Wars of The World

The Fall of Kandahar: War in Afghanistan Oct 13, 2026 1962 The September 11th attacks in 2001 were quick to ignite America’s ‘Global War on Terrorism’. The main goal of this new conflict was to locate and destroy the terrorists responsible for the attack, with US leadership soon determining that the very group they were looking for was residing in Afghanistan. Over the years, Afghanistan had witnessed the rise of the Taliban, an extremist militant movemen

The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon’s Final Stand Oct 11, 2026 2598 In the summer of 1815, the gruelling Battle of Waterloo raged. It would be the conflict that would finally put an end to the intermittent warfare between France and other European powers, and usher in the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte. But this bloody engagement would be costly, with Napoleon suffering as many as 26,000 casualties while European forces suffered around 24,000. It is considered the

The Falklands War: When Argentina Pushed Their Luck Oct 7, 2026 2382 The Falklands War raged between Argentina and the UK over the course of ten weeks in 1982, with the conflict being part of a bigger dispute over the sovereignty of the territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The difficult battle led to a total of 1,137 casualties for the British, including 107 captured, while the Argentinians suffered 13,619 casualties, including over 11,000 capture

The Battle of Berlin: Germany's Last Stand Oct 4, 2026 2193 In April 1945, the Soviet Union’s military, better known as the Red Army, began attacking Berlin from the east, south, and north. Throughout WW2, Berlin was used as the Third Reich's base and, as such, its capture by the Allies was of utmost importance. Over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers participated in the assault and their leaders were ruthless, willing to deal with tremendous casualties if it m

Hitler's Specialist Mass Surveillance & Murder Unit... Sep 30, 2026 1533 The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police... In today’s episode we will investigate the horrifying legacy of The Gestapo; Hitler’s secret police force; whose reign of terror during the Second World War was one of torture; mass surveillance and murder. So; who were The Gestapo? What was their purpose during those tumultuous years? What were their techniques and methods of law enforcement? And what happe

Gettysburg: The Turning Point of the American Civil War Sep 25, 2026 1775 Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major conflict between the Northern and Southern states, led by the Union and Confederate armies. Between July 1st and July 3rd, 1863 thousands of men – from both sides of the divide - engaged in a bloody

Battle of Baghdad: A Turning Point in Operation Iraqi Freedom Sep 23, 2026 1615 Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops would have to go into the Iraqi capital of Baghdad if they were to ever oust the middle eastern dictator and his government as was the mission objective of Operation Iraqi Freedom. No one was under a

The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich: Hitler's 12 Years of Terror | Documentary Jul 6, 2026 2875 Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian dictatorship. The term ‘Third Reich’ means ‘Third Realm’ or ‘Third Empire’, and refers to the Nazi declaration that Nazi Germany was the successor to both the Holy Roman Empire and the German Empire, the latter o

36 Days of Hell: The Battle of Iwo Jima | WWII Documentary Jul 1, 2026 2350 In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields, the US launched a five-week assault that ultimately became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific War, leading to the deaths of almost 7000 US soldiers and as many as 18,375 Japanese troops. Though the

The Second Battle of Fallujah: The Iraq Wars Bloodiest Fight... Jun 24, 2026 1159 Send us Fan Mail In late 2004, the Second Battle of Fallujah commenced. It was an American-led offensive during the Iraq War, with the operation involving the efforts of the United States, United Kingdom and Iraqi Interim Government in what is considered the war’s first major engagement against the Iraqi insurgency, as opposed to its military forces. The conflict resulted in as many as 2000insurge

Hitler's Strange Fascination With His Niece... Jun 22, 2026 1227 Send us Fan Mail Referred to by Vanity Fair as Hitler’s Doomed Angel, Geli Raubal was the fuhrer’s niece, whose demise at the age of 23 was swept under the carpet almost as quickly as it had come. Over the years, the pair’s relationship has come under intense scrutiny with rumours flying about what kind of relationship, exactly, the pair had and what circumstances led to her death. This is the sto

The Last One Hundred Days of the Western Front... Jun 17, 2026 1665 Send us Fan Mail The First World War was the culmination of the age of empires meeting the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. The battlefield had become a machine of death, crushing out life from thousands of soldiers with an efficiency never before witnessed in recorded Human history. In this episode, we are going to examine how the Allies snatched victory from the German clutches an

