The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 536-The Red Arm Strikes Back: Blood in the Snow

Episode 535-The First Cracks Appear

Ep 534-Becky Aikman Interview-Spitfires:The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During WWII

Episode 533-And the Germans Were Left Standing Alone

Episode 532-Operation Little Saturn Pt 2

Episode 531-Operation Little Saturn Pt 1

Episode 530-Operation Mars

Ep 529-Interview w/Jonathan Horn: The Fate of the Generals

Episode 528-Operation Northern Lights

Episode 527-Winning By Other Means

Episode 526-Operation Neptune

Episode 525-Alone, Isolated and About to Die

The Line Has Been Drawn at Stalingrad

Episode 523-Resistance Is Futile

Episode 522-Operation Winter Storm

Episode 521-Decision Time: Fight or Flight

Episode 520-Operation Uranus

Episode 519-Defeat is Always Possible. But Will it Be Today?

Episode 518-Stalin's Latest Mistake

Episode 517-The Black Hole That Is Stalingrad

Episode 516-Holding Stalingrad by the Skin of their Teeth

Episode 515-Rat Warfare in Stalingrad

Episode 514-Zhukov Arrives at Stalingrad

Episode 513-Stalingrad or Bust

Operation Arthropoid

Episode 511- FDR's Fireside Chats

Episode 510-The Fall of Sevastopol

Episode 509-Resist Today, Resist Tomorrow, Resit Until It’s Done

Episode 508-The Fall of Kerch

Episode 507-Wolf Killers

Episode 506-Lord Haw-Haw

Catch Me, If You Can

Episode 504-Demanding Miracles, Ignoring Reality

Episode 503-A Desperate Defense If Ever There Was One

Episode 502-The Wolf is at the Door

Episode 501-The Other Crimean War

Episode 500-Too Much, Too Soon

Episode 499-The Wild West of the Eastern Front

Episode 498-Living Through Hell in the Middle of Winter

Episode 497-My Leader, Who Commands 9th Army? You or Me?

Episode 496-Interview w/Betina Anton: Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored The Angel of Death

Episode 495-Fight, Lose, Retreat, Repeat

Episode 494-Veteran's Voices-The Guys from The Warrior Next Door Podcast Return!

Episode 493-The Rzhev Meat Grinder

Episode 492-The Battle of Volkhov River: Leningrad is to be Saved

Episode 491-The Russians Are Coming!

Episode 490-Between Stalin's Hammer and Hitler's Anvil

Episode 489-2 Ep Special! Interview w/ Jan Davis: Air Born: Two Generations in Flight & Retreat or Die

Episode 488-One Shot, One Kill: Soviet Snipers of the Eastern Front

Episode 487-A 2 Episode Special! Interview with Shannon Monaghan: A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men. Then, Merry Christmas From the Eastern Front

Episode 486-Interview w/ Robert Hutton: The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

Episode 485-No More Dead Heroes

Episode 484-Hitler Cleans House

Episode 483-Not One Single Step Back

Episode 482-Stalin's Dreams Almost Come True

Episode 481-Victoring Itself to Death

Episode 480-Japanese Americans at War

Episode 479-America's Internment Camps

Episode 478-Operation Typhoon Comes to an End

Episode 477-Who Has Who Surrounded?

Episode 476-Strange Inventions of WW2

Episode 475-Top 5 WW2 Movies

Listen Now: American History Tellers First Ladies

Episode 474-Kiev is Trapped

Episode 473-Guderian Approaches

Episode 472-Keep Them Guessing

Episode 471-My Tank is Thicker Than Your Tank

Episode 470-Interview: Michel Paradis, The Light of Battle, Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

Episode 469-Interview: From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A Pilot’s Life in the Royal Air Force 1942–1973

Episode 468-The Comics of WW2

Episode 467-Interview w/ Damien Lewis about his book Churchill's Secret Warriors

Episode 466-Odessa Has Fallen

Episode 465-Tanks for the Memories

Episode 464: 2 Ep Special! Interview with Jason Bell about his book Cracking the Nazi Code. Then, All Hell Breaks Loose

Episode 463-Attrition: A Game the Entire Country Can Play

Episode 462-When Fighting For Your Life, You Can Never Go Too Far

Episode 461-Odessa Prepares for its Fate

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

Episode 459-The Siege of Odessa Begins

Episode 458-The Trapped Soviet Soldiers at Uman

Episode 457-Operation Munich

Episode 456: The Stalin Line-Merely the Shadow of A Dream

Episode 455-Race to the Stalin Line

Episode 454-Army Group South is on the March

Episode 453-Operation Barbarossa: What's Plan B?

