Dan Snow’s History Hit | 13 December 2021 | 0h 25m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Brendan Simms abut his book Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War, co-authored with Charlie Laderman. Argues that Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States was the key turning point of WWII, not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Explains the global context behind Hitler’s calculated risk.
Tag: Hitler
Jonathan Dimbleby: Barbarossa
The Book Club | 7 April 2021 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Jonathan Dimbleby about his book Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War. Describes the extraordinary and horrifying story of the Nazi campaign against Stalin, and its still more extraordinary strategic and diplomatic background. It’s a bloody and sometimes tragicomic parable of how dictators can become detached from reality – and in it he makes the case that, contra the prevailing image of Anglo-American victories in France having been decisive in winning the Second World War, Hitler’s goose was actually cooked as early as 1941.
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