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Intelligence gathering and the First World War
During the four years of the First World War, intelligence gathering from informants, captured soldiers, aerial reconnaissance and signals traffic de…
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Expulsion, disenfranchisement and class war in Stalinist Russia
By the late 1920s alinist fears of subversion by enemy social classes saw the disenfranchisement and expulsion from jobs and homes of members of the …
6 years, 9 months ago
The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39
In the inter war years as air policy developed in Britain, 'air policing' of the British Empire was a strategy adopted by the RAF in order to wage ae…
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The advance of the fascist right in Spain 1933-4
In November 1933 the reactionary movement CEDA became the a key part of a new right wing government. CEDA actively proposed a violent fascist coup an…
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The Marshall Plan 1947-2
The Marshall Plan was the most successful use of American soft power in the country's history. By offering $13 billion in economic aid to rebuild wes…
6 years, 9 months ago
Class persecution and former people in Stalinist Russia 1928-39
In the USSR during the Stalinist era, class origins defined all aspects of an individual and by the end of the decade were a matter of life and death…
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American air doctrine and the B-17a bomber
The development of air power in the USA from 1938 onwards in the shape of the B-17a four engine bomber was not matched by an official air doctrine, b…
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The militarisation of the SS 1933-39
By 1939 the Camp SS, normally responsible for controlling prisons such as Dachau was equipped and trained to fight at the front line. This podcast ex…
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Mao's Famine and Szechuan Province 1958-62
In four years between 1958-62 a catastrophic famine in China killed 40 million people and a quarter of those died in Szechuan, a food rich province. …
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Indian soldiers and the defence of Egypt in 1914-15
At the start of the First World War, Egypt and the Suez Canal were vital to the functioning of the British Empire and were under huge pressure from a…
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