237 – From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it wasn’t the Germans who first uprooted Stanislaw Kulik and his family—it was the
People
234 – Truman and the Decision to Drop the Bomb
It was only as Harry S. Truman was sworn in as the 33rd president of the United States that he
233 – Hearts of Steel: One sailor’s Journey with the Royal Navy
In this episode of the WW2 podcast, we’ll explore the Royal Navy from 1918 to the end of the Second
223 – Landing Craft Infantry
In this podcast episode, I’m looking at the work of LCI’s, Landing Craft Infantry. These are not the smaller Higgins
221 – Training the Indian Army
The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle
214 – Stan Hollis VC and the Green Howards on D-Day
The Green Howards landed in the first wave on D-Day. With them was Company Sergeant Major Stan Hollis, who had
208 – 2SAS and Bill Sterling
David Stirling is the name synonymous with the wartime SAS, but the real brains behind the operation was, in fact,
206 – The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll
Journalist Wallace Carroll had a career that spanned 45 years as a journalist. His first foreign posting, in 1929, was
201 – The Japanese American Experience in WWII
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 125,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States were incarcerated in prison
200 – The Life of Mrs George S Patton
Few wives of prominent men are more than a footnote in many histories, but they were often central to their