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S1 E5: Tactical Campaigns

Original Air Date: May 29, 2018

New tactics are born in every war, to try to influence the course of battles. Campaigns are waged against non-military targets to ruin morale. Long battles rage throughout the war, from Guadalcanal in the Pacific, to the brutal siege at Leningrad.

9:49-10:45AM

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56 Min

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2021

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S1 E5: Tactical Campaigns

Original Air Date: May 29, 2018

9:49-10:45AM

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56 Min

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S1 E4: Seizing Territory

Original Air Date: May 22, 2018

Battles are almost always about gaining territory, and advancing the front line to seize the port, the city, the oil field, or another objective. In the bombed remains of Stalingrad, Germany, soldiers are sentenced to death or held captive.

8:52-9:49AM

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57 Min

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S1 E3: Flexible Strategies

Original Air Date: May 15, 2018

A wide variety of strategies are needed during World War II, as battles are fought in every continent in many different landscapes. The English are cut-off at Dunkirk following unstoppable Nazis tearing through Western Europe.

7:56-8:52AM

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56 Min

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S1 E2: Overwhelming Force

Original Air Date: May 8, 2018

The battles of World War II increase in sheer size of the forces involved as well as the power of their weapons. A look inside Germany's strategies for Operation Barbarossa, as they attempt to invade the Soviet Union.

6:59-7:56AM

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57 Min

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S1 E1: Sudden Attacks

Original Air Date: May 1, 2018

A look at how mechanised warfare aided Germany's advance into France. The way commando raids, blitzkrieg, mobile desert warfare, and amphibious landings changed warfare.

6:03-6:59AM

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56 Min

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