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The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94

Scott Bury, February 16, 2026May 15, 2026

Why were the Yalta Conference’s decisions so vague? Why did Stalin get everything he wanted? And why did Roosevelt act so naively? Giles Milton, bestselling author of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, joins the podcast today to help understand the relationships that had the greatest…

Season 4

From Malta to Yalta: Episode 93

Scott Bury, February 2, 2026May 15, 2026

The Big Three shape the end of the Second World War … and the world to come. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt meet in Malta in the Mediterranean in February 1945, to prepare to meet Josef Stalin in the second Big Three conference on Soviet territory—Yalta. It was a meeting…

Season 4

Into Germany—Episode 92 of the first podcast to focus on the full story of the Eastern Front of World War 2

Scott Bury, January 19, 2026May 15, 2026

The Red Army continues its continual advance onto German soil—and the flight of German civilians and military. Map 1: The siege of Kongisberg Map 2: Samland The Samland Peninsula in 1905, showing city and town names still present in 1945. Map 3: The (second) East Prussian Offensive Map 4: The…

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The Vise Closes: the Eastern Front, episode 91

Scott Bury, January 5, 2026May 15, 2026

After 10 shattering blows on the Eastern Front in 1944, the Western Allies and the USSR continue to compress nazi Germany in January 1945. Maps 1: The compressing front 1a: 1 January 1944 1b: 1 January 1945 1c: 15 January 1945 Map 2: Encirclement of Budapest, January 1945 Map 3:…

Season 4

The Battle for Budapest, Part 1—Episode 90

Scott Bury, December 22, 2025May 15, 2026

“Budapest lay athwart the main entry route to Austria and Bohemia. It was the main railway hub of the region and also the largest Danubian port. The Red Army could not bypass it. This was the first time in the war that the Red Army had to lay siege to…

Season 3

The experience of occupation: Ukraine in the 1940s and 2020s—Episode 59

Scott Bury, October 20, 2025May 16, 2026

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the Royal Military College of Canada and University of Toronto returns to describe the reality for eastern European people under occupation during the Second World, and draws the line from then to today. Latest book: Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement –…

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A promise fulfilled: Help for Ukrainian refugees—special episode

Scott Bury, September 29, 2025May 16, 2026

Today, Beyond Barbarossa fulfills a promised made at the start of this podcast: a meaningful donation to help refugees of Russia’s unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine, to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. We’re joined by Valeriy Kostyuk, Executive Director of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, which runs the appeal. Links Canada-Ukraine Foundation…

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Nuances of Lend-Lease with Angus Wallace: Episode 79

Scott Bury, July 7, 2025May 15, 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,…

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/…

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