(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in military history: destroying two gigantic dams in ...

In 1939 visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis designed a very special bomb that would bounce across water and destroy German dams The raid in 1943 was a success and a 1950s feature film carried ...

So what could Dan Snow’s new three-part series (Channel 5) bring to the party? Well, not much that hasn’t been covered elsewhere, though he did track down a 1/50th scale model of a German dam that had ...

The Elm Tree Inn, in Langton Herring, Dorset, closed late last year after 400 years of trading. Sir Barnes drank and lived in the pub while he was testing his famous device. He spent time on the south ...