| Summary: | There are some global events of such impact that they stay with us forever. They are so important that we sit up and pay attention as they are happening: we sit glued to the television we pour over newspapers we frantically search out more information to understand. This series looks at some of the most shocking events of the 20th and early 21st Century analysing how the news of their occurrence spread across the globe and what impact they had on the modern world. This episode focuses on the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, called the operation a crusade in which we will accept nothing less than full victory. The D-Day cost was high. By nightfall, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were either dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore and began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
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