These acclaimed documentaries were made during World War II, using actual newsreel footage by three Oscar winners: Frank Capra, Dimitri Tiomkin, Walter Houston.
It is a story of a brilliant deception, of physical bravery and endurance, of sexual intrigue at court, of risk taking and of a man who dared – and won. For his services to Queen and Country the Duke of Marlborough was presented with Blenheim Palace, but for the hundreds of his countrymen who still lie buried beneath the wheat planted fields of Bavaria this programme, which chronicles their extra-ordinary story, must stand as a memorial to their valour and sacrifice.