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WW2/Episode 10 - Aftermath
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:18 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe historian Keith Lowe, author of the best-selling The Savage Continent, discusses what happened in the aftermath of the Second World War, which left a world in ruins, tens of millions of refugees, and a slide into anarchy and chaos. As the world was slowly rebuilt, this aspect of the...
WW2/Episode 9 - America's 'Good War'
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProfessor John Bodnar, author of The 'Good War' in American Memory, discusses America's World War Two. The United States came out of the conflict as a victorious superpower. But this has encouraged a narrative of American exceptionalism which has not lived up to critical scrutiny, with ...
WW2/Episode 8 - The Soviet-German War
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProfessor Geoffrey Roberts explains why the Soviet-German conflict on the Eastern front was the decisive theatre of the Second World War: without it, Nazi Germany would certainly have taken much longer to defeat. Despite this, outside military accounts, the Red Army's struggle has been ...
WW2/Episode 7 - The Underground War
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHALIK KOCHANSKI is the author of the award-winning Resistance, a sweeping account of the underground war across Nazi-occupied Europe. She tells a much more complex story than usual of subversion, SOE, partisans and civil war, as well as desperate Jewish defiance. The music in this epis...
WW2/Episode 6 - China's War
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPROFESSOR HANS VAN DE VEN reveals a WW2 narrative that will be unfamiliar to most of us - China's epic war of resistance against Japan in the years 1937-45 and how it created the Communist giant that has become the global superpower of today. The music in this episode is from Ida Pinke...
WW2/Episode 5 - The Real Holocaust
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPROFESSOR CHRISTIAN GERLACH, author of The Extermination of the European Jews, revises the dominant narrative of the Holocaust to explain a phenomenon that was far more complex and far-reaching than has been previously understood. The music in this episode is from Ida Pinkert's 'Four S...
WW2/Episode 4 - Food: A Matter of Life and Death
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSocial historian LIZZIE COLLINGHAM, author of the ground-breaking The Taste of War, explains how food and its delivery was critical to the conduct of WW2 - and could be a matter of life or death. The music in this episode is from Ida Pinkert's 'Four Songs', played by the Nimrod Ensembl...
WW2/Episode 3 - The Pacific War
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe American historian IAN W. TOLL, author of the monumental Pacific War Trilogy, offers new insights into the conflict in the Pacific, which has too often been mis-remembered as an army-led narrative when the real victories were won at sea and in the air. The music in this episode is ...
WW2/Episode 2 - A World At War: Winning and Losing
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPROFESSOR RICHARD OVERY explores the global context of WW2 to show how it transforms our understanding of the conflict - in particular, how it was lost and won. The music in this episode is from Ida Pinkert's 'Four Songs', played by the Nimrod Ensemble of Berlin as part of the Lebensme...
WW2/Episode 1 - Britain Alone?
Unknown Warriors - May 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPROFESSOR DAVID EDGERTON shows how the traditional narrative of Britain's Second World War is seriously misleading. Britain was the richest nation in Europe in 1939 and lay at the centre of a huge global empire. It also, despite appeasement in the 1930s, maintained a thriving military-i...
UNLOCKED: The Princess Switch
Go Float Yourself - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGood Day from our rest dear listeners! We decided to release our series of bonus episodes on the HUDGENing for your enjoyment. These were originally aired on our patreon where there are other episodes like this! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Gofloatpod Insta: https://bit.ly/2IHgNIt Twit...
WW1/Episode 10 - Looking Back
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
Episode 10 - Looking Back
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPROFESSOR MARK CONNELLY shows how memory and remembrance have played a key role in the way later generations have interpreted the First World War. Memories of the past tend to mirror the concerns of the present: Britain, Germany and other nations have largely shaped their view of the Gre...
Episode 9 - Attrition
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMost general histories of the First World War are narrative-driven or told from a national perspective. PROFESSOR WILLIAM PHILPOTT analyses the conflict as a coherent phenomenon, showing how the combatant nations had to evolve a strategy of attrition in which all the resources of the sta...
WW1/Episode 9 - Attrition
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above in Episode Summary
Episode 8 - War Without End
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe think of the First World War as 1914-18 but, as PROFESSOR ROBERT GERWARTH shows, 1918 did not end the war in much of Europe and beyond, violence continuing well into the 1920s as new nation states emerged out of the chaos of collapsed empires.
WW1/Episode 8 - War Without End
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above in Episode Summary
Episode 7 - Year of Victory
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the popular British narrative, 1918 is the ‘forgotten year’ of the First World War. PETER HART explains how, in fact, it was vital to turning stalemate into Allied victory. After the Germans failed in their last great gamble to win the war in massive spring offensives, the Allied coal...
WW1/Episode 7 - Year of Victory
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above in Episode Summary
Episode 6 - The Indian Experience
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating1.5 million Indians volunteered to fight for Britain during the First World War. As GEORGE MORTON JACK reveals, their story has too often been ignored or misunderstood. For Britain, the conflict was partly about defending its huge empire, and the Indians, colonial subjects vulnerable to ...
WW1/Episode 6 - The Indian Experience
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above in Episode Summary
Episode 5 - Shell Shock
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShell shock was unknown before the First World War. TAYLOR DOWNING shows how it reached crisis levels at the battle of the Somme, drawing a brutal response from the British Army. The medical establishment were divided over how to deal with it and the military were terrified that it would...
WW1/Episode 5 - Shell Shock
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
Episode 4 - Crossing The Line
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBefore 1914 international rules were established to govern the conduct of warfare. DIANA PRESTON explains how all sides in the First World War rapidly overran key red lines as they sought to secure a military advantage. In the course of a mere six weeks in 1915, the world changed forever...
WW1/Episode 4 - Crossing The Line
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
WW1/Episode 3 - Through German Eyes
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
Episode 3 - Through German Eyes
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTrans-national and comparative history has deepened our understanding of the First World War. DR JONATHAN BOFF looks at the Western Front from the German perspective, throwing new light on the major campaigns of this trench-bound struggle and on the final German collapse in 1918.
WW1/Episode 2 - The Western Front
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
Episode 2 - The Western Front
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe popular British narrative depicts the war on the Western Front as wasteful and futile. PROFESSOR GARY SHEFFIELD shows such a view is misplaced: this war had to be fought and won. The Allies learned the hard way how to cope in unprecedented battle conditions, but ultimately overcame t...
WW1/Episode 1 - 100 Years On
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
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