19 - The Winter Fortress
In this episode we're looking at the attempts to disrupt and destroy Germany's access to heavy water, which was essential for their atomic research. If that sounds familiar that could be because you'v...
15 Mai 201647min
18 - The Nazi Hunters
In this episode we're look at Nazi war criminals and those that tracked them down. I'm joined by Andrew Nagorski. Andrew is an award winning journalist who for three decades served as a foreign corres...
1 Mai 20161h 1min
17 - Shooting Up: Drug use in WWII
It's a little known fact that during the second world war drugs were issued to those men on active service on a monumental scale, hundreds of millions of pills were produced. The drug of choice was am...
15 Apr 201644min
16 - The De Havilland Mosquito
In today's episode we're looking at the De Havilland Mosquito. It was fast, extremely versatile and made from wood, affectionately referred to as the "Mossie". Over 7,000 were built, yet only two rema...
1 Apr 201656min
15 - The British Resistance: Auxiliary Units
By the end of June 1940 the Battle of France was over, the British Army had been plucked from the Beaches of Dunkirk, but much of its heavy equipment had been abandoned in France. It looked like Brita...
15 Mar 201638min
14 - The Java Sea Campaign
In this episode we're looking at the Java Sea Campaign, with Jeffrey Cox. Jeff's book Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II from Osprey publishing, examines the e...
1 Mar 20161h 7min
13 - Gliders
In this episode I'm looking at the use of Gliders during the war and I'm joined by Matt Yates. Matt is a member of Chalk a living history group in the north of England who specialise in the British Gl...
15 Feb 201648min
12 - Assault Gun: The German StuG
The StuG started development before the war and was in full production by 1940. Designated an Assault Gun it was designed round a Panzer III chassis but no turret, this gave it an extremely low profil...
1 Feb 201624min
