The Second World War Podcast Episodes
Written by Winston S. Churchill , John Keegan
128 Episodes - 4736 pages - ★★★★ - 1.44K ratings
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50 Things You Should Know about the Second World War
Scholastic Book Fairs Podcast - July 13, 2015 19:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 58 ratingsDesigned to help young readers and their families choose books they want to read, the Scholastic Book Fairs team offers short audio clips for many titles offered at the Book Fair.
Mansion Interviews Harry and Frances about the Second World War
Aprende ingles con inglespodcast de La Mansión del Inglés-Learn English Free - March 14, 2015 08:19 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsYou can answer comprehension questions about this interview at inglespodcast.com Puede responder a preguntas de comprensión sobre esta entrevista en inglespodcast.com
South African poster propaganda during the Second World War
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference - September 30, 2014 13:48 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. The production and use of propaganda posters is described and particular attention is paid to the manner in which the posters structure their visual arguments to appeal to their various audiences.
Whence Came You? - 0139 - Freemasonry and the Second World War
Whence Came You? - Freemasonry discussed and Masonic research for today's Freemason - April 14, 2014 02:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThis week we have an interesting historical piece about Freemasonry and the Second World War. In addition we also have a great famous Freemason segment. App extras include a wallpaper and a bonus video of a Knight Templar march through Danville Illinois from the 1920s courtesy of Bro. Todd E. C...
How West European Philo-Semites became Anti-Semites before the Second World War - Simcha Epstein
Hear what Israel's top experts in the fields of intelligence, security, international relations and diplomacy have to say about Israel and the complexities of the Middle East in the 21st century. - January 16, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn his presentation at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Dr. Epstein discusses the phenomenon of philo-Semites (actively supportive of the Jewish people) becoming anti-Semites during the 1930s, before the Second World War. He explains how during that time there were two forms of ant...
The aftermath of the Second World War
History Extra podcast - January 02, 2014 12:03 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsKeith Lowe examines the struggles that faced postwar Europe, in a lecture from our recent History Weekend Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
German forced migration after the Second World War
Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies - Podcast Series - December 03, 2013 16:00 - 35 minutes -
Rosebud Regional Lecture: FLY Australian Airmen of the Second World War
Shrine of Remembrance - October 11, 2013 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRosebud Regional Lecture- Michael Veitch Tuesday 24 September 2013 Over the course of three years and two books, author, broadcaster and performer Michael Veitch sought out and interviewed over sixty former airmen of Second World War and recorded, largely for the first time, their stories of fl...
Food in Ireland during the Second World War
History Hub - July 21, 2013 07:08 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr Bryce Evans (Liverpool Hope University). Food in Ireland during the Second World War.
Bob Semple's memories as a veteran of the Second World War
Shrine of Remembrance - March 08, 2013 01:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded at the Friends of the Shrine Luncheon 2013
Bernard Kelly, “Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War” (Merrion, 2012)
New Books in Western European Studies - February 21, 2013 15:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That wa...
Bernard Kelly, “Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War” (Merrion, 2012)
New Books in Military History - February 21, 2013 15:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 140 ratingsThe Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That wa...
Bernard Kelly, “Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War” (Merrion, 2012)
New Books in History - February 21, 2013 15:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThe Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That wa...
Bernard Kelly, “Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War” (Merrion, 2012)
New Books Network - February 21, 2013 15:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That wa...
R. M. Douglas, “Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War” (Yale UP, 2012)
New Books in German Studies - February 14, 2013 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsI imagine everyone who listens to this podcast knows about the Nazi effort to remake Central and Eastern Europe by expelling and murdering massive numbers of Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies. The results, of course, were catastrophic. Fewer listeners are probably well informed about the Allied effort aft...
R. M. Douglas, “Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War” (Yale UP, 2012)
New Books in History - February 14, 2013 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsI imagine everyone who listens to this podcast knows about the Nazi effort to remake Central and Eastern Europe by expelling and murdering massive numbers of Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies. The results, of course, were catastrophic. Fewer listeners are probably well informed about the Allied effort aft...
