Series from 2017
An account of some of the little-known and incredible stories of prisoners of war and Allied soldiers escaping from Nazi occupied territory to safety …
Monty retraces the extraordinary journey through the mountains and forests of Slovenia following the most successful mass escape of Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War.
Len Harley escaped from the Nazis in Italy; Monty Halls retraces his incredible journey, and reunites Len, who's now 98, with Rosina Spinosa, who helped him escape.
Recounting the story of a daring SAS mission behind enemy lines in northern Italy, and retracing the troops' dramatic escape route across the Apuan Alps.
Retracing the tough World War II freedom trail across the Pyrenees from France to Spain and meeting soldiers who survived it and people who helped them.