Latest Ww1 Podcast Episodes
The Empire Strikes Broome: 3rd March 1942
Backyard Battlefields - June 18, 2024 05:22 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingOn the 3rd of March 1942, Japanese Zero fighters operating from Kopang, Indonesia attacked the Western Australian Pearling port of Broome. It was a target rich environment with the harbour packed with military and civilian aircraft filled with refugees from the Japanese invasion of the Dutch Ea...
The Brigade Commander - Latvia (S5 E5)
Canadian Army Podcast - May 08, 2024 14:00 - 35 minutesWant to know what it takes to get things into gear for a big mission? Colonel Cédric Aspirault from 5 CMBG is preparing to be the first commander of the multinational Forward Land Forces Brigade in Latvia. He’s working with our NATO allies to put the Brigade together and has a lot of th...
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...
47 - Oh What a lovely War
Oh! What a lovely podcast - May 01, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutesWhat happens when three historians watch a key play about the First World War? This month we took a field trip to see Oh What A Lovely War at the Leeds Playhouse. As a result we discuss the nature of the performance, the changing image of Douglas Haig, and wonder whether audiences were suppose...
Amity and Albany: Western Australia
Backyard Battlefields - April 22, 2024 07:23 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Brig 'Amity' was the ship which carried Major Edmund Lockyer and a contingent of troops to form the first European settlement in King George Sound, Western Australia. It was initally called 'Frederick Town' after Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (King George IIIs favourite son) and was lat...
46 - Egyptian Encounters
Oh! What a lovely podcast - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 40 minutesWhat opportunities did the First World War provide for cultural tourism? This month Angus, Jessica and Chris speak to Allison Bennett, winner of the 2023 Gail Braybon Award for her work on war-time cross-cultural sexual encounters during the First World War. Along the way we discuss #MeToo, an...
South West Sentinels: Cape Naturaliste Radar Station and Lighthouse
Backyard Battlefields - March 28, 2024 03:56 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingCape Naturaliste was named for a ship of the French Baudin Expedition of 1800. It's a prominent location, overlooking Geographe Bay on one side and the vastness of the Indian Ocean on the other. The high ground made it the perfect location for a lighthouse, guiding ships through the sometimes tr...
The 'Diamond Dakota Mystery' and the Bombing of Broome
Backyard Battlefields - March 21, 2024 08:42 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn March 1942 terrified refugees are fleeing the Dutch East Indies as Japanese forces march South. One of the last planes out, destined for Broome, Western Australia is a Dakota DC-3 piloted by Russian WW1 Ace Captain Ivan 'Turc' Smirnoff. Unbeknownst to those on board it's carrying a mysterious...
Coral Coast and Kormoran: Red Bluff, Western Australia
Backyard Battlefields - March 14, 2024 03:47 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1941 sailors from a German merchant raider HSK Kormoran came ashore at Red Bluff, Western Australia following a battle with the Australian Cruiser HMAS Sydney. Before they reached the beach they disposed of any items which could complicate their capture. This episode recounts a unique 2007 di...
Sun, Surf and Submarines: Garden Island, Western Australia
Backyard Battlefields - March 08, 2024 02:54 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingGarden Island is a thin limestone sliver, 5km off the coast of Western Australia. It was an idyllic holiday destination until it became an important part of the defence of Fremantle during World War 2, protecting the Cockburn Sound and Southern approaches to the port. It was also the training gr...
Pirate, Explorer, Travel Writer: The Life of William Dampier
Backyard Battlefields - February 29, 2024 01:22 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWilliam Dampier was a Pirate, Author and Explorer. He published numerous books including 'A New Voyage Around the World (1697) which was a unique blend of adventure and natural history which made him a popular sensation. He was the first English person to explore the coast of Western Australia i...
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...
WW1/Episode 10 - Looking Back
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above under Episode Summary
WW1/Episode 9 - Attrition
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSee above in Episode Summary
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...
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
WW1/Episode 6 - The Indian Experience
Unknown Warriors - February 26, 2024 16:10 - 31 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 ...
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