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History of the Second World War — 346 episodes
257: Crete Pt. 2 - May 20th at Maleme
256: Crete Pt. 1 - Preparations
255: Greece Pt. 7 - The Invasion Ends
254: Greece Pt. 6 - The Invasion Begins
Listener Questions Pt. 3
253: Greece Pt. 5 - Cape Matapan
252: Greece Pt. 4 - Spring 1941
251: Greece Pt. 3 - The Path to Escalation
Interview 52: Why Barbarossa Failed with Timothy Manion
Listener Questions Pt. 2
250: Greece Pt. 2 - After the Failure
249: Greece Pt. 1 - Plans and Preparations
248: Taranto Pt. 2 - The Attack
247: Taranto Pt. 1 - Plans and Preparations
246: Yugoslavia Pt. 2 - The Invasion
245: Yugoslavia Pt. 1 - Belgrade's Impossible Position
Listener Questions Pt. 1
244 - East Africa
243: North Africa 1940 Pt. 7 - Beda Fomm
242: North Africa 1940 Pt. 6 - Bardia
241: North Africa 1940 Pt. 5 - Operation Compass
Interview 51: Pearl Harbor with Mark Stille
240: North Africa 1940 Pt. 4 - British Build-Up
Interview 50: Defenders of the Reich with Robert Forsyth
239: North Africa 1940 Pt. 3 - Italy Attacks
Interview 49: Rhineland: Hitlers Last Defence 1944-45 with Anthony Tucker-Jones
238: North Africa 1940 Pt. 2 - The Key to Empire
Interview 48: Flying with the 384th Bomb Group with Hans Smith
237: North Africa 1940 Pt. 1 - Italian Aspirations
Interview 47: Advance Britannia with Dr. Alan Allport
Summary 7: The Spanish Civil War
Interview 46: Into the Reich with Prit Buttar
Summary 6: The Rise of Mussolini
Interview 45: Airpower Over Kursk '43 with William Hiestand
236: The Battle After Britain Pt. 4 - Conclusions and Continuations
Interview 44: Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa with Richard Hargreaves
235: The Battle After Britain Pt. 3 - The Blitz
234: The Battle After Britain Pt. 2 - Big Wings, Big Egos
233: The Battle After Britain Pt. 1 - Sleeping Sea Lion
232: The Battle of Britain Pt. 7 - Battle of Britain Day
231: The Battle of Britain Pt. 6 - Stumbling to the End
Interview 43: The Kwantung Army with Quin Cho
230: The Battle of Britain Pt. 5 - Shifting Focus
229: The Battle of Britain Pt. 4 - Familiar Failures
228: The Battle of Britain Pt. 3 - New Plans
227: The Battle of Britain Pt. 2 - The Hardest Days
226: The Battle of Britain Pt. 1 - Adlertag
225: The Battle About Britain Pt. 9 - The Senior Service
Interview 42: Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 with Jack Bowsher
224: The Battle About Britain Pt. 8 - Home Guard and the Airborne Panic
223: The Battle About Britain Pt. 7 - Invasion Preparations
Interview 41: Motorization with Bruce Gudmundsson
222: The Battle About Britain Pt. 6 - Wait, This is Going to be Complicated
Interview 40: The German-Soviet War with Jeff Rutherford
221: The Battle About Britain Pt. 5 - A Simple River Crossing
220: The Battle About Britain Pt. 4 - The Channel Battle
219: The Battle About Britain Pt. 3 - The Three Speeches
Interview 39: Sisterhood of Ravensbrück with Lynne Olson
218 - The Battle About Britain Pt. 2 - What Are We Doing Now?
217 - The Battle About Britain Pt. 1 - What Are We Doing Next?
216: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 8 - Operation Catapult
215: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 7 - Attrition Over France
214: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 6 - An Easy Way Out
213: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 5 - Churchill and the Few
212: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 4 - Leaves Upon the Wind
211: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 3 - How to Build a Bombing Campaign
210: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 2 - Flying Blind
209: The Battle Before Britain Pt. 1 - Electronic Tripwires
208: If Necessary Alone - An Introduction
Summary 4: Interwar Britain
Summary 5: Interwar Airpower
Preview 18: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 6 - Preparing for War
Preview 17: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 5 - Aviation
Intelligent Speech 2025
Preview 16: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 4 - Building Better Battleships
Interview 38: The Forgotten War with Jack Bowsher
Preview 15: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 3 - The End of the Naval Treaty
Preview 14: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 2 - The Early 30s
Preview 13: The Victorious Royal Navy Pt. 1 - Budgets
207: The Fall of France - Epilogue: Riom
206: The Fall of France - Defeat
205: The Fall of France - Surrender
Interview 37: RAF Gardening Operations with Jane Guilliford Lowes
204: The Fall of France - About that Maginot Thing
Interview 36: General Stanisław Maczek with Jenny Grant
203: The Fall of France - Falling Apart
202: The Fall of France - "To Make a Corpse Feel"
201: The Fall of France - "The Last Quarter of an Hour"
200: The Fall of France - Case Red
199: The Fall of France - The Battle of Abbeville
Interview 35: The Man Who Calculated Death with Suzanne Rico
198: The Fall of France - Picking Up the Pieces
197: The Fall of France - Operation Dynamo
196: The Fall of France - The Myths of Dunkirk
195: The Fall of France - The Collapsing Bag
Interview 34: Battle of Britain: Canadian Airmen in their Finest Hour with Ted Barris
Interview 33: Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle with Mark Stille
Interview 32: Hero City: Leningrad 1943-44 with Prit Buttar
Interview 31: Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich with Richard Evans
194: The Fall of France - Boulogne, Calais, and The Halt Order
193: The Fall of France - Cut Off
Interview 30: Hell Let Loose with Matt White of Expression Games
192: The Fall of France - To The Coast!
