The History of WWII Podcast

By Ray Harris Jr

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 Dec 11, 2024

nick
 Oct 6, 2023
Loving it so far

chris libera
 Feb 15, 2022
excellent

Sean
 Aug 28, 2021
Exceptionally researched, detailed and communicated podcast on this fascinating subject


 Jun 13, 2021

Description

A biweekly history podcast covering the last great war. Join Ray Harris Jr as he explores World War Two in intimate detail. The History of WWII Podcast is produced and narrated by Ray Harris Jr. Ray has a degree in history from James Madison University. I’ve been obsessed with the events and people from WWII since I first learned of them. I’ve been waiting years for someone to do a podcast on WWII and couldn’t wait any longer.

Episode Date
Episode 501-The Other Crimean War
Dec 23, 2024
Episode 500-Too Much, Too Soon
Dec 17, 2024
Episode 499-The Wild West of the Eastern Front
Dec 09, 2024
Episode 498-Living Through Hell in the Middle of Winter
Dec 03, 2024
Episode 497-My Leader, Who Commands 9th Army? You or Me?
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 496-Interview w/Betina Anton: Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored The Angel of Death
Nov 21, 2024
Episode 495-Fight, Lose, Retreat, Repeat
Nov 18, 2024
Episode 494-Veteran's Voices-The Guys from The Warrior Next Door Podcast Return!
Nov 10, 2024
Episode 493-The Rzhev Meat Grinder
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 492-The Battle of Volkhov River: Leningrad is to be Saved
Oct 23, 2024
Episode 491-The Russians Are Coming!
Oct 15, 2024
Episode 490-Between Stalin's Hammer and Hitler's Anvil
Oct 09, 2024
Episode 489-2 Ep Special! Interview w/ Jan Davis: Air Born: Two Generations in Flight & Retreat or Die
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 488-One Shot, One Kill: Soviet Snipers of the Eastern Front
Sep 23, 2024
Episode 487-A 2 Episode Special! Interview with Shannon Monaghan: A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men. Then, Merry Christmas From the Eastern Front
Sep 17, 2024
Episode 486-Interview w/ Robert Hutton: The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Sep 10, 2024
Episode 485-No More Dead Heroes
Sep 03, 2024
Episode 484-Hitler Cleans House
Aug 27, 2024
Episode 483-Not One Single Step Back
Aug 20, 2024
Episode 482-Stalin's Dreams Almost Come True
Aug 14, 2024
Episode 481-Victoring Itself to Death
Aug 09, 2024
Episode 480-Japanese Americans at War
Aug 06, 2024
Episode 479-America's Internment Camps
Jul 31, 2024
Episode 478-Operation Typhoon Comes to an End
Jul 25, 2024
Episode 477-Who Has Who Surrounded?
Jul 15, 2024
Episode 476-Strange Inventions of WW2
Jul 09, 2024
Episode 475-Top 5 WW2 Movies
Jul 02, 2024
Episode 474-Kiev is Trapped
Jun 24, 2024
Episode 473-Guderian Approaches
Jun 18, 2024
Episode 472-Keep Them Guessing
Jun 11, 2024
Episode 471-My Tank is Thicker Than Your Tank
Jun 05, 2024
Episode 470-Interview: Michel Paradis, The Light of Battle, Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
May 31, 2024
Episode 469-Interview: From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A Pilot’s Life in the Royal Air Force 1942–1973
May 26, 2024
Episode 468-The Comics of WW2
May 20, 2024
Episode 467-Interview w/ Damien Lewis about his book Churchill's Secret Warriors
May 14, 2024
Episode 466-Odessa Has Fallen
May 07, 2024
Episode 465-Tanks for the Memories
May 01, 2024
Episode 464: 2 Ep Special! Interview with Jason Bell about his book Cracking the Nazi Code. Then, All Hell Breaks Loose
Apr 24, 2024
Episode 463-Attrition: A Game the Entire Country Can Play
Apr 18, 2024
Episode 462-When Fighting For Your Life, You Can Never Go Too Far
Apr 08, 2024
Episode 461-Odessa Prepares for its Fate
Apr 03, 2024
Episode 460: A 2 Episode Special! Interview w/ Mike Croissant about his book, Bombing Hitler's Hometown and then, Defying the Odds: The Soviets versus Romania
Mar 27, 2024
Episode 459-The Siege of Odessa Begins
Mar 18, 2024
Episode 458-The Trapped Soviet Soldiers at Uman
Mar 13, 2024
Episode 457-Operation Munich
Mar 04, 2024
Episode 456: The Stalin Line-Merely the Shadow of A Dream
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 455-Race to the Stalin Line
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 454-Army Group South is on the March
Feb 09, 2024
Episode 453-Operation Barbarossa: What's Plan B?
