WW2 Tank Commander with Captain David Render
Captain David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France to join a veteran armoured unit that had already spent years fighting with the Desert Rat...
6 Okt 202039min
Nazi Megastructures
Walking around Second World War fortifications, Patrick Bury is able to draw on his time in the infantry to tell the stories of the battles that occured over them. During his time working on Nazi Mega...
2 Okt 202029min
Soviet Snipers on the Eastern Front
In many countries, including Britain, women were banned from taking part in active combat operations during the Second World War. In the Soviet Union, however, declarations of equality meant that as w...
30 Sep 202027min
Chemical Weapons in WW1
Although the use of chemicals as weapons can be traced much further back in history, their use became widespread after the First World War, when the French threw tear gas grenades and then the Germans...
29 Sep 20208min
Invasion of Poland in WW2 with Roger Moorhouse
Roger Moorhouse comprehensively discusses the Polish campaign of 1939, separating the myths from reality and outlining the abject horrors that the Poles suffered under the twin occupation of the Nazis...
27 Sep 202038min
The Battle of Arnhem with James Holland
This episode features interviews with two leading historians of the Second World War, James Holland and Paul Reed. They tell the story of the Battle of Arnhem, giving poignant and occasionally lurid a...
25 Sep 202028min
The Wola Massacre
In August 1944, when the Warsaw Uprising occurred, Axis troops were ordered to raze the Wola suburb to the ground and kill all of its inhabitants, regardless of whether they were fighting. James was j...
23 Sep 202021min
Pearl Harbour
In this episode, History Hit's Rob Weinberg asks the big questions about Sunday 7 December 1941, the day Japanese aircraft attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The US Pacif...
22 Sep 202026min
