From Orphan to RAF Hero
Many of the WW2 generation faced hardship in their youth (they did spend their childhood in the Great Depression), but few had as bad of an early life as Denis Elliott, who became an RAF Flight Lieute...
17 Okt 202338min
The Life and Tragic Death of R101, The World’s Largest Flying Machine
The tragic story of the British airship R101—which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later—has been larg...
12 Okt 202345min
The Postwar Lives of WW2 Leaders, Both Axis and Allies
Check out this episode sample from James Early's "Key Battles of American History," In this episode, which wraps up a season devoted to World War 2 in the European Theatre, hosts James Early and Sean ...
11 Okt 202320min
Why Robert E. Lee was America’s Most Admired General For Over a Century
Robert E. Lee has become a target of activists in the last decade, with statues of him being taken down across the United States, and eponymous schools and streets being renamed. But for over a centur...
10 Okt 202348min
Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Deserves a Movie?
Who are people from the past whose lives are so cinematic that they deserve their own movie, but haven't received the right silver screen treatment, such as, say, Abraham Lincoln from Steven Spielberg...
5 Okt 202351min
Charlie Chaplin vs. America
Charlie Chaplin was the most famous movie star in the world, especially at his height in the 1920s, when the silent film star won the hearts of audience around the globe. But in the aftermath of World...
3 Okt 202344min
Joe McCarthy, the Hydrogen Bomb, and Ten Fateful Months That Kicked Off the Cold War
There’s a good argument to be made that the entire trajectory of the Cold War was set off by ten fateful months of American and global history, between the first Soviet atom bomb test in the late summ...
28 Sep 202340min
The SAS Began as a Lie but Became Britain’s Most Elite WW2 Commando Unit
Created during the World War II, the SAS was a small band of men brought together in the North African desert. They were the toughest and brightest of their cohort, the most resilient, most capable in...
26 Sep 202351min
