TV Guide PBS America Sunday

Documentary exploring evidence that Edward VIII may have collaborated with the Nazis following his abdication in 1936, as well as the establishment cover-up of his loyalties that occurred following the war. Historians examine the possibility that the former king may have passed information to known spies and been complicit in a plot to reinstate him to the throne in the event of Britain being successfully occupied

Hitler takes an enormous gamble as Nazi forces fight the war on two fronts, braving the worst winter in memory to tackle the Allies to the west in the Ardenne Forest of Belgium and Luxemburg as the Russian army gets closer to Berlin. In the Philippines thousands of prisoners starve while they await liberation at the Japanese Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila

The violence in the Pacific in early 1945, when Japanese soldiers were ordered to kill as many Americans as possible before their own deaths. Meanwhile, in Europe two armies headed for Berlin as hundreds of thousands of allied troops raced from the west, hoping to reach the German capital before Russia's Red Army advanced from the east

The Allies discover the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen as they close in on Berlin, while Hitler realises the scale of his defeat and kills himself ahead of Germany's surrender. In the Pacific, kamikaze pilots wreak havoc on the US fleet sailing toward Japan as American forces battle to take the island of Okinawa

The final stages of the Second World War in the Far East as the Japanese rulers refused to concede defeat despite the agony of their people, culminating in the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the conflict finally at an end, hundreds of thousands of servicemen were able to return home - where they had to learn to live without the structures of military life