Category: Podcasts
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WSS108 – Beachhead
Guy speaks to Peter Valinski, organiser of The Beachhead Tabletop Games Expo, about running one of the UK’s largest tabletop gaming shows. With thousands of attendees, clubs, traders and publishers all under one roof, Beachhead has become a major fixture on the wargaming calendar. Plus the team catch up on what is new in the world…
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295 – Inside the Siege of Warsaw
In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, American photographer and film-maker Julien Bryan became the only foreign journalist to remain inside Warsaw during the Nazi siege. While other correspondents fled, Bryan stayed in the city, documenting the Siege of Warsaw from the streets, hospitals and civilian shelters as German bombs fell. Bryan’s photographs…
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294 – Churchills Forgotten Generals: Slim, Auchinleck & Savory
Today we are heading back to the Burma campaign, but through a slightly different lens. Rather than focusing on a single battle or operation, we examine three men who shaped how the war in Burma was fought and ultimately won. When people think of British commanders in the Far East, one name usually stands out,…
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3807 – The battles of Hedgeley Moor and Hexham, 1464
A combination of two battles fought close together in Northumberland in April and May 1464 brought Lancastrian resistance to the Yorkist king Edward IV to an end during the Wars of the Roses until 1469. These battles are of extreme importance but are confused in the primary sources and often elided in modern accounts into…
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3806 – The Shingle Street Invasion That Never Was
“Picture the Suffolk coast on a stormy night in 1940. Waves crash against a bleak shingle bank, the wind howls through the marshes, and blackout shades cover every window in the tiny hamlet of Shingle Street. It was a place where the war felt uncomfortably close. Just across the North Sea lay occupied Europe. German…
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AW392 – Crossing the Rubicon
On 10 January 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, a decision that would trigger civil war and reshape the Roman world. But what did this moment really mean, and how inevitable was the conflict that followed? In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Podcast, the team explore the political and military background to…
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293 – Allied POWs in WWII
This episode looks at a very different side of the Second World War. Not the battlefield, but captivity. It focuses on the experiences of Allied prisoners of war held in German camps and how they tried to survive, adapt, and maintain a sense of purpose behind barbed wire. Angus is am joined by Midge Gillies, author…
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WSS107 – A Few of Our Favourite Things
In this episode of the Wargames Soldiers and Strategy podcast, Angus is joined by Guy, Jasper, Chris, and Mark for a discussion about painting. The team talk about what they enjoy painting, how they approach it, and whether they have favourite sculpts or manufacturers that keep them coming back to the painting table. The episode also includes…
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292 – The War Chest of Colonel Kreps
In this episode, I talk with Erik Kreps about a remarkable family mystery. Erik’s grandfather, Colonel Kenneth Ray Kreps, served in the Second World War, and after returning home, he sealed his wartime belongings in a chest with the instruction that it was not to be opened until after his death. For decades, the chest…
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3805 – Valour Lost, part 3
“George Ravenhill joined the 1st Battalion of The Royal Scots Fusiliers when he was seventeen, in 1889. He spent six years in India before transferring to the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Second Boer War. There, at the battle of Colenso on December 15th, 1899, Ravenhill made several forays to assist the artillery…