The Second Boer War: When Britain Fought South Africa | Military Documentary Jun 15, 2026 2722 Send us Fan Mail The Second Boer War, also known as the Anglo-Boer War, raged between October 1899 and May 1902. Involved in the conflict were the British and the Boer residents in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, both regions established in South Africa in the 1850s. This 31-month clash led to the deaths of almost 100,000 people, while more than 75,000 Brits were wounded and

Battle of Ramadi: The Gettysburg of the Iraq War | Documentary Jun 10, 2026 2102 Send us Fan Mail The Second Battle of Ramadi, fought in 2006 during the Iraq War, saw the US military and Iraqi Security Forces come together to drive insurgent groups out of the city of Ramadi. In a tense and difficult battle, coalition forces sought to capture key areas of the city, allowing them to take control. This 8-month conflict is considered one of the most decisive battles in the overarc

The SBS: Great Britains HARDEST & Most Secretive Military Unit... Jun 8, 2026 1680 Send us Fan Mail September 1999. On the small south-east Asian island of Timor, demands for independence from Indonesia which had ruled over the population there since annexing it in 1976 had grown to such an extent as to spark open violence between those who wished to remain Indonesian and those who wanted the island to take control of its own future. This forced the United Nations to intervene,

The Mysterious UFOs of The First World War... Jun 3, 2026 1513 Send us Fan Mail The Great War – the First World War – had its own stories of Foo Fighters, again set against the paranoid backdrop of technology advancing seemingly out of control. The Airship Scare or Scareship phenomenon became a very real menace to the Allied powers in the years leading up to and during the First World War as the fear of German airship technology conjured up images of cities d

The Bombing of Rotterdam: May 14th, 1940... Jun 1, 2026 1295 Send us Fan Mail On the afternoon of May 14th, 1940, beleaguered citizens in the Dutch city of Rotterdam looked skyward as they heard the approaching drone of German bombers; through the thick, noxious smoke drifting upward from burning buildings, they could just make out the massed formations of Heinkel HE-111’s, the infamous black balkenkreuz insignia stark against their white undercarriages. Fo

Where Hitler Went to Relax... May 27, 2026 1255 Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Glazer's 2023 critically acclaimed film The Zone of Interest follows the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they go about their daily lives, right next to the infamous concentration camp. It shows the unsettling juxtaposition between the comfort felt by the well off Hoss family, and the atrocities committed just over the other side of the wall. In

The Anne Frank Story... May 25, 2026 1299 Send us Fan Mail “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” These are the words of an extraordinary young girl whose words have provided light in one of the darkest chapters of Human history. These are the words of Annelies Marie Frank, more commonly known as Anne and her life has become one of those most in recent history as she recorded the events surrounding her fam

The Deadliest Year During The Vietnam War... May 21, 2026 1447 Send us Fan Mail How The "Tet" Began the End of The Vietnam War...In early 1968, while the battle for US outpost Khe Sanh raged on, General Vo Nguyen Giap of the People’s Army of Vietnam, or the PAVN, orchestrated a series of coordinated assaults on over 100 South Vietnamese cities and towns. Considered a major escalation, the Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam

77 Days of Hell: The Vietnam War's Bloodiest Battle... May 19, 2026 1043 Send us Fan Mail The Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War... The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, a coastal province of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In late January 1968, the People’s Army of North Vietnam orchestrated a brutal bombardment on the US base, leading the US Marines stationed there to fight bac

When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen... May 4, 2026 884 Send us Fan Mail The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - the Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Soviets and the Republic of Afghanistan - backed by the US, UK, China, Iran and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, all of whom

Battle of Huế: Vietnam’s Longest and Bloodiest Battle... Apr 29, 2026 1594 Send us Fan Mail During the 1980s, the United States was still struggling to come to grips with its involvement in the Vietnam War and as part of that effort, Hollywood churned out a number of movies with the conflict as its backdrop. For younger audiences especially, they provided an insight into what their fathers or older siblings may have experienced during their tours of duty in the jungles o

