Clash of Warriors

A documentary on some of the key campaigns and battles of the 20th century, seen as a match-up between the two sides commanders. We see the strategies, tactics, personality traits and events that made one commander victorious.

2002 HD 45min English

Documentary History

S1E1 - Patton vs von Kluge - Normandy Breakout 2002-12-31

For weeks after the D-Day Iandings, AIlied troops were pinned down in the dense Normandy bocage, the small fields, narrow lanes, and high hedgerows where German anti-tank ambushes and snipers inflicted mounting casualties. Their resistance would only be broken by a spectacular breakout action, and this vital task was entrusted to the flamboyant, hard-driving George Patton. Once his armoured units had been unleashed on the Allied right wing, and were swinging round behind the German defences there was little that Guenther Hans von Kluges battle-weary troops could do to hold the line.

S1E2 - Bradley vs Model - Battle of the Bulge 2002-12-31

The 1944 Battle of the Bulge, which pitted U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley against German Field Marshall Walter Model, is recalled.

S1E3 - Stilwell vs Honda - Burma 2002-12-31

When the Allies captured the airfield at Myitkyina in May 1944 it brought together two determined and ruthless commanders, General Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilwell and Lt. General Masaki Honda, in an uncompromising face off.

S1E4 - Rommel vs Montgomery - El Alamein 2002-12-31

Erwin Rommel made his name as one of the outstanding commanders of World War 2 Ieading the German Afrika Korps in a series of sweeping victories which took his forces almost to the banks of the Suez Canal. But at an obscure railway halt in the desert, he came up against his nemesis. Cautious and methodical, Bernard Montgomery was a very different sort of leader, but one ideally suited to the costly and desperate slogging match that was needed to penetrate the formidable Axis defence lines and begin the Iong advance across North Africa.

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