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When Germany invades Poland on September 1 1939, the world is already at the brink of a new world war…

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Week 002 - World War Two Begins - WW2 - September 8, 1939

Air Date: 2018-09-08

The German-Polish war is the match that ignites the flames that finally burn British Prime Minister Neville Chamberla...

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Week 003 - Poland on Her Own - WW2 - September 15, 1939

Air Date: 2018-09-15

When the Wehrmacht and the SS continue devastating Poland and her people in the first weeks of September, her last ch...

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Week 004 - The Russians are Coming! - The Soviet Invasion of Poland - WW2 -September 22, 1939

Air Date: 2018-09-22

When the USSR crushes the plans of the Allies for Poland and the Japanese plans in China in the same week, it is Germ...

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Week 005 - Poland is Crushed - WW2 - 29 September, 193

Air Date: 2018-09-29

Facing two enemies at once, Poland finds itself in a crushing vice after less than a month of war and the Polish forc...

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Week 006 - Poland Falls and China Rises - WW2 - October 6, 1939

Air Date: 2018-10-06

In the West, the sun sets on Poland as the last forces surrender, but her defenders are already regrouping abroad. In...

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Week 007 - The Baltic in Stalin's Squeeze - WW2 - 13 October, 1939

Air Date: 2018-10-13

While the Third Reich and USSR consolidate their Polish conquest, their leaders are wary of each other but turn the a...

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Week 008 - The Submarine War - WW2 - October 20, 1939

Air Date: 2018-10-20

For the men in the navies of the warring nations in Europe, there was nothing phony about WW2 in October 1939 - morta...

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Week 009 - Stalin's Murderous Adventures - Occupation of Poland - WW2 - October 27, 1939

Air Date: 2018-10-27

The persecution, incarceration, enslavement and murder of the Polish people in occupied Poland is driven by ideologic...

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Week 010 - Molotov's Heel on Finland and the Phoney War - WW2 - 3 November, 1939

Air Date: 2018-11-03

Ten weeks into World War Two, and the Allied ground forces are bored in France. In North-Eastern Europe, Poland's suf...

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Week 011 - Hitler Almost Killed - WW2 - 10 November, 1939

Air Date: 2018-11-10

As Hitler drives for a fast invasion he faces covert and open resistance, even an assassination attempt. In the backg...

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Week 012 - The Mysterious Threat to the Royal Navy - Magnetic Mines - WW2 - 17 November, 1939

Air Date: 2018-11-17

While the Finnish and the Soviets seem to be moving ever closer to war, the Royal Navy is losing ships at a frighteni...

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Week 013 - Will the Kriegsmarine Rule the Waves? - WW2 - 24 November, 1939

Air Date: 2018-11-24

The European Allies seek a countermeasure to the mysterious German mines, in China the Japanese advance, and in Polan...

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Week 014 - The Winter War - WW2 - December 1, 1939

Air Date: 2018-12-01

On the last day of November 1939 the Red Army of the USSR invades Finland and the Winter War begins.

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Week 015 - The Invasion of Finland - WW2 - 8 December 1939

Air Date: 2018-12-08

When the Red Army invades Finland they get a cold reception and a pretty nasty surprise. It looks like team Stalin mi...

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Week 016 - Perkele! Finland Strikes Back - WW2 - 15 December 1939

Air Date: 2018-12-15

In the second week of the Winter War, during multiple counteroffensives, including the famous Sausage War, the Finnis...

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Week 017 - Trouble in China - WW2 - 22 December 1939

Air Date: 2018-12-22

While the Winter War continues with a Soviet armoured attack at Summa and the Lähde Road and the British attack the G...

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Week 018 - Stalin’s Unexpected Bedfellows - Soviet Relations in East Asia - WW2 - 29 December 1939

Air Date: 2018-12-29