Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
Episode 1439
The American Civil War may have been more consequential to American history (and its global supremacy) than its Revolutionary War and participation i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 280
A wargaming renaissance has been underway in the US military. Having proven to be the most effective recruitment tool of the 21st century, games have…
1 year, 3 months ago
Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, "Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War" (Basic Books, 2021)
Episode 281
A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler's declaration of war on the Uni…
1 year, 3 months ago
Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1436
Even casual observers of the military will notice the unique ways that service members use language. With all of the acronyms and jargon, some even a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1435
Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eight…
1 year, 3 months ago
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Episode 1434
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, draw…
1 year, 3 months ago
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During the Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943" (Frontline, 2025)
Episode 1433
Dr. Antonio J. Muñoz's Hitler’s War Against the Partisans During The Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943 (Frontline Books, 2025) …
1 year, 4 months ago
Wilson T. Bell, "Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War" (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Episode 1432
Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War (University of Toronto Press, 2018) places the Gulag wit…
1 year, 4 months ago
Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)
Episode 1431
An intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered. Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukra…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lily Hamourtziadou, "The Ethics of Remote Warfare" (University of Wales Press, 2024)
Episode 1430
Can there be purely defensive or moral wars? In response to this question and others like it, this book offers unique insights into twenty-first-cent…
1 year, 4 months ago