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War Correspondents and Operation Barbarossa 1941
Hitler's invasion of the USSR was the largest land invasion in history, but it was the most under reported theatre of fighting in the entire war. Thi…
8 years, 3 months ago
Roosevelt, Churchill and Lend Lease
Following Roosevelt's election victory in November 1940, the news that Britain faced certain bankruptcy in dollar terms presented the president with …
8 years, 3 months ago
Truman and the Taft Hartley Act 1947
This is the second podcast on labour relations and the Truman Presidency. In 1947, Congress took up the baton of anti union legislation, just as the …
8 years, 3 months ago
Barbarossa Part Three: The USSR and the Invasion
This is the third part of a series on Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. This podcast focuses on the views and beliefs of a…
8 years, 3 months ago
American Volunteers and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
When US volunteers from the International Brigade returned to America after two years of bloodshed and slaughter in Spain, they received a frosty wel…
8 years, 4 months ago
Woodrow Wilson and the founding of the League of Nations
In the aftermath of the First World War, utopian visions of a future world without war informed a generation of diplomats, politicians and peace make…
8 years, 4 months ago
Cold War assumptions and the beginning of the Korean War
Mao, Stalin, Truman and MacArthur's calculations, along with the ambitions of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee turned Korea from a Cold War sideshow into…
8 years, 4 months ago
The development of Nazi economic policy 1920-32
Incoherence was one of the defining features of Nazi economic thinking, as competing economic tendencies within the party and externally were suborne…
8 years, 4 months ago
Churchill and the Russian Civil War 1919
At the height of the allied intervention in Russia, David Lloyd George wavered in his enthusiasm for the mission but his political ally and friend Ch…
8 years, 4 months ago
Marx's legacy and the German Social Democratic Party
Following his death in 1883 Marx was elevated the position of a secular prophet of history by the guardians of his legacy the German Social Democrati…
8 years, 4 months ago