An examination of Winston Churchill's ordering of Operation Catapult to both neutralize the German captured French Navy and impress the US government of British determination.
Previously secret Soviet accounts of the Soviet resistance to Germany's Operation Blue in 1942 overturn some established assumptions about the course of the battles and also explain the surprising outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Secrets of the Dead examines the the tomb of Psusennes I an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Intermediate Period whose burial place was discovered shortly before World War II.
The slave ship Meermin set sail from Madagascar for South Africa in 1766, but would never make it to Cape Town, the slaves mutinied and managed to overpower the Dutch crew, ordering the ship be sailed back to Madagascar and freedom.