Initially, these were daytime attacks, with well defined targets, such as aerodromes or refineries. But the day's attacks. they meant that the bombers were exposed to the Luftwaffe's retaliation. Within a year, the RAF was forced to pass. to night bombings. Night bombings are safer in the dark.

Description: A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.

Cast:
Narrator: Derek Jacobi
Self - Professor of Military History, University of North Texas: Geoffrey Wawro
Self - Author, The War in the West: James Holland
Self - Professor of Military History, University of Buckingham: Saul David
Self - Professor of War Studies, University of Potsdam: Sönke Neitzel
Self - Professor of Strategic Studies, University of St. Andrews: Phillips O'Brien
Self - Author, Inferno: The World at War: Max Hastings
Self - Royal United Services Institute, London: Justin Bronk
Self - Historian, Potsdam, Germany: Peter Lieb
Self - Professor of Maritime History, U.S. Naval War College: Craig L. Symonds
Self - Professor of History, Rutgers University: Jochen Hellbreck
Self - Co-Author, Never Call Me a Hero: Laura Lawfer Orr
Self - University of Leicester: Michael Lynch
Self - Associate Professor of Military History, Old Dominion University, U.S.: Timothy Orr
Self - Author, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: Tami Davis Biddle
Self - Co-Author, Shattered Sword: Jonathan Parshall
Self - Author, Operation Fortitude: The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War: Joshua Levine
Self - Military Historian: David Glantz
Self - Professor of History, Rice University: Sayuri Gutherie Shimizu
Self - Professor of History, Pomona College: Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Self - Professor of Naval History, King's College London: Andrew Lambert
Self - Author, The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain: Stephen Bungay
Self - D-Day Veteran: Denys Hunter
Self - Author, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire: Richard B. Frank
Self - Director of the Buchenwald Memorial Foundation: Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau
Self - German Historical Institute, Moscow: Sergei Kudryashov
Self - Professor of Military History, Missouri University of Science and Technology: John C. McManus
Self - Author, 'Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany': Norman Ohler
Self - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (as Dr Geoffrey P. Megargee: Geoffrey P. Megargee
Self - Author, Luftwaffe Crash Archive: Nigel Parker
Self - Author, Countdown to Pearl Harbor: Steve Twomey
Self - Author, Post-War Japan as a Sea Power: Alessio Patalano
Self - Squadron Leader, RAF 92nd Squadron: Geoffrey Wellum
Self - Concentration Camp Survivor: Alex Moskovic
Self - Professor of History, Norwich University, Vermont: Reina Pennington
Self - Hibakusha Stories, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (as Dr Kathleen Sullian): Kathleen Sullivan
Self - Professor of Strategic Studies Kings College London: Philip Sabin
Self - RAF Centre for Air Power Studies: Sebastian Cox
Self - Author, Human Rights After Adolf Hitler (as Dr Dan Plesch): Dan Plesch
Self - Hiroshima Survivor: Setsuko Thurlow
Self - Author, The Beasts of Buchenwald: Flint Whitlock
Self - Author, Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945: Frederick Taylor

Production: World Media Rights

Release date: 08 Nov 2019