Category: Podcasts
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Japan’s Pacific War
We seem to have had a good run of episodes this year looking at operations from the German perspective. In this episode, we are off to the Pacific to look at the Japanese perspective of the war. Angus is joined by Peter Williams. Peter lived in Japan for four years. Whilst he was there, he interviewed…
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WSS67 – Thinking inside the box
Jasper hosts this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy Podcast, with Guy, Mark and Chris he discusses the merits of playing ‘a game in a box’, that is, buying a game with the rules and everything to go with it in one package. Also in this episode, Guy talks to Graham Davey, the publisher…
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Colditz
At the outbreak of WWII, the ancient gothic castle of Colditz was converted into a prisoner-of-war camp. Its location on a rocky spur overlooking a river made it the ideal location for a high-security prison, or so the Germans thought. Sent to Colditz were some of the most difficult allied prisoners-of-war. Made famous after the…
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AW216 – Who is your favourite military author/ancient source?
We are between issues of the magazine, but Murray suggested the team discuss who is our favourite military author or ancient source.
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175 – Dünkirchen 1940
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the iconic moments of the Second World War. The miracle of the ‘little ships’ plucking soldiers off the beaches is regularly played out in the popular media, including the 1958 and 2017 films ‘Dunkirk’. But, this is very much the British…
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The Pacific, August 1945
In this episode, Angus is looking at the closing weeks of the war in 1945. August would see the Russians enter the war with Japan, the atomic bombs dropped, and an attempted coup in Japan. The culmination of which would be the final declaration of surrender by Japan’s Emporer Hirohito on the 15th of August,…
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The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East
In this episode of the podcast, we shine a light on the naval conflict in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This proved to be a prolonged conflict, waged at differing times against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France over a wide area stretching from the coastal waters of Southern Europe in…
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AW212 – The Saxon Shore
The Saxon Shore forts get their name from the Notitia Dignitatum and are among the most impressive Roman remains in Britain, but why they were built remains unclear. The team discuss the latest episode of the Magazine Ancient Warfare XV.5 >>Download<<
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WSS66 – The Butterfly Effect
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy Magazine podcast, the team discuss the butterfly effect. This is not how a butterfly might flap its wings and cause a typhoon, but rather, how the flitting from project to project and following one’s whims leaves us with heaps of unpainted lead as projects flounder. In…
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The Battle of Stalingrad
The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle quickly degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides fought for the city on the Volga. By…