Episode 452-Operation Typhoon: All or Nothing

Episode 451-Interview w/ James Holland. His book, The Savage Storm, The Battle For Italy 1943

Episode 450-Moscow: Dark Days Are Coming

Episode 449-Killing Their Way to Moscow

Episode 448-When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object

2 Episode Special-Episode 447-Interview w/ T. Martin Bennett about his book Wounded Tiger and Hitler Versus His Generals

Episode 446-All Roads Lead to Moscow

Episode 445-Interview w/ Louise Endres Moore about her book Alfred:The Quiet History of a WWII Infantryman

Episode 444-Army Group Center

Episode 443: Two Episode Special! Angus Konstam Interview and The Clash of Titans

Episode 442-Interview w/ Roger Moorhouse about his book, The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation

Episode 441-When Barbarossa Begins, the World Will Hold It's Breath

Episode 440-Can a Warship be Cursed?

Episode 439-Dieppe Was Avenged

Episode 438-The Longest One Day Casualty List in Canadian History

Episode 437-Interview w/ Scott Simon about his book Swingtime for Hitler & then Operation Jubilee

Episode 436-Retreat Yes. But How?

Episode 435-Two Episode Special! Interview w/John C. McManus about his Pacific War Trilogy and we continue w/ Operation Jubilee

Episode 434-Red Beach-To Move is to Die

Episode 433-Two Episode Special! Interview w/ Andrew Nagorski about his book Saving Freud and we return to Operation Jubilee

Episode 432-Blood on Blue Beach

Episode 431-The Father and Mother of All Explosions

Episode 430-Interview w/Tom Holm about his book, Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, WWII and the Price of Heroism

Episode 429-It Only Takes One Little Mistake

Episode 428-Churchill's Shell Game

Episode 427-Operation Rudder-Less

Episode 426-Kill Or Be Killed

Episode 425-Here Come the Commandos

Episode 424-Operation Sledgehammer

Operation Sledgehammer

Episode 423-Pedestal: The Final Curtain

Episode 422-By the Skin of Her Teeth

Episode 421-It's Today or Nothing

Episode 420-Interview w/ James B. Conroy, about his book, The Devils Will Get No Rest

Episode 419-Across the Finish Line

Episode 418-The Show Must Go On

Episode 417-Interview w/ Craig Nelson about his book V is For Victory

Episode 416-The Terrifying Had Become Commonplace

Episode 415-Ships That Sink In The Night

Episode 414-In the Lap of the Gods

Episode 413-I Was Always Grateful to Mussolini

Episode 412-Courage and Cowardice

Episode 411-The Deadly Game of Dodge Bomb

Episode 410-Four Torpedoes Can Make All the Difference

Episode 409-Will This Day Never End?

Episode 408-Operation Pedestal-One Hell of an Afternoon

Episode 407-Interview w/ Chloe Melas about Frank Murphy's book: Luck of the Draw

Episode 406-Operation Pedestal: One Hell of a Morning

Episode 405-Operation Pedestal: Slow Gets You Killed

Episode 404-Operation Pedestal: First Blood

Introducing Grey History Podcasts: The French Revolution

Episode 403-Rommel is Stopped in His Tracks

Episode 402-Monty Sets the Stage for Rommel

Episode 401-Interview w/ Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch: The Nazi Conspiracy & Churchill Gives British 8th Army to Monty

Churchill Gives British 8th Army to Monty

Episode 400-The Second Battle of Ruweisat Ridge

Episode 399-The First Battle of Ruweisat Ridge

Episode 398-First Battle of El Alamein

Episode 397-Interview w/ Iain MacGregor: The Lighthouse of Stalingrad & Prelude to The 1st Battle of El Alamein

