The Trojan horse The battle of Thermopylae Hannibal crosses the Alps The siege of Masada The battle of Roncesvalles The battle of Agincourt The siege of Tenochtitl�an Pizarro's conquest of Peru The great siege of Malta Drake's raid on Cadiz The defeat of the Spanish armada The gunpowder plot The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham The capture of Beeston Castle The escape of Charles II Captain Morgan's raid on Panama The theft of the Crown Jewels The escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie The battle of Monongahela River The capture of HMS Serapis The burning of the White House The defense of Hougoumont The Alamo The charge of the Light Brigade The defense of Camar�on The battle of Gettysburg Mapping the roof of the world The defense of Rorke's Drift The battle of Maiwand The siege of Khartoum The Jameson raid The Lynmouth-Porlock overland lifeboat rescue The siege of Ladysmith 55 days in Peking Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition The Irish hero of the Somme Escape of the Goeben and the Breslau Captain Pollard: "Fire-eater" The siege of Kut-al-Amara Pancho Villa's raid on the United States Black Tom sabotage operation The capture of Aqaba: Lawrence of Arabia The raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend The strange journey of Alvin C. York Agent ST-25 The evacuation of the Czechoslovak Legion The raid on Kronstadt Starting a World War: The raid on Gleiwitz radio station Special operation P: The sinking of the Royal Oak A bomb attempt on Hitler's life The boarding of the Altmark The capture of Fort Eben-Emael Operation Sealion and the battle of Britain The assassination of Trotsky Operation Claymore: the Lofoten Islands raid The German airborne invasion of Crete Pearl Harbor attack Human torpedo attack at Alexandria Australian companies in Timor Operation Biting Operation Chariot: The Saint-Nazaire raid Operation Anthropoid: the Heydrich assassination Operation Jubilee: the raid on Dieppe Operation Freshman: a glider-borne raid on Norway The sabotage of Gorgopotamos viaduct Operation Frankton: the "Cockleshell heroes" Operation Gunnerside: the heavy water raid, Norway Operation vengeance: the assassination of Yamamoto
Operation Chastise: the "Dam Busters" raid
Operation tidal wave: Bombing the Ploesti oil fields
Operation Source: The midget submarine attack on Tirpitz
Operations Jaywick and Rimau: sabotage raids in Singapore
The "Wooden horse" POW escape
Clandestine information-gathering for D-Day
Operation Jericho: the raid on Amiens prison
The kidnapping of General Kreipe
Operation Deadstick: the airborne attacks on Normandy bridges
Operation Gagg: the attempted assassination of Rommel
The Cabanatuan POW rescue: the "great raid"
Operation Tombola: raids behind the German lines in Italy
Operation CenterboardI: the Enola Gay story
The battle of Imjin River
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
The mysterious death of "Buster" Crabb
The U-2 incident: Gary Powers
Rescue from space: Apollo 13
Operation Kingpin: a raid on a POW camp
Battle of Mirbat: the SAS in Iman
The Munich Olympics: Black September
Operation thunderbolt: The Israeli raid on Entebbe
The attempted rescue of US hostages in Iran
The Iranian Embassy siege, London
The sabotage of the Rainbow Warrior
The Kamchatka submarine rescue
The rescue of Australian miners
The rescue of Chilean miners
The "Impossible odds" rescue, Somalia.
