Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 292
Military service in the United States has long been associated with patriotism. But for Black veterans, this association with patriotism, love for co…
1 year, 2 months ago
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 13
Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not m…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 1176
In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 233
In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 290
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ben Zweibelson, "Reconceptualizing War" (Helion, 2025)
Episode 291
War remains the most chaotic and destructive act our species is capable of. In addition to waging war against those we disagree with, we also battle …
1 year, 2 months ago
Marcus Gibson, "The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command Became the No.1 Factor in Britain’s Total, Destructive Defeat of Nazi Germany" (2025)
Episode 1462
In this podcast Richard Lucas interviews Marcus Gibson, author of The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command Became the No.1 Factor in Britain’s Tota…
1 year, 2 months ago
Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
Episode 288
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union that opened the Eastern Front in World War II…
1 year, 2 months ago
Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 1066
When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1595
Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars explores the complex interplay between violence and propaganda during the continent's major civil conf…
1 year, 3 months ago