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The Road to the Rhine - a Forgotten Victory?
Episode 16
In today’s episode, we are crossing the Rhine and push into the heartland of Germany. However, this is not the Rhine crossing you might have heard of…
1 year, 6 months ago
Monte Cassino - Allied perseverance or bloody blunder?
Episode 15
In this episode we will tackle some of the bitterest and, from the Allied side, most controversial actions of the Italian campaign and indeed of the …
1 year, 6 months ago
Operation Mincemeat
Episode 14
In this episode, we are moving into a new field intelligence and covert operations. Did they influence the outcome of the war, or were they merely a …
1 year, 6 months ago
Winter War
Episode 13
In this episode, we are heading to the far North and are going to look at a war within the Second World war that had a profound impact on how the wid…
1 year, 6 months ago
Barbarossa: General Winter’s greatest victory or German mistake?
Episode 12
In this episode we take a closer look at Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It was the largest campaign in the hi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 11: More Myths
Episode 11
In this episode, we are returning to the core theme of this podcast series, and this is busting myths and taking a closer look at overly convenient t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Stalingrad: The battle and the myths
Episode 10
In this episode, we’re diving into the Battle of Stalingrad – often seen as THE turning point of World War Two and the culmination point of Nazi Germ…
1 year, 7 months ago
How the Allies Won – More Than Numbers
Episode 9
In this episode we’ll get to grips with what might seem like a simple question – why and how did the Allies win the Second World War. The usual answe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Blitzkrieg - unstoppable German strategy or myth?
Episode 8
In this episode we’ll investigate the idea of Blitzkrieg - were the stunning victories of German arms from 1939 to 1941 the result of a brilliant, a …
1 year, 8 months ago
Kursk - the Battle and the Myths
Episode 7
Today we’ll visit what might be the biggest single battle in history, the Battle of Kursk. The titanic clash in summer of 1943 showed how far the tid…
1 year, 8 months ago