The WW2 Grognard

The WW2 Grognard

The WW2 Grognard is a documentary podcast for people who already know the war — and know that most of what they've been told about it is incomplete.

Each episode is narrated by Charles Mercer, a voice that doesn't perform history. It inhabits it. The research is deep, the judgments are earned, and the stories chosen are the ones that don't fit cleanly into the standard narrative: the commanders history celebrated without asking what they cost, the decisions that won battles and killed men for the wrong reasons, the figures on both sides who understood exactly what was happening and went forward anyway.

This is not a podcast about dates and campaigns. It is a podcast about character under extreme pressure — about what war does to the people who fight it, command it, survive it, and can't survive it. About the gap between the monument and the man. About the price of the photograph.

The host is not a journalist or an entertainer. He is someone who has read the primary sources, argued with the historians, and come to conclusions he is willing to defend. He is grumpy about myth. He is careful about facts. He is not interested in heroes.

If you've ever watched a WW2 documentary and felt it was telling you what to think instead of showing you what happened — this is the antidote.

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Episoder(16)

Fuchida: He Cried "Tora! Tora! Tora!" at Pearl Harbor. 15 Years Later, He Was Preaching Jesus in Kentucky.

Fuchida: He Cried "Tora! Tora! Tora!" at Pearl Harbor. 15 Years Later, He Was Preaching Jesus in Kentucky.

Pearl Harbor pilot Mitsuo Fuchida launched the attack that started WWII in the Pacific. He survived Midway, Hiroshima — and found forgiveness in America.This is the most extraordinary life I've resear...

26 Apr 42min

Iwo Jima: Three of the Six Men Who Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima Died in The Next 12 Days

Iwo Jima: Three of the Six Men Who Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima Died in The Next 12 Days

The Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the Pacific, is remembered through Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of six men raising the American flag on Mou...

26 Apr 37min

Pearl Harbor From the Japanese Side: The Admiral Who Planned It Knew It Was a Mistake

Pearl Harbor From the Japanese Side: The Admiral Who Planned It Knew It Was a Mistake

The Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) was the most successful surprise naval strike in history. In less than two hours, Japan crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet — 21 ships damaged or destroyed, 2...

26 Apr 32min

Chester Nimitz: The Man Who Won the Pacific War Never Left His Desk

Chester Nimitz: The Man Who Won the Pacific War Never Left His Desk

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the largest naval force in history during World War II. From Pearl Harbor (1941) to the Japanese surrender (1945), he led the U.S. Pacific Fleet across the mo...

26 Apr 42min

Midway 1942: How Was the Largest Fleet in the Pacific Destroyed in 5 Minutes? | Full Documentary

Midway 1942: How Was the Largest Fleet in the Pacific Destroyed in 5 Minutes? | Full Documentary

Japan sent the most powerful carrier fleet ever assembled in the Pacific to Midway in June 1942. By sunset, four of its carriers were burning. This is the full story of the Battle of Midway — told fro...

26 Apr 26min

Yamamoto: He Lost Two Fingers at Tsushima. He Studied at Harvard. Then He Planned Pearl Harbor

Yamamoto: He Lost Two Fingers at Tsushima. He Studied at Harvard. Then He Planned Pearl Harbor

He spent years living among Americans — studying at Harvard University from 1919 to 1921, playing poker with oil executives in New York, driving through the American South, reading Hemingway. Isoroku ...

26 Apr 40min

Göring Was 265 Pounds When Captured. He Lost 75 in Prison. Then He Beat the Hangman.

Göring Was 265 Pounds When Captured. He Lost 75 in Prison. Then He Beat the Hangman.

He was Hitler's designated successor — the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. He built the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe, and signed the authorization that set the Holocaust in motion. He lo...

26 Apr 1h

Nuremberg Psychiatrist: The Man Who Searched for Evil — And Found Something Worse

Nuremberg Psychiatrist: The Man Who Searched for Evil — And Found Something Worse

In 1945, the U.S. Army sent a young psychiatrist into a prison in Nuremberg with one mission: determine whether 22 of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany were sane enough to stand trial. What Dr. Do...

26 Apr 32min

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