175. VJ Day special - Robin Rowland: Part 1
Robin Rowland was an officer in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, fighting at the Battle of the Admin Box and at the Battle of Kohima. Here he is in conversation with James Holland. In this first part of their ...
12 Aug 202053min
174. VJ Day special - Fighting in the Far East
James and Al are joined by the US historian John C. McManus to discuss the final months of fighting in the Far East. John is one of America’s leading military historians and is currently working on a ...
11 Aug 202047min
173. Hitler, Sparta and the Roman Empire
How great an influence on Nazi ideology did Spartan society exert? Tom Holland joins his brother James and Al Murray to discuss ancient empires and their parallels with Hitler’s Germany. Independent C...
6 Aug 202042min
172. Battle of Britain - Part 3
In the third episode of our trilogy James Holland and Al Murray discuss the merits of grass airfields and German plans for the invasion of Britain. Plus the boys make three new recommendations for rea...
4 Aug 202051min
171. Sicily ’43
In July 1943 the Allies launched Operation Husky. The subsequent thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily was one of the most dramatic of the entire Second World War. James Holland reads an exclusive extrac...
30 Jul 202037min
170. The Battle of Britain - Part 2
What was the civilian experience as the Battle of Britain raged in the skies? And how realistic was the German aim to gain air supremacy? Al Murray and James Holland explore the summer of 1940 in furt...
28 Jul 202053min
169. Stan Perry Special - Part Two
Part Two of James Holland's interview with veteran Stan Perry about his wartime experiences in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. Stan arrived in France shortly after D-Day and was twice wounded during th...
23 Jul 202052min
168. The Battle of Britain
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Well that was Winston Churchill’s view. Now, 80 years on, Al Murray and James Holland offer a modern perspective on the ev...
21 Jul 202051min
