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The Siege of Leningrad Part Two
Whilst Leningrad's citizens starved, Soviet party bosses enjoyed food, warmth and comfort. Laying siege to the city, the demoralised and ever more brutal German Army started to see by the spring of 1…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
The problems of American rearmament: 1941
Years of inconsistency in America's foreign and defence policy throughout the 1930s had left deep confusion at the highest levels of government about what kind of war might be fought against Nazi Ger…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
War exhaustion and the Central Powers
When Russia left the First World War in 1918, the generals and politicians of the Central Powers were convinced that victory was in sight. Germany's determination to end the war quickly resulted in t…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Social Mobility and the American Dream 1945-50
Rising living standards, new scientific innovation and a faith in progress were prevalent in America in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. However, social progress was segregated and en…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Hitler, Goering and the Four Year Plan
When President of the Reichbank and Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht suggested slowing the pace of rearmament to Hitler in the mid 1930s, he was replaced by the ineffectual but loyal Herman Goering…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
Lenin's Train to Russia: April 1917
The journey made by Vladimir Lenin in 1917 from Zurich to Petrograd was part of a German strategy to undermine its enemies from within. Previous attempts at subversion in the British Empire, specific…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
The Defence of India -
At the start of the Second World War, India had several overlapping defence concerns and Britain sought to place more cost and responsibility on the government of India. This podcast explores the str…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1
While the German Army prepared to seize Moscow, the longest siege of the war began at Leningrad on the Gulf of Finland. It would result in the deaths of over a million citizens and see the city compl…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973
An interventionist state, the capture of global markets and the destruction of economic opponents (Germany and Japan) and the loss of Britain's economic world power saw America emerge as the wealthie…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow
After a summer and autumn of devastating defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army was finally able to inflict a major setback on Hitler's forces just nine miles from Moscow itself. A combi…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago