"Director: Robert Powell (Narrator)"

• Their Finest Hour: Civilian War | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While RAF pilots spent every ounce of their energy in trying to hold back the relentless might of the Luftwaffe many bombers inevitably did get through to drop their deadly loads on the population below. Air Raid Wardens and Local Defence Volunteers helped head up the army of civilians who became embroiled in the conflict. Nurses Firemen Police and Lifeboat crews all played their part. So did girls who joined the Land Army went to work in armaments factories became billeting officers or took one of numerous other positions. These needed to be filled while their husbands fathers or brothers were fighting in the armed forces. 1940s Britain was a whole nation at war and the civilian population was also on the front line...

• Their Finest Hour: Opposing Genius | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Some people possess extraordinary talents. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two such men and each was to shape the destiny of their nation. One was to become the very symbol of evil whilst the other seventy years on is still admired and respected throughout the world. Their names seem to radiate the very worst and the very best of the human spirit. The strategic battles of Churchill and Hitler explain why the Second World War casts such a shadow over subsequent generations. This is an epic tale one that is on the one hand horrifying and on the other uplifting. Under their respective commands two leaders Hermann Goering and Hugh Dowding implemented tactics and directed the world's leading Air Forces in battles that were to shape the Western World. Their genius at a tactical level should not be underestimated. This DVD investigates how genius can be found in both strategy and tactics in both 'the big picture' and in the daily horrors of war.