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The historian tells the stories of six people who lived through the Blitz, featuring archive footage and readings from oral history collections and private, unpublished diaries

The series of battles during 1864 that pitted generals Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee against each other, from the Wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia

The summer of 1864, when public opinion turned against the conflict before Union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilted the election to Lincoln

The period following Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in March 1865, when Petersburg and Richmond fall to General Ulysses S Grant's army

As news of the surrender of the Confederate forces spreads, actor and Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth sought revenge for the South by assassinating President Lincoln

On the eve of the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks throughout the south, while Lyndon Johnson decides not to stand for re-election

How the German Siegfried Line and the French Maginot Line protected their countries during the Second World War by using modern technologies