Category: Podcasts
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Operation Market Garden
September 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the allied attempt to create a sixty mile corridor, and secure a crossing over the Rhine. The plan was to use the newly formed First Allied Airborne Army to seize and hold nine key bridges until relieved by the British Army’s XXX Corp. The Airborne…
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WSS31 – Blackpool Special
In the latest episode Guy updates us with news of Warlord Games new Black Seas and Battlegroup’s NORTHAG. With the Great Wargames Survey coming to a close, Jasper updates us on some early thoughts about it. >>Download<<
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Japanese POW: Ray Fitchett
In this episode Ray Fitchett recounts his time on HMS Exeter, and it’s sinking at the second battle of the Java Sea, he was rescued by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp. Ray would eventually sent to work in Japan at the fukuoka camp near Nagasaki, where he would witness the atomic bomb…
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WSS30 – GreatWargameSurvey.com
The boys are back to remind you that the great war-game survey is now ‘live’, you can find it here, so please go fill it in. In this episode Guy updates us with what in new in the hobby and we get a chance to listen to the panel discussion he took part in at…
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Bridge Busters: The Dortmund-Ems Canal Raid
In this episode Angus is looking at an RAF raid in 1940 against the Dortmund-Ems canal. The canal was a vital trade route with huge amounts of supplies and raw materials passing along it daily. With the fall of France and the build up to Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain, interrupting the traffic on…
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WSS29 – Black Seas
Guy has been to the Warlord Games day and grabs an interview with the author of their new game Black Seas and he gives us his opinion on Warlord’s new release SPQR. With the Great Wargames Survey almost upon us Jasper discusses the previous results with Miles from little wars TV. >>Download<< Links Gaslands Refuelled…
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Hired Help From Overseas – Sparta and Epirus Visit Southern Italy
Tarentum in southern Italy may have been a Spartan colony, but when it was under pressure from first its Italic neighbours and then Rome itself, it preferred to call in some help from abroad. In this episode the Ancient Warfare team discuss the latest episode of the magazine which covers Hellenistic mercenary armies in Southern…
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Jimmy Stewart
For a long time I’ve been fascinated by movie stars who chose to join the military and saw combat in World War Two. And one star in particular has always interested me, ‘Jimmy Stewart’. A big star in the 1930’s, in 1940 he would win the Oscar for best man in The Philadelphia Story’ and…
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2610 – John Paul Jones: The American War of Independence comes to Britain
Several American privateers sailed across the Atlantic to British waters, seeking prize money for any vessels they could capture. But Captain John Paul Jones of the US Navy was motivated by a belief in liberty, and was determined to raid the British coast in revenge for the British attacks. He is now remembered as the…
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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War
The usual narrative for WWII is that turning points of the war are in 1942 with the battles of Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad. While these are unquestionably major victories that signalled the ‘end of the beginning’, as Churchill would put it. Friend of the podcast Andrew Nagorski has suggested that actually 1941 was the…