The MOST Feared Concentration Camp Commander of WWII... Apr 27, 2026 1552 Send us Fan Mail British Army Sergeant Norman Midgley must have thought he had seen it all by April 1945. Even before the war started, he had seen his fair share of both the best and worst of humanity in his vocation as a staff photographer for the Daily Express newspaper based in Manchester, England. When the war started the British Army therefore had a specific task for him in mind given his exp

The Brno March: WWII's Most Evil Death March... Apr 22, 2026 1714 Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are going to examine the events leading up to and surrounding the tragedy of the Brno Death March as thousands of ethnic Germans were rounded up in Czechoslovakia and marched to the Austrian border all the while being subjected to the vilest abuse and mistreatment. Many would not make it in this genocide largely forgotten by history for it concerned those label

When France Fell to Nazi Germany... Apr 20, 2026 1712 Send us Fan Mail November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its way into France and Belgium but had been held back from total victory behind a line of trenches and barbed wire. France had survived but its lands were scarred, and its people felt loss l

Tiger Tank: The Germany Tank That Almost Won WWII... Apr 15, 2026 1658 Send us Fan Mail Many of history’s greatest armoured fighting vehicles emerged during the Second World War. These vehicles have not only come to symbolise the struggle of their respective armies in that titanic clash but, furthermore have transcended the battlefield to become ongoing symbols of their nation’s grit and determination in the face of the enemy. But while we may admire the classic line

The Cod Wars: When Iceland & The UK Fought Over North Atlantic Fishing Rights Apr 13, 2026 3850 Send us Fan Mail The humble fish and chips. It’s still not entirely clear how or even when this quaint but filling little meal became the official dish of the people of the British Isles but what is known is that during the first half of the 20th century it had become as quintessentially British as cricket and the Royal family. One of the most common types of fish to be included in the meal was co

The Deadliest Weapons of The First World War... Apr 8, 2026 1552 Send us Fan Mail For hundreds of years prior to the 20th century, war had changed very little with the improvements in weapon technology that did arise being incremental and slow to establish themselves. However, with the industrial revolution of the mid-to-late 19th century and the meteoric advances in science and technology that came with it, in the span of a few decades, warfare was changed bey

The PPSh-41: The Mass-Produced Soviet Submachine Gun of WWII... Apr 6, 2026 1667 Send us Fan Mail Picture the scene. It is the Eastern Front in 1943 and you are a German soldier on the frontline. In the distance, you can see and hear a line of T-34 tanks trundling and clacking towards your position but more than that, riding on the back of them behind their turrets are swarms of Soviet troops all clutching a small but distinctive weapon. You’ve come to know this weapon very we

When The Japanese Navy Safeguarded The Med in WWI... Apr 1, 2026 1401 Send us Fan Mail Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an impression that prior to 1945, Japan was always an enemy of freedom, when in fact while we associate Imperial Japan as Hitler’s ally, just twenty years earlier, Japan fought against the

The Drugs That Built Super Nazi Soldiers in WW2... Apr 1, 2026 1129 Send us Fan Mail We are all familiar with the Nazi practices of sending Jews to concentration camps, carrying out mass executions and instilling fear into German citizens through their paramilitary organisations like the SS. But one practice that tends to go under the radar concerning Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party was their rampant abuse of medicinal substances, which in today’s world, would be

Secret Stimulants of the Vietnam War: How Drugs Forged an Unstoppable Soldier... Mar 30, 2026 1587 Send us Fan Mail August 1964. US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of communism from North Vietnam into the south and potentially beyond, threatening the US position in the region against the Soviet Union in the Cold War. At first, he adopts the policy of tra

The UNSPEAKABLE Chemical Used in The Vietnam War... Mar 25, 2026 1649 Send us Fan Mail The unseen enemy is always the most feared for how does one engage an enemy if you do not know their location? Throughout history, the art of camouflage has often been the key to success in battle, greatly increasing an enemy force’s response time as they try to locate just who it is that is shooting them. Mother nature has often provided the best camouflage for armies, concealing

The Sinking of The Lusitania Mar 23, 2026 2528 Send us Fan Mail In this documentary, we are going to examine the events surrounding probably the most significant sinking of a ship by a U-boat during the entire conflict. It is an event that would have far reaching consequences for the war, and beyond which wouldn’t be fully realised until a generation later. This is the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and how it lit the path to war fo

