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Season 1 · Episode 5

Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete

0.01h 0mApril 12, 2015

This is the dramatic story of how Crete was captured by the Germans and how Robert Laycock led a desperate rear guard action against crack German mountain troops.

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Episodes

Episode 1The Doolittle Raid
Episode 2Wingate and the Chindits
Episode 3The Black Battalion Holds the Line
Episode 4Manstein Holds the Line
Episode 5Lucky Laycock's Escape from Crete
Episode 6The Amiens Raid
Episode 7Breakout Through Hell's Gate
Episode 8The Road of Bones
Episode 9Morshead Holds Tobruk
Episode 10The Real Bridge Too Far
Episode 11Evacuation in the Baltic
Episode 12Operation Pedestal
Episode 13Moore's March