Category: Podcasts
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The Rise of Hitler and National Socialism
September 2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Munich agreement, where the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, flew to Germany to meet Hitler; in an attempt to avert war. He famously returned with an agreement which he believed would deliver ‘peace in our time’. It got Angus thinking about Hitler’s rise to power, in 1933…
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MW15 – Museums and the Middle Ages
This summer we had the chance to take in several museums and their medieval collections. We talk about how to show the Middle Ages with Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye, director of Musée de Cluny in Paris, and Bianca Gendreau, who curated the ‘Medieval Europe – Power and Splendour’ exhibition at the Canadian Museum of History. >>Download<<
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2502 ‘Remember Scarbrough’: A countdown to Total War
As some of you may know, after working on the podcast for the last twelve years it has inspired Angus to return to University to undertake a Master Degree… Along the way he’s been pondering the attacks the German’s made on the North East coast in December 1914, local to where he lives. >>Download<<
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The M3 ‘Grant’ Tank
The American built M3 tank was one of the first tanks purchased and supplied in large numbers to the British army in WWII, where it was known as the ‘Grant’ or the ‘Lee’. In this episode Angus is joined by prolific tank writer and former employee of Bovington Tank museum, David Fletcher. With Steven Zaloga,…
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2501 Braddock’s Defeat – Washington and the Battle of Monongahela
In 1753, the Governor of the colony of Virginia sent George Washington, who was a twenty one year old major in the Virginia militia, to the French Fort LeBoeuf near Lake Erie in the Ohio Valley, to demand the French leave the area. This ultimatum was rejected and Washington returned to deliver the message. This…
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Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy
Last year Angus talked to Mark Felton about the escape attempts of British VIP prisoners, held by the Italians. That was episode 49 Castle of Eagles, the book is possibly my favourite read of last year. Well Mark is back, with another cracking story he’s managed to turn up in the archives, that of Operation…
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The Thracians and their kin
‘Fierce fighters, masterful mercenaries, backwards barbarians: these were only a few of the ways the ancient Greeks described their tribalistic neighbours to the north’. In this episode of the podcast we discuss Ancient Warfare XII-2, Wild Allies and Enemies: Thracians in the Fourth Century. Angus is joined by regulars Jasper Oorthuys, Murray Dahm, Marc DeSantis,…
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Mediterranean Strategy
Back in episode 7, Angus talked to Alexander Fitzgerald-Black about his MA thesis which focused on the allied air campaign in support of Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Which if you’re interested has now been released as a book ‘Eagles over Husky: The Allied Aire Forces In The Sicilian Campaign, 14 May to 17…
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WSS17 – Participation Games
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy podcast we look at Participation games, their problems and how to run on. Guy also brings us up-to-date on the latest wargaming news form Warlord Games, Peter Pig, North Star and Lucid Eye. >>Download<< Links Strontium Dog, Warlord Games Western, Peter Pig Red Book of the…
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USS Indianapolis
In this episode we’re looking at the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Returning from delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, in preparation for it to be dropped, the Indianapolis was hit twice by torpedoes from a Japanese submarine. She sank in less than a quarter of an hour. 800-900 men went in the shark infested…