Moscow 1941: Hitler's Nemesis with Jonathan Dimbleby
While the Allies reeled from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States, a ferocious battle was also raging across the icy steppes of Russia in early Dec...
25 Touko 202231min
Killer Robots: AI at War
What if we could take people completely out of the equation when planning military strikes? ‘Lethal autonomous weapons systems’ use artificial intelligence to identify, select and kill human targets w...
23 Touko 202237min
Benediction: Recreating Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon is one of the most famous poets of the 20th century. But he is also famous as a soldier, decorated for his bravery on the battlefield of World War One, who then became a vocal critic...
20 Touko 202229min
The Jeep and World War II
We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells the stories of the vital c...
18 Touko 202235min
The Aluminium Trail: WW2 Pilots in the Himalayas
Robert ‘Bob’ Binzer wanted to be a pilot from a young age, and during the Second World War he got his wish. Bob was an aviator with the United States Air Force in the China, Burma and India (CBI) thea...
16 Touko 202227min
Post Traumatic Stress: A History of War Trauma
Whether talking about shell shock, war neurosis, combat trauma or PTSD; the impacts of war zones on those who fight in them or encounter them have long been discussed. With increasing understanding, h...
13 Touko 202242min
Operation Pedestal with Sir Max Hastings
By the summer of 1942 Malta had been under siege by Axis forces for over a year and the situation on the island was bleak with food and fuel almost exhausted. This vital allied foothold in the Mediter...
11 Touko 202232min
Black Ops: A Life in the CIA
Enrique ‘Ric’ Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled Cuba and their home for the ...
9 Touko 202243min