Episode 396-The Battle of Mersa Matruh

Episode 395-The Gazala Gallop

Episode 394-Warrior Next Door Podcast Interview & Tobruk Has Fallen

Episode 393-Interview w/ James Shone: The Host of the Taiwan Through Time Podcast & Operation Harpoon

Episode 392: Interview w/ Dr. Paul Gill Jr. about his father’s book: Armageddon in the Arctic Ocean. 2nd Ep: Tobruk is Surrounded

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

Episode 390-The Battle of Knightsbridge Box

Episode 389-Interview w/ Saul David about his book Devil Dogs

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper Stalks London’s War-Torn Streets

Episode 388-The Battle of Bir Hakeem: The Redemption of French Honor

Episode 387-The Battle of the Cauldron

Episode 386-Damien Lewis talks about his book, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Episode 385-The Cauldron

Episode 384-The English GI: A Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the US and Europe

Episode 383-Rommel Comes For Tobruk

Episode 382-Dale Jenkins Covers The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway

Introducing: Reflections of History

Episode 381-The Battle at Gazala: The Waiting is All

Episode 380-The British 8th Army vs The Desert Fox

Episode 379: Rommel Strikes Back

Episode 378: West Africa and Charles De Gaulle

Episode 377-Iceland: A Peaceful Invasion

Episode 376-The Falcon of Malta

Episode 375-Starvation and Betrayal

Episode 374-Churchill: Malta's Patron Saint

Episode 373-Malta: A Thunderstorm of Steel

Episode 372-Malta Loses A Hero

Episode 371-Interview w/ Thomas McKenna about his book Moro Warrior

Episode 370-Interview w/Peter Bradley about his book, The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution

Car Show! Episode: The Jeep during WWII

Episode 369-Interview w/ Paul Brandus about FDR’s Use of the Media and Midway

Episode 368-Interview w/Damien Lewis about his book Churchill's Great Escapes

Episode 367-The Second Battle of Sirte

Episode 366-Interview with Brandon Gauthier about his book Before Evil

Episode 365-The Spitfires Are Coming!

Episode 364-Mussolini's PR Nightmare

Episode 363-Guest Host Lindsey Graham of History Daily Recounts the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Episode 362-Interview w/ Michael Benson about his book Gangsters vs Nazis

Episode 361-Interview w/ Edward Aldrich: The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won WWII

Episode 360-The Germans Have Returned

Episode 359-All Good Things Must Come to an End

Episode 358-The Saturday Night Club Run

Episode 357-Operation Halberd

Episode 356-Interview with Philip Martin about his book-From Orphan to High Flyer

Episode 355-Interview with Robert Child about his book Immortal Valor

Introducing: Spectacle: Las Vegas

Episode 354-The Battle of Valletta

Episode 353-Malta's Magic Carpet Service

Episode 352-Interview with Ray Boomhower about his book: Richard Tregaskis-Reporting Under Fire From Guadalcanal to Vietnam

Episode 351-Interview with Scott Rank of The History Unplugged Podcast

Episode 350-Operation Primrose

Introducing: Eclipsed

Episode 349-Malta's Orders: KBO-Keep Buggering On

Episode 348-Interview with Scott Bury about his Eastern Front Trilogy

Episode 347-Malta: Dark Days are Coming

Episode 346A-The Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast

Episode 346-Interview with the Hosts of The Warrior Next Door Podcast

Episode 345-Interview with Joe Lee about his book Forgiveness

Episode 344-Interview with Jeffrey Jackson about his book, Paper Bullets

Episode 343-Interview with Ambassador David McKean about his book Watching Darkness Fall

