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 lesson 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 to 1945. Luftwaffe and RAF night fighter and night bomber veterans provide vivid accounts of the conflict, while experts reveal the evolving tactics and ingenious secret scientific inventions developed by both sides. These constantly changed the deadly games of cat and mouse fought between fighter and bomber as the war raged. The title also features quality archive film - including colour footage of Halifax bombers - and a fascinating recreation of an attack on a Lancaster with a Luftwaffe night fighter veteran actually guiding the attack and the Lancaster performing violent corkscrew manoeuvres to escape - filmed by multiple cameras!

DVD special features

This special DVD edition also includes a bonus DVD-Rom featuring: RAF Bomber Command Breakdown (8 Bomber groups): Twenty interviews with veterans from both the Luftwaffe & the RAF; Aircraft gallery (Featuring 23 Aircraft); Tactics & Warfare feature (37 Topic Items); Target Berlin (Bombing Raid on Jan.28/29, 1944); 50 Top Secret Documents.