Category: Podcasts
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Soldiers of Fortune – Mercenaries in Antiquity
“As long as there has been warfare, there have been warriors willing to offer their services to the highest bidder. In this issue, we look at ancient mercenaries across the Mediterranean.” It’s a lively discussion with a full ancient warfare magazine team. >>Download<<
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Four Hours of Fury: Operation Varsity
On the 24th of March 1945, 75 years ago this year, the largest ever airborne operation swung into action. Operation Varsity involved over 16,000 paratroopers and thousands of planes, the objective was to secure the west bank of the Rhine and the bridges over the Issel. Behind them was the Monty’s 21st Army Group which…
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2801 – The Battle for New York
“By the end of 1776, the British had chased the decimated Continental Army out of New York and expected to crush the rebellion once and for all in the new year. What dramatically shifted the odds to Britain’s favor was a campaign that saw the Americans lose battle after battle and suffer thousands of casualties.…
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An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge
“Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World…
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WSS37 – White pants and Waterloo myths
The guys are back with what is new in wargaming, plus what they’ve been up to. Also, Guy visited Crusade in January and recorded a lecture from Gareth Glover covering the 52nd Foot at Waterloo. Links Soldiers of Rome Muskets and Tomahawks Battlegroup NORTHAG >>Download<<
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The P-47 Thunderbolt and 362nd Fighter Group
In this episode Angus is looking at the P-47 Thunderbolt and the US 362nd Fighter Group. The P-47 was a fighter bomber and very much suited to a ground attack role, with it’s eight .50 cal machine guns and it could carry a bomb load of 2,500lbs or rockets. On top of that, it could…
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Alexander in Afghanistan
Alexander the Great invaded what is today Afghanistan in 330 BC as part of war against Persia. Comprising the easternmost satrapies of Persia, Afghanistan provided some challenging battles in his conquest of the remaining lands of Persia. In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine Podcast the team discuss Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. It’s…
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The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
At the end of last year aviation historian Mathew Chapman sent Angus over his MA thesis, which is titled The Evolution of Professional Aviation Culture in Canada, 1939-45. In it he outlines the development of the British Commonwealth Air Training program in Canada, but the thesis goes on to discuss how veteran WWII pilots would dominate…
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WSS36 – New Year Revolutions
The band get back together to discuss the latest news and what Santa might have brought us for Christmas. Parting shots, in WSS106 discusses new years revolutions, Guy and Mark tell us about that and Jasper brings us upto date with the latest data pulled from the Great Wargames Survey. >>Download<< Links Ministry of Gentlemanly…
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2710 The Battle of the Standard, 1138. pt2
‘At the moment when the Galwegians were at their most hard pressed, it seems as if Prince Henry led his Battle in a charge (the detail is not in Richard of Hexham). Henry ‘hurled himself, fierce as a lion, upon the opposing wing.’ He put the English to flight on that wing (the English left)…