Tracing Henry V's route to Agincourt where, in 1415, he won a remarkable victory against a much larger French force, Professor Holmes follows the king's heroic - and brutal - route to Agincourt.
Wellington's victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fields where history hung in the balance.
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 swords and bugles would be swept away by the machine gun and the shell.
Richard Holmes walks through the fields where the Battle of the Somme took place. Testimony, letters and film archive are used to explain what happened.