Jan 30, 2024
Episode 452-Operation Typhoon: All or Nothing
Jan 23, 2024
Episode 451-Interview w/ James Holland. His book, The Savage Storm, The Battle For Italy 1943
Jan 18, 2024
Episode 450-Moscow: Dark Days Are Coming
Jan 13, 2024
Episode 449-Killing Their Way to Moscow
Jan 02, 2024
Episode 448-When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object
Dec 20, 2023
2 Episode Special-Episode 447-Interview w/ T. Martin Bennett about his book Wounded Tiger and Hitler Versus His Generals
Dec 11, 2023
Episode 446-All Roads Lead to Moscow
Dec 01, 2023
Episode 445-Interview w/ Louise Endres Moore about her book Alfred:The Quiet History of a WWII Infantryman
Nov 22, 2023
Episode 444-Army Group Center
Nov 15, 2023
Episode 443: Two Episode Special! Angus Konstam Interview and The Clash of Titans
Nov 09, 2023
Episode 442-Interview w/ Roger Moorhouse about his book, The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
Nov 02, 2023
Episode 441-When Barbarossa Begins, the World Will Hold It's Breath
Oct 18, 2023
Episode 440-Can a Warship be Cursed?
Oct 11, 2023
Episode 439-Dieppe Was Avenged
Oct 03, 2023
Episode 438-The Longest One Day Casualty List in Canadian History
Sep 25, 2023
Episode 437-Interview w/ Scott Simon about his book Swingtime for Hitler & then Operation Jubilee
Sep 15, 2023
Episode 436-Retreat Yes. But How?
Sep 11, 2023
Episode 435-Two Episode Special! Interview w/John C. McManus about his Pacific War Trilogy and we continue w/ Operation Jubilee
Sep 05, 2023
Episode 434-Red Beach-To Move is to Die
Aug 31, 2023
Episode 433-Two Episode Special! Interview w/ Andrew Nagorski about his book Saving Freud and we return to Operation Jubilee
Aug 26, 2023
Episode 432-Blood on Blue Beach
Aug 20, 2023
Episode 431-The Father and Mother of All Explosions
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 430-Interview w/Tom Holm about his book, Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, WWII and the Price of Heroism
Aug 10, 2023
Episode 429-It Only Takes One Little Mistake
Aug 06, 2023
Episode 428-Churchill's Shell Game
Aug 01, 2023
Episode 427-Operation Rudder-Less
Jul 26, 2023
Episode 426-Kill Or Be Killed
Jul 11, 2023
Episode 425-Here Come the Commandos
Jul 07, 2023
Episode 424-Operation Sledgehammer
Jun 28, 2023
Episode 423-Pedestal: The Final Curtain
Jun 23, 2023
Episode 422-By the Skin of Her Teeth
Jun 20, 2023
Episode 421-It's Today or Nothing
Jun 16, 2023
Episode 420-Interview w/ James B. Conroy, about his book, The Devils Will Get No Rest
Jun 13, 2023
Episode 419-Across the Finish Line
Jun 06, 2023
Episode 418-The Show Must Go On
May 31, 2023
Episode 417-Interview w/ Craig Nelson about his book V is For Victory
May 23, 2023
Episode 416-The Terrifying Had Become Commonplace
May 18, 2023
Episode 415-Ships That Sink In The Night
May 08, 2023
Episode 414-In the Lap of the Gods
May 01, 2023
Episode 413-I Was Always Grateful to Mussolini
Apr 24, 2023
Episode 412-Courage and Cowardice
Apr 16, 2023
Episode 411-The Deadly Game of Dodge Bomb
Apr 10, 2023
Episode 410-Four Torpedoes Can Make All the Difference
Apr 01, 2023
Episode 409-Will This Day Never End?
