Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest Allied debacles: an unprecedented but failed airborne operation to seize Dutch bridges and ...
Allied commanders had hoped the operation would give them a quick way of ending war in Europe, opening up an invasion route to Berlin. However, thousands of parachutists were repelled by strong ...
By David Belcher With striking premieres in the main program and enchanting discoveries on the supplementary Fringe, the eminent event in European theater is flourishing after some difficult years.
In December 2022, the BBC announced that a second series had been commissioned, focusing on the unit's operations in the European theatre of war. The new season sees the unit move from Cairo to ...