by WWIIPodcast | Nov 14, 2021 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Jeffrey Jackson, professor of history at Rhodes College comes on the show to tell us about Lucy and Suzanne’s courage in defying the nazi occupation of the channel island Jersey. These two lovers, having developed their avant garde artistry in 1920 and 1930’s Paris,...
by WWIIPodcast | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Former Ambassador to Luxembourg and before that, the Director of Policy Planning at the US department of State, Ambassador McKean is currently the senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Washington, DC. Today he joins us to talk about how all but one of...
by WWIIPodcast | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
War reporter Jack Fairweather comes on to discuss his latest book A Rebel in Auschwitz. The story is of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish Resistance who is chosen to purposefully get arrested to be taken to the camp. Upon seeing the daily cruelty, Witold has to...
by WWIIPodcast | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
PM Churchill wants Adm. Andrew Cunningham to sink supply ships heading for Rommel’s North African Army. Cunningham wants more ships, but is told to make do with what he has. So in mid April, Cunningham sends out 4 destroyers under the Flagship HMS Jervis, with...
by WWIIPodcast | Oct 15, 2021 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Writer and lecturer Chris Berman joins us to discuss the Night Witches, the female soviet pilots, cultural perceptions of warfare and the lady pilots of The United States and Great Britain. Check out his latest book, A White Star in a Red Sky.