The Insanely Powerful Soviet Aircraft Carrier Program... Mar 18, 2026 2524 Send us Fan Mail On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov slipped out of the Kola Bay fjord in the Barents Sea. Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the carrier sailed through the North Sea and down the English Channel in to the Atlantic before rounding the Iberian Peninsula and entering the Mediterranea

Hitler's Dogs... Mar 16, 2026 1534 Send us Fan Mail Given the horror that Hitler unleashed on the world, it seems unfathomable that he could show any kind of warmth and affection to any living thing. Yet quite the contrary for he was an avid lover of dogs, but this love only serves to remind us of his evil for he could treat animals infinitely better than he treated many people. In this episode, we are going to examine the Fuhrer’s

Bernard Montgomery: The Unstoppable WWII Commander... Mar 11, 2026 1511 Send us Fan Mail Throughout history, war has often been characterised as being an elaborate game of chess played by the Generals commanding the armies on the chessboard that is the battlefield. This characterisation has led to the perception of many of history’s great duels being between two key, opposing players and in 1942 on the deserts of North Africa – a land described as being ideal for the

Verdun: The Longest & Most Horrific Battle of WWI... Mar 9, 2026 1544 Send us Fan Mail For every nation, there are battles whose names for one reason or another mean more to their people than most. For Americans, its Gettysburg. For Australians and New Zealanders, its Gallipoli. For the British and Canadians, it’s the Somme. For France, perhaps one of the most important battles in its recent history was the Battle of Verdun. Fought almost throughout the entirety of

The Haunted UB-65 of World War I... Mar 4, 2026 1571 Send us Fan Mail In this, episode, we are going to take a look at the real wartime service of UB-65 and then investigate the legend to establish if there is any truth in the story of the supposedly haunted U-boat or whether it was as some believe the result of an elaborate plan by the Allies to combat the underwater menace. Welcome to Wars of the World. Support the show Learn more about your ad ch

Terror in The Sky: The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters of WWII... Mar 2, 2026 1356 Send us Fan Mail The opening of the air war over the Pacific was brutal. Allied pilots found themselves facing an enemy whose fighters appeared to be able to run rings around their own. The most notable of these Japanese fighters was the Mitsubishi A6M more commonly known to Allied pilots as the Zero. Designed by a team headed by Jiro Honkoshi, the A6M was designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy a

Life Inside The Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler’s Paranoid Final Few Days... Feb 25, 2026 1470 Send us Fan Mail The streets of Berlin were devastated beyond recognition in some areas as 33-year-old photographer William Vandivert was led to the location of the former German chancellery buildings. Just days before, these streets had been the subject of a two-week long bloody and bitter battle between the Soviet Union’s Red Army and the last of the German Wehrmacht whose numbers had been propp

The Hanoi Hilton: The Brutal Vietnam Prison American Soldiers Feared… Feb 23, 2026 1379 Send us Fan Mail Hỏa Lò Prison was first built during the French Colonial era between 1886 and 1901 in the French Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. During this time, Vietnam was part of French Indochina, a group of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia which was eventually dissolved in the 1950s. As well as various Vietnamese regions, French Indochina consisted of Cambodia, Laos an

The Odessa Massacre: A Forgotten Holocaust of WWII Feb 18, 2026 2146 Send us Fan Mail When discussing the Axis powers of World War II, history tends to focus on Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Mussolini’s Italy however this is only part of the story. Fascism and antisemitism were by no means limited to Hitler and his closest allies in Tokyo and Rome. Indeed, far-right extremist ideologies had taken hold in several European countries that made them potential allies

E Squadron: The Most Secretive Special Forces Unit in The World? Feb 16, 2026 1022 Send us Fan Mail In one specific section of his book, Tomlinson details that to qualify for the Increment, a certain amount of time must be served with MI6: “...SAS and SBS personnel must have served for at least five years and have reached the rank of sergeant. They are security vetted by MI6 and given a short induction course into the function and objectives of the service. If they have not alre

Why Were Tiger Tanks so Feared in The Second World War? Feb 11, 2026 1594 Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are going to examine the evolution of the Panzer series from the humble Panzer I up to the excellent Panzer IV before German armoured doctrine switched to newer, often heavier and more powerful tanks to help compensate for their increasing numerical inferiority in the face of the Allied armies. Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

