The Japanese Expeditionary Force continues to push south to gain access to Shanghai. Meanwhile, Chiang Kai-Shek's...

The Chinese Nationalists are loosing the battle of Shanghai. Yet, Chiang has to hold on as the League of Nations will...

The Japanese Expeditionary forces set the stage for a much larger attack, once their reinforcements arrive. The plan...

The Chinese Nationalist forces have pulled back from the coast, yet are determined to establish their own Maginot...

Dr. Lyuba Vinogradova discusses her research and the resulting book that covers the young women of Stalin's USSR, who...

Chiang Kai Shek and his ordinary soldiers are more determined than ever to defend Shanghai in 1937. However, the...

The Japanese invasion of Shanghai, nor their desire to teach the Chinese a lesson, is moving forward fast enough for...

The Japanese are unloading men and material at a frustratingly slow rate, due to the tides. Until they are ready to...

The Japanese bring reinforcements to Shanghai as their marines are bogged down by Chiang Kai-Shek's best troops....

Chiang Kai-Shek decides that the time has come to openly fight back against Japan. His chosen site is the port city of...

After the clash at the Marco Polo bridge, the Japanese Military decides to occupy northern China. Defying them are the...

As we officially begin the Pacific Theatre, this episode covers the building tension between The Japanese Empire,...

President Roosevelt sends Harry Hopkins, again to London, to set up a meeting between himself and Churchill. The U.S....

Nazi Germany launches its war against the USSR. As such, FDR hopes Germany's attention will slacken on the Atlantic....

The Great War is over, but the Allies don't know what to do with Russia. So, the german troops in Russian territory...

As Hitler tries to lower the tension between the U.S. and Nazi Germany, the opposite is happening between the Japanese...

With us is Sally Mott Freeman as we discuss her book, The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and...

President Roosevelt wins a third term, but the American people still refuse to commit to war. Meanwhile, FDR has to...

President Franklin Roosevelt succeeds in his 3rd term attempt and with the passage of Lend Lease, Hitler knows the war...

With the Kaiser's forces coming ever closer to Petrograd and Moscow, many Russians lose confidence in Lenin and his...

Nazi Germany is not the only threat to U.S. peace as the Empire of Japan continues its attacks against China....

As the Nazi menace grows across Europe, President Roosevelt knows that America will be threatened one day. His best...

Lenin's Bolsheviks pull Russia out of the Great with the Brest Litovsk Treaty, but the Imperial German Army keeps...

Mr. Miller's latest book, Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII, covers America's attempt...

This episode covers the naval battles between the British Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine just prior to the Battle of...

Back with us are Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, authors of Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission. Today we discuss the Pacific...

As Lenin deflects others trying to take control of Revolutionary Russia, his Bolshevik Central Committee has to deal...

With neither side trusting the other, both the Allies and Nazi Germany ready plans to invade Norway. For Episode 183,...

Commodore Donitz, in charge of the German submarines, plans a daring raid against the British battleships in Scapa...

Backing up a bit, we begin the story of the battle for the Atlantic, as German U-boats attempt to starve Britain into...

Gen. Rommel keeps winning battles but losses men and tanks, that are not replaced. Meanwhile, British 8th Army,...

Ep 175-As Gen. Rommel sends his panzers to surprise the British 8th Army near the Frontier Wire, Gen. Cunningham's...

Our guests today are writers Bob Drury and Tom Clavin to discuss their latest book, Lucky 666-The Impossible Mission....

Acting on misinformation, both generals, Rommel and Cunningham make plans for the next day, hoping to wipe out the...

Ep 170-As Operation Crusader goes forward Gen. Cunningham feels confident as his tanks make it close to Tobruk....

Gen. Auchinleck's Operation Crusader is finally launched, but Rommel does not react as predicted as his focus is still...

The British Western Desert Army is transformed into the 8th British Army proper. C in C ME Auchinleck has tapped Gen....

Stalin will endure several more arrests, but while in exile, Lenin will maneuver to have Koba made a member of the...

With a new commander in the Middle East, Churchill wants the war against Rommel renewed, but C in C Auchinleck has his...

Stalin is newly married, but has little time for his wife and soon to arrive child. He is still focused on the Marxist...

Young Stalin begins to the learn of the wider world of international politics and the intrigues that comes with it....

In early 1942, the U.S. and Great Britain work together to develop the Atomic Bomb, but London needs to make sure Nazi...

Stalin, the young revolutionary, stumbles and is on the outs with the Georgian Social Democratic Worker's Party. Yet,...

Leningraders volunteer in such numbers that the Stavka orders several divisions to be organized, to resist the German...

Ioseph Jughashvili, AKA Stalin, leaves the seminary under mysterious circumstances. Following the path of his mentor...

The people of Leningrad take an affront to Nazi Germany invading their country. The men volunteer in droves for...

Young Stalin begins the process of moving away from the Seminary and towards the life of a revolutionary. The picture...

Army Group South continues pressing closer towards the Soviet Capital. But General Secretary Stalin and General Zhukov...

Sixteen year old Soso (Stalin) enters the Tiflis Theological Seminary, on his way to becoming a priest. But what the...

With the mud now frozen hard, Army Group Center advances on Moscow, deciding the weak link is just to the NW of the...

Stalin, the future Soviet leader is born, far from Moscow and begins his provincial life.

This episode, narrated Tim Martin, of the newly launched Valiant: Stories of Heroes Podcast, covers Guderian's dash to...

OKH Chief Franz Halder makes plans for a modest end to 1941 for Operation Barbarossa, but Hitler overrides him and...

The Germans smash through the latest Soviet Defensive lines. The 4th Panzer Group, along with Gen. Kluge's 4th Army...

Having shattered the Russian defensive line at Viaz'ma, the Germans expand on their ambitious attack plans, attacking...

The Germans and Russians clash to the west of Moscow. But within mere days, the Soviet's three Fronts are either...

With Leningrad cut off and the far South stabilized, Hitler has decreed that the time has come to launch Operation...

Hitler has renewed the drive to Moscow, Operation Typhoon, and needs the panzers from Army Group North. Which means,...

Leeb, commander of Army Group North launches his last major assault before having to turn over most of his motorized...

The Germans come ever closer to Leningrad, so Stalin sends his best general to cope, Zhukov.