Only by confronting the unrelenting horror of World War II can we truly know heroism. This programme contains amazing war action at is most shocking enabling you to experience the full terror, chaos and courage that forged the shape of the world we live in today. This programme portrays Word War II in the way the soldiers themselves saw it….in colour. Now, this footage has been declassified, originally thought too shocking to the public by governments around the world. Using the latest digital technology these disturbing images have been carefully restored. Used as sensitively as possible the more dramatic footage is included to give the viewer a safe vantage point from which to honour the soldiers and to understand what they experienced during this brutal era. Colour footage includes Hitler & Eva Braun at the Eagles Nest, D Day landing and march into Paris, B17 bombing raid over Europe, The Battle of Midway, combat footage of Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, flame throwers ousting Japanese snipers from caves, Dogfights and war torn aircraft wiping out on their return to aircraft carries and the devastation of the A bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.