R. M. Douglas, “Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War” (Yale UP, 2012)
New Books Network - February 14, 2013 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsI imagine everyone who listens to this podcast knows about the Nazi effort to remake Central and Eastern Europe by expelling and murdering massive numbers of Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies. The results, of course, were catastrophic. Fewer listeners are probably well informed about the Allied effort aft...
R. M. Douglas, “Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War” (Yale UP, 2012)
New Books in Western European Studies - February 14, 2013 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsI imagine everyone who listens to this podcast knows about the Nazi effort to remake Central and Eastern Europe by expelling and murdering massive numbers of Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies. The results, of course, were catastrophic. Fewer listeners are probably well informed about the Allied effort aft...
R. M. Douglas, “Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War” (Yale UP, 2012)
New Books in Eastern European Studies - February 14, 2013 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 22 ratingsI imagine everyone who listens to this podcast knows about the Nazi effort to remake Central and Eastern Europe by expelling and murdering massive numbers of Slavs, Jews, and Gypsies. The results, of course, were catastrophic. Fewer listeners are probably well informed about the Allied effort aft...
Astrid Eckert, “The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
New Books in History - October 23, 2012 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAt the end of World War II, the Western Allies seized pretty much every official German document they could find and moved the lot out of Germany and often overseas. They had, effectively, taken the German past. And they kept it for the better part of a decade. Why did they take the records and w...
Astrid Eckert, “The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
New Books in German Studies - October 23, 2012 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAt the end of World War II, the Western Allies seized pretty much every official German document they could find and moved the lot out of Germany and often overseas. They had, effectively, taken the German past. And they kept it for the better part of a decade. Why did they take the records and w...
Astrid Eckert, “The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
New Books in Western European Studies - October 23, 2012 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAt the end of World War II, the Western Allies seized pretty much every official German document they could find and moved the lot out of Germany and often overseas. They had, effectively, taken the German past. And they kept it for the better part of a decade. Why did they take the records and w...
Astrid Eckert, “The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
New Books Network - October 23, 2012 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsAt the end of World War II, the Western Allies seized pretty much every official German document they could find and moved the lot out of Germany and often overseas. They had, effectively, taken the German past. And they kept it for the better part of a decade. Why did they take the records and w...
David Edgerton, “Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” (Oxford UP, 2011)
New Books in Military History - March 22, 2012 12:33 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 140 ratingsMy grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy street as he was much more valuable employing his mechanic’s skills to fight the Nazis from a factory in Newcastle. He ended up making the parts of the spot lights that were used to guide anti-aircraft...
David Edgerton, “Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” (Oxford UP, 2011)
New Books in History - March 22, 2012 12:33 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsMy grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy street as he was much more valuable employing his mechanic’s skills to fight the Nazis from a factory in Newcastle. He ended up making the parts of the spot lights that were used to guide anti-aircraft...
David Edgerton, “Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” (Oxford UP, 2011)
New Books in Western European Studies - March 22, 2012 12:33 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMy grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy street as he was much more valuable employing his mechanic’s skills to fight the Nazis from a factory in Newcastle. He ended up making the parts of the spot lights that were used to guide anti-aircraft...
David Edgerton, “Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” (Oxford UP, 2011)
New Books Network - March 22, 2012 12:33 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsMy grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy street as he was much more valuable employing his mechanic’s skills to fight the Nazis from a factory in Newcastle. He ended up making the parts of the spot lights that were used to guide anti-aircraft...
English children's work during the Second World War
Voluntary Action History Seminar Series - January 16, 2012 00:00 - 43 minutesInstitute of Historical Research English children's work during the Second World War Professor Berry Mayall (Institute of Education) Are children citizens in Britain or citizens-in-preparation? At the heart of Berry Mayall’s paper to the V...
Richard J. Evans: British and Germans: Perceptions and Misperceptions since the Second World War
German Historical Institute London Podcast - March 19, 2010 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratingsOn Thursday, 11 March 2010, the 7th Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History took place at the German Ambassador's Residence, in co-operation with the German Historical Institute London. This year, Richard J. Evans FBA, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and on...