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A weekly podcast telling the story of the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.
An introduction to my new podcast series which will be published from September dealing with the wars of German unification and influence of...
In this final episode of this season, I will be discussing nuclear weapons and the threat of a nuclear war which hung over the world during...
After Che Guevara left Cuba, he would try to led two revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, neither of which would succeed. He would be ca...
An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile. The tension between the United States and the Soviet Uni...
An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy d...
The Soviets send nuclear weapons and fifty thousand military personal to Cuba, all without being observed by the Americans. The Soviet nucle...
Cuban exiles with the secret support of the American Government would in 1961, attempt a landing on the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pi...
When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, his mask of being a liberal and a democrat fell. There would be no free elections in Cuba. Tho...
1958 saw the Guerrilla armies in Cuba grow in number. The Cuban Army was sent to crush Fidel Castro and his rebels in operation summer, it n...
During 1957, Fidel Castro guerrilla band would grow in numbers, they attacked isolated Army garrisons in Eastern Cuba and the Cuban Army wou...
Fidel and Raul Castro would form a small army of Cuban exiles in Mexico, to train and return to Cuba, to try to overthrow the Cuban dictator...
Fidel Castro in 1952, when Cuba fell under a military dictatorship. He founded the Movement an underground resistance to the Cuban Dictators...
After the Spanish - American War, Americans dominated Cuba's economy. Elections are often were marred by fraud. In 1933 a revolution brought...
The story of Latin America's most brutal dictator Trujillo who govern the Dominican Republic for 31 years and killed 50,000 of his people. Y...
A political review of the states of South and Central America between 1945 and 1965. Sadly it will be a story mainly of dictators, repressio...
American involvement in Central America in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of two countries, in the post war period which the...
The story of the early years of the American Central Intelligence Agency and it most important director Allan Dulles. The CIA go on from a d...
When Eisenhower ran for President in 1952, the Korean War was an important issue during the election campaign. When he became President he t...
For years President Truman had failed to invest in South Korea's defence, the North Korea invasion invasion in June 1950 came as a shock but...
The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy, a biography of him is given. Following a speech by him in 1950 he became the most famous anti-com...
By 1945, the Soviet Union had established a highly effective spy ring operating in the United States. Many of their spies were key figures w...
In 1964, Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev from the Soviet leadership in a coup. A biography of Brezhnev is given. He would firmly establish his lea...
The Soviets bring down an American U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and capture the pilot, this leads an international incident. The build...
A review of the course of the Cold War in Asia between 1945 and 1965. This review will briefly deal with the effects of the Chinese Civil Wa...
General Khan the military ruler of Pakistan decided to go to war against India in 1965. The war began in Kashmir but soon was being fought a...
In this second episode on the Sino - Indian War of 1962, I look at the fighting in the Aksai Chin region in Eastern Kashmir where Chinese tr...
In October 1962 at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Chinese troops attacked Indian along their disputed border. This episode looks at t...
A biography of Indian Prime Minister Nehru and the story of his work with the international non aligned movement which attached a great deal...
India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1949 fight their first war against each other for control of Kashmir. The population of the area was mai...
In 1947 India was to gain its independence but it had to broken up into two nations, India and Pakistan known as Partition. In the run up to...
This is a special one off tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Second who died in September. It tells of her life and the British armed forces whi...
In this episode I will tell of the rule of Mao over China following the Communist victory in the civil war to his death. It was a very blood...
An overview of the Chinese military intervention into the Korean War and how the Chinese military developed during the Korean War. Improveme...
An account of Tibetan resistance to Chinese control of Tibet. In 1959 this would led to the Tibetan uprising in which over eighty thousand p...
The Chinese Communists saw Tibet as part of China. Talks between the Chinese and Tibetan Government failed to reach an agreement. The People...
The Chinese Communists overrun the Nationalists in Southern Chain and capture the island Hainan. They then defeat the warlords in Northern W...
Chiang Kai - Shek is removed from power as Nationalist leader. Stalin suggest a cease fire but the Chinese Communists reject it. A British w...
After the Communist victory in Manchuria, they march into Eastern China. The capital Beijing falls to them after a 40 day siege. The Communi...
Chiang Kai-Shek in June 1946 sends his Nationalist Army into North China and Manchuria to destroy the Communists. The American Government im...
After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Chinese Nationalist reoccupied the cites of Eastern Police along with them came their secre...
The Long March to Civil War The background to the Chinese Civil War, the fighting between the Nationalists and the Communists, in the twenti...
The American bombing of North Vietnam is halted over the 1965 Christmas period. In this final episode of this series, I look at the state of...
Military actions in South Vietnam during November and December 1965. The American Army launch a series of search and destroy operations incl...
The first major battle between regular American soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division and regular North Vietnamese troops. There re two maj...
Military operations in South Vietnam in September and October 1965. Australian and New Zealand military involvement in South Vietnam in 1965...
At first American troops in South Vietnam simply protect American bases but General Westmoreland get permission to change their role to incl...
In this episode, I deal with the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army their effective use of ambushes and bobby traps.. I compare their m...
In this episode I look at the American Army in South Vietnam in 1965 as it builds up its resources in the country and begins to fight the Vi...
American ground forces build up in South Vietnam, air fields and barracks are built, to cope with the needs of an army from across the Pacif...
President Johnson orders the bombing of North Vietnam first during Operation Flaming Dart and then Rolling Thunder which would last until 19...