Mar 24, 2023
Episode 408-Operation Pedestal-One Hell of an Afternoon
Mar 10, 2023
Episode 407-Interview w/ Chloe Melas about Frank Murphy's book: Luck of the Draw
Mar 01, 2023
Episode 406-Operation Pedestal: One Hell of a Morning
Feb 24, 2023
Episode 405-Operation Pedestal: Slow Gets You Killed
Feb 17, 2023
Episode 404-Operation Pedestal: First Blood
Feb 10, 2023
Introducing Grey History Podcasts: The French Revolution
Feb 02, 2023
Episode 403-Rommel is Stopped in His Tracks
Jan 25, 2023
Episode 402-Monty Sets the Stage for Rommel
Jan 18, 2023
Episode 401-Interview w/ Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch: The Nazi Conspiracy & Churchill Gives British 8th Army to Monty
Jan 13, 2023
Episode 400-The Second Battle of Ruweisat Ridge
Jan 06, 2023
Episode 399-The First Battle of Ruweisat Ridge
Dec 29, 2022
Episode 398-First Battle of El Alamein
Dec 21, 2022
Episode 397-Interview w/ Iain MacGregor: The Lighthouse of Stalingrad & Prelude to The 1st Battle of El Alamein
Dec 15, 2022
Episode 396-The Battle of Mersa Matruh
Dec 09, 2022
Episode 395-The Gazala Gallop
Dec 02, 2022
Episode 394-Warrior Next Door Podcast Interview & Tobruk Has Fallen
Nov 26, 2022
Episode 393-Interview w/ James Shone: The Host of the Taiwan Through Time Podcast & Operation Harpoon
Nov 18, 2022
Episode 392: Interview w/ Dr. Paul Gill Jr. about his father’s book: Armageddon in the Arctic Ocean. 2nd Ep: Tobruk is Surrounded
Nov 08, 2022
Episode 391-Two Episode Special! Interview w/ Taylor Downing about his book 1942: Winston Churchill and Britain's Darkest Hour and The British 8th Army is Outfoxed
Nov 02, 2022
Episode 390-The Battle of Knightsbridge Box
Oct 27, 2022
Episode 389-Interview w/ Saul David about his book Devil Dogs
Oct 21, 2022
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper Stalks London’s War-Torn Streets
Oct 18, 2022
Episode 388-The Battle of Bir Hakeem: The Redemption of French Honor
Oct 12, 2022
Episode 387-The Battle of the Cauldron
Sep 29, 2022
Episode 386-Damien Lewis talks about his book, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Sep 23, 2022
Episode 385-The Cauldron
Sep 15, 2022
Episode 384-The English GI: A Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the US and Europe
Sep 09, 2022
Episode 383-Rommel Comes For Tobruk
Sep 01, 2022
Episode 382-Dale Jenkins Covers The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
Aug 26, 2022
Episode 381-The Battle at Gazala: The Waiting is All
Aug 20, 2022
Episode 380-The British 8th Army vs The Desert Fox
Aug 13, 2022
Episode 379: Rommel Strikes Back
Aug 08, 2022
Episode 378: West Africa and Charles De Gaulle
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 377-Iceland: A Peaceful Invasion
Jul 23, 2022
Episode 376-The Falcon of Malta
Jul 17, 2022
Episode 375-Starvation and Betrayal
Jul 11, 2022
Episode 374-Churchill: Malta's Patron Saint
Jun 23, 2022
Episode 373-Malta: A Thunderstorm of Steel
Jun 17, 2022
Episode 372-Malta Loses A Hero
Jun 10, 2022
Episode 371-Interview w/ Thomas McKenna about his book Moro Warrior
Jun 04, 2022
Episode 370-Interview w/Peter Bradley about his book, The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
May 29, 2022
Car Show! Episode: The Jeep during WWII
May 25, 2022
Episode 369-Interview w/ Paul Brandus about FDR’s Use of the Media and Midway
May 20, 2022
Episode 368-Interview w/Damien Lewis about his book Churchill's Great Escapes
May 13, 2022
Episode 367-The Second Battle of Sirte
May 06, 2022
Episode 366-Interview with Brandon Gauthier about his book Before Evil
Apr 29, 2022
Episode 365-The Spitfires Are Coming!
Apr 23, 2022
Episode 364-Mussolini's PR Nightmare
Apr 16, 2022
Episode 363-Guest Host Lindsey Graham of History Daily Recounts the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Apr 07, 2022
Episode 362-Interview w/ Michael Benson about his book Gangsters vs Nazis
Apr 01, 2022
Episode 361-Interview w/ Edward Aldrich: The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won WWII
Mar 25, 2022
Episode 360-The Germans Have Returned
Mar 18, 2022
Episode 359-All Good Things Must Come to an End
Mar 12, 2022
Episode 358-The Saturday Night Club Run
Mar 04, 2022
Episode 357-Operation Halberd
Feb 25, 2022
Episode 356-Interview with Philip Martin about his book-From Orphan to High Flyer
Feb 19, 2022
Episode 355-Interview with Robert Child about his book Immortal Valor
Feb 11, 2022
Episode 354-The Battle of Valletta
Feb 05, 2022
Episode 353-Malta's Magic Carpet Service
Jan 28, 2022
Episode 352-Interview with Ray Boomhower about his book: Richard Tregaskis-Reporting Under Fire From Guadalcanal to Vietnam
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 351-Interview with Scott Rank of The History Unplugged Podcast