191: The Fall of France - Breakouts
190: The Fall of France - Stonne and Flavigny's Failure
189: The Fall of France - French Counterattacks of May 14
188: The Fall of France - Reinhardt and Rommel
187: The Fall of France - Crossing the Meuse
186: The Fall of France - To the Meuse!
185: The Fall of France - Through the Ardennes
184: The Fall of France - Hannut and Gembloux
183: The Fall of France - The Invasion of Belgium
182: The Fall of France - The Invasion of the Netherlands
181: The Fall of France - Fall Gelb
180: The Fall of France - French War Plans
179: The Fall of France - Can We Fight Somewhere Else?
178: The Fall of France - Preparations for War
177: The Fall of France - Playing the Long Game
Summary 3: The September Campaign
Summary 2: Germany Prepares for War
Summary 1: The Third Republic
176: The Invasion of Norway - The End and Beginning of Norwegian Resistance
175: The Invasion of Norway - The Recapture of Narvik
174: The Invasion of Norway - The Snows of Narvik
173: The Invasion of Norway - "Your troops haven't been defeated!"
172: The Invasion of Norway - Allied Reactions
171: The Invasion of Norway - The Naval Battles of Narvik
170: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 8 - Narvik
169: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 7 - Fight We Shall
American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad
168: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 6 - The Battle for Oslofjord
167: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 5 - Denmark, Kristiansand, Sola, and Trondheim
166: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 4 - The Gallant Glowworm
165: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 3 - Operation Weserübung
164: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 2 - British and French Invasion Plans
163: The Invasion of Norway Pt. 1 - The Altmark Incident
162: The Early War at Sea Pt. 12 - The 1940 Sea Change
161: The Early War at Sea Pt. 11 - Never Enough Boats
160: The Early War at Sea Pt. 10 - Opening U-Boat Moves
159: The Early War at Sea Pt. 9 - Finding U-Boats
158: The Early War at Sea Pt. 8 - The End of the Admiral Graf Spee
157: The Early War at Sea Pt. 7 - Admiral Graf Spee on a Rampage
156: The Early War at Sea Pt. 6 - Panzerschiffe
155: The Early War at Sea Pt. 5 - Danger Above and Below
154: The Early War at Sea Pt. 4 - Opening Moves
Introducing AUSA’s Army Matters podcast
153: The Early War at Sea Pt. 3 - The Kriegsmarine
152: The Early War at Sea Pt. 2 - Building Big British Battleships
151: The Early War at Sea Pt. 1 - All Around the World
Preview 12: Treaty Cruisers
Preview 11: The Washington Naval Treaty
Interview 29: Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle with Mark Stille
Preview 10: The Imperial Japanese Navy
Preview 9: The Victorious Royal Navy
150: The Winter War Pt. 8 - The End
149: The Winter War Pt. 7 - The Isthmus Grind
148: The Winter War Pt. 6 - The War in the North
147: The Winter War Pt. 5 - Suomussalmi
146: The Winter War Pt. 4 - Tolvajärvi
Member Preview 8: Shattered Sword
145: The Winter War Pt. 3 - The Attack Begins
144: The Winter War Pt. 2 - Plans
143: The Winter War Pt. 1 - Nordic Defiance
142: The Baltic Takeover
141: The Soviet Union Pt. 11 - By Air and By Sea
140: The Soviet Union Pt. 10 - The Red Army
139: The Soviet Union Pt. 9 - The Military Purges
138: The Soviet Union Pt. 8 - The Great Purges
137: The Soviet Union Pt. 7 - The Other Five Year Plans
136: The Soviet Union Pt. 6 - Holodomor
135: The Soviet Union Pt. 5 - Collectivization in Action
134: The Soviet Union Pt. 4 - Collectivization
133: The Soviet Union Pt. 3 - The First Five Year Plan
132: The Soviet Union Pt. 2 - Stalin Comes to Power
131: The Soviet Union Pt. 1 - The Man from Saqartvelo
Member Preview 7: Reichswehr Pt. 3
