From 1940 to 1945, steady traffic across the North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the west coast of Norway evacuated civilians and brought in agents, weapons, arms and intelligence. Author J.L. Oakley joins the podcast again to describe this under-appreciated part of World War 2. Map: The Shetland Bus…
Tag: Second World War
Season 5
World War 2 in Norway, part 1
A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945 Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that. Visit J.L. Oakley’s…
Season 5
The USSR vs. Japan, 1945: A conversation with James Scott—Beyond Barbarossa, Episode 106
Historian and author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito and the Descent into Total War James Scott’s latest book, Empire of Ashes, describes in detail the flights that brought nuclear bombs to Japan in August 1945. It also draws intimate portraits of the two leading antagonists on those days, U.S….
Season 4
After the Fall of Berlin: Episode 101
When Berlin surrendered, the war in Europe continued for another week—in Czechoslovakia and its capital, Prague. Sources Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945. New York, NY, USA: Penguin Random House, 2002. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder…
