Rommel anticipates British 8th Army’s attack and prepares. The attack, Operation Aberdeen is...
Podcast Episodes
Episode 386-Damien Lewis discusses his book, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Writer Damien Lewis returns to discuss his latest book about the beautiful Josephine Baker. She...
Episode 385-The Cauldron
Rommel’s lunge at Tobruk causes his panzers to get trapped. So the Desert Fox changes his plans...
Episode 237-The Thin Gray Line, the US Pacific Submarine fleet after Pearl Harbor
Back with us is Flint Whitlock as we discuss his book Depths of Courage:American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945. With America's surface fleet and air arm crippled after Pearl Harbor, the few subs in the Pacific were tasked with keeping the Japanese Navy at...
Episode 236-Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers
Laszlo Montgomery of The China History Podcast joins me to discuss Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers. Just after the devastation of Pearl Harbor, the AVG are the only Americans taking the fight to the Japanese Empire.
Introducing-Assassinations
Please checkout The Parcast Network's latest hit: Assassinations. One death can change the world. Assassinations recounts history’s most dramatic deaths. Through little-known facts, “what-ifs?” and examining the assassin's motives, they explore how one murder can...
Episode 235-An Interview with Flint Whitlock about his book Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio
With the Allies being held up in southern Italy by The Gustav Line, near the end of 1943, Gen. Mark Clark decides to do an end run. The force of British and American troops, led by Gen. John Lucas, will land just south of Rome. However, the Allies have few facts to go...
Episode 234-Pearl Harbor Attack-The 2nd Japanese Air Strike
The 2nd Air Wave comes at Pearl Harbor to finish what the First Wave started. Yet, their target selection will be poor. Meanwhile, the Americans are as ready as they can be and as such, the invaders will suffer more than double the losses from the first attack. Still,...
Episode 233-An interview with Frederic Martini about his book: Betrayed- Secrecy, Lies and Consequences
While the official government story has always been that no Allied POWs were held in German concentration camps, 168 Allied airmen were beaten, experimented on, and otherwise mistreated in Buchenwald, where the famous rocket scientist Wernher von Braun obtained slave...






