Both Sides of the Line

Experiences of World War Two

at the Sharp End

6 x 48 minute programmes

The ‘Both Sides of the Line’ series provides veterans and survivors of World War Two’s most infamous battles with a final opportunity to place their memories on record.

This is an unmissable opportunity to see and hear former enemies tell their side of the story - to wrest some of military history’s most enduring tales away from the historians, scholars and authors and place them back in the hands of those who know - because they were there.

Here, in more peaceful times, former enemies meet once again. Men who faced each other in a desperate life-or-death struggle during the maelstrom of World War Two now share their memories together at the scenes of the war’s greatest battles.

These emotional meetings provide compelling and powerful television viewing. Most powerful of all, however, is a sense of history coming to life; of men unburdening themselves of a lifetime of memories; of a determination to leave full and final tributes to past deeds and fallen comrades.

The series features

• Rare footage from Allied and German libraries, plus footage from a previously unavailable Russian source.

• Computer-generated illustrative maps

• Previously unseen photographs and memorabilia collected from the battlefields by the veterans

• Each episode is underpinned by a single narration outlining the background and events surrounding each great battle.

Titles in the series

1. The Battle of Arnhem

2. The Battles for Normandy

3. The Battle of The Bulge

4. The Battle of El Alamein

5. Dunkirk and the Fall of France

6. The Battle of Monte Cassino