
228. Cecil Beaton - Far East
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading extr...
29 Dec 202023min

227. Crimes of the Wehrmacht
One of the enduring myths arising from the war is that the extreme violence in the east was carried out by the Waffen SS, not the Wehrmacht. Historian and former US serviceman Waitman Wade Beorn tell...
29 Dec 20201h 1min

226. Louis Hagen - Arnhem Lift
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Ar...
28 Dec 202026min

225. Anthony Cotterell - After D-Day
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading an e...
27 Dec 202033min

224. Richard Rhodes James - Chindit
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Ch...
26 Dec 202017min

223. Anthony Cotterell - A Day At The Seaside
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading an e...
25 Dec 202018min

222. Photo Reconnaissance
Intelligence expert Taylor Downing argues that photo reconnaissance of occupied Europe should be at the forefront of all discussions about intelligence during the Second World War. He describes in de...
24 Dec 202055min

221. Confusion on Gold Beach
James Holland explains the challenges of researching the events of D Day for his new book about the Sherwood Rangers. Al Murray discusses the difficulty of relying on the memories of men caught up in ...
22 Dec 20201h 3min






















