History of the Second World War
History of the Second World War is a weekly podcast which will cover World War 2, beginning with the tumultuous years after the First World War, continuing into the descent into war during the 1930s, through the war years, and then into the post war aftermath.
Episodes
May 8, 2024 • 23 mins
When they entered the war the British and French had a plan, they would fight a long war against Germany. This would allow them to take advantage of their worldwide empire and their control of the seas. Then after years of rearmament and preparations they would launch their attack. All they had to do was hold off the Germans for a few years while the German economy imploded, it was such an easy plan. It would fail.
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May 1, 2024 • 26 mins
This is a new series of episodes that are designed to solve one problem, this podcast is going to take a long time. One side effect of the amount of content the podcast needs to cover is that there are times when there is information from previous episodes or series that originally released years in the past which is now important background information for episodes that are about to release. This is where the summaries come in. Mo...
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April 24, 2024 • 31 mins
This is a new series of episodes that are designed to solve one problem, this podcast is going to take a long time. One side effect of the amount of content the podcast needs to cover is that there are times when there is information from previous episodes or series that originally released years in the past which is now important background information for episodes that are about to release. This is where the summaries come in. Mo...
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April 17, 2024 • 24 mins
This is a new series of episodes that are designed to solve one problem, this podcast is going to take a long time. One side effect of the amount of content the podcast needs to cover is that there are times when there is information from previous episodes or series that originally released years in the past which is now important background information for episodes that are about to release. This is where the summaries come in. Mo...
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April 10, 2024 • 26 mins
The campaign was almost over, but for the people of Norway the war was just beginning.
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April 3, 2024 • 26 mins
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March 27, 2024 • 22 mins
In the areas around Narvik the fate of northern Norway would be decided.
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March 20, 2024 • 27 mins
While the Norwegians were trying to hold back the German attacks, they believed that help was on its way.
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March 13, 2024 • 26 mins
As the Germans invaded Norway, in Paris and London decisions had to be made about how to respond.
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March 6, 2024 • 24 mins
After the German assault on Narvik it was only a matter of time until the Royal Navy responded.
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February 29, 2024 • 26 mins
While the German invasion was occurring in central and southern Norway, the northernmost German forces were going ashore at Narvik.
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February 21, 2024 • 26 mins
As news of the German invasion spread, the Norwegian government tried to determine what was happening and what they should do about it.
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February 15, 2024 • 5 mins
Wondery’s podcast American History Tellers takes you to the events, times and people that shaped America and Americans — our values, our struggles and our dreams.
In the early 1800s, slavery rapidly expanded across the American South. But each year, thousands of courageous enslaved men, women, and children fled their owners in search of freedom. And in Philadelphia, secret allies came to their aid. Quaker abolitionists collaborate...
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February 14, 2024 • 27 mins
The German ships on their way to Oslo were in for a nasty surprise, courtesy of the Norwegian defenders of the fortress at Oscarsborg.
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February 7, 2024 • 24 mins
The German invasion would begin with disconnected attacks which forced individual units in several areas to make critical decisions.
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January 24, 2024 • 22 mins
With British and German ships both sailing off the coast of Norway, at some point they were going to run into one another.
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January 18, 2024 • 30 mins
The Germans would quickly put together a plan to invade Norway after realizing that the British might get there first.
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January 10, 2024 • 24 mins
The German military would invade Norway in April 1940, but not before the British and French came very close to beating them.
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January 4, 2024 • 25 mins
Before the German invasion of Norway, the Altmark reenters the podcast as the centerpiece of an international incident.
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December 28, 2023 • 23 mins
In June 1940 the war at sea was about to change.
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