WW2: Both Sides of The Wire

In today's episode, we'll drill down to a relatively unknown battle from July 1944 that reveals much about the fierce fighting in the Normandy campaign — the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits. Join our co...

In today’s episode, we’ll explore one of the Second World War’s most dramatic and daring special operations: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi ruler in occupied Czechoslovakia. This w...

In today’s episode, we’re going to take on the Second World War story of one of today’s geopolitical hotspots – the mostly forgotten story of Greenland in WW2. Join our community! The steps are simp...

In today’s episode, we’re continue the story of the Soviet partisan war against the Germans from 1941 to 1945 – how did the partisans fight, and how did the Germans try to stop them? Join our commu...

In today’s episode, we’ll take up the story of the Balkan campaign in 1941 and follow the fighting as it spilled into Greece and witnessed dramatic fighting around storied places like Mount Olympus an...

 In today's episode, we are marking a very important anniversary. In September, 1939, Germany invades Poland and the Second World War begins. The six week campaign would change the course of world his...

In today’s episode, we’re diving back into your questions—ranging from myths that outlived empires to the nuts and bolts of battlefield logistics—because, once again, you've sent us more great ones th...

In today’s episode, we’ll begin our journey into the story of the longest siege of the Second World War - and perhaps the deadliest siege of all time – the siege of Leningrad. Join our community! The...

In today’s episode, we’ll pick up our theme of Prisoners of War - and this time we’ll focus on the Asia-Pacific theatre. As in Eastern Europe, similar harrowing themes defined the experience of men in...

In today’s episode, we’re going behind the lines to consider the oft-overlooked fates of the millions of soldiers on the Eastern Front who fell into enemy hands and became prisoners of war. Millions w...

In this episode we take a closer look at Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It was the largest campaign in the history of warfare, and the one that, arguably, turne...

In this episode we’ll get to grips with what might seem like a simple question – why and how did the Allies win the Second World War. The usual answer is that it was superior numbers. These matter, bu...