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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...
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...
The partnership between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill was one of the defining relationships of the Second World War. At the hea...
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...
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...
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...
James Bond may have Q Branch supplying him with ingenious gadgets, but during the Second World War the agents of the Special Operations Exec...
In this episode, I am joined by Ian Buruma to talk about life in Berlin during the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the regime at t...
In April 1945, as the Third Reich collapsed around him, Adolf Hitler died in the Führerbunker in Berlin. It is one of the most famous deaths...
Pearl Harbor is often remembered as a stunning Japanese success, a perfectly executed surprise attack that changed the course of the Second...
For this episode, I am joined by Philip McCarty to discuss his book Point of Failure: British Army Brigadiers in France and Norway, 1940 . I...
In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, American photographer and film-maker Julien Bryan became the only foreign journalis...
Today, we are heading back to the Burma campaign, but through a slightly different lens. Rather than focusing on a single battle or operatio...
This episode looks at a very different side of the Second World War. Not the battlefield, but captivity. It focuses on the experiences of Al...
In this episode, I talk with Erik Kreps about a remarkable family mystery. Erik's grandfather, Colonel Kenneth Ray Kreps, served in the Seco...
RAF Liberator bombing operations in India, Burma, and Thailand remain one of the least explored air campaigns of the Second World War. Flyin...
For this episode of the podcast, we are doing something a little different. Rather than focusing on a single subject, we open the floor to y...
Charles de Gaulle remains one of the most distinctive figures to emerge from the Second World War. Soldier, writer, leader in exile, and lat...
The fighting in Burma during the Second World War was among the most demanding of the entire conflict. Soldiers faced dense jungle, monsoon...
By late 1942, after the success of Operation Torch, the Allies had finally gained a foothold in North Africa. What followed was a hard-fough...
By the autumn of 1944, the Allies had driven across France and Belgium and reached the borders of Germany. Ahead of them lay the Rhine — a v...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Allies brought twenty-four of Hitler's most senior figures to justice at Nuremberg. Among them...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I'm joined by Robby Houben from the Belgian Royal Military Museum to discuss the Renault FT. This small...
General Lucian K. Truscott was one of the United States Army's most capable commanders of the Second World War. Known for his aggressive lea...
In early 1945, the Allies were advancing in Burma after their hard-won victories at Kohima and Imphal. The focus shifted to the Arakan, a re...
When we think of the Second World War, the story is so often told through an Anglo-American lens: Britain holding out alone in 1940, the Uni...
Douglas MacArthur was one of the most prominent — and controversial — generals of the Second World War. As Field Marshal of the Philippines,...
By January 1945, the war in Europe neared its final phase. In the west, the Allies had repelled the Ardennes offensive. In the east, the Red...
The Maginot Line was one of the most ambitious defensive projects of the 1930s. Built along France's eastern border, this vast system of und...
In 2005, the BBC launched an ambitious public history project called The People's War. It aimed to collect and preserve the memories of thos...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, we explore the remarkable history of the Malay Regiment during the Second World War. Formed in the 1930s...
In this episode, we're turning our attention to British India during the Second World War. While the war in Europe and the Pacific often dom...
What was the situation in Burma following the Allied victories at Imphal and Kohima? By the summer of 1944, those two hard-fought battles ha...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, we're turning our attention to the opening phase of one of the most brutal and vast campaigns of the Sec...
When we talk about the Second Front, most of us think of the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe—D-Day, June 1944. But in his new book, Seco...
In this episode, we're doing something a little different. I recently joined Scott Bury on his podcast Beyond Barbarossa , which takes a clo...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I am joined by Professor James Crossland to discuss the extraordinary life of Robert Bruce Lockhart — a...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I am joined by Bernd Häber to discuss the remarkable story of his grandfather, Fritz Häber — a German so...
In the early stages of America's involvement in the Second World War, the U.S. Army began forming a new kind of fighting force—elite units t...
During the critical interwar years, Belgium found itself walking a diplomatic tightrope—maintaining neutrality while neighbouring Germany ra...
On the morning of June 6th, 1944, war photographer Robert Capa waded ashore on Omaha Beach during the Allied landings in Normandy. What happ...
Today, we are exploring a topic that doesn't get talked about much — the British tanks that ended up serving with the Red Army during the Se...
In this episode, I'm joined by bestselling author Damien Lewis to talk about one of the remarkable men featured in his new book SAS Great Es...
In the final weeks of the Second World War, as Soviet forces closed in on Berlin, tens of thousands of German soldiers and civilians found t...
The 7th Infantry Regiment, known as the "Cottonbalers," is one of the oldest units in the U.S. Army, originally formed in 1812. It has fough...
In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I'm joined by Clare Mulley to uncover the extraordinary story of Elżbieta Zawacka—known by her codename,...
For this episode, I am by Prit Buttar to discuss Operation Bagration —the massive Soviet offensive launched in the summer of 1944 that shatt...
With a history stretching back to the late 18th century, the Essex Yeomanry had seen action in the First World War, but in WWII, they found...
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean was a battleground unlike any other during the Second World War. While massive aircraft carriers and b...
Berlin is a city steeped in history, with its streets, buildings, and scars bearing witness to the dramatic events of the 20th century. From...
Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command played a crucial role in the Allied war effort, sinking far more Axis shipping than direct attacks by ei...