Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of 100 highly trained soldiers who, should hostilities break out,...
1 Mai 20201h 18min
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian Federation as we know it today. In Moscow, Alan had the opp...
24 Apr 20201h 15min
Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118)
Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade Union leader Lech Wałęsa including his last interview before ...
17 Apr 20201h
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117)
The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By...
10 Apr 20201h 9min
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116)
Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the North Atlantic where the Danish Navy acted as a coast guard wh...
3 Apr 20201h 10min
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to Tirana for a World Cup qualifying game. Looking for somewhere...
28 Mar 202044min
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)
Anthony enlisted in the British Army in 1987 and after 9 months he was posted to West Berlin. He tells the story of life as a Private in Berlin from the drinking (and the fighting) to the urban warfar...
21 Mar 20201h 7min
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)
Charlie Flowers was 18 in 1988. He travelled by train across a divided Eastern Europe that was starting to show signs of the changes that manifested themselves in 1989. He shares stories of the intere...
14 Mar 202042min
