Secrets of War

They were the top spymasters in the Third Reich… two rivals who were shrouded in mystery and sworn to secrecy.

They were unlikely heroes who fought behind enemy lines in every theater of World War Two.

They were the stuff of fantasy and terror.

It was a tremendous booty, prized by Hitler as much as territory.

The struggle for the Atlantic pitted Germany's lethal U-boat fleet against every weapon the Allies could muster.

Hitler's lightning strike in Poland soon gave way to a strange eight month waiting game.

June, 1940. England stands alone against brutal aggression.

They are the means by which to confuse an enemy, forcing him into making a fatal mistake.

In the critical battle for North Africa, German General Irwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, seemed unstoppable.

They were weapons systems that were far beyond anything the Allies had or could have imagined in World War II.

It was the greatest secret of World War Two… the time and place of the D-Day invasion.

Nazi Germanys invasion of France inflicted humiliation on the French.

Untold stories behind the boldest US military strike since Vietnam - the surprise invasion of Panama in December 1989.

They were the best kept secrets of the air campaign in the Gulf War.

The real stories of Secret Operations behind enemy lines in the Gulf War.

From primitive balloons to supersonic spy planes and amazingly sophisticated satellites, they are the ultimate intelligence resource.

The hidden factors behind the first conflict of the Cold War.

How close did the Superpowers actually come to a nuclear holocaust?

Classified missions over the Yalu set the tenor at the onset of the Cold War.