Tag: Second World War

The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95

Scott Bury, February 20, 2026September 29, 2026

Why did the Yalta Conference end the way it did? Why did Churchill try an end-run around Roosevelt? Why did Roosevelt try to curry Stalin’s favour? What would this mean to post-war history? Author Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions. People Author…

Season 4

The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94

Scott Bury, February 16, 2026September 29, 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…

Season 4

The Battle of Belgrade—Episode 89

Host Contact, December 12, 2025September 29, 2026

TThere was a lot of action on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1944. In late September, the Red Army and its new allies enter Yugoslavia and connect with communist Partisans led by a man called Tito. The results will echo across the decades. Map 1: The Balkan military…

Season 4

Horror in East Prussia—Episode 88: The Red Army enters Germany

Host Contact, November 24, 2025September 29, 2026

In October 1944, the Red Army entered East Prussia, the heart of German militarism. Horrific war crimes ensued. Map 1: The Red Army’s advances all across the broad front Map 2a: European Theatre, 1 October 1944 Map 2b: European Theatre, 1 November 1944 Map 3a: The Pacific Theatre, 1 October…

Season 3

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

Scott Bury, October 20, 2025September 29, 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 –…

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 3

World War 2 links to Ukraine: The Latest: A conversation with Francis Dearnley—Episode 71

Scott Bury, March 31, 2025September 29, 2026

From the beginning of Russia’s illegal and brutal assault on sovereign Ukraine, Ukraine: The Latest has covered the war every week day. Francis Dearnley, Executive Editor for Audio for Ukraine: The Latest, joins the podcast to look at the historical links and parallels with the Eastern Front of World War…

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