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…
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Season 4
The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94
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
Everywhere, all at once: Episode 85—East and West, north and south, 1944
Describing the Eastern Front chronologically gets very difficult in the second half of 1944, because there’s so much happening everywhere, all at the same time. After the Warsaw Rising, as described in Episode 83, the Red Army surged past its borders into Finland, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and farther. Meanwhile, the…
Season 4
Warsaw rising: Episode 83 of the 1st podcast on the Eastern Front of WW2
In August 1944, the Red Army steamrolled across eastern Europe. Yet when Warsaw rose up against the nazi occupiers, they found themselves alone. Historic photos Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski (right), Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Home Army AK fighter with flamethrower Home Army soldiers from Kolegium “A” of Kedyw formation on Stawki Street in the Wola District…