105 Sniper, POW, Blitz, more WW2 stories - Tenth Anniversary PART TWO

Veteran Wilf Shaw, Australian Les Cook, POW's, Gallipoli and more, PART TWO of an anniversary special celebrating ten years in podcasting.

Episode artwork:
Jesse Rance, London Metropolitan Police between 1936 - 1966. Endured the WW2 blitz bombing. What a tough beat to patrol! Curious story revealed in the show.

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BOOKS

D-Day Through German Eyes, by Jonathan Trigg
https://amzn.to/3ZYUP9a

Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary by Michael Moss
https://amzn.to/3NnKITW

Save the Last Bullet
https://amzn.to/3NEUyB0

No Time for Dreams – Robert W Metcalf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Time-Dreams-Soldiers-Six-Year/dp/1896182798

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781896182797/Time-Dreams-Soldiers-Six-Year-Journey-1896182798/plp

Cassino '44: The Bloodiest Battle of the Italian Campaign – James Holland

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cassino-44-Bloodiest-Italian-Campaign

 

EPISODES

5 Claude Reynolds 1 - Coffee with Claude - Lancaster rear gunner interview

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/5-claude-reynolds-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview-1/

12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/12-claude-reynolds-2-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview/

9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/9-dunkirk-diaries-of-major-leslie-petch-obe-wwii/

26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII secrets!

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/26-the-zilken-letters-a-veteran-exposes-the-armys-best-kept-wwii-secrets/

33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/33-wartime-recipes-and-wrens-in-ww2/

46 Through German Eyes in the Second World War

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