Guadalcanal is the glittering prize of the Pacific. Japan are determined to seize the island and build an airfield on it. But the US have their eyes on it, too. Whoever controls Guadalcanal will dominate the region and, with it, potentially win the Second World War. It's the catalyst for one of the most bloody and brutal episodes of World War Two.

Japan's Death Railway: Laid through the toughest terrain known to man, Japan's 258-mile supply route was built with the blood of 200,000 Allied POWs and locals.

As the Nazi war machine reaches the English channel in 1940, Hitler forms a strategy to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.