Category: Podcasts
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German Uniforms of WWII
‘In the years after World War I, the defeated and much-reduced German Army developed new clothing and personal equipment that drew upon the lessons learned in the trenches. In place of the wide variety of uniforms and insignia that had been worn by the Imperial German Army, a standardized approach was followed, culminating in the…
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WSS49 – 20th Century Boy
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy podcast we explore if things were better for wargamers in the ‘olden days’. Guy has a list of thoughts supplied by a ‘friend’ which he believes proves things were better in the past. Guy also brings us news of O Group and War on the Ground.…
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3003 – Byzantium’s Eastern Frontier
“The Byzantines, the subjects of the Eastern Roman Empire, were great survivors. They outlasted their cousins in the west by a thousand years, withstanding the great waves of barbarian invasions and even managing to flourish amidst the chaos. Less than a century after the last western emperor was deposed in 476, the Eastern Romans under…
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Hang Tough: Major Dick Winters
Since the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers aired in 2001, Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne has garnered international acclaim. His exploits hit key moments of the North-Western European campaign in 1944-45 as Winter’s took part in D-Day, Operation Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge. A modest hero, he epitomises the notion of…
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AW141 – Visualising War
In this episode, Jasper and Murray are joined by Dr Nicolas Wiater and Dr Alice König who lead the Visualising War project at St Andrews University. “War is a topic of perennial importance to people from all sectors of all societies, and battle narratives play a major role – in many different forms – in…
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3002 – The Vicksburg Campaign (part 2)
On May 18, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant achieved the objective he had sought for months. Union troops surrounded Vicksburg on three sides, and on its west side, Admiral David Porter’s warships controlled the waters of the Mississippi. For three months Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton had watched as Grant flailed about in…
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Operation Lena and Hitler’s Plots to Blow up Britain
The common narrative of the war often completely overlooks Germany’s attempts to run spies in Britain. In actual fact, for more or less the whole of the war the German secret service, the Abwehr, were sending agents into Britain. In this episode Angus is joined by Bernard O’Connor, author of Operation Lena and Hitler’s Plots…
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WSS48 – The Magazine
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldier and Strategy podcast the chaps chat about about the magazine, answering some of those questions you might have wondered whilst flicking though it’s pages. Plus, Guy brings us all the latest gossip from the newsroom of Bowers Towers. >Download<< Links Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge ‘O Group’ from the…
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3001 – The Vicksburg Campaign
By the winter of 1862, the American Civil War was going poorly for the Union. Begun in 1861 with the secession of eleven Confederate states from the United States, Confederate forces had more than held their own in the field against Union Armies. In the Eastern Theater, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General…
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The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
At the start of 1944 the German army on the Eastern Front was reeling after suffering defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk. Hitler was keen to hold on to the territory occupied by the Germans, but all the while the Wehrmacht was forced to give up ground to the Red Army. In this episode we’re going…