Before he fought the Republic, Julius Caesar made his name as a legendary military commander fighting in Gaul. In the first part of our series we look at how the war began and what happened during the first summer of campaigning. Episode 9 – Gallia Est Pacata IBy Nicholas Orwin

The Eastern Roman Empire finds itself surrounded on all sides by the Ottoman Turks, who are bringing their the largest gun in the world of the time to try and smash through the famous walls of Constantinople Episode 8 – Basilica At The GatesBy Nicholas Orwin

Three thousand, three hundred years ago the Ancient Egyptian Empire went to war with the Hittite Empire and fought the earliest battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. Episode 7 – Clash At KadeshBy Nicholas Orwin

Napoleon now holds the entire nation of France in his hands. The greatest general of the time will throw the greatest armies of the time against the whole of Europe in the largest battles ever fought before. Episode 6 – Rise of the Regicides IIIBy Nicholas Orwin

War against a united Europe, a reign of terror, uprisings, rebellions and the rise and fall of men of power. Who will survive the most dangerous time of the revolution, and who will find themselves under the guillotines blade? Episode 5 – Rise of the Regicides IIBy Nicholas Orwin

Debt crisis, famines and resentment of the nobility led to massive social and political change in France, a change the monarchies of Europe were deeply afraid of, driving them to form coalitions with the sole aim of stopping the revolution and killing all those who stood in their way. Episode 4 – Rise of the Regicides I…

The forces of nature can often change the tides of war, but can the monsoon rains save what was one of the largest cities in the world and the greatest city in South East Asia from an army, a general and a king hell bent on its utter destruction? Episode 3 – General MonsoonBy Nicholas Orwin

At 00:16 on June 6th, 1944, glider number one landed right next to the Bénouville bridge. Two more gliders would be landing just behind it and the German defenders had no idea the British paratroopers were there. The bridge was right on the edge of the allied invasion of Normandy, it had to be captured intact and held against what they knew would b…

Pyrrhus of Epirus travels across the Adriatic sea from Greece into Italy, coming to aid an ally in their struggle against Rome and to carve out an empire for himself. His Macedonian phalanx is the first foreign power on Italian soil; can the new Roman maniple take on an army considered at the time to be one of the most advanced in the ancient world…