Killing Time

Killing Time episodes:

• 04.26.2018

  Episode 16 - The Battle of Stalingrad

  A disastrous offensive launched by the Red Army in May, 1942 around Kharkov ended in a rout that paved the way for a renewed German offensive deep into southern Russia and the Ukraine beginning on June 23, 1942.  The goal...

  
• 01.21.2018

  Leipzig 1813 -The Battle of the Nations

  The fate of Europe hung in the balance at Leipzig in October, 1813.  His invasion of Russia had ended in failure in December 1812, and Napoleon Bonaparte was now beset by defections of allied nations who had marched with him...

  
• 09.10.2017

  Episode 14 - Midway

  The United States was caught unprepared for a surprise Japanese air attack on December 7, 1941 and suffered its worst naval defeat in history.  With successive invasions and defeats in Guam and the Philippines, including the surrender of its remaining...

  
• 02.04.2017

  Episode 13 - The Battle of the Marne - 1914

  On August 27, 1914, a bare three weeks into the First World War, the hopes and dreams of the French to liberate their lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine by beating the German Army were in ashes.  Hard and costly...

  
• 08.22.2016

  Episode 12 - The Battle of Solferino - 1859

  This pivotal battle of the four Italian Wars of Independence in the mid-19th century was, in its day, the greatest European battle fought since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.  The appalling carnage that resulted from three armies...

  
• 02.28.2016

  Episode 3 - The Battle of Koniggratz - 1866

  The Battle of Koniggratz, fought on July 3, 1866, was the largest military battle on the continent of Europe between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the Battle of the Somme during the First World War in...

  
• 02.28.2016

  Episode 11 - Yorktown and the Battle of the Capes

  In 1781, the American Revolutionary War had been going on for over six years with more defeats for George Washington and the cause of American independence than victories.  The British army under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, based in...

  
• 11.16.2015

  Episode 10 - Trafalgar

  In October 1805, Britain had been almost continuously at war with Napoleonic France and under the constant menace of invasion across the narrow English Channel at Boulogne.  There stood nearly a quarter million men under the personal command of Napoleon...

  
• 10.08.2015

  Episode 9 - The Battle of Austerlitz

  After a dizzying rise to power, the 35 year old Napoleon Bonaparte faced his downfall in the summer of 1805 when first Russia and then Austria allied themselves with Britain to destroy the French Empire.  A fourth great power, the...

  
• 09.05.2015

  Episode 8 - The Six Day War - 1967

  The State of Israel faced mortal danger in June, 1967.  Surrounded on three sides by hostile Arab states, armed to the teeth with the latest Soviet equipment, on paper, the odds of Israel's survival did not look good.  Yet in...

  
• 07.19.2015

  Episode 7 - The Battle of France 1940

  This is the story of the greatest military disaster of the 20th Century, the Fall of France in 1940 and why it happened.

  
• 05.10.2015

  Episode 6 - Poltava and the Great Northern War

  The Great Northern War pitted the Swedish Empire at the peak of its power against its southern and eastern neighbors, Denmark, Poland-Lithuania, Saxony and seemingly weak and backward Russia in a war that raged from 1700-1721.  The Swedish army was...

  
• 04.26.2015

  Episode 5 - The Battle of Gettysburg - 1-3 July 1863

  The greatest military battle ever fought on the North American continent, Gettysburg has often been considered the turning point of the American Civil War.  Flushed with success from its smashing rout of the Union forces at Chancellorsville in May 1863,...

  
• 04.26.2015

  Episode 4 - The Battle of Waterloo - 18 June 1815

  The most famous battle of all time, Waterloo reached iconic status within days as news of the defeat of the greatest military leader in Europe spread throughout Europe, just as the return of Napoleon from exile in Elba had done...

  
• 04.26.2015

  Episode 2 - The Battle of Moscow - 1941

  The Battle of Moscow is in some respects the most colossal and deadly campaign in all human history.  Millions of soldiers and civilians fought a desperate and savage battle  under the most dire climatic conditions and bleak terrain.  At stake...

  
• 04.26.2015

  Episode 1 - The Battle of Tannenberg - 26 August 1914

  This is the introductory episode to the series and describes the Battle of Tannenberg that occurred in the opening months of the First World War.  With most of its army concentrated in France and Belgium, the German master plan for...