Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 157
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyon…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 1557
Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War (University of Toronto Press, 20…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)
Episode 193
The city of St. Petersburg held great significance to the Russian Empire when Peter the Great first built the city in 1703. It was intended to be Rus…
10 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 184
Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough st…
10 months ago
Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 374
KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious …
10 months, 1 week ago
Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 317
American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003…
10 months, 1 week ago
Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)
Episode 1551
Historian Tim Bouverie, the renowned author of the very well received Appeasement, gives us another brilliant history Allies at War: How the Struggl…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 1552
In The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell UP, 2025), Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of internati…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)
Episode 1550
In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those who fought it and their loved ones at hom…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 313
An analysis of advances in military technology that illustrates the importance of organizational flexibility in both an attacker’s innovations and an…
10 months, 2 weeks ago