Category: Podcasts
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WSS76 – Bring out your lead
What do you do when your wargame cupboard is full? In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy podcast, the boys discuss having a clearout and give you some ideas on how to create more space. Guy also brings us the latest hobby news. Links:7TV Dracula, Crooked DiceRefighting History, Vol 2: The War of…
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Their Finest Hour Project
With the Second World War slipping from living memory, the University of Oxford has launched Their Finest Hour. The project aims to empower local communities to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to posterity. For this episode, I am joined by Dr Joseph Quinn to explain how the project works and…
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3310 – King of the Few: Adolph ‘Sailor’ Malan
On a clear day in 1960, a conversation took place between the pilot of a South African Airways passenger aircraft and Heathrow Airport’s ground control. The pilot had a special request. He wanted to do a low-level circuit in London. In turn, the tower asked the reason for the special request. The pilot simply replied,…
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AW253 – The Late Roman East
‘Even before the empire split into two separate halves, the Augusti in the East had to contend with devastating Gothic raids and near-constant wars with the Sasanian Empire.’ The team discuss issue XVI.3 of the magazine Goths, Sasanids and Romans:TheRoman Empire in the East at bay.
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London Underground
As attacks on London by the Luftwaffe became a reality in the summer of 1940, Londoners needed somewhere to shelter from the air raids. And so during the Blitz and through to the end of the war, deep-level Tube stations of London underground were utilised, sheltering thousands every night. But the role of the underground…
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‘The Angels’, The 11th Airborne Division
When we think of airborne operations in WWII, the historiography is dominated by operations in the European Theatre. Parachute drops on Sicily, the Normandy coast for D-Day and into the Netherlands for Market Garden. But, in the Pacific, Joseph Swing’s 11th Airborne Division – nicknamed the Angels – were making combat drops. They fought in…
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WSS75 – Salute, 2023
Salute is arguably the largest wargames show in the world. In this episode, Guy and Jasper give their impressions of the show after spending the day there, and Mark tells us about his experiences of running a demonstration game of Strength and Honour at the show. As usual, Guy also brings up all the latest wargames news.…
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3309 – The battle of Maldon: Bloodshed on the Blackwater
The battle of Maldon is remarkable in the history of Anglo-Saxon and Viking warfare, indeed in the history of Dark Age battles, because we are so well informed about it. We have several sources which have come down to us, especially an anonymous poem which survives almost complete and which must have been written close…
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AW249 – The 19th-century foundations of Classical Greek warfare, with Roel Konijnendijk
Murray talks with Roel Konijnendijk about his recent work on 19th-century German language scholars and how they laid the foundations of much of the 20th century’s understanding of Classical Greek warfare. Giants like Moltke, Delbrück, Kochly and Rustow’s foundations were, however, based on 19th-century understandings of how war worked, and their views (rightfully) have been…
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US Glider Pilots of World War II
The US glider pilots in WWII were all volunteers. Playing a pivotal role in delivering thousands of troops, including logistical support, these pilots landed their gliders ahead of the ground forces in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Yet, 80 years later, their story is virtually unknown. For this episode, Angus is joined by…