A military history podcast that looks at all aspects of WWII. With WW2 slipping from living memory I aim to look at different historical aspects of the Second World War.
http://www.ww2podcast.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 20 hours 17 minutes
episode 105: Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939
2019 marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by Germany and then a few weeks later, Russia. It was the event that forced Britain and France to finally declare war on Germany. In a five week campaign the Wehrmacht fought one of the...
episode 104: Alarmstart: The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean
If you cast your mind back to February 2018 I discussed the experience of German fighter pilots experience in Western Europe with Patrick Eriksson, that’s . Later that same year, Patrick followed up with a second book Alarmstart East, focusing on...
episode 103: 'Chink' Eric Dorman-Smith
If you’ve ever read about the British experience in the Deserts of North Africa during WWII, one name usually gets a mention somewhere in the narrative, that of , often refered to as ‘chink’. He can be a divisive character, sometimes portrayed...
episode 101: Operation CHASTISE: The Dambusters
Redressing the Wartime and Postwar Mythologization of Operation CHASTISE in Britain
episode 99: George Mergenthaler - MERG
One thing I’ve learned from producing these podcasts is the research never ends, it only leads to new avenues of interest branching off from the original topic. And this is the case for Peter Lion. If you recall in , Peter told us how elements of...