1942 AND HITLER’S SOFT UNDERBELLY
In this film we ask why Britain spent so much of the
conflict battling through North Africa and Italy? Historian David Reynolds
reassesses Winston Churchill’s conviction that the Mediterranean was the ‘soft
underbelly’ of Hitler’s Europe. Travelling to Egypt and Italian battlefields
like Cassino, the scene of some of the worst carnage in Western Europe, he
shows how in reality the ‘soft underbelly’ became a dark and dangerous
obsession for Churchill.
