Podcast Episodes

203: The Holocaust pt. I: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers

“The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitively. Not much will remain of the Jews.” —Joseph Goebbels

This is t…

15 hours ago

202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

After turning our attention back to Europe in the last few episodes, it’s time to finally examine the Holocaust. Back in episode 185, we covered a br…

2 weeks ago

201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce

"My dear Duce, it’s no longer any good… At this moment you are the most hated man in Italy.” 

This is the story of Operations Underworld, Mincemeat, …

4 weeks ago

200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” 

This is the story of the Allied campaign…

1 month, 1 week ago

199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater

“When do we get a whack at those Germans?”

This is the story of America’s entry into the European Theater. After Pearl Harbor, American foot soldiers…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Introducing Free Range with Von Miller

A new episode of History That Doesn't Suck drops Monday, February 16th. It’s a continuation of our ongoing chronicle of World War II and we’ll be shi…

2 months ago

198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

“It was almost unbelievable, but I was seeing it. Almost simultaneously, three [Japanese] carriers were wiped out. I knew what it meant. By golly, we…

2 months, 1 week ago

197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

“We had been promised relief but none was coming, and all of us in Bataan shared a sense of betrayal.”

This is the story of the United State’s earlie…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

With the December 1941 surprise attack on the US naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, our story has officially come to the United States’ entry into th…

3 months, 1 week ago

195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.

“This year very few Hanukkah candles were lit.” / “This is a strange Christmas Eve.”

This is the story of 1941’s wartime holiday season. 

It’s diffic…

3 months, 3 weeks ago