Pen and Sword Digital and Battlefield History TV formed their partnership in 2008 to provide customers with a wide variety of specialist programmes presented by well-known battlefield historians and qualified guides. The subjects they cover in detail are the First and Second World Wars, The Waterloo Campaign and Peninsular War and they even go back as far as the Dark Ages. Each DVD will be of interest to military enthusiasts, wargamers, battlefield tourists, re-enactment groups, students of particular battles or campaigns and military modellers.
Another outstanding documentary from the Battlefield History TV team, following the efforts in the last days of 1944 by Jochen Peiper's 1st Panzer Regiment of the 1st " Leibstandarte" SS Panzer Division, to break through the Allied lines in the northern sector of the Ardennes. The excellently informed historians first describe the state of this much reconstituted, fully staffed but in materiel understrength Division, and with the assistance of maps, photographs, archive footage and re-enactors, vividly bring to life the story of their advance. By walking the ground and describing the key phases, they reveal how the Leibstandarte attempted to make rapid progress but were continually hampered by poor roads, blown bridges, and ever stiffening resistance, and show how this frustration culminated in the Malmedy Massacre where almost one hundred American prisoners of war were murdered. The main focus of the narrative, however, is concerned with the Division's spearhead and their constant struggle.. Read more
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Another outstanding documentary from the Battlefield History TV team, following the efforts in the last days of 1944 by Jochen Peiper's 1st Panzer Regiment of the 1st " Leibstandarte" SS Panzer Division, to break through the Allied lines in the northern sector of the Ardennes. The excellently informed historians first describe the state of this much reconstituted, fully staffed but in materiel understrength Division, and with the assistance of maps, photographs, archive footage and re-enactors, vividly bring to life the story of their advance. By walking the ground and describing the key phases, they reveal how the Leibstandarte attempted to make rapid progress but were continually hampered by poor roads, blown bridges, and ever stiffening resistance, and show how this frustration culminated in the Malmedy Massacre where almost one hundred American prisoners of war were murdered. The main focus of the narrative, however, is concerned with the Division's spearhead and their constant struggle.. Read more
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A big plus of the documentary is that it’s led by questions from the historians. Especially with a subject like this, the viewer will find this very useful. Instead of giving tons of information, asking questions to one another will keep the viewer alert.
Tom Dormer and the crew of Battlefield TV did great job! I’m looking forward to the other documentaries.
Read the full review [link=http://www.joedemadio.com/panzer-marche-the-dash-to-bastogne-review/]here.[/link]
JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG
A big plus of the documentary is that it’s led by questions from the historians. Especially with a subject like this, the viewer will find this very useful. Instead of giving tons of information, asking questions to one another will keep the viewer alert.
Tom Dormer and the crew of Battlefield TV did great job! I’m looking forward to the other documentaries.
Read the full review [link=http://www.joedemadio.com/panzer-marche-the-dash-to-bastogne-review/]here.[/link]
JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG
As featured on [link=http://www.joedemadio.com/battle-of-the-bulge-siege-of-bastogne-dvd-review/]JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG.[/link]
JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG
As featured on [link=http://www.joedemadio.com/battle-of-the-bulge-siege-of-bastogne-dvd-review/]JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG.[/link]
JOEDEMADIO'S WW2 HISTORY & BATTLEFIELD BLOG
A superior documentary describing the actions of the 1st SS Panzer Division in Normandy. It begins by exploring the origins of the SS and follows the evolution of the Leibstandarte from a ceremonial bodyguard to an elite force which participated in numerous campaigns, including several spells on the Eastern Front. Stationed in the Pas-de-Calais and dogged by air attacks, it was not until the 24th June that the Division was able to enter the Normandy battle, being committed piecemeal against the British and Canadians around Caen. As with all Battlefield History TV documentaries, a number of superbly informed historians walk the ground and explain key moments in the brutal fighting, which initially took the form of German counter-attacks and then a series of grim defensive battles as they struggled to contain the Allies. Included amongst these is a very detailed account of Operation Goodwood and the Division's role in halting the offensive of three British armoured divisions, and the Leibstandarte's.. Read more
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A superior documentary describing the actions of the 1st SS Panzer Division in Normandy. It begins by exploring the origins of the SS and follows the evolution of the Leibstandarte from a ceremonial bodyguard to an elite force which participated in numerous campaigns, including several spells on the Eastern Front. Stationed in the Pas-de-Calais and dogged by air attacks, it was not until the 24th June that the Division was able to enter the Normandy battle, being committed piecemeal against the British and Canadians around Caen. As with all Battlefield History TV documentaries, a number of superbly informed historians walk the ground and explain key moments in the brutal fighting, which initially took the form of German counter-attacks and then a series of grim defensive battles as they struggled to contain the Allies. Included amongst these is a very detailed account of Operation Goodwood and the Division's role in halting the offensive of three British armoured divisions, and the Leibstandarte's.. Read more
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As featured on video review by Model Dads: http://www.modeldads.co.uk/Life-at-the-Front/wordpress/pen-sword-digitals-assault-normandy-dvds/
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As featured on video review by Model Dads: http://www.modeldads.co.uk/Life-at-the-Front/wordpress/pen-sword-digitals-assault-normandy-dvds/
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Special Operations: Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the UK's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), where cyphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the cyphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park,… Read more...
Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the scale of size and complexity by electing to attack and deny the only dry dock that could take a German battleship for repairs, the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire on France's Atlantic coast. The problem was that the port was miles up an estuary… Read more...
Hougoumont & D'Erlon's Attack is the second part in the explosive four part series, The Waterloo Collection, which covers the entire Waterloo Campaign from Napoleon's return to France and ensuing battles to his final pursuit and eventual surrender to the British. Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras, Part II starts by focusing on the concentration… Read more...
This is the first of a new series of DVDs that will build into a collection covering all the highlights of this massive and controversial campaign. One that caught the Allies off guard and was fought in terrible weather conditions by some of the best German and Allied troops fighting in the West. In this section we examine the background to the campaign… Read more...
GOLD BEACH - BATTLE FOR THE BEACHHEAD is the second DVD covering this operation in detail and part of the Assault on Normandy series from BHTV and Pen & Sword Digital. While Part 1 examined the combined weight of naval, air and land forces and the tactics they used to break through Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall to seize a toe hold in Festung Europa,… Read more...
The Peninsular Collection: 95th Rifles - 1809 to Salamanca
95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peninsular Collection from BHTV and Pen and Sword Digital. The DVD explores the history of the 95th Rifles, who were masters of the battlefield and particularly skilled in skirmishing. Held in high esteem by the French and Allies alike, they played a momentous… Read more...
