This first episode chronicles the setting up of this amazing force, whose mission was to carry out lightning raids in enemy territory, 'leaving a trail of blood behind them'.
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Series 1 Episode 1
This first episode chronicles the setting up of this amazing force, whose mission was to carry out lightning raids in…
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Series 1 Episode 2
The story of the greatest Commando raid of the Second World War: the attack on St Nazaire in France, the biggest dry…
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Series 1 Episode 3
The commando movement was to spawn a lean and lethal killing force supremely adapted to desert conditions. This is the…
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Series 1 Episode 4
When the Germans invaded Belgium and Holland using parachutists in May 1940, Churchill was stung into action. Britain…
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