Member Preview 6: Reichswehr Pt. 2
Member Preview 5: Reichswehr Pt. 1
Member Preview 4: Polish-German Documents
Member Preview 3: German-Soviet Relations
Member Preview 2: The British Blue Book
Member Preview 1: The French Yellow Book
130: The September Campaign Pt. 22 - The Long War Ahead
129: The September Campaign Pt. 21 - The End
128: The September Campaign Pt. 20 - The Last Surrenders
127: The September Campaign Pt. 19 - The Fall of Warsaw
126: The September Campaign Pt. 18 - Mopping Up
125: The September Campaign Pt. 17 - A War on Two Fronts
124: The September Campaign Pt. 16 - The Advance on Warsaw
123: The September Campaign Pt. 15 - Battle of the Bzura
122: The September Campaign Pt. 14 - Collapse
121: The September Campaign Pt. 13 - A Disappointing Start
120: The September Campaign Pt. 12 - Poland's Allies
119: The September Campaign Pt. 11 - The Southern Front
118: The September Campaign Pt. 10 - The Central Front
117: The September Campaign Pt. 9 - Army Pomorze
116: The September Campaign Pt. 8 - Danzig and Army Modlin
115: The September Campaign Pt. 7 - September 1, 1939
114: The September Campaign Pt. 6 - The Last Days of Peace
113: The September Campaign Pt. 5 - Panzers
112: The September Campaign Pt. 4 - Fall Weiss
111: The September Campaign Pt. 3 - Justifiable Bad Choices
110: The September Campaign Pt. 2 - Polish Rearmament
109: The September Campaign Pt. 1 - Poland
108: Interwar Reflections
107: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 5 - Gonna Take It Right Into the Danger Zone
106: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 4 - The Hotter the Intensity
105: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 3 - The Further on the Edge
104: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 2 - Always Where I Burn to Be
103: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 1 - Out Along the Edges
102: Nomonhan Pt. 4 - Disaster on the Holsten
101: Nomonhan Pt. 3 - July Attacks
28: Close Air Support with Dr. Matthew Powell
100: Nomonhan Pt. 2 - Opening Phases
99: Nomonhan Pt. 1 - Changkufeng
98: Hungary Pt. 2 - Expansion
97: Hungary Pt. 1 - Eastern European Outcast
27: First World War Bombing Raids with Dr. Brett Holman
96: Interwar Airpower Pt. 5 - Schemes and Dreams
95: Interwar Airpower Pt. 4 - Axis of Airpower
Presenting - History Daily
94: Interwar Airpower Pt. 3 - National Overviews
93: Interwar Airpower Pt. 2 - Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
92: Interwar Airpower Pt. 1 - So Close Yet So Far
91: The British Empire Pt. 6 - The Approach of War
90: The British Empire Pt. 5 - Army of Empire
89: The British Empire Pt. 4 - Rearmament
26: 1930s Britain with Dr. Alan Allport
88: The British Empire Pt. 3 - Mare Nostrum
87: The British Empire Pt. 2 - The Other Side of the World
86: The British Empire Pt. 1 - Domestic Politics
25: The Vickers MG Collection & Research Association with Rich Fisher
85: The Night of Broken Glass
84: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 7 - Influences and Decisions
83: Germany Prepared for War Pt. 6 - The Luftwaffe
24: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Hitler with Alex Clifford
82: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 5 - More Boats
81: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 4 - All About Them Boats
80: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 3 - Running on Fumes
79: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 2 - The Plan
78: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 1 - Overview
77: The Munich Agreement Pt. 9 - Aftermath
76: The Munich Agreement Pt. 8 - The Munich Agreement
75: The Munich Agreement Pt. 7 - To the Brink
74: The Munich Agreement Pt. 6 - I Am Altering the Deal
73: The Munich Agreement Pt. 5 - We had no other choice....
