Episode list

"It was snipers who shot at us." Military nurse Suzi Apelgren becomes angry and scared when she is shot at by Serbs on her way to the hospital with a sick UN soldier in Sarajevo. The year is 1992 and Suzi has been sent to the former Yugoslavia on a UN peacekeeping mission. As a UN soldier, she and others have set out in the hope of creating peace, but step by step the soldiers realize that they are targets and witnesses to ethnic cleansing.

The fighter soldier Lars Møller sees the two planes flying into the twin towers in New York on September 11 and thinks, "Now we're going to war." And he's right. Suddenly, what has been jokingly called Denmark's most expensive sports club is in dire straits. Denmark and the US send fighter soldiers to Afghanistan to fight al-Qaeda and take out Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. Lars Møller is sent on a secret mission deep in the Afghan mountains.

With a narrow majority and without a UN mandate, the first Danish soldiers are sent to Iraq. They are poorly prepared. Radios melt and field rations explode in the heat. It turns out that it is a long road to peace, and soon the first Danish soldier has lost his life. "I have never believed that you can fight your way to peace and freedom," says Liv Storrud, mother of Anders, one of the Danish soldiers who falls in Iraq.

"Are we willing to kill women?" Jesper Burlin knows the dilemmas that Anders Storrud faced when he was caught in a violent ambush in the city of al-Qurnah in 2004. The fighting in Iraq will cost the lives of both civilians and rebels. The Americans' brutal actions are causing the Iraqi people to turn against the foreign troops. The evil atmosphere affects the Danish soldiers, who lose yet another young soldier.

He never said "I love you", but now he writes it in his letter to his family. He would only do that if it was completely crazy, says Anders Storrud's mother Liv. When the first Danish soldiers arrive in Musa Qala in Helmand Province, they experience some of the fiercest fighting since 1864. Back home in Denmark, Liv is worried. She feels that Anders has reached the limit of what he can handle mentally.

The next step could be my last, thinks soldier Jesper Aagaard in Afghanistan in 2010. Roadside bombs are the most common cause of death for Danish soldiers. The Taliban advance and the fighting intensifies. It is decided to close the Armadillo base. War fatigue is setting in in Denmark and the Taliban are ready for the last armed advance that will send hundreds of thousands of Afghans fleeing.