179 – Bitter Peleliu
In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small
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178 – Battles of Rzhev Salient
After the failure to take Moscow in the autumn of 1941, the Germans were left with a large salient bulging
177 – Japan’s Pacific War
I seem to have had a good run of episodes this year looking at operations from the German perspective. In this
176 – Colditz
At the outbreak of WWII, the ancient gothic castle of Colditz was converted into a prisoner-of-war camp. Its location on
175 – Dünkirchen, 1940
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the iconic moments of the Second
174 – The Pacific, August 1945
In this episode, we are looking at the closing weeks of the war in 1945. August would see the Russians
173 – The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East
In this episode of the podcast, we shine a light on the naval conflict in the Mediterranean and the Middle
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
171 – Tom, Dick and Harry
I’ve been trying to slip in an extra episode of the podcast for a while but never seem to manage
170 – The German Battle of the Bulge
In December 1944 the Germans launched the battle of the Bulge, their last major offensive in the west. Commencing in