72: The Munich Agreement Pt. 4 - Plan Z
71: The Munich Agreement Pt. 3 - The Summer of 1938
70: The Munich Agreement Pt. 2 - The May Crisis
69: The Munich Agreement Pt. 1 - Background
68: The Third Republic Pt. 8 - The French Army
67: The Third Republic Pt. 7 - Rearmament
23: A Naval Chat with Dr. Alexander Clarke
66: The Third Republic Pt. 6 - Political Cleanup
22: The Politics of Veteran's Benefits with Dr. Crotty, Dr. Diamant, and Dr. Edele
65: The Third Republic Pt. 5 - Popular Front in Power
64: The Third Republic Pt. 4 - Left Left Left Right Left
21: Fighter Pilot Nostalgia with Dr. Michael Hankins
63: The Third Republic Pt. 3 - France and Friends
62: The Third Republic Pt. 2 - The Shadow of Victory
61: The Third Republic Pt. 1 - The Maginot Line
20: Fascism in Interwar France with Dr. Chris Millington
60: Anschluss Pt. 4 - Operation Otto
59: Anschluss Pt. 3 - The February 1938 Meeting
58: Anschluss Pt. 2 - Hossbach Memorandum
57: Anschluss Pt. 1 - The Dreams of Greater Germany
Season 2 Introduction
56: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 7 - Sinking Deeper
55: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 6 - Death and Suffering in Nanking
54: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 5 - Failure and Retreat
53: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 4 - Battle for Shanghai
52: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 3 - Shanghai
51: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 2 - Moving South
50: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 1 - Background
49: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 14 - Legacy
48: Spanish Civil War Pt. 13 - The End of the Spanish Republic
47: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 12 - Disaster on the Ebro
46: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 11 - The Battle of Teruel
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 18: Memory and the Civil War with Tom Wardle
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 17: Antiauthoritarian Counterculture in Francoist Spain with Dr. Louie Dean Valencia
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 16: Civil War Veterans with Dr. Stephanie Wright
Intelligent Speech 2021
45: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 10 - The Battle of Brunete
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 15: British Foreign Office and the War with Stephen Rainbird
44: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 9 - Struggles for Power
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 14: Scotland and the Civil War with Fraser Raeburn
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 13: Military History with Dr. Charles Esdaile
43: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 8 - The War in the North
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 12: Prisoners in Francoist Spain with Jessica Thorne
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 11: Gender Violence in the Spanish Civil War with Charlotte Walmsley
42: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 7 - Jarama and Guadalajara
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 10: Milicianas with Jessica McIvor
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 9: Stalin's Niños with Dr. Karl Qualls
41: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 6 - International Involvement
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 8: Basque Children with Dr. Ed Packard
40: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 5 - Madrid
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 7: International Brigades with Alexander Clifford
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 6: British Public and the Civil War with Harry Taylor
39: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 4 - Disagreements
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 5: Cuban Antifascism with Dr. Ariel Lambe
38: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 3 - Violence
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 4: Transnational Anarchism with Dr. Morris Brodie
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 3: Spanish Anarchism during the Civil War with Dr. Danny Evans
37: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 2 - The Coup of July 1936
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 2: Asturian Revolution with Dr. Matthew Kerry
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 1: Spanish Anarchism with Dr. James Yeoman
Spanish Civil War Interview Series 0: Introduction
HMS Warspite with Iain Ballantyne
36: Spanish Civil War Pt. 1 - The Second Republic
35: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pt. 2 - Resolution
Special 1: HMS Warspite
34: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pt. 1 - Invasion
33: The Third Reich Pt. 19 - The Rhineland
32: The Third Reich Pt. 18 - Rearmament
31: The Third Reich Pt. 17 - Nuremberg Laws and the Saar
30: The Third Reich Pt. 16 - We Live in a Society
29: The Third Reich Pt. 15 - Control
28: The Third Reich Pt. 14 - Work Work Work
27: The Third Reich Pt. 13 - Show Me the Money
26: The Third Reich Pt. 12 - Night of the Long Knives
25: The Third Reich Pt. 11 - Changes
24: The Third Reich Pt. 10 - The Enabling Act
23: The Third Reich Pt. 9 - The Reichstag Fire
22: The Third Reich Pt. 8 - January 1933
21: The Third Reich Pt. 7 - "We Will Win Ourselves to Death"
20: The Third Reich Pt. 6 - The 1932 Presidential Election
19: The Third Reich Pt. 5 - The Election that Broke Germany
18: The Third Reich Pt. 4 - The Republic
17: The Third Reich Pt. 3 - The New Nazi Party
16: The Third Reich Pt. 2 - The Munich Years
15: The Third Reich Pt. 1 - The Austrian
14: The Great Depression Pt. 4 - Unemployment in Germany
13: The Great Depression Pt. 3 - London and Paris
12: The Great Depression Pt. 2 - The Depression
11: The Great Depression Pt. 1 - The Crash
10: Rise of Mussolini Pt. 4 - The Italian Fascist State
9: Rise of Mussolini Pt. 3 - Prime Minister Mussolini
8: Rise of Mussolini Pt. 2 - March on Rome
7: Rise of Mussolini Pt. 1 - Fascism
6: League of Nations Pt. 3 - Failure
5: League of Nations Pt. 2 - Around the World
4: League of Nations Pt. 1 - Foundations
3: The Paris Peace Conference
2: The War to End All Wars
1: Season 1 - Introduction
0: Introduction