319 - The Alexandra Hospital Massacre: The Fall of Singapore
In February 1942, as Japanese forces closed in on Singapore, Alexandra Hospital found itself caught in the final days of the British defence...
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A history podcast looking at all aspects of WWII, military history, social history, the battles, the campaigns, tanks, gun and other equipment, the politics and those who ran the war. I look...
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318 - Transport Pilots of WWII
The C-47 Dakota, or Skytrain as it was known in American service, was one of the most important aircraft of the Second World War. It carried...
317 - Generalship on the Eastern Front
The war on the Eastern Front was fought on a scale unlike anything the world had ever seen. Stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, it...
316 - The Tank
The tank first appeared on the battlefields of the First World War as an experimental weapon designed to break the deadlock of trench warfar...
315 - The Thin Khaki Line
The British Army in the Second World War is often judged through the lens of manpower shortages and a sense of being overstretched. Critics...
314 - The Nazi Ghost Train
In early September 1944, as Allied forces raced across France and Belgium, the German occupation of Brussels was beginning to collapse. On 2...
313 - 1942: Hitler's Gamble for Victory
1942 was a year of extraordinary contrasts for Nazi Germany. As the year began, Hitler's armies appeared unstoppable. German forces dominate...
312- Normandy 1944: Operation Martlet
In June 1944, as the Allied armies fought to break out from the Normandy beachhead, attention turned to a series of heavily defended German...
311 - Patton, 1945
In this episode, we turn our attention to the final months of the war in Europe and one of the Allied armies' most famous and controversial...
310 - Great Escapism at Stalag Luft III
When we think of Allied prisoners of war in German camps, we often picture barbed wire, watchtowers, tunnels, and the constant urge to escap...
309 - SOE Special Duties Flights
When people think about the secret war in occupied Europe, they often picture agents, resistance fighters, and acts of sabotage carried out...
308 - Mers El-Kébir: The British Attack on the French Navy
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. France had fallen, invasion seemed possible, and Winston Churchill faced a grave question: what...
307 - Percy Herbert: From POW to Hollywood
Before he became a familiar face on screen, appearing in over 70 films like 'The Bridge on the River Kwai', ' The Cockleshell Heroes' , ' Th...
306 - The Battle for Berlin
The final battle for Berlin in 1945 was not just the end of the war in Europe, it was the violent collapse of Nazi Germany, and the moment t...
305 - A Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army
In the final months of the Second World War, as the Third Reich collapsed in on itself, boys were sent to the front to hold back the Red Arm...
304 - Eisenhower and Churchill
The partnership between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill was one of the defining relationships of the Second World War. At the hea...
303 - The Link Trainer
Before the Second World War, learning to fly by instruments was one of the most difficult and dangerous skills a pilot had to master. Traini...
302 - Task Force Hogan
My guest today is William Hogan, and we are going to be talking about the remarkable story of his father, Sam Hogan, and the men of Task For...
301 - A Canadian in Stalin's Army
How does a Canadian end up fighting in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War? My guest today is Scott Bury, and we're going to tel...
300 - Exploding Rats and the Devices of SOE
James Bond may have Q Branch supplying him with ingenious gadgets, but during the Second World War the agents of the Special Operations Exec...