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The excavation team makes use of Soviet military reports to locate the front-line trenches of fierce conflict between Allied and Nazi forces in Latvia's Courland peninsula. As they progress along the front, the experts uncover a live shell that must be detonated under controlled conditions by an army bomb disposal squad, and also find the bodies of fallen German and Russian soldiers. Last in the series.

A four-man team of excavation experts sets out to retrieve Second World War relics from the battlefields and war-zones of the Eastern Front, telling the stories of fallen soldiers by examining their remains.

A four-man team of excavation experts sets out to retrieve Second World War relics from the battlefields of the Eastern Front, telling the stories of fallen soldiers by examining their remains.

WWII history series following a team as they excavate bodies and battle relics from the Eastern Front. In Latvia, the team find a German artillery command bunker abandoned in 1945.