Jan 11, 2022
Episode 350-Operation Primrose
Jan 06, 2022
Episode 349-Malta's Orders: KBO-Keep Buggering On
Dec 28, 2021
Episode 348-Interview with Scott Bury about his Eastern Front Trilogy
Dec 19, 2021
Episode 347-Malta: Dark Days are Coming
Dec 12, 2021
Episode 346A-The Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast
Dec 05, 2021
Episode 346-Interview with the Hosts of The Warrior Next Door Podcast
Nov 29, 2021
Episode 345-Interview with Joe Lee about his book Forgiveness
Nov 20, 2021
Episode 344-Interview with Jeffrey Jackson about his book, Paper Bullets
Nov 14, 2021
Episode 343-Interview with Ambassador David McKean about his book Watching Darkness Fall
Nov 08, 2021
Episode 342-Interview with Jack Fairweather about his book, A Rebel in Auschwitz
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 341-Battle of the Tarigo Convoy
Oct 27, 2021
Episode 340-Interview with Chris Berman
Oct 15, 2021
Episode 339-The Battle of Cape Matapan
Oct 04, 2021
Episode 338-The Siege of Malta Begins
Sep 22, 2021
Episode 337-The Illustrious Blitz
Sep 15, 2021
Episode 336: With A Friend Like Mussolini
Sep 08, 2021
Episode 335-Churchill Wants War
Aug 31, 2021
Episode 334-All Roads Go Through Malta
Aug 24, 2021
Episode 333-The Doolittle Raid Pt 4: The Pacific War Takes Shape
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 332-The Doolittle Raid Pt 3: Japan's Pearl Harbor
Aug 10, 2021
Episode 331-The Doolittle Raid Pt 2
Jul 31, 2021
Episode 330-The Doolittle Raid Pt 1
Jul 19, 2021
Episode 329-The Fall of Corregidor
Jul 12, 2021
Episode 328-The Fall of Mindanao
Jul 04, 2021
Episode 327-The Fall of Bataan
Jun 23, 2021
Episode 326-Interview with Rob Lofthouse about his book, Honor Through Sacrifice
Jun 18, 2021
Episode 325-Bataan-The Beginning of the End
Jun 13, 2021
Episode 324-The Second Battle of Bataan
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 323-Bataan: The Readiness is All
May 21, 2021
Episode 322-The Battling Bastards of Bataan
May 12, 2021
Episode 321-MacArthur-I Shall Return
May 03, 2021
Episode 320-MacArthur's Great Escape Pt 1
Apr 24, 2021
Episode 319-How Do You Solve a Problem Like MacArthur
Apr 15, 2021
Episode 318-Battle of the Pockets Pt 2
Mar 25, 2021
Episode 317-Battle of the Pockets Pt 1
Mar 16, 2021
Episode 316-FDR: The Man with No Fear
Mar 04, 2021
Episode 315-Battle of the Points
Feb 25, 2021
Episode 314-The Battle of Bataan
Feb 15, 2021
Episode 313-Retreat to Bataan
Feb 02, 2021
Episode 312-Bataan or Bust
Jan 26, 2021
Episode 311-Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Defending the Indefensible
Jan 11, 2021
Episode 310-December 22, 1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Jan 04, 2021
Episode 309-MacArthur: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Dec 25, 2020
Episode 308-War Comes to The Philippines
Dec 18, 2020
Episode 307-Prelude to the Fall of the Philippines
Dec 06, 2020
Episode 306-Gen. Slim Regroups, Gen. Stilwell Retreats
Nov 24, 2020
Episode 305-Isn't That Burma Army Annihilated Yet?
Nov 02, 2020
Episode 304-Mistakes Were Made, Men Died
Oct 27, 2020
Episode 303-The Battle of Mandalay
Oct 13, 2020
Episode 302-Interview with Lesley Blume about her book: Fallout
Oct 03, 2020
Episode 301-Burma: The Great Retreat Begins
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 300-The Battle of Yenaungyaung
Sep 01, 2020
Episode 299-Interview with Michel Paradis about his book Last Mission to Tokyo
Aug 22, 2020
Episode 298-The Battle of Prome
Aug 17, 2020
Episode 297-10th Anniversary Episode
Aug 08, 2020
Episode 296-Bryan Rigg Interview about his book Flamethrower
Aug 01, 2020
Episode 295-The Battle of Toungoo
Jul 13, 2020
Episode 294:The Redoubtable Gen. William Slim
Jul 05, 2020
Episode 293-Burma: The Ground War Begins
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 292-The War Comes to Burma
Jun 09, 2020
Episode 291-America Strikes Back-The Marshalls & Gilberts Raids
Jun 01, 2020
Episode 290-The Invasion of Burma: Prelude
May 20, 2020
Episode 289-The Invasion of New Guinea
May 11, 2020
Episode 288-The Fall of Rabaul
May 03, 2020
Episode 287-Damien Lewis Interview: Churchill's Shadow Raiders
Apr 26, 2020
Episode 286-The Battle of Rabaul-Prelude
Apr 21, 2020
Episode 285-The Fall of Timor
Apr 12, 2020
Episode 284- The Fall of Java, Pt 3
Apr 07, 2020
Episode 283-The Fall of Java Pt 2-The Battle of the Java Sea
Mar 28, 2020
Episode 282-Interview with Peter Lion about his book: Merg
Mar 19, 2020
Episode 281-The Fall of Java Pt 1
Mar 03, 2020
Episode 280-The Fall of Sumatra
Feb 23, 2020
Episode 279-Interview with Wes Tooke, writer and producer of the film Midway
Feb 11, 2020
Episode 278-The Fall of Bali and The Battle of Badung Straight
