Doors: Understanding the 20th Century Through 3 Nautical Chokepoints

SET SAIL for the Dardanelles, whose 1914 closure contributed to totalitarianism in Russia and a desert in the United States. Weigh anchor for Gibraltar and witness a nine hour meeting between Franco and Hitler that has been the basis of a heated historical argument ever since. Steam to the Suez Canal, a geopolitical rock star of the Cold War, both in the struggle between the Americans and the Soviets and the fight between Israel and Egypt. Throughout, you are part of the action, from coaling a ship in the Mediterranean to breaking through a massive sand berm in Egypt. Doors is the story of the 20th Century, told by the land that shaped it.