简介：Debates about the BBC’s role were just as volatile in the 1940s as they are today: Bernard Montgomery called it ‘the fourth arm of war’ while Winston Churchill labelled it ‘the enemy within the gates’. In this two-part series, Jonathan Dimbleby uncovers t
简介：It started with one woman’s act of defiance – removing her headscarf – hijab – on one of the busiest streets in Tehran, capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was an image that captured the attention of the world. Who was this woman? And was she alon
简介：On 13 September 1940, 80,000 Italian troops marched into Egypt to threaten the epicentre of the British Empire at a critical point in the Second World War.By 1942, the desert skirmish in North Africa had become pivotal to what was by then a truly global
简介：Dan Snow travels to Congo - one of the wildest, most colourful and anarchic places on our planet - to reveal how its troubled history of slavery, colonialism, corruption and war have turned one of the world's potentially richest countries into one of
简介：Thirty years after the Falkland's War, journalist and military historian Max Hastings explores the conflict's impact and its legacy.Hastings, who sailed with the Task Force in 1982 and reported on the Falklands campaign first-hand, looks at how