Bravo Two Zero: When British SAS Were Captured & Tortured by Iraqi Soldiers... Feb 9, 2026 1327 Send us Fan Mail The SAS operation known as Bravo Two Zero left three men killed and four men captured to be tortured by Iraqi soldiers during the 1990s. This horrific and deadly exercise is infamous today, having been discussed in various books - some of which were written by the operation’s survivors - and is even the subject of a film starring Sean Bean. But certain accounts of the Bravo Two Ze

Operation Millennium: The RAF Mission That Terrified The Germans in WWII... Feb 4, 2026 1322 Send us Fan Mail 1942. Nazi tyranny has engulfed Europe, the western Soviet Union and North Africa. Against this backdrop, there seems to be only one force who can take the fight to the heart of Hitler’s Third Reich – RAF Bomber Command. But results have been poor, and the cost has been high. As a new commander takes charge, he brings with him a bold new plan that he believes will be the first kno

Operation Sea Lion: Hitler's Daring Plan to Invade Britain... Feb 2, 2026 1457 Send us Fan Mail The Battle of Britain was one of the most unique and decisive battles in history. Fought almost entirely in the air, the defeat of Britain’s Royal Air Force would have opened the door to an invasion of Britain and the total subjugation of western Europe under the Swastika. Fortunately, the British defenders prevailed in what is remembered as their finest hour but while much is dis

When Paris Fell to Nazi Germany... Jan 28, 2026 1521 Send us Fan Mail Few cities in the world can claim the same level of fame, of culture and possessing the level of prestige in the art world as Paris. It became known as ‘La Ville-Lumière’ or the City of Lights and it was one of the first true international cities, heavily influencing both European and world history for hundreds of years. Tyrants both ruled it and coveted it for themselves. During

Why Were The Nazis So Well-Dressed? Jan 26, 2026 1587 Send us Fan Mail Smartly pressed and immaculately presented, the Nazis loved their uniforms. For the Nazi mindset, the uniform demonstrated discipline and status and was used as part of the propaganda effort to give their dream of a new, super-Germany a sense of fashion and style. Some embraced this more than others with perhaps the most notable connoisseur of fine clothing being Hermann Goering,

The Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down Sep 11, 2023 2251 Send us Fan Mail Early October 1993, as Americans went about their daily business, many were stunned to hear of the dramatic events that had taken place thousands of miles away in the impoverished, war-torn country of Somalia involving their own troops in a city few of them had ever heard of. Fought on the streets of the Somali capital, the Battle of Mogadishu, as American history books refer to i

The Korean War: 1950-1953 Aug 28, 2023 4935 Send us Fan Mail War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with unparalleled realism and approachability. Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Operation Jubilee: Canada's Devastating WWII Loss Aug 14, 2023 2540 Send us Fan Mail By 1942, the war was no longer another great European conflict. It was now a firmly global affair enveloping all of the world’s great powers as the Allies squared off against the tyranny and aggression of the Axis nations. Against such colossal forces, no one country could stand alone and events that affected one combatant would ultimately have consequences for the other further d

The Battle of Wounded Knee: A Turning Point in American History Jul 10, 2023 2135 Send us Fan Mail The Wounded Knee Massacre was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. This is their story. Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Life of a Nazi Princess: What Happened to Joseph Goebbels' Wife? Jun 26, 2023 1258 Send us Fan Mail As the drive for equality between the sexes gathered unprecedented momentum in the 1950s and 60s, historians began to reassess the importance women have played in many of the most pivotal events. Who were some of the most important women alongside the men responsible for some of the most heinous acts recorded within the pages of the Human story? In the case of Nazi Germany, Eva Br

Midway: The Battle That Changed WWII Jun 12, 2023 3041 Send us Fan Mail Dive into the gripping story of the Battle of Midway, a pivotal moment in World War II that changed the course of history. In this video, we'll explore the strategies, key players, and decisive moments that led to the stunning victory of the United States against the Japanese Empire. Witness how the bravery and determination of the Allied forces turned the tide of the war in the P

The Battle of El Alamein: War in The Desert May 8, 2023 2378 Send us Fan Mail It was a place few expected to be fighting in when war broke out in 1939. It was a conflict Hitler never wanted. It was a fight on terrain that at times was as hostile as the enemy. It was a battlefield that relied on chariots of steel and wings of vengeance and one that could only be won through cunning, ruthlessness and above all – an effective supply chain. For many, the battle

