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The Greek quagmire( The Greco-Italian war)
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The two flags (In the African desert is being played a bloody game of chess in which the Italians first lose and then regain the honour.
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6/1 ( Part 3). The Soviets encircled the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Paulus surrenders.
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6/1( Part 2). Struggle hand-to-hand into Stalingrad.
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6/1 ( Part 1). The German Sixth Army reaches Stalingrad.
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The mud of March. “Muddy race” in Ukraine( 1944).
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The sling and the stone
Leyte   Gulf, Philippines, October 1944. The Japanese Goliath seems to be invincible. But the American David arms his sling…
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The blossoms of fire.
Okinawa, 1945: a without ending slaughter, tactical blunders and a decision that shocked the world.
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Five minutes.
Midway, 1942: the “impossible” victory.
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Green inferno.
Guadalcanal 1942-43: six months into a hell.
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Two cranes and a Lady.
The “bringing happiness crane”, the flying crane and Lady Lex united by the same destiny in the Coral Sea( 1942).
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The many and the few.
Sir Winston Churchill interprets in his own way the Battle of Britain. But his is not the sole interpretation….
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Closed windows, open doors.
A young German lieutenant  , a brilliant Italian  general and four hundred heavy guns shooting no shot. Where? At Caporetto, on the western front, 1917.
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The Wilhelm’s Battle.
Kaiserschlacht( the battle for the Kaiser). The Germans’ last offensive  on the western front in Spring 1918 among saints, gods, archangels and long range guns.
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The Army of the Innocents.
France, Picardy, 1916: red poppies and blood on the Somme.
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“You will tell your men that”
1943: the allied landing in Sicily, among  drifting corpses , opinions in disagree, yellow handkerchiefs and “iron  generals”.
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Fog in Autumn.
The “nuts” of Bastogne and Mrs Marte Monrique during the German offensive through the Ardennes( 1944)
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The eye of the Cyclops.
Monte Cassino 1944, Mount Calvary.
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The city of Peter (The siege of Leningrad,  part 1)
The siege of Leningrad begins
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The city of Peter( The siege of  Leningrad, part 2)
The appalling winter 1941 in Leningrad.
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The city of Peter (The siege of Leningrad part 3)
The end of the “Nine hundred days”
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