Category: Podcasts
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MW14 – Æthelred the Unready and the Anglo-Saxon military
We talk Anglo-Saxon military history with Richard Abels, whose latest book, Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King, will be coming out later this year >>Download<<
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WSS15 – A fireside chat with Rick Priestley
In this episode of the podcast we discuss Salute 2018, and Guy has a cigar and brandy with Rick Priestley, in a fireside chat. >>Download<< Links Fate of a Nations Warlord: 3000BC – 1100AD Turf War Z Last Days, Zombie Apocalypse Flags of War, Kickstarter The Oddcast, from the Two Fat Lardies Hoards of Things
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow
The P-61 was built in response to the Blitz on Great Britain, in 1940. The RAF were in need of a night fighter and they confirmed with their US counterparts on the specifications. The result was a twin tail plane with a crew of three, it was specifically designed to house a radar to zero…
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2408 The Battle of Assaye
The Duke of Wellington, late in life, was asked what was his most difficult battle during all his years of soldiering, after a short pause he replied with just one word, Assaye; his great victory against the Marathas in 1803. A hard fought battle, he would lose a third of his men, the Indian Marathas…
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Lt Col William Edwin Dyess
This episode, is released just after the 75th anniversary of the escape of ten American prisoners of war, and two Filipino convicts, from the Davao Penal Colony. The following year when the story broke, the US War Department would call it the ‘greatest story of the war’. The man made famous at the time for…
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Why we love Ancient Warfare
Jasper recently published a blog on the ancient warfare website, the title was ‘Why I love Ancient Warfare?’. To discuss why Jasper loves Ancient Warfare Angus is joined by Jasper Oothruys, Murray Dahm, Mark McCaffery, Marc DeSantis and Lindsay Powell. >>Download<<
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2407 Led By Lions: MPs and their sons who fell in WW1
Long time listeners might know after ten years of producing the podcast, last year Angus took the decision to return to university to study a Masters Degree in History. More by chance than design his niche has turned out to be the First World War. During his studies he came across a new book titled…
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The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign
One of Angus’s first guests was Jeffrey Cox, they discussed in length the Java Sea campaign in episode 14. Jeff has been busy for the last couple of years writing his follow up book Morning Star, Midnight Sun – The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War Two. So Angus asked Jeff back to discuss the…
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WSS14 Fantasy Wargaming
In this episode we discuss fantasy wargaming on the back of chatting to Joe Saleh from Lucid Eye Publications, about their new rules ‘The Red Book Of The Elf King’, and miniatures range to go with it. >Download<< Links What a Tanker Burrows & Badgers Bayonet & Ideology Sloppy Jalopy
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2406 You could be the next Alexander the Great
As some of you might be aware Angus hosts the Ancient Warfare podcast, a monthly round table discussion about war in the ancient world. Last year we launched a patreon page for the podcast. Historians aren’t the best paid lot, and everyone is essentially doing the podcast for free. We thought it might be a…