WW2/Episode 10 - Aftermath
The historian Keith Lowe, author of the best-selling The Savage Continent, discusses what happened in the aftermath of the Second World War, which left a world in ruins, tens of millions of refugees, ...
8 Maj 202453min
WW2/Episode 9 - America's 'Good War'
Professor John Bodnar, author of The 'Good War' in American Memory, discusses America's World War Two. The United States came out of the conflict as a victorious superpower. But this has encouraged a ...
8 Maj 20241h 7min
WW2/Episode 8 - The Soviet-German War
Professor Geoffrey Roberts explains why the Soviet-German conflict on the Eastern front was the decisive theatre of the Second World War: without it, Nazi Germany would certainly have taken much longe...
8 Maj 20241h 16min
WW2/Episode 7 - The Underground War
HALIK KOCHANSKI is the author of the award-winning Resistance, a sweeping account of the underground war across Nazi-occupied Europe. She tells a much more complex story than usual of subversion, SOE,...
8 Maj 20241h 3min
WW2/Episode 6 - China's War
PROFESSOR HANS VAN DE VEN reveals a WW2 narrative that will be unfamiliar to most of us - China's epic war of resistance against Japan in the years 1937-45 and how it created the Communist giant that ...
8 Maj 20241h 6min
WW2/Episode 5 - The Real Holocaust
PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN GERLACH, author of The Extermination of the European Jews, revises the dominant narrative of the Holocaust to explain a phenomenon that was far more complex and far-reaching than h...
8 Maj 20241h 4min
WW2/Episode 4 - Food: A Matter of Life and Death
Social historian LIZZIE COLLINGHAM, author of the ground-breaking The Taste of War, explains how food and its delivery was critical to the conduct of WW2 - and could be a matter of life or death.The m...
8 Maj 202447min
