by WWIIPodcast | May 23, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
British historian Laurence Rees explores the warning learned from studying WWII.
by WWIIPodcast | May 19, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
While both Moscow and Berlin focus on the Kursk salient, Operation Mincemeat convinces the Germans to focus troops in the wrong place. Meanwhile, Zhukov convinces Stalin to let the enemy attack first, for they will be ready.
by WWIIPodcast | May 17, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Manstein overcame Hitler’s objections and then two Soviet Fronts. By early March 1943, Kursk was exposed and open to attack.
by WWIIPodcast | May 13, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Having tasted defeat and now victory, Stalin wants more operations in southern Russia. And what he gets will change the course of the war on the Eastern Front.
by WWIIPodcast | May 9, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
The Axis retreat from the Don River was haphazard. Armies were lost as was much equipment. Army Group South would regroup and form another line, but it was much reduced and the Soviets were only getting stronger.