Feb 03, 2020
Episode 277- An interview with Melissa Amateis* about her book, Nebraska POW Camps, A History of WWII Prisoners in the Heartland
Jan 25, 2020
Episode 276-The Fall of The Celebes and Maluku Islands
Jan 19, 2020
Episode 275-The Fall of Singapore
Dec 31, 2019
Episode 274-The End of British Malaya
Dec 16, 2019
Episode 273-The Battle at Slim River
Dec 10, 2019
Episode 272-Courage Yet Defeat: The Battle of Kampar
Dec 03, 2019
Episode 271-The Battle of Jitra
Nov 26, 2019
Episode 270-The Battle of Singapore: Force Z to the Rescue
Nov 19, 2019
Episode 269-Interview with David Stahel about his book, Retreat from Moscow
Nov 13, 2019
Episode 268-The Battle for Malaya and Singapore
Nov 04, 2019
Episode 267-Interview with Mikhal Dekel about her latest book, Tehran Children, A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Oct 19, 2019
Episode 266: The Fall of Borneo
Oct 07, 2019
Episode 265-The Battle of Borneo: Resistance Comes in Many Form
Oct 01, 2019
Episode 264-Black Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong
Sep 16, 2019
Episode 263-A Thousand Cuts
Sep 09, 2019
Episode 262-Once More, Unto the Gap
Sep 02, 2019
Episode 261-The Balaclava of the Sea
Aug 27, 2019
Episode 260-Hong Kong-Retreat but No Surrender
Aug 19, 2019
Episode 259-Operation C: Japan Attacks Hong Kong
Aug 11, 2019
Episode 258-The Battle of Hong Kong
Jul 24, 2019
Episode 257-The Fall of Wake Island
Jul 02, 2019
Episode 256- Massacre on Wake Island
Jun 26, 2019
Episode 255- The Marines of Wake Island Don’t Know Quit
Jun 18, 2019
Episode 254-Guam Falls. Wake Island, The Alamo of the Pacific is Next
Jun 11, 2019
Episode 253-Gen. MacArthur-Everything is in Readiness-The Philippines and Singapore
Jun 04, 2019
Episode 252- The Japanese are Coming: Thailand Falls
May 27, 2019
Episode 251-An Interview with Walter Borneman about his book Brothers Down
May 12, 2019
Episode 250- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
May 06, 2019
Episode 249-Japan Enters the War
Apr 30, 2019
Introducing Espionage
Apr 15, 2019
Episode 248-Post Pearl Harbor: The American Giant is Awakened
Apr 08, 2019
Episode 247-Pearl Harbor: American Perspective Pt 2
Apr 02, 2019
Episode 246-The End of the Aleutian Campaign
Mar 15, 2019
Episode 245-Operation Landcrab
Mar 05, 2019
Episode 244: The Aleutian Campaign, the Kiska Blitz
Feb 25, 2019
Episode 243-The Aleutian Islands Campaign
Feb 23, 2019
Episode 242-Interview with Steve Snyder about his book Shot Down: The True story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B 17 Susan Ruth
Feb 16, 2019
Episode 241-Air Raid, Pearl Harbor. This is No Drill!
Jan 30, 2019
Episode 240-An Interview with Dr. Jonathan Fennell about his new book, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and The Second World War
Jan 26, 2019
Episode 239-Pearl Harbor, The American Perspective, Pt 1
Jan 12, 2019
Episode 238-An Interview with Andrew Roberts about his Churchill biography
Jan 08, 2019
Episode 237- The Thin Gray Line, the US Pacific Submarine fleet after Pearl Harbor
Dec 29, 2018
Episode 236-Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers
Dec 09, 2018
Introducing-Assassinations
Nov 28, 2018
Episode 235-An Interview with Flint Whitlock about his book Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio
Nov 28, 2018
Episode 234-Pearl Harbor Attack-The 2nd Japanese Air Strike
Nov 20, 2018
Episode 233-An interview with Frederic Martini about his book: Betrayed- Secrecy, Lies and Consequences
Oct 30, 2018
Episode 232-Pearl Harbor: The First Attack Wave
Oct 22, 2018
Episode 231-Tora, Tora, Tora, The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Oct 15, 2018
Episode 230-Interview with Robin Hutton-War Animals-The Unsung Heroes of WWII
Oct 01, 2018
Episode 229-The United States' First Shot of WWII
Sep 19, 2018
Episode 228-An Interview with Mary Jo McConahay about her latest book The Tango War
Sep 11, 2018
Episode 227-This Means War
Aug 28, 2018
Episode 226-The Japanese are Not Ready for Us Yet
Aug 20, 2018
Episode 225-Indianpolis-Interview with Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
Jul 25, 2018
Episode 224-Climb Mount Niitaka: Tojo Gets his War
Jun 26, 2018
Episode 223-Roosevelt Learns of the Coming Attack
Jun 13, 2018
Episode 222-The Pearl Harbor That Almost Wasn't
May 21, 2018
Episode 221-War with the U.S. Seems Unavoidable
May 14, 2018
Episode 220-An Interview with Lyuba Vinogradova: Defending the Motherland
Apr 25, 2018
Episode 219-When Diplomacy Fails
Apr 24, 2018
Episode 218-Pearl Harbor: The Strongest Fortress in the World
Mar 20, 2018
Episode 217-Japan: Do or Die
Mar 05, 2018
Episode 216-The World Goes to War
Feb 12, 2018
Episode 215: Collision Course, the Road to Pearl Harbor.
