The Hidden Truth of World War 2 (8-Disc Set) [DVD]

This series offers an unprecedented viewpoint of famous battles in Europe during WWII, using recently unearthed reconnaissance photos that were taken during the actual battles. For over 60 years these photographs have remained lost, or forgotten...until now. For the first time these original high-resolution images allow the viewer to track the battle, step-by-step from the air. Individual stories of courage and heroism can be placed in the exact location where they took place. Using cutting-edge technology, unique archive film, re-enactments and extraordinary interviews with the men who were there The Lost Evidence offers a new perspective on history.

Disc 1 - Alamein
October 23rd 1942, in the remote North African desert, British and Allied troops face off against the feared German Afrika Korps and their Italian Allies. The British have been pushed back nearly 1,000 miles from Libya, to a little known Egyptian railway stop called El Alamein. Over the following nine days, this battle will become a personal duel between General Bernard Montgomery and General Erwin Rommel. In one of the greatest deceptions of the war, photo recons help to fool the Germans into making a catastrophic mistake.

Disc 2 - Battle of Britain
During the summer of 1940, the world held its breath and watched, as the British RAF and German Luftwaffe were locked in a battle to the death. It will last 114 days, take down almost 3,000 aircraft, kill or wound 3,800 aircrew and lead to the death of over 30,000 civilians. The German Nazi war machine had conquered all in its path, only Britain stood in its way to total European domination.

Disc 3 - Crossing the Rhine
On March 7th 1945, at the town of Remagen, American soldiers discover to their amazement that a bridge across the Rhine has not been demolished. In one of the most incredible tales of World War II, fate would deal the men of the 9th Armored Division a lucky card, as German attempts to blow the bridge in the face of the advancing troops failed. The heroes of Remagen would make it across the bridge and into history as the first Allied soldiers to cross the Rhine.

Disc 4 - Breakout from Normandy
July 10th 1944, it's a face-off in Normandy. For six long weeks since D-Day, Allied forces have been caught in a murderous battle trying to breakout of the invasion beachhead. Crammed into a seventy-mile wide cauldron, nowhere more than twenty miles deep, the Allies need a breakthrough, and fast. But the Germans have rebounded from the shock of invasion and are fighting back furiously, inflicting horrendous casualties on the Allied ground forces.

Disc 5 - Battle of the Bulge
December 16th 1945--in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, Belgium, a vast German assault force crashes against the weakest point in the American lines. Three German Armies have been amassed in total secrecy with one sole aim--to send the Allies back into the sea and change the outcome of World War Two. In this battle where the rules of war are forgotten, the troops on the ground will have to dig deeper than ever before if they are to destroy Hitler's last gamble in Europe. But it is the blood and guts defence of a small Belgian town called Bastogne that embodies the spirit of Allied defiance. Outnumbered and outgunned, the elite troops of the 101st Airborne Division refuse to surrender in a bitter fight to the death.

Disc 6 - Operation Market Garden
September 17th 1944: over 20,000 elite troops descend from the skies into Nazi occupied Holland, in a massive airborne assault planned to end the war in Europe by Christmas of 1944. Their objective: to secure the bridges across canals and rivers in Holland, so that the Allied army can advance at high speed into Hitler's Germany and the heart of the Third Reich. Despite the legendary of the American, British and Polish troops, Operation Market Garden ends in failure and in 17,000 Allied casualties. But the 'never say die' spirit of the Airborne brotherhood would ensure that the men who fought for the road to Arnhem would never be forgotten.

Disc 7 - Stalingrad
Determined to destroy the Soviet Union once and for all Hitler has ordered his armies to strike south and seize the vital oilfields of the Caucasus region. But first they must capture Stalingrad and secure their northern flank. For 162 days after the Panzers reach the city, the Soviet defenders of Stalingrad make the German 6th Army pay in blood for every inch of ground. Outnumbered and outgunned the men of the Red Army in Stalingrad suffer appalling losses. But they draw the Germans into a trip from which there will be no escape. When the Arctic conditions of the Russian winter paralyse German supply lines Stalin unleashes an overwhelming counterattack which completely encircles the doomed 6th Army.

Disc 8 -Liberation of Paris
By August 2nd 1944, the Allies are preparing to sweep into Central France. Behind them, lie over 50,000 casualties that have fallen to the fanatical SS Panzer Divisions. Seventy miles away in Paris, the French resistance eagerly watch the allies advance. On August 19th Parisians rise up against their Nazi overlords, vowing to exact revenge for four years of brutal and bloody occupation. As the battle intensifies on the streets of the French capital, the race is now on for the Allies to get to Paris and save its citizens from possible slaughter. They must also get there in time to stop the German commandment from following Hitler's orders and reducing the most beautiful city in the world to a pile of ash and rubble.

Offering a new perspective on history unique high resolution images show World War II as never seen before This series offers an unprecedented viewpoint of famous battles in Europe during WWII, using recently unearthed reconnaissance photos that were taken during the actual battles. For over 60 years these photographs have remained lost, or forgotten...until now. For the first time these original high-resolution images allow the viewer to track the battle, step by step from the air. Individual stories of courage and heroism can be placed in the exact location where they took place. Using cutting edge technology, unique archive film, re-enactments and extraordinary interviews with the men who were there The Lost Evidence offers a new perspective on history. FEATURING Alamein Battle Of Britain Battle Of The Bulge Breakout From Normandy Crossing The Rhine Operation Market Garden Stalingrad The Liberation of Paris