Episode 342-Interview with Jack Fairweather about his book, A Rebel in Auschwitz

Episode 341-Battle of the Tarigo Convoy

Episode 340-Interview with Chris Berman

Episode 339-The Battle of Cape Matapan

Episode 338-The Siege of Malta Begins

Episode 337-The Illustrious Blitz

Episode 336: With A Friend Like Mussolini

Episode 335-Churchill Wants War

Episode 334-All Roads Go Through Malta

Episode 333-The Doolittle Raid Pt 4: The Pacific War Takes Shape

Episode 332-The Doolittle Raid Pt 3: Japan's Pearl Harbor

Episode 331-The Doolittle Raid Pt 2

Episode 330-The Doolittle Raid Pt 1

Episode 329-The Fall of Corregidor

Episode 328-The Fall of Mindanao

Episode 327-The Fall of Bataan

Episode 326-Interview with Rob Lofthouse about his book, Honor Through Sacrifice

Episode 325-Bataan-The Beginning of the End

Episode 324-The Second Battle of Bataan

Episode 323-Bataan: The Readiness is All

Episode 322-The Battling Bastards of Bataan

Episode 321-MacArthur-I Shall Return

Episode 320-MacArthur's Great Escape Pt 1

Episode 319-How Do You Solve a Problem Like MacArthur

Episode 318-Battle of the Pockets Pt 2

Episode 317-Battle of the Pockets Pt 1

Episode 316-FDR: The Man with No Fear

Episode 315-Battle of the Points

Things You Don’t Need To Know

Episode 314-The Battle of Bataan

Episode 313-Retreat to Bataan

Episode 312-Bataan or Bust

Introducing Business Movers

Episode 311-Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Defending the Indefensible

Episode 310-December 22, 1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Episode 309-MacArthur: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Episode 308-War Comes to The Philippines

Episode 307-Prelude to the Fall of the Philippines

Episode 306-Gen. Slim Regroups, Gen. Stilwell Retreats

Episode 305-Isn't That Burma Army Annihilated Yet?

Episode 304-Mistakes Were Made, Men Died

Episode 303-The Battle of Mandalay

Episode 302-Interview with Lesley Blume about her book: Fallout

Episode 301-Burma: The Great Retreat Begins

Episode 300-The Battle of Yenaungyaung

Episode 299-Interview with Michel Paradis about his book Last Mission to Tokyo

Episode 298-The Battle of Prome

Episode 297-10th Anniversary Episode

Episode 296-Bryan Rigg Interview about his book Flamethrower

Episode 295-The Battle of Toungoo

Episode 294:The Redoubtable Gen. William Slim

Episode 293-Burma: The Ground War Begins

Episode 292-The War Comes to Burma

Episode 291-America Strikes Back-The Marshalls & Gilberts Raids

Episode 290-The Invasion of Burma: Prelude

Episode 289-The Invasion of New Guinea

Episode 288-The Fall of Rabaul

Episode 287-Damien Lewis Interview: Churchill's Shadow Raiders

Episode 286-The Battle of Rabaul-Prelude

Episode 285-The Fall of Timor

Episode 284- The Fall of Java, Pt 3

Episode 283-The Fall of Java Pt 2-The Battle of the Java Sea

Episode 282-Interview with Peter Lion about his book: Merg

Episode 281-The Fall of Java Pt 1

Episode 280-The Fall of Sumatra

Episode 279-Interview with Wes Tooke, writer and producer of the film Midway

Episode 278-The Fall of Bali and The Battle of Badung Straight

Episode 277- An interview with Melissa Amateis* about her book, Nebraska POW Camps, A History of WWII Prisoners in the Heartland

Episode 276-The Fall of The Celebes and Maluku Islands

Episode 275-The Fall of Singapore

Episode 274-The End of British Malaya

Episode 273-The Battle at Slim River

Episode 272-Courage Yet Defeat: The Battle of Kampar

Episode 271-The Battle of Jitra

Episode 270-The Battle of Singapore: Force Z to the Rescue

Episode 269-Interview with David Stahel about his book, Retreat from Moscow

Episode 268-The Battle for Malaya and Singapore

Episode 267-Interview with Mikhal Dekel about her latest book, Tehran Children, A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Episode 266: The Fall of Borneo

