WWII's Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails

Monty Halls treks through the outback of Slovenia as he explores the story of the most successful mass escape of Allied prisoners in the Second World War.

Monty follows the footsteps of Len Harley, who escaped from the Nazis across Italy's Majella mountains in the dead of winter.

Monty recounts a daring British SAS mission behind enemy lines in northern Italy and retraces the troops' dramatic escape route across the Apuan Alps.

One of the toughest freedom trail routes in Europe crosses the Pyrenees from France to Spain. Monty meets soldiers who survived it, and people who risked their lives to help them.