The WW2 Podcast

This episode is being released on the 15th of December, the eve of the Battle of the Bulge. It was the 16th of December 1944 that Hitler launched Operation Watch on the Rhine, the last great offensive...

15 Des 201734min

In the classic narrative, the second world war starts with the invasion of Poland in 1939, though for the Chinese it started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. I notice wikipedia solves ...

1 Des 201752min

I've been promising you an extra episode since September... Well it never came off, I was all prepared to discuss the end of the war in the Pacific but I struggled to pin down the guest so I gave up!...

22 Nov 201723min

Within a year of Belgium falling to the Germans in 1940, Belgian citizens were volunteering to join the Waffen SS to fight communism on the newly formed Eastern Front. Thousands volunteered, and the s...

15 Nov 201758min

We've spent quite a bit of time in the Pacific this year, I didn't intend to but as its a theatre of the war I'm not very familiar with I've been happy to be pulled down that route. One topic we've s...

1 Nov 201744min

Last year I talked to Greg Lewis about the female agents in the British Special Operations Executive, SOE, who Churchill had tasked with "setting Europe ablaze". In this episode we'll be looking spec...

15 Okt 20171h 12min

Between 1943-45 Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 "Atlantik" would fly missions of up to 18 hours at a time over the Atlantic. They acted as the eyes for the U-Boats. Equipped with big, four-engined Junkers Ju ...

1 Okt 201745min

I was reading the British Journal for Military History and an article caught my eye titled The Psychological Impact of Airborne Warfare & the British Response to the Airborne Threat by Dr Tim Jenkins....

15 Sep 201747min