Feb 05, 2018
214-Betrayal, the Burma Road and The Battle of Nomonhan
Jan 29, 2018
213-The 2nd Sino-Japanese War: The Fall of Wuhan
Jan 24, 2018
212-The Massacre of Nanjing
Jan 15, 2018
Episode 211-The End of the Battle of Shanghai
Jan 08, 2018
Episode 210-China's Lost Battalion
Dec 10, 2017
Episode 209-Dark Days for Chiang Kai-Shek
Dec 04, 2017
Episode 208-The Battle of Shanghai: Japanese Reinforcements
Nov 04, 2017
Episode 207-Shanghai Becomes Chiang Kai-Shek's Stalingrad
Oct 30, 2017
Episode 206-Interview with Dr. Lyuba Vinogradova about her book Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps
Oct 20, 2017
Episode 205-Chiang Kai-Shek's Pyrrhic Victory
Oct 16, 2017
Episode 204-The Japanese Empire Doubles Down in Shanghai
Oct 10, 2017
Episode 203-Shanghai: The Dominance of Japanese Air and Sea Power
Oct 03, 2017
Episode 202-The Battle of Shanghai Part 2
Sep 15, 2017
Episode 201-The Battle of Shanghai, Part 1
Sep 09, 2017
Episode 200-The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Sep 01, 2017
Episode 199-The Pacific Theatre-Prologue Sino-Japanese Relations
Jul 23, 2017
Episode 198-The Beginning of the Big Three
Jun 18, 2017
Episode 197-The Beginning of the Final Solution
Jun 12, 2017
Episode 196-Stalin: Lenin's Protege
Jun 11, 2017
Episode 194-Interview with Sally Mott Freeman about her book: The Jersey Brothers
Jun 03, 2017
Episode 195-The Beginnings of Pearl Harbor
Jun 03, 2017
Episode 193-Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek, FDR’s Warriors
May 29, 2017
Episode 192-Hitler’s Reaction to Lend lease and FDR’s Third Term
May 20, 2017
Episode 191: Lenin's Cruelty, Stalin's Ambition
May 14, 2017
Episode 190-The Axis Powers and their New World Order
May 07, 2017
Episode 189-Roosevelt's Secret War against Hitler
Apr 30, 2017
Episode 188-The Great War, Brest-Litovsk and Lenin's Retreat
Apr 16, 2017
Episode 187-Interview with Scott Miller
Mar 27, 2017
Episode 186-The Battle for Norway, Vidkun Quisling and the North Sea
Mar 05, 2017
Episode 185-The Pacific Theatre-MacArthur's Retreat
Feb 25, 2017
Episode 184-The Question of Peace, Lenin and Stalin versus Trotsky
Feb 05, 2017
Episode 182-Churchill and Hitler Race for Norway, Episode 183-Stalin: Lenin's Mouthpiece
Jan 29, 2017
Episode 180: Sea Battles, Death at Scapa Flow. Ep 181-The Rule of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Jan 15, 2017
Episode 179-Flashback: The Battle of the Atlantic Begins
Jan 07, 2017
Episode 177-Rommel Retreats, The End of Operation Crusader Ep 178-Lenin's Pillars: Stalin and Trotsky
Dec 11, 2016
Episode 175-Rommel knows Best Episode 176-Stalin steps in for Lenin
Nov 14, 2016
Episode 174-Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Oct 23, 2016
Episode 172-Rommel readies for Success Ep 173-Lenin's Civil War
Oct 09, 2016
Episode 170-Crusader Part 4 Rommel Rises to the Occasion & Episode 171 Lenin comes Home
Aug 28, 2016
Episode 168-Opearation Crusader Part 3 & Episode 169-Stalin and The Great War
Aug 14, 2016
Episode 167-Operation Crusader Part 2
Aug 02, 2016
Episode 166-Lenin's Gift to Stalin
Jul 23, 2016
Episode 164-Lenin's Trigger Man
Jul 12, 2016
Episode 165-Meanwhile back in North Africa-Operation Crusader Part 1
Jul 09, 2016
Episode 163-Stalin: Family Man
May 16, 2016
Episode 162-The Winter Fortress Interview with Neal Bascomb
May 03, 2016
