Latest Regiment Podcast Episodes
The Daredevils of D-Day - Part 2
Amazing War Stories - June 19, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horsa gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day. Little did the men realise that the next 24 hours w...
The Daredevils of D-Day - Part 1
Amazing War Stories - June 06, 2024 07:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horsa gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day. Little did the men realise that the next 24 hours w...
Lightning Strikes & The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourne
Amazing War Stories - February 08, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the 9th of October, 1943, one of the bloodiest air battles of the war was unfolding over German skies. Over 300 hundred fighters were attacking the Flying Fortresses of the American 1st air division, who were on a daylight bombing raid to Anklam, East Germany. The dog fighting was savage, the...
Extra Ammo - The Pilot Episode
Amazing War Stories - January 11, 2024 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsAmazing War Stories: Extra Ammo is the supporting VODCAST of the Amazing War Stories Podcast - click the link in the show notes to watch the video version. In each of these new episodes, hosts Ed Sayer and Bruce Crompton talk about military heroes and examine rare military artefacts. In this pi...
01 Introductory
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - January 02, 2024 00:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
02 Camp Diary
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - January 01, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 Up the St Marys
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 31, 2023 00:00 - 40 seconds ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 Up the St Johns
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 30, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 Out on Picket
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 29, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 A Night in the Water
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 28, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 Up the Edisto
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 27, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 The Baby of the Regiment
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 26, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 Negro Spirituals
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 25, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 Life at Camp Shaw
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 24, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 Florida, again!
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 23, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 The Negro as a Soldier
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 22, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 Conclusion
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 21, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
14 Appendix
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - December 20, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
WarDaddy - The Real Fury
Amazing War Stories - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn a moonlit night of 28th August 1944 an American Sherman M4A1-76 tank sat on a hillside watching the approaching train in the valley below. Sitting on top was a sergeant, Lafayette G Pool. There was nothing normal about this soldier however, he was the US Army’s most feared tank commander and b...
The Punishers of Pebble Island
Amazing War Stories - November 09, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the early hours of the 15th May 1982 three SeaKing helicopters lifted off the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes in complete darkness. On board were 42 soldiers of the Special Air Service - their destination, an enemy airfield whose position threatened the entire British landing force. The st...
The Kings of Kokoda
Amazing War Stories - July 19, 2023 23:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the 29th August 1942 a soldier of the Australian Maroubra Force placed his hand on the bipod of his Bren gun, the barrel was still too hot to hold and loaded a fresh magazine. The enemy, only yards away, were crashing through the jungle towards them. The Australian Force were massively outnumb...
The Hitmen of Heraklion
Amazing War Stories - July 05, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the morning of June 10th, 1942 six armed men in three rubber dinghies filled with explosives, paddled ashore to a small beach near Malia, Crete. Their mission - to destroy as many planes as possible at the Luftwaffe Airbase at Heraklion. But already, the operation wasn’t going to plan. They ha...
The Demolition Men of D-Day
Amazing War Stories - June 21, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the night of 6th June 1944 at 4:50 am, an army medic jeep pulling a small two wheeled trailer, careened through the little French town of Troarn. It was under blistering attack from a garrison of Panzergrenadiers that had set up their headquarters there. But on board the jeep there were no med...
Season 2 Trailer
Amazing War Stories - March 24, 2023 22:58 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsProduced in glorious 3D audio, Bruce Crompton tells amazing true war stories taken from museum collections in order to help safeguard the nation's historical treasures before they are lost from the public forever. For the ultimate, immersive experience please wear headphones. Sign up to our news...
5 DCLI - a history of Cornwall's volunteer force
Bodmin Keep War Stories - May 29, 2022 14:28 - 36 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsDespite being a volunteer force, 5DCLI (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) took part in some of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of World War two in North-West Europe. We'll hear verbatim from the diaries of some of the DCLI soldiers about their brave exploits. One was shot through the breast ...
Sanctuary in Cornwall
Bodmin Keep War Stories - December 14, 2021 14:45 - 39 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsFrom refugees fleeing the ravages of war-torn Europe in World War I to modern asylum seekers, Cornwall has welcomed people seeking sanctuary across the generations. Cornwall's proximity to the French coast made the county a natural destination for those seeking sanctuary over 100 years ago. I...
Soldiers of Colour
Bodmin Keep War Stories - June 01, 2021 11:45 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsThe huge contribution of servicemen and women of colour through the centuries and across the world bolstered British forces in nearly every conflict, and in supporting the building of the British Empire. But so often that skill and loyalty has been overlooked and at times even resented. In th...
Mental Health and the Military
Bodmin Keep War Stories - January 19, 2021 14:40 - 43 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsWar leaves mental scars as well as physical ones and for many veterans, the battle does not always end when the fighting stops. In this episode we chart the changing attitudes to mental health conditions caused by the impact of conflict; from Florence Nightingale's pioneering support for traumat...
The Commandos that Grinched Christmas
Amazing War Stories - December 26, 2020 00:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsFormer Special Forces Operative (and star of Channel 4's SAS Who Dares Wins) Jason Fox joins Bruce along with Royal Marines Colonel Nik Cavill to tell the story of this remarkable Commando Raid that started on Boxing Day 1941... Summary On the 27th December, 1941, in a small island town in the no...
A Cenotaph for the Community: How Londoners Have Remembered the First World War
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 - November 26, 2020 23:00 - 39 minutesThe last episode of the RCRM Speakers Series – Season 1 will feature Katrina Pasierbek, a PhD Candidate in History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Katrina has taught myth, memory, and public history courses at Laurier and King's University College at Western University. An educato...