History of the Second World War
History of the Second World War is a weekly podcast which will cover World War 2, beginning with the tumultuous years after the First World War, continuing into the descent into war during the 1930s, through the war years, and then into the post war aftermath.
Episodes
September 4, 2024 • 25 mins
The channel ports were critical for the BEF, and the Germans knew it.
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August 28, 2024 • 27 mins
The British and French divisions that were cut off in Belgium had a real problem, and it was getting worse by the hour.
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August 25, 2024 • 57 mins
In this interview I was joined by Matt White, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Expression Games the developers of Hell Let Loose. Hell Let Loose is a grounded first person shooter which is based in the world of the Second World War.
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August 21, 2024 • 29 mins
Things were going very badly for the French, but then the Germans gave them a bit of a breather.
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August 14, 2024 • 28 mins
After the failure of the French counter attacks there was only one path forward, to the west.
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August 7, 2024 • 29 mins
After the failures of the first counterattacks by forces available to Lafontaine, the French would have another opportunity, this time with 3 divisions under the command of General Flavigny.
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July 31, 2024 • 26 mins
After the first failed counterattacks on the morning of May 14th, the French would attempt to launch another, far larger, effort in the afternoon. The key word in that sentence is "attempt".
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July 24, 2024 • 25 mins
Have you heard of this Rommel guy? He seems to always be doing things.
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July 17, 2024 • 27 mins
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July 10, 2024 • 29 mins
A critical part of the German plan for the invasion of France was to reach the Meuse as quickly as possible.
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July 3, 2024 • 30 mins
While fighting was occurring to the north, it was through the Ardennes that the decisive German forces were moving.
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June 26, 2024 • 24 mins
As the Germans moved across central Belgium the exact kind of battle that the French Army had been anticipating for years occurred, and they did very well.
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June 19, 2024 • 26 mins
The German invasion of Belgium would begin on the morning of May 10th. The Belgian army had one goal: to buy time until reinforcements could arrive.
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June 12, 2024 • 24 mins
On May 10th, 1940 there would be multiple countries invaded by the German military, the one that the podcast will cover first is The Netherlands.
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June 5, 2024 • 28 mins
The original German plan for the invasion of France was safe, conservative, and downright boring. But then another plan appeared that was far more interesting.
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May 29, 2024 • 31 mins
The French had been preparing for this moment since 1919, so what did they come up with?
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May 22, 2024 • 27 mins
Join British and French leaders as they spend roughly 8 months trying desperately to fight a war anywhere but eastern France.
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May 15, 2024 • 23 mins
During the period of the Phoney War the French and British would frantically prepare for the war that they were already in.
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May 8, 2024 • 23 mins
When they entered the war the British and French had a plan, they would fight a long war against Germany. This would allow them to take advantage of their worldwide empire and their control of the seas. Then after years of rearmament and preparations they would launch their attack. All they had to do was hold off the Germans for a few years while the German economy imploded, it was such an easy plan. It would fail.
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May 1, 2024 • 26 mins
This is a new series of episodes that are designed to solve one problem, this podcast is going to take a long time. One side effect of the amount of content the podcast needs to cover is that there are times when there is information from previous episodes or series that originally released years in the past which is now important background information for episodes that are about to release. This is where the summaries come in. Mo...
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