Presenter Richard Holmes retraces Henry V's route to Agincourt, where in 1415 he won a remarkable victory against a French force that outnumbered him by five... read more
Richard Holmes explores Wellington's victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which caused the fall of the most powerful European empire s... read more
The British troops who marched against the Germans in August 1914 believed the war would be over by Christmas. But at Mons they learned that the old world of... read more
Richard Holmes walks through the fields where the Battle of the Somme took place on 1 July 1916 and 57,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in the space of a ... read more
In May 1940 the Germans staged a lightning invasion of Belgium and France in a new kind of armoured warfare called 'blitzkrieg'. Richard Holmes traces their ... read more
Goodwood was the name chosen for the British armoured breakout from the Normandy bridgehead in 1944. The operation was later called 'the death ride of the ar... read more