandos were born, and nowhere were they more successful than on Norway's long, rocky coastline. After they liberated the Lofoten Islands, raids followed in Spitzbergen and Vaagso, fueling Hitler's fear that the Allies would invade Norway and causing him to redirect troops that could have been better used elsewhere.

After the Nazi victory in France in 1940, Britain was isolated, and among the few ways in which she could strike back was by mounting air attacks and supporting resistance movements in occupied Europe.

As dawn broke on August 19, 1942, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division troops, supported by British Commandos and U.S. Rangers, launched a major raid on the German-held French port of Dieppe. The action proved a disaster from the start.

In 1942, British agents and Greek resistance fighters attacked a bridge in Greece.

During WWI, stalemate on the Western Front produced a new kind of warfare--a network of trenches dug on both sides of the line--and a new breed of soldier fought deep underground using shovels, picks, and explosives. By 1917, the British were staring defeat in the face and focused on a ridge in the Ypres sector of Belgium to breach enemy lines. A network of 19 mines was laid under a ridge by tunnel units--a total of almost 1-million pounds of explosives. The resulting blast was heard in London!

In June 1916, after 400 years of oppression, Arabs began a revolt throughout the Arabian Peninsula to win independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The British supported them with arms, money, and the presence of one extraordinary man: 27-year-old military intelligence officer, Captain T.E. Lawrence, who proved to be an inspirational leader and highly skilled at guerrilla warfare in the desert. We reveal the truth behind the myth of Lawrence of Arabia and follow his real wartime exploits.

Among the first U.S. Navy vessels to see action in the Pacific in WWII were the motor torpedo boats of PT Boat Squadron 3 in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion.

During WWII, one- and two-man crews aboard dangerous and stealthy mini-weapons could threaten the largest battleships at anchor. We examine Italian human torpedoes--torpedoes outfitted with controls and a seat for their drivers--that crippled the British fleet at Alexandria and Gibraltar to Japanese mini-subs that unsuccessfully struck at Pearl Harbor and British mini-subs that attacked the German battleship Tirpitz.

By the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. Winston Churchill demanded a plan of harassment, with raiding forces landing on the coasts of occupied Europe. Thus the Commandos were born, and nowhere were they more successful than on Norway's long, rocky coastline. After they liberated the Lofoten Islands, raids followed in Spitzbergen and Vaagso, fueling Hitler's fear that the Allies would invade Norway and causing him to redirect troops that could have been better used elsewhere.

After the Nazi victory in France in 1940, Britain was isolated, and among the few ways in which she could strike back was by mounting air attacks and supporting resistance movements in occupied Europe.

As dawn broke on August 19, 1942, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division troops, supported by British Commandos and U.S. Rangers, launched a major raid on the German-held French port of Dieppe. The action proved a disaster from the start.

In 1942, British agents and Greek resistance fighters attacked a bridge in Greece.