Episode 161-Stalin Bio Part 5
Apr 19, 2016
Episode 160-Leningrad under Siege, Part 2 Unarmed for War
Mar 27, 2016
Episode 159-Stalin Bio Part 4-The Rise of Koba
Mar 19, 2016
Episode 158- Leningrad Under Siege
Mar 12, 2016
Episode 157-Stalin Bio Part 3
Mar 07, 2016
Episode 156-Stalin Strikes Back
Feb 29, 2016
Episode 155-Stalin Bio 2
Feb 21, 2016
Episode 154-The Spires of Moscow
Feb 15, 2016
Episode 153-Stalin Bio 1
Feb 08, 2016
Episode 152-Operation Typhoon: Behind the Lines
Jan 18, 2016
Episode 151-Operation Typhoon Part 2
Jan 09, 2016
Episode 150-Operation Typhoon
Dec 21, 2015
Episode 149-The March to Moscow Part 3
Dec 19, 2015
Episode 148-The March on Moscow Part 2
Dec 12, 2015
Episode 147-The March to Moscow, Part 1
Dec 05, 2015
Episode 146-The Siege of Leningrad Part 3, Slugfest
Nov 28, 2015
Episode 145-The Siege of Leningrad Part 2
Nov 27, 2015
Episode 144-The Siege of Leningrad Part 1
Nov 14, 2015
Episode 143-The Road to Moscow
Nov 07, 2015
Episode 142- Douglas Waller Interview
Oct 24, 2015
Episode 141-Stalin's Mistake
Sep 27, 2015
Episode 140-Of Two Minds
Sep 20, 2015
Episode 139-Finland: Ally to the North
Sep 12, 2015
Episode 138-Trading Punches
Sep 05, 2015
Episode 137-All Good Deeds
Aug 29, 2015
Episode 136-The Fall of Minsk
Aug 21, 2015
Episode 135-Russia is never as strong as she looks; nor as weak as she looks
Aug 16, 2015
Episode 134-Reactions to Barbarossa
Aug 09, 2015
Episode 133-It Has Begun
Jul 24, 2015
Episode 132-Operation Barbarossa
Jul 11, 2015
Episode 131-Third Time's the Charm
Jun 18, 2015
Episode 130-Sleight of Hand
Jun 08, 2015
Episode 129-Lend Lease
Jun 03, 2015
Episode 128-The end of Wavell, Battle Axe and Exporter
May 16, 2015
Episode 127-Operation Battle Axe
May 09, 2015
Episode 126-Operation Exporter, Part 2
May 04, 2015
Episode 125-Operation Exporter
Apr 19, 2015
Episode 124- The End of Crete
Apr 03, 2015
Episode 123- Crete Part 4
Mar 18, 2015
Episode 122: Crete Part 3
Mar 14, 2015
Episode 121- Crete: Part II
Mar 01, 2015
Episode 120-Crete, Part 1
Feb 14, 2015
Episode 119-Churchill, 1932
Feb 05, 2015
Episode 118-Operation Brevity, Iraq and Crete
Feb 01, 2015
Episode 117-Tobruk and Iraq
Jan 10, 2015
Episode 116-The Axis Tide
Dec 27, 2014
Episode 115-Operation Marita Part III
Nov 14, 2014
Episode 114-Operation Marita, Part 2
Nov 07, 2014
Episode 113-Operation Marita Part 1
Oct 13, 2014
Episode 112-He Who Defends Everything, Defends Nothing
Oct 06, 2014
Episode 111-Our Own Worst Enemy
Sep 26, 2014
Episode 110-Back, the Way We Came
Aug 19, 2014
Episode 109-All Roads Lead to Greece
Aug 13, 2014
Episode 108-The Germans are Coming
Jul 09, 2014
Episode 107-The End of the End
Jun 11, 2014
Episode 106-The Beginning of the End
May 19, 2014
Episode 105-Up in Smoke
May 11, 2014
Episode 103-Lost and Loss
May 03, 2014
Episode 104-Chartwell
May 03, 2014
Episode 102-His Cup Runneth Over
Apr 12, 2014
Episode 101-Interview with Kathryn J. Atwood
Mar 28, 2014
Episode 100-Nazi Germany from Within
Mar 08, 2014
Episode 99-All's Well that Ends Well
Mar 03, 2014
Episode 99-All's Well that Ends Well
Mar 03, 2014
Episode 98-Once more, unto the Trench
Feb 12, 2014
Episode 97B-Laszlo and Ray, Talking
Feb 07, 2014
Episode 97-Back in the Saddle, Again
Feb 06, 2014
Episode 96-Foils and Follies
Jan 13, 2014
Episode 95-The Dardanelles, Pt. 1
Dec 09, 2013
Episode 94-In for a Penny...
