It took just four months from the outbreak of World War Two for the RAF to learn that bombers were hideously vulnerable on daylight raids. The Luftwaffe learned the same leasson during the Battle of Britain. Both sides hurriedly switched to a campaign of night bombing - a tactic for which both were completely unprepared.

The problems were identical on both sides, The bombers could not find their targets in the dark - and the new breed of night fighters could not find their prey...

WARRIORS OF THE NIGHT is the definitive account of the fight for the night skies over Britain and Europe from 1939-1945. Luftwaffe and RAF night fighter and night bomber veterans provide vivid accounts of the conflict while experts reveal the evolving tactics and ingenous secret scientific inventions developed by both sides.

The video shows how these different tactics and inventions - like the British ‘Gee’ and OBOE navigation aids, upward firing cannon and downward facing H25 radar, rear-facing ‘Monicas’ and nose mounted airborne radar, the ‘Wurzbung Giants’, ‘Corona’, ‘Window’, ‘Tinsel’, ‘Wild Boar’ interceptors, Pathfinders, electronic jamming and Himmelbett night fighter boxes - changed the deadly games of cat and mouse fought between fighter and bomber as the war raged.

The video also features quality archive film, including colour footage of Halifax bombers and a fascinating recreation of an attack on a Lancaster performing violent corkscrew manoeuvres to escape - filmed by multiple cameras!