

After the Allied catastrophe at Dunkirk in 1940, Britain begins a daring program of training select troops to strike fast and deep behind enemy lines.

In 1942, commandos raid France to destroy the docks at St Nazaire, a virtual suicide mission that turns out to be the most successful of the war.

As the war rages in North Africa in 1940, commandos train to wreak havoc behind enemy lines in unforgiving desert conditions.

After German airborne troops invade Holland and Belgium in 1940, Britain begins to establish its own parachutist commando units.