

World War II: The Last Heroes
World War II was the world's darkest hour, filled with war's horrors and unimaginable cruelty. This series painstakingly chronicles the final years of the Allied campaign in the Second World War and reveals what it was really like in the trenches on Omaha Beach. Meet the last living heroes of this gruesome battle and hear their stories, not in the words of generals and historians, but from their own point of view.
World War II was the world's darkest hour, filled with war's horrors and unimaginable cruelty. This series painstakingly chronicles the final years of the Allied campaign in the Second World War and reveals what it was really like in the trenches on Omaha Beach. Meet the last living heroes of this gruesome battle and hear their stories, not in the words of generals and historians, but from their own point of view.
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