Category: Season 4

Lviv: Another crushing blow—Episode 80 of the first English podcast on the Eastern Front of World War II.

Host Contact, August 11, 2025October 9, 2026

Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army. Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944 Map 4: The Eastern Front,…

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Nuances of Lend-Lease with Angus Wallace: Episode 79

Scott Bury, July 7, 2025October 8, 2026

Did the Lend-Lease program save the Soviet Union? For the Season 3 finale, Angus Wallace of the World War 2 podcast joins to offer a nuanced interpretation. Angus Wallace, host and producer of The World War 2 podcast The Lend-Lease Act British Valentine tanks to be sent to USSR under Lend-Lease,…

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The Forgotten Army: Poland’s Armia Krajowa

Host Contact, May 25, 2025October 17, 2026

A major army, 400,000 strong, made a major difference in World War 2. Yet it doesn’t get enough attention in the West (nor, unfortunately, on this podcast). It’s the Armia Krajowa, the Polish Home Army. From exposing the Holocaust, to breaking the German Enigma Code, to helping destroy V-2 rockets,…

Season 4

The Fall of Berlin—80th anniversary with Anthony Tucker-Jones: Episode 74

Scott Bury, May 2, 2025May 16, 2026

On 2 May 1945, Red Army soldiers raised the Soviet Red Banner with hammer and sickle on the cupola of the Reichstag in Berlin. For the 80th anniversary of that famous photograph, Anthony Tucker-Jones joins the ‘cast to discuss the Fall of Berlin. “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” shows…

Season 4

Forward to the past: The Battle for Berlin — Episode 73 of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War 2

Scott Bury, April 28, 2025May 16, 2026

This episode, we jump forward for the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. To guide us through the battles for Berlin, we are joined by the author of The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler’s Evil Regime. Author Anthony Tucker-Jones His website and books: https://atuckerjones.com/…

Season 4

The Third Crushing Blow: Odesa and Crimea offensives, episode 72

Scott Bury, April 14, 2025October 19, 2026

In 1944, the Red Army delivers its third crushing blow on the Axis forces in eastern Europe: two major offensives to recapture the rest of Ukraine, and the Crimean peninsula. Map 1: Northern Black Sea coast and southern Ukraine Map 2: Map 3: The Red Army’s Crimean offensive, 1944 Historical…

Season 4

Te Halbe Pocket: Episode 70 of Beyond Barbarossa with David Sumner

Scott Bury, March 24, 2025October 19, 2026

Beyond Barbarossa is no longer the only podcast focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. David Sumner from the Europe at War podcast, joins to discuss the Battle of the Halbe Pocket. The Europe at War podcast on all platforms: https://pohttps://tr.ee/faCigcYaE5 Map: The Battle of the Halbe Pocket,…

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