The History of WWII Podcast

The History of WWII Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 103-Lost and Loss
May 03, 2014

Winston, now a private citizen, will stay this way for two years as British politics and his views take different paths. Intermingled during this time, are a series of heartbreaking losses for the man. 

Episode 102-His Cup Runneth Over
April 12, 2014

Churchill's post war years are full of success, tragedy and despair. He changes positions within the British Cabinet and takes on the issues of a Jewish Homeland, Turkey and Ireland. And by the end he looses his appendix and something else, even more valu

Episode 101-Interview with Kathryn J. Atwood
March 28, 2014

With us for this episode is writer Kathryn J. Atwood, arthor of Women Heroes of World War II and editor of Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent and it is the later book we will be discussing. The protagonist, Pearl, Code Named Paulin

Episode 100-Nazi Germany from Within
March 08, 2014

The following is my 100th Episode Celebration. After thanking those who have shared this journey with me, I interview Henry Niemann who grew up in Germany during the Nazi Period and was then drafted near the end of the war. Thank you to everyone who liste

Episode 99-All's Well that Ends Well
March 03, 2014

The Great War comes to an end. Churchill's family grows and life as Winston knew it, has been erased forever.

Episode 98-Once more, unto the Trench
February 12, 2014

Churchill is cleared of the Dardanelles disaster, gets himself back into the governement, but then almost loses it all as he finds himself at the front when Gen. Ludendorff launches his great offensive in the West.

Episode 97B-Laszlo and Ray, Talking
February 07, 2014

Warning! No history is covered here. But somehow, Laszlo of The China History Podcast ended up on the East Coast, in Virginia, in Charlottesville, 30 minutes from me. So...

Episode 97-Back in the Saddle, Again
February 06, 2014

Winston's career seems all but over. Still, he finds solace in his family, painting and life in the trench.

Episode 96-Foils and Follies
January 13, 2014

The Dardanelles Campaign starts off well enough, but through bad luck, worse weather and weaker souls, it collapses on itself. Then the British world collapses on Churchill. 

Episode 95-The Dardanelles, Pt. 1
December 09, 2013

The British War Council decides on a Second Front to hopefully alter the slaughtering in France. Winston, with his personality, becomes of the face of the Aegean Campaign.