171 – The Battle of Stalingrad
The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army and elements of the 4th
Axis
168 – Operation Foxley
Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. Different methods
166 – Rodolfo Graziani
Rodolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy, Viceroy of Ethiopia and one of Mussolini’s most valued generals remains to this day a
155 – Pearl Harbor
7th December 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States of America into
154 – Chemical Weapons
In this episode we’re going to be discussing chemical weapons. It might seem like an odd topic, unlike the First
148 – Luftwaffe Special Weapons
As the course of the second world war turned against the Third Reich some radical proposals and inventive designs, were
147 – Operation Barbarossa
Buoyed by their victories over Poland and France, on 22 June 1941 the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa, and over 3
140 – How to kill a Panther tank
It’s a simple question, how do you knock out a Panther tank? When the ‘boffins’ in Britain got hold of
139 – German Uniforms
‘In the years after World War I, the defeated and much-reduced German Army developed new clothing and personal equipment that
137 – Operation Lena and Hitler’s Plots to Blow up Britain
The common narrative of the war often completely overlooks Germany’s attempts to run spies in Britain. In actual fact, for