For You The War Is Over

Inspired by his uncle’s service in the Royal Flying Corp during the First World War, Cyril Swain became a pilot even before the outbreak of the Second World War. Shot down after spending some time as ...

Leslie Brodrick served under Wing Commander Guy Gibson, of 'Dambusters' fame, before being shot down, being sent to Stalag Luft III and was one of the 26 to survive the Great Escape. We were joined by...

Former RAF pilot, Colin McGregor, joined us to look at the life of Bertram 'Jimmy' James, who was an inveterate escaper, survived not only the Great Escape but also was one of those survivors who woul...

Tony Hoskins delved into the archives to dig out the life story of Douglas Poynter. He was to attempt, and very nearly succeeded in making an evasion from Occupied Norway, before eventually being capt...

Harry 'Wing' Day is not just a legend of the Great Escape, but of Second World War Prisoner-of-War escapes in general. A hugely influential individual, he was to make many escape attempts, including f...

Tim Walenn was the Chief Forger - Head of 'Dean and Dawson' - for the Great Escape, and we were joined by the brilliant Megan Kelleher, from the RAF Museum, to look at his life, escape and moustache!F...

Erin Gregory, the Curator at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, joined us to look into the life and escape of her fellow Canadian, Gordon Kidder, who was a linguistics expert, and who teamed up wit...

An often and easily overlooked, but crucially important, aspect of escaping is the provision of food. In the Great Escape, the X Committee had an entire department dedicated to providing food rations ...

In this episode we were joined not just by the family of Herbert Martin Massey, the Senior British Officer in Stalag Luft III, but also his official biographer, Andrew White. In the first of our biogr...

In the second episode of the Great Escape Series, we are joined by Derek Mallett, an Associate Professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College. Derek joined us to tell us all about those in...

In this the 80th anniversary of D-Day we are looking at an incredible joint escape by three POWs, Shannon, Dow and Helme, all of whom were Glider pilots who were captured on D-Day. We were also triall...

Captured in Northern France in 1940, Coe was the very first to escape from a POW camp, escaping from a satellite camp in Danzig, from where he made the short escape to the port, and stowed away on a s...

Capt. CFP Mills initially escaped with Hopkins and Rae, from episode 2, but they got separated in Marseilles. This is the story of what happened to Mills after they got separated...For You The War Is ...

A prisoner-of-war who ended up in a concentration camp, Gunner Davies managed to escape from one of the most dangerous places we have seen yet!For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks at the re...

A Free French member of the SAS, Mouhot narrowly avoided the Commando Order to escape four times, eventually returning to the UK despite having the opportunity to stay in France as a civilian.For You ...

Our first escape from the Pacific Theatre, we look at the escape of Midshipman Peter Noel Vesey Newsome, who despite being a Merchant sailor for the Blue Funnel Line, served as a GI in the US Army, ta...

For this episode we were joined by John West, who runs the 140 Artillery Regt website (http://140th-field-regiment-ra-1940.co.uk/),  to talk about Driver John William Henry Martin, who was in the same...

The only Swede who was to escape as a prisoner of war, there were some similarities between the escapes of Sam Derry and Lonnberg. However, despite being Swedish, he made for Switzerland rather than t...

Cyril Bruce Flockhart was to spend some time being held by both the SS and the Gestapo for his escape attempts. Despite this he eventually escaped from Heydekrug, meeting the Polish resistance and mad...

Fusilier Joseph Purvis was captured not long after Dunkirk, and spent three years in captivity before eventually making good his escape, via Switzerland, before returning to France after D-Day when Fr...

To kick off our new series, we look at the escape of Fl/Lt Shore who wasted no time at all getting stuck into escaping, remaining a POW only a matter of months before successfully making his way to Sw...

We were joined by Claire Derry to talk about her father, Major Sam Derry, who wasn't just satisfied with managing to escape from a moving train, he would go on the run an entire escape organisation, a...

For Easterbrook escaping was the easy part, as after getting out he was to take his life into his own hands by fighting the Germans in Poland as part of the Resistance. This one is more than a simple ...

In one of the most exciting escapes yet, F.O. Raymond Sherk was captured in North Africa, held in Italy until the Armistice when he took to the hills. He made it back to Allied lines after a 45 day tr...

In this episode we look at the escape of P.M. Andre Desgranges, a member of the Fighting French Navy, who under threat from the Gestapo escaped from a camp in Wilhelmshaven.For You The War Is Over is ...

In this episode we look at what may be the shortest escape of the war, both in timeframe and distance. But that also make it one of the most interesting!For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks...

In this episode we look at the capture and escape of Fl/Lt. Denis Martin Cowley. After being due to be repatriated on medical grounds, he made his escape while en route back to the UK.For You The War ...

To kick off this new series we welcome Midge Gillies, author of "The Barbed Wire University", to discuss what life was like as a Prisoner-of-war. We discuss the day to day life of a POW, how they live...

In this episode we look at the escape of Brigadier James Hargest, a New Zealander who was captured by Rommel, held in Campo 12 in Italy, reaching Switzerland in record time after his escape.Sadly our ...

In the second episode of this series we look at the escape of Cpl. JV Byrne.A member of the SAS when captured, he made several attempts to escape, eventually making his way to Stockholm, after a stint...

For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks at the real life stories of POW escapes from the the Second World War. Hosted by History Nerd @DaveMcRobbo and Tech Geek @DaveHarrysson, each episode lo...

This week's episode is the conclusion of our conversation with Prof. David Guss, author of "The 21 Escapes of Lt. Alastair Cram".In part 1 we covered Alastair's capture and first few escape attempts, ...

This week we look at the escape of Capt. DB Lang of the 51st Highland Division. He missed being rescued from Dunkirk before making his way to Palestine via Vichy France.For You The War Is Over is a po...