A film series based on Sir Winston Churchill's Memoirs of World War II.

The crossing of the Rhine by an advance guard leads to the outflanking of the Siegfried Line and the end of organised resistance by the Germans. But they are still not ready to accept the Allied terms of 'unconditional surrender on all fronts'. Cologne, Essen, and Frankfurt fall; the death camps of Buchenwald, Belsen, and Dachau are liberated; and on April 12 the Elbe is crossed-the Allies are only 60 miles from Berlin. This significant date brings to Churchill not only hope of victory, but sudden sorrow: Roosevelt has died.