Episode 265-The Battle of Borneo: Resistance Comes in Many Form

Episode 264-Black Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

Episode 263-A Thousand Cuts

Episode 262-Once More, Unto the Gap

Episode 261-The Balaclava of the Sea

Episode 260-Hong Kong-Retreat but No Surrender

Episode 259-Operation C: Japan Attacks Hong Kong

Episode 258-The Battle of Hong Kong

Episode 257-The Fall of Wake Island

Episode 256- Massacre on Wake Island

Episode 255- The Marines of Wake Island Don’t Know Quit

Episode 254-Guam Falls. Wake Island, The Alamo of the Pacific is Next

Episode 253-Gen. MacArthur-Everything is in Readiness-The Philippines and Singapore

Episode 252- The Japanese are Coming: Thailand Falls

Episode 251-An Interview with Walter Borneman about his book Brothers Down

Episode 250- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Episode 249-Japan Enters the War

Introducing Espionage

Episode 248-Post Pearl Harbor: The American Giant is Awakened

Episode 247-Pearl Harbor: American Perspective Pt 2

Episode 246-The End of the Aleutian Campaign

Episode 245-Operation Landcrab

Episode 244: The Aleutian Campaign, the Kiska Blitz

Episode 243-The Aleutian Islands Campaign

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

Episode 241-Air Raid, Pearl Harbor. This is No Drill!

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

Episode 239-Pearl Harbor, The American Perspective, Pt 1

Episode 238-An Interview with Andrew Roberts about his Churchill biography

Episode 237- The Thin Gray Line, the US Pacific Submarine fleet after Pearl Harbor

Episode 236-Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers

Introducing-Assassinations

Episode 235-An Interview with Flint Whitlock about his book Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio

Episode 234-Pearl Harbor Attack-The 2nd Japanese Air Strike

Episode 233-An interview with Frederic Martini about his book: Betrayed- Secrecy, Lies and Consequences

Episode 232-Pearl Harbor: The First Attack Wave

Episode 231-Tora, Tora, Tora, The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Episode 230-Interview with Robin Hutton-War Animals-The Unsung Heroes of WWII

Episode 229-The United States' First Shot of WWII

Episode 228-An Interview with Mary Jo McConahay about her latest book The Tango War

Episode 227-This Means War

Episode 226-The Japanese are Not Ready for Us Yet

Episode 225-Indianpolis-Interview with Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic

Episode 224-Climb Mount Niitaka: Tojo Gets his War

Episode 223-Roosevelt Learns of the Coming Attack

Episode 222-The Pearl Harbor That Almost Wasn't

Episode 221-War with the U.S. Seems Unavoidable

Episode 220-An Interview with Lyuba Vinogradova: Defending the Motherland

Episode 219-When Diplomacy Fails

Episode 218-Pearl Harbor: The Strongest Fortress in the World

Episode 217-Japan: Do or Die

Episode 216-The World Goes to War

Episode 215: Collision Course, the Road to Pearl Harbor.

214-Betrayal, the Burma Road and The Battle of Nomonhan

213-The 2nd Sino-Japanese War: The Fall of Wuhan

212-The Massacre of Nanjing

Episode 211-The End of the Battle of Shanghai

Episode 210-China's Lost Battalion

Episode 209-Dark Days for Chiang Kai-Shek

Episode 208-The Battle of Shanghai: Japanese Reinforcements

Episode 207-Shanghai Becomes Chiang Kai-Shek's Stalingrad

Episode 206-Interview with Dr. Lyuba Vinogradova about her book Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps

Episode 205-Chiang Kai-Shek's Pyrrhic Victory

Episode 204-The Japanese Empire Doubles Down in Shanghai

Episode 203-Shanghai: The Dominance of Japanese Air and Sea Power

Episode 202-The Battle of Shanghai Part 2

Episode 201-The Battle of Shanghai, Part 1

Episode 200-The Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Episode 199-The Pacific Theatre-Prologue Sino-Japanese Relations

Episode 198-The Beginning of the Big Three

Episode 197-The Beginning of the Final Solution

Episode 196-Stalin: Lenin's Protege

Episode 194-Interview with Sally Mott Freeman about her book: The Jersey Brothers

Episode 195-The Beginnings of Pearl Harbor

Episode 193-Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek, FDR’s Warriors

Episode 192-Hitler’s Reaction to Lend lease and FDR’s Third Term

Episode 191: Lenin's Cruelty, Stalin's Ambition

Episode 190-The Axis Powers and their New World Order