The Battle of Berlin: The Soviet Victory That Ended WWII Apr 24, 2023 3378 Send us Fan Mail It would be too simplified an explanation for the motivation of Adolf Hitler to merely state that he desired conquest and power. Nazi Germany, including the lands to which its power reached, was to be a society unlike any other. Purged of those with attributes deemed undesirable in his new order, the new German people would be pure and united in their goal of achieving their count

The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Pilots of World War II Apr 10, 2023 2328 Send us Fan Mail No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but always it is in blood. Death is at the very nature of war and while armies going back to antiquity have sought to limit their own casualties whenever they could, the threat of death is fo

Britain’s Bloodiest Day: The Battle of the Somme Mar 13, 2023 2278 Send us Fan Mail In 1916, France was a nation cut in two by a string of trenches cut into the Earth running from north to south, separating two vast opposing military forces who fielded weapons that seemed the stuff of science fiction just a generation earlier. So confident in these weapons were both sides that they expected the fighting to be a short and sharp affair, both expecting victory but,

The Vietnam War: 1 Nov 1955 – 30 Apr 1975 Jan 30, 2023 5211 Send us Fan Mail The Vietnam War would see the realisation of the Vietnamese dream of a single unified, independent country taking its place in the world free of outside oppression and rule. It is the type of story that has been told throughout history and had it occurred at any other point in history then it would have likely been largely forgotten outside of the small South East Asian country as

The Second World War: 1939 - 1945 Jan 2, 2023 3401 Send us Fan Mail On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and people began to climb out of their shelters to carry on about their daily business. Japanese spotters had only identified two United States Army Air Force B-29 bombers and they had prev

The Battle of Stalingrad: Jul 1942 - Feb 1943 Dec 19, 2022 4506 Send us Fan Mail With the onset of Spring 1942, the war in the east was ready to begin again but the problem of supplies particularly of oil was forever a worry for the German High Command and so they planned for an offensive that if successful would not only alleviate their fuel shortage but also deny the Soviets their own fuel stocks. Part of that plan involved a city on the edge of the Volga Ri

The Battle Of Britain: The Hardest Days Dec 5, 2022 2820 Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of our Battle of Britain documentary, we explored how after Germany had swept over continental Europe, Britain under Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to give in to Hitler’s will but while the British have spirit to spare, fighters and pilots to fly them were becoming increasingly scarce and unless things changed dramatically, Fighter Command would be whittled dow

The Battle Of Britain: Britain's Finest Hour Nov 21, 2022 4379 Send us Fan Mail Fuelled by the euphoria of his successes thus far, Hitler was certain that the recently appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would have no choice but to sue for peace. He was wrong. Churchill made it abundantly clear that Great Britain would never surrender to the Nazi tyranny. That Hitler’s troops were going to have to fight for every square inch of the British Isle

The First World War: The War to End War Nov 7, 2022 3078 Send us Fan Mail "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" So remarked the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, as the European continent geared up for war in the summer of 1914. Although at first glance his words appear somewhat fatalistic the fact is that what would transpire over the following four years would so dramatically change the wo

The Complete History of The Afghanistan War | Part 2 Oct 17, 2022 4606 Send us Fan Mail At 8:46am on September 11th, 2001 - the world changed forever...A hijacked airliner was flown deliberately into the north tower of the World Trade Center followed seventeen minutes later by another plane which hit the south tower. A third airliner was flown into the Pentagon from where the US directed its global military operations while a fourth was brought down by courageous pas

The American Civil War: 1861 - 1865 Oct 3, 2022 5611 Send us Fan Mail The United States of America was born out of the yearning of the many people who had traveled there from the old world of Europe to be free of the imperial powers that had dominated them for centuries. To have democracy, liberty, justice for all and to take command of their own destiny. The birth of the American nation was a painful one, first by having to fight against the forces

Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy Sep 19, 2022 4536 Send us Fan Mail On a sleepy Sunday morning in 1941, the Hawaiian island of Oahu couldn’t have looked anymore idyllic. Even with the fairly recent arrival of the United States Pacific Fleet which had deployed to the island from San Diego to their new main base at Pearl Harbor only seemed to harbinger nothing more than a display of US naval prestige. Arranged off Ford Island in a line were seven of