Nov 29, 2013
Episode 93-War is Upon US
Nov 19, 2013
Episode 92-The Navys the Thing
Nov 08, 2013
Episode 91-Love’s Labors NOT Lost
Oct 28, 2013
Episode 90-Winston’s Revenge
Oct 13, 2013
Episode 89-Fame and Fortune
Oct 08, 2013
Episode 88 Churchill- War Correspondent
Oct 04, 2013
Episode 87-Jack El-Hai Book Interview
Sep 11, 2013
Episode 86-Risks and Rewards, Redux
Sep 07, 2013
Episode 85-Risks and Rewards
Aug 26, 2013
Episode 84-Master of My Fortunes
Aug 12, 2013
Episode 83-The End of the Beginning
Aug 01, 2013
Episode 82-Harrow
Jul 24, 2013
Episode 81-Churchill, The Early Years
Jul 17, 2013
Episode 80-East Africa, Part 2
Jul 03, 2013
Episode 79-East Africa
Jun 18, 2013
Episode 78-The Battle of Beda Fomm
Jun 10, 2013
Episode 77-Tobruk
May 29, 2013
Episode 76-The Army of the Nile
May 17, 2013
Episode 75-Military Aviation Museum
Apr 15, 2013
Episode 74-Operation Compass
Mar 29, 2013
Episode 73-Italian Checks, Greek Balances
Mar 08, 2013
Episode 72-Taranto Pt 3
Feb 24, 2013
Episode 71-Taranto, Pt 2
Feb 16, 2013
Episode 70-The Battle of Taranto, Pt 1
Feb 06, 2013
Episode 69B-Talk History
Jan 30, 2013
Episode 69-Greek Fire, Part II
Jan 27, 2013
Episode 68-Greek Fire, Pt. 1
Jan 15, 2013
Episode 67-Mare Nostrum
Jan 02, 2013
Episode 66-D Day Memorial and Contest Drawing
Dec 19, 2012
Episode 65-Mediterranean Life Line
Dec 07, 2012
Episode 64-The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea 1940
Nov 22, 2012
Episode 63B-Talk History
Nov 21, 2012
Episode 63-October 1940
Nov 15, 2012
Episode 62-Failure, Failure Everywhere
Nov 02, 2012
Episode 61B Talk History
Oct 21, 2012
Episode 61 - Able but Unwilling
Oct 18, 2012
Episode 60-Sand, Saltwater and Oil
Sep 16, 2012
Episode 59-Miracles and Mistakes
Aug 29, 2012
Episode 58-Battle of Britain Day
Aug 20, 2012
Episode 57-German Armada
Jul 30, 2012
Episode 56-Breaking Point
Jul 17, 2012
Episode 55-Battling Friends and Foes Alike
Jun 24, 2012
Episode 54-Pandoras Box
Jun 19, 2012
Episode 53- Things Missed
May 28, 2012
Episode 52-Moves on the Chessboard
May 14, 2012
Episode 51-The Hardest Day
May 05, 2012
Episode 50- Black Thursday, August 14-15th
Apr 20, 2012
Episode 49- Adlertag: August 8th-13th
Apr 10, 2012
Episode 48: Things Learned. August 2nd – August 7th.
Mar 27, 2012
Episode 47- Support Teams & The Battle, July 29th-August 1st
Mar 18, 2012
Episode 46-A Day in the Life, July 26th-28th
Feb 27, 2012
Episode 45- Numbers Tell, July 23rd-25th
Feb 11, 2012
Episode 44-Defense of the Air.
Jan 22, 2012
Episode 43-The Battle, July 16th-19th.
Jan 17, 2012
Episode 42-Battle of Britain, Part 2.
Jan 09, 2012
Episode 41-Great Britain’s turn.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 40-Unexpected surprise for Hitler.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 39-Hitler bio, Part 3.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 38-Hitler bio, Part 2.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 37-Hitler bio, Part 1.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 36-The End of the French Third Republic.
Jan 04, 2012
Episode 35-The question of the French Fleet.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 34-The war of France is over.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 33-Premier Petain seeks peace.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 32-French Premier Reynaud falls.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 31-Paris falls.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 30-The End of Dunkirk.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 29-June 2nd. Massed ships.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 28-The Miracle.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 27-29th May.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 26-Dunkirk, Part 2.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 25-Dunkirk, Part 1.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 24-The panzers reach the coast.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 23-The French 9th Army is destroyed.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 22-German panzers attack through the Ardennes.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 21-The fall of France, Part 2.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 20-China 1937 to 1940.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 19-The Long March w/ Laszlo
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 18-The fall of France, Part 1.
Jan 03, 2012
Episode 17-The fall of Denmark and Norway.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 16-The Phony War and Finland’s defeat.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 15-The fall of Poland.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 14-The last days of peace.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 13-The line is drawn.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 12-Appeasement.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 11-Europe 1933 to 1937.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 10-The Nazification of Germany.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 9-Hitler takes on the World.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 8-Japan’s China policy?
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 7-Japan expands into China.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 6-Japan, 1853-1936.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 5-Il Duce (The Leader)
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 4-Mussolini 1918 to 1922.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 3-Early life of Mussolini.
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 2-Nazi Politics, 1929-1933
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 1-Rise of the Nazi Party
Jan 01, 2012