Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 243
Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 …
2 years, 2 months ago
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
Episode 90
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the s…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1465
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?
Examin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 75
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 539
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in th…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)
Episode 242
A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, Histories of War (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) shows how the varied modes of …
2 years, 2 months ago
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our inter…
2 years, 3 months ago
David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)
Episode 1464
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated …
2 years, 3 months ago
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
Episode 77
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fasci…
2 years, 3 months ago
Bastiaan Willems, "Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1463
In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country.
I…
2 years, 3 months ago