The definitive story of the second world war in five volumes.

Desert - The War in North Africe - 1940 - 1943.
For two years the 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps fight in the wastes of North Africa - finally the tide turns at El Alamein.

Wolfpack - 1939-1944...In a war of high technology and animal courage, the German U-boats fight allied merchantmen, hounding them in packs. A German victory at sea will drive Britain from the war...

Whirlwind - Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944...Bomber Command are unable to hit precise targets and begin bombing German cities by night. The Americans reinforce the attacks by day; a whirlwind of terror and destruction will win the war....

It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - 1942-1943...Vera Lynn sang of a lovely day tomorrow, but the war in Burma was mud and monsoon. Britain's largest army learned to master the jungle and fought the Japanese to a standstill....

Stalingrad - 1942-1943...Hitler's early success in Russia made him reckless and he resolves to capture Stalingrad. The battle lasts six months with the Russians emerging as victors. The Wehmacht never recovers?

Red Star - The Soviet Union 1941-1943...For two years, the Soviet Army fights the Germans almost alone. After the greatest land battles in history, the nation survives and triumphs - with a loss of no less than twenty million of its people.

Tough Old Gut - 1942-1943...Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' and thought the allies could cut through it to the heart of Germany. But the soft underbelly turned out to be a 'tough old gut'...

Home Fires...At home in Britain during the war - a time of gas masks, Winston Churchill, Coventry, Dig for Victory, evacuation, George Formby, ITMA, the Land Army, the Squander Bug and the Beveridge report.....