TV Guide 5SELECT Saturday

Harry and Fergus are approached by a woman desperate to find out how her husband died and although they are reluctant to get involved, their interest is soon piqued. They discover gamblers are running a snuff game in Dublin and Harry turns over the evidence they uncover to Charlie, vowing to stay out of it, but the killers have other ideas

As 1945 began, Hitler's Third Reich was entering its death throes. In the west, Allied forces were within striking distance of the Rhine, while Red Army soldiers in the east were at the banks of the river Oder, just an hour's drive from Berlin. As the Allies advanced, they uncovered horrific evidence of Hitler's 'final solution' - concentration camps filled with starving prisoners, piles of corpses and the gas chambers that the Germans had not had time to obliterate. The final battle for Berlin began on April 16 and nine days later the city was surrounded, with Soviet troops eliminating the remaining resistance

The concluding programme looks at how Japan's forces waged a savage defence campaign despite a hopeless position, with US carriers and amphibious forces roaming at will across the Pacific and submarines cutting vital supply lines to the mainland. Japan's leaders believed that if they could inflict sufficient casualties on enemy forces, the Allies would give up, and American president Harry S Truman realised that there was only one way to force this fanatical enemy into surrendering, and decided to deploy the atomic bomb

The dramatic events in the Second World War when German U-boats almost forced Britain into submission. The programme features reconstructions, archive material and testimony from British seamen who fought to keep open the supply line that linked the country with America

How the 1941 capture of an Enigma machine provided Britain with a means of striking back against Hitler's U-boats, which had claimed more than three million tons of Allied shipping in the first 18 months of World War Two. Featuring eyewitness accounts and testimony from both sides, dramatic reconstructions and archive material

Eyewitness accounts, dramatic reconstructions and archive footage tell the remarkable story of the Allied victories in the spring of 1943 and the final destruction of the German U-boat fleet