Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJames D. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025)
Episode 1429
Richard Sorge is one of history’s most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanising, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy…
1 year, 4 months ago
Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Episode 1428
Even with the availability of new forms of storytelling, the memoir remains as one of the favored ways for combat veterans to tell their stories abou…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jeremy A. Yellen, "Japan at War, 1914-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 1427
Japan at War, 1914-1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience.
The author a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1425
One of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1426
Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our phones or computers, and want to know what is hap…
1 year, 4 months ago
Charles J Esdaile, "The Spanish Civil War: A Military History" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 1424
The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939.
In many histories, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Geoffrey Wawro, "The Vietnam War: A Military History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 1423
The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an eros…
1 year, 4 months ago
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 1422
In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mento…
1 year, 4 months ago
Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1421
Furious economic growth and social change resulted in pervasive civic conflict in Imperial Germany. Roger Chickering presents a wide-ranging history …
1 year, 5 months ago
Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons "Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
Episode 1420
A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the hu…
1 year, 5 months ago