Part One: Inferno

This episode covers the early part of the war in the Pacific, one of the most bitter battle arenas of World War II.

Part Two: Purgatory

This part covers most of 1942, including battles at Midway, Guadalcanal, and the Kokoda Trail across the Owen Stanley Mountains in New Guinea.

Part Three: Armageddon

This part investigates how propaganda fueled hatred, and how women on both sides toiled and suffered.

Part Four: Apocalypse

The final episode reviews the last merciless battles, the bomb that changed the world and, for some, the most difficult journey of all, going home.