309 – SOE Special Duties Flights
When people think about the secret war in occupied Europe, they often picture agents, resistance fighters, and acts of sabotage
Allies
308 – Mers El-Kébir: The British Attack on the French Navy
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. France had fallen, invasion seemed possible, and Winston Churchill faced a grave
303 – The Link Trainer
Before the Second World War, learning to fly by instruments was one of the most difficult and dangerous skills a
302 – Task Force Hogan
My guest today is William Hogan, and we are going to be talking about the remarkable story of his father,
301 – A Canadian in Stalin’s Army
How does a Canadian end up fighting in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War? My guest today
300 – Exploding Rats and the Devices of SOE
James Bond may have Q Branch supplying him with ingenious gadgets, but during the Second World War the agents of
296 – British Brigadiers, 1940
For this episode, I am joined by Philip McCarty to discuss his book Point of Failure: British Army Brigadiers in
295 – Inside the Siege of Warsaw
In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, American photographer and film-maker Julien Bryan became the only foreign journalist
294 – Churchill’s Forgotten Generals: Slim, Auchinleck & Savory
Today we are heading back to the Burma campaign, but through a slightly different lens. Rather than focusing on a
293 – Allied POWs in WWII
This episode looks at a very different side of the Second World War. Not the battlefield, but captivity. It focuses