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The World at War
Season 1 · Episode 13
Tough Old Gut: Italy (November 1942-June 1944)
8.053mJanuary 30, 1974
Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' and thought the Allies could cut through it to the heart of Germany. By the soft underbelly turned out to be a 'tough old gut'.
Episodes
- Episode 1A New Germany (1933–1939)
- Episode 2Distant War (September 1939–May 1940)
- Episode 3France Falls (May–June 1940)
- Episode 4Alone (May 1940–May 1941)
- Episode 5Barbarossa (June–December 1941)
- Episode 6Banzai! Japan (1931–1942)
- Episode 7On Our Way: U.S.A. (1939–1942)
- Episode 8The Desert: North Africa (1940–1943)
- Episode 9Stalingrad (June 1942-February 1943)
- Episode 10Wolfpack: U-Boats in the Atlantic (1939–1944)
- Episode 11Red Star: The Soviet Union (1941–1943)
- Episode 12Whirlwind: Bombing Germany (September 1939–April 1944)
- Episode 13Tough Old Gut: Italy (November 1942-June 1944)
- Episode 14It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma (1942–1944)
- Episode 15Home Fires: Britain (1940–1944)
- Episode 16Inside the Reich: Germany (1940–1944)
- Episode 17Morning (June–August 1944)
- Episode 18Occupation: Holland (1940–1944)
- Episode 19Pincers (August 1944–March 1945)
- Episode 20Genocide (1941–1945)
- Episode 21Nemesis (February–May 1945)
- Episode 22Japan (1941–1945)
- Episode 23Pacific - The Island to Island War (February 1942–July 1945)
- Episode 24The Atomic Bomb (February–September 1945)
- Episode 25Reckoning (April 1945)
- Episode 26Remember