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The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign 1942
Episode 64
One of my first guests was Jeffrey Cox, we discussed in length the Java Sea campaign in episode 14.
Jeff has been busy for the last couple of years w…
8 years ago
Strafbattalion: Hitler's Penal Battalions
Episode 63
In episode 57 I talked to Walter Zapotoczny about Ardennes Offensive, chatting with him it told me had had a new book out in 2018 looking at German P…
8 years ago
Betrayed: The Buchenwald Airmen
Episode 62
In this episode we're going to be discussing the plight of 168 Allied Airmen who found themselves imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. It's s…
8 years, 1 month ago
RAF Liberators Over Burma - Flying with 159 Squadron
Episode 61
If Slim's 14th army was the 'Forgotten Army' the RAF bombing campaign in the Far East is even more forgotten!
In this episode I'm talking to Matt Poo…
8 years, 1 month ago
Alarmstart - German Fighter Pilots in Europe
Episode 60
When I plan the podcast episodes I don't usually sit down and look at the subject and how it relates to those episodes around it, hence we've often f…
8 years, 2 months ago
Case Red: The Collapse of France
Episode 59
In this episode I'm looking at 'Case Red' the German attack on France post Dunkirk. Often when we talk about the Battle of France the history seems t…
8 years, 2 months ago
Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma
Episode 58
In this episode we'll be looking at two British soldiers in occupied Burma.
Major Hugh Seagrim operated for two years behind the Japanese lines, orga…
8 years, 3 months ago
The 110th Holds In The Ardennes, 1944
Episode 57
This episode is being released on the 15th of December, the eve of the Battle of the Bulge. It was the 16th of December 1944 that Hitler launched Ope…
8 years, 3 months ago
Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion.
Episode 56
In the classic narrative, the second world war starts with the invasion of Poland in 1939, though for the Chinese it started with the Japanese invasi…
8 years, 4 months ago
Darkest Hour
I've been promising you an extra episode since September... Well it never came off, I was all prepared to discuss the end of the war in the Pacific …
8 years, 4 months ago