The Complete History of The Afghanistan War | Part 1 Sep 5, 2022 4278 Send us Fan Mail On Sunday 15th August 2021, after an almost 20 year-long absence, the Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital city of Kabul. As the US-led coalition withdrew, the Taliban regrouped and began expanding outward once again. Facing little opposition from the Afghan National Army that had been trained and equipped by western forces, they only grew bolder and began an almost Blitzkrieg-st

The Cold War: Seven Minutes to Midnight Aug 22, 2022 3526 Send us Fan Mail The end of the Second World War was met with riotous jubilation at the victory over the Axis powers and with the establishment of the United Nations there was the dream of a new world order of freedom, prosperity and above all peace. Even the advent of the Atom Bomb, the decisive weapon that ended the war was celebrated for it was believed it was so powerful it would render warfar

The Normandy Landings: June 6, 1944 Aug 8, 2022 4151 Send us Fan Mail Between 1939 and 1941, the forces of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany blazed a path of destruction, oppression and murder across the map of Europe and beyond and it seemed his ambition could never be satisfied. The world was his goal. Death was his tool. Only a badly beaten and barely holding-on Britain managed to hold back the tide long enough to guarantee that all of Europe wouldn’t

5 Wars With Unlikely & Unbelievable Causes... Aug 1, 2022 1317 Send us Fan Mail War! The Human race never seems to fail in finding reasons for which to wage war upon itself. When we look back at the history of war and try to understand why they have broken out, we tend to see some causes appear over and over again as if we as a species are determined to repeat past mistakes rather than learn from them. Resources. Religion. Ideology. Border disputes. A hunger

3 Mass Disappearances of Americans Surrounding the Conflict in Vietnam... Jul 25, 2022 1335 Send us Fan Mail The cost of war can be measured in many ways. Financially, materially, politically or of course in blood. However, there is a fifth cost that often gets overlooked in the history books and yet is arguably even more painful for the families back home, for it leaves them with no body to bury, no grave to visit and only questions that seem to never go answered as the world moves on.

What Was The Fate of The Shinano? | Japan’s Ten-Day Supercarrier Jul 18, 2022 1632 Send us Fan Mail The modern supercarriers of the US Navy. More than 80,000 tons of moving American foreign policy. Each one of these incredible ships carries more firepower than most nations on Earth and are thus the ultimate expression of US military might. It is said that whenever there has been a crisis anywhere in the world in the last 80 years, the first question the sitting US President has

Red Raids on Berlin: Stalin’s 1941 Bomber Offensive Against the Nazi Capital... Jul 11, 2022 1624 Send us Fan Mail The battle for the skies over war torn Europe was one of, if not the most crucial theatre of the war against Nazi Germany. The strategic bombing campaign carried out by the Allies grew in strength with every passing year until literally thousands of four-engined heavy bombers like the American B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator blotted out the sun at day while at night a

The Avro Manchester: The Lancaster’s Unlucky Older Brother... Jul 4, 2022 1862 Send us Fan Mail The story of the Lancaster actually begins with the downfall of an earlier Avro aircraft that failed to live up to the high expectations that birthed it. Even in aviation circles, the Avro Manchester is an almost forgotten aircraft, making such a relatively small impact on the war it is completely overshadowed by its younger brother’s many accomplishments. And yet without the Manc

The Unstoppable Force of the Battleship USS Nevada... Jun 27, 2022 1931 Send us Fan Mail On May 11th 2020, an important historical discovery concerning the United States’ military history was announced that went largely unnoticed by the wider public because of the Covid-19 pandemic that is wreaking havoc across the globe. SEARCH Inc, the largest underwater and terrestrial archaeology firm in the United States working in collaboration with underwater robotics company

What Was the Post War Career of the Messerschmitt Me 262? Jun 20, 2022 1268 Send us Fan Mail An often overlooked part of the ME 262's story is that like many weapons from World War II, the Stormbird’s life didn’t end with the death of Hitler and the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7th 1945. In this episode we are going to look at the Me262’s life in the post-war period and how it impacted the victorious Allies moving forward as they turned on one another in the early day

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