War Walks

BBC Four HD

1:05 AM to 1:35 AM

Wednesday 18 June

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Richard Holmes provides an insight into the events of Operation Goodwood, the Allied forces' armoured break-out of the bridgehead in Normandy in 1944, revealing how a German officer's order resulted in the destruction of advancing British tanks. However, the battle - later described as the 'death ride of the armoured divisions' - succeeded in distracting enemy forces from a simultaneous American push