The Second World War was shaped by choices.

Some calculated, some reckless, most irreversible.

It was the deadliest conflict in human history.

It transformed the world. It reduced ancient cities to rubble.

It displaced millions. It ushered in the atomic age.

In our latest miniseries running throughout March, we're going to look at six of the men

pulling those strings. Bernard Montgomery, Irwin Rommel, Dwight D. Eisenhower,

it's the Roku Yamamoto and Georgi Zhukov. Their decisions, some brilliant,

some catastrophic, reshaped nations and decided the fate of millions. We're going to step

inside the war rooms. We're going to break down the key strategic moves made by these infamous

commanders. We're going to be talking to leading historians.

We're going to dive into Zhukov's brutal, relentless warfare on the Eastern Front.

Montgomery's iron-tight command style in the West, the tangled legacy of Rommel,

the man who relished being Hitler's favourite general, a brilliant tactician, a Nazi propaganda star,

but who came to harbour grave doubts about the Fuhrer and never actually became a card-carrying

Nazi himself. And Yamamoto, the man who warned everyone that Japan was on the road to catastrophic defeat

while doing more than most to bring it about.

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