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Warsaw rising: Episode 83 of the 1st podcast on the Eastern Front of WW2
Season 4 Episode 1
In August 1944, the Red Army steamrolled across eastern Europe. Yet when Warsaw rose up against the nazi occupiers, they found themselves alone.
His…
1 year, 1 month ago
Special episode: Gouzenko—the man who exposed the Cold War
In this special episode of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War Two, we go beyond Beyond Barbarossa and beyond the end of the Second World …
1 year, 1 month ago
Summer 1944 on the Eastern Front, north and south
Season 4 Episode 2
In summer 1944, "the Red Army’s seemingly unstoppable streamroller took Stanislav in the Carpathian foothills, Bialystok in northern Poland, Dvinsk …
1 year, 2 months ago
Lviv: Another crushing blow—Episode 80 of the first English podcast on the Eastern Front of World War II.
Season 4 Episode 1
Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nuances of Lend-Lease with Angus Wallace: Episode 79
Season 3 Episode 30
Did the Lend-Lease program save the Soviet Union? For the Season 3 finale, Angus Wallace of the World War 2 podcast joins to offer a nuanced interpr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Operation Bagration: Episode 78
Season 3 Episode 29
The USSR’s answer to D-Day in June 1944 takes the Germans by surprise—and annihilates a whole army group.
Map 1: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, t…
1 year, 4 months ago
On the eve of Bagration: the next crushing blow in World War 2’s eastern front
Season 3 Episode 28
Author Craig W.H. Luther joins us to compare two anniversaries on the same date, 22 June, three years apart: Operations Barbarossa in 1941, and Oper…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Forgotten Army: Poland’s Armia Krajowa
Season 3 Episode 27
A major army, 400,000 strong, made a major difference in World War 2. Yet it doesn’t get enough attention in the West (nor, unfortunately, on this p…
1 year, 5 months ago
Where we were in World War 2 in ’44: Episode 75
Season 3 Episode 26
It’s been a year of stunning, swift change on the Eastern Front of World War 2. And momentous events are coming soon — so it’s high time for a recap…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Fall of Berlin—80th anniversary with Anthony Tucker-Jones: Episode 74
Season 3 Episode 25
On 2 May 1945, Red Army soldiers raised the Soviet Red Banner with hammer and sickle on the cupola of the Reichstag in Berlin. For the 80th annivers…
1 year, 6 months ago