This is the story of Hitler's invasion of Russia with the biggest invasion force ever assembled and the greatest tank battle in history. As his plan for 'Total War' fails, the Germans face a vast Soviet army bent on revenge and must battle for every inch of ground from the Baltic all the way back to the heart of Berlin.
In defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler fast tracks a revolutionary air force in the years leading up to World War Two. From the Battle of Britain to the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Luftwaffe's Heinkel He 111 and Junkers Ju 88 bombers were meant to annihilate the enemy from the skies.
Hitler's plan for world domination relies on massive megafortresses, built to hold back an Allied invasion. With breath-taking defenses along a 1500-mile coast, Norway is an Arctic frontline from which the Nazis can target the Soviet Union. To the south, the Germans hold a series of defensive lines stretching across the entire Italian peninsula, from Monte Cassino to San Pietro, stalling the Allies' advance into the Third Reich for almost two years.
As American forces sweep across the Pacific, the Japanese fight to their last breath to protect mainland Japan. Raining death and destruction from the skies, they turn to desperate tactics with kamikaze suicide bombers using killer planes and rocket bombs manned by human pilots. On the sea, they build the biggest battleship in the world - a floating fortress with the most powerful guns and the thickest armor ever mounted on a warship. And, deep underground the island of Okinawa they construct a network of defensive lines, bunkers and fortifications turning it into a deadly killing machine.
They had limitless devotion to Hitler and the Third Reich. One, a brilliant manipulator of propaganda. The other, a megalomaniacal leader of a brutal police force and elite soldiers. This is the story of Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, the two men tasked with building the largest social megastructure of Nazi Germany. One used the power of fear. The other, the power of the human mind and its ability to believe.
In a bid to out gun the British in the battle for the Atlantic, Hitler orders the largest battleships the world had ever seen. The Bismarck and the Tirpitz. But they would not last long. The Nazi Navy relied on over 300 U-Boats, submarines, to win its fight for the Atlantic. And it was working. But there was a problem, when the subs surface for supplies and repairs they become vulnerable to Allied bombers. The answer is to build the largest, most fortified bunkers to house the U-Boats when docked.
In the first years of World War Two, Hitler's Germany crushes its enemies in a series of lightning offensives. A new word is coined to describe this incredible string of successes - 'Blitzkrieg' or 'Lightning War'. Working in unison with the Stuka dive bombers, the German Panzer division smashes through Poland and France, but meets unexpected resistance with the invasion of the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany must use their new Tiger and Panther tanks to beat the enemy's much-vaunted T-34.
In the first years of World War Two, Hitler's Germany crushes its enemies in a series of lightning offensives. A new word is coined to describe this incredible string of successes - 'Blitzkrieg' or 'Lightning War'. Working in unison with the Stuka dive bombers, the German Panzer division smashes through Poland and France, but meets unexpected resistance with the invasion of the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany must use their new Tiger and Panther tanks to beat the enemy's much-vaunted T-34.