Operation Pedestal would ensure that Malta stayed in the fight. But Stalin is not appeased. He...
Podcast Episodes
Episode 423-Pedestal: The Final Curtain
The final episode of Operation Pedestal. Through luck and determination and American engineering,...
Episode 422-By the Skin of Her Teeth
As everyone on Malta, and in Britain and in the US and in North Africa wait, the tanker Ohio,...
Episode 345-Interview with Joe Lee about his book Forgiveness
Artist Joe Lee comes on the show to talk about his book, Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments. Find out what happens to Dr. Josef Mengele, the tormentor of Eva, her sister Miriam and the other twins of Auschwitz and the...
Episode 344-Interview with Prof. Jeffrey Jackson about his book, Paper Bullets
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,...
Episode 343-Interview with Ambassador David McKean about his book, Watching Darkness Fall
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...
Episode 342-Interview with Jack Fairweather about his book, A Rebel In Auschwitz
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...
Episode 341- Battle of the Tarigo Convoy.
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 Capt....
Episode 340-Interview with Chris Berman
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.