Category: Podcasts
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Conflict In The Old Testament
We’re looking at wars in the old Testament in this episode of the podcast. It’s a huge span of history, and only Jasper wrote a piece for this issue of the magazine. As is often the case with the topics we’re not quite so sure on, it turns out to be a very fruitful discussion.…
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The Flemish Waffen SS
Within a year of Belgium falling to the Germans in 1940, Belgian citizens were volunteering to join the Waffen SS to fight communism on the newly formed Eastern Front. Thousands volunteered, and the suffered heavy casualties. Angus is joined by Jonathan Trigg author of Voices of the Flemish Waffen SS. He has been gathering the…
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WSS10: The 2017 Great Wargames Survey
It’s that time of the year again where we review the results of the WSS Great Wargames Survey! Have you ever wondered what is the favourite wargames genre? Have a listen and find out… >>Download<< Links Warlord Ghost Archipelago Gangs of Rome Pendraken Victrix Foundry
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The Bataan Death March
One topic thats been skirted round in a number of episodes is the Bataan Death March, its been a topic Angus has been keen to look at. Angus is joined by Jay Wertz. Jay has authored a number of books in the War Stories: World War II Firsthand series, for these he collected eyewitness accounts.…
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MW12 – Why Gawain was the best knight
We’re joined by Daniele Cybulskie, aka The Five Minute Medievalist, to talk about the Arthurian legends, and why she thinks that Sir Gawain was the greatest knight from the Round Table. >>Download<<
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Faces of Battle
We are once more between issues of the magazine with this episode. One of our patrons came up tonight’s topic (or this morning’s topic if you’re Murray in Australia), we’re going to discuss what we actually know about combat on the battlefield and what it might have been like. Much of what we read is…
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Her Finest Hour: Diana Rowden
Last year Angus talked to Greg Lewis about the female agents in the British Special Operations Executive, SOE, who Churchill had tasked with “setting Europe ablaze”. In this episode we’ll be looking specifically at Diana Rowden who was flown into France in 1943. Diana spent her early years in the South of France before being…
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MW11 – The Woman Warrior Revisited: A Bechdel Test for Medieval Military History
Valerie Eads joins the podcast to give a paper she originally delivered earlier this year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. A fascinating and thought-provoking examination of how historians have been looking at the role of women in medieval warfare. >>Download<<
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Shadow Over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45
Between 1943-45 Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 “Atlantik” would fly missions of up to 18 hours at a time over the Atlantic. They acted as the eyes for the U-Boats. Equipped with big, four-engined Junkers Ju 290s fitted out with advanced search radar and other maritime ‘ELINT’ (electronic intelligence) devices, Fernaufklärungsgruppe (FAGr) 5 ‘Atlantik’ undertook a distant, isolated campaign far…
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Caesar and Pompey in the Balkans
The year is 48 BC. Can the forces of Pompey and the Roman senate withstand the veteran legions of Julius Caesar? In this episode, we’re looking at volume 11 issue 3 “Rome against Rome: Caesar and Pompey in the Balkans”. We’ve got the dream team tonight… Jasper Oorthuys, Murray Dahm, Mark McCaffery, Marc De Santis…