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A theater selector rather than a decorative world map — historical clarity matters more here than an approximate outline. Choose one or more regions.
East Asia
The Second Sino-Japanese War, from the 1937 invasion through eight years of occupation and resistance.
8 productions
Europe
France, the Low Countries and Germany — from the 1940 collapse to the Rhine crossings of 1945.
36 productions
The largest land war in history: Barbarossa, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, Bagration and Berlin.
31 productions
Africa
The desert war across Libya and Egypt — Tobruk, El Alamein and the road to Tunisia.
10 productions
Southern Europe
Greece, Crete, Malta, Sicily and the long Italian campaign, plus the naval war in between.
Ocean
Convoys, U-boats and surface raiders in the longest continuous campaign of the war.
6 productions
Northern Europe
The Winter War, the invasion of Norway and Denmark, and the sabotage campaigns that followed.
7 productions
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa — carrier battles, amphibious assaults and island fighting.
29 productions
Asia
Malaya, Singapore, Burma and the Philippines, and the prisoner-of-war experience under Japan.
Global
Civilians under bombing, occupation and rationing — and the reckoning that followed the war.
24 productions