Korean War Podcast

General Khan the military ruler of Pakistan decided to go to war against India in 1965.  The war began in Kashmir but soon was being fought along the border between West Pakistan and India.  Both side...

24 Dec 202220min

In this second episode on the Sino - Indian War of 1962, I look at the fighting in the Aksai Chin region in Eastern Kashmir where Chinese troops defeated the Indian Army and occupied the region.  I al...

17 Dec 202220min

In October 1962 at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Chinese troops attacked Indian along their disputed border.  This episode looks at the fighting in the North east frontier Area.  A biography i...

10 Dec 202220min

A biography of Indian Prime Minister Nehru and the story of his work with the international non aligned movement which attached a great deal of support from the newly independent third world nations. ...

3 Dec 202220min

India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1949 fight their first war against each other for control of Kashmir.  The population of the area was mainly Muslim but its ruler was not., he tried to keep Kashmir...

26 Nov 202220min

In 1947 India was to gain its independence but it had to broken up into two nations, India and Pakistan known as Partition.  In the run up to this the India was to witness an outbreak of murder, rape ...

19 Nov 202220min

This is a special one off tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Second who died in September.  It tells of her life and the British armed forces which she commanded from 1952 to 1965, when British troops, sa...

12 Nov 202220min

In this episode I will tell of the rule of Mao over China following the Communist victory in the civil war to his death.  It was a very bloody period with millions of Chinese dying during this time.  ...

5 Nov 202220min