History Extra | 17 August 2023 | 0h 33m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Diya Gupta about her book India in the Second World War: An Emotional History. Backgrounds that 2.5 million Indian soldiers fought in the Second World War. Describes the complex web of emotional experiences, how Indian soldiers and civilians back home felt about the war, and how the conflict impacted their lives.
Tag: World War II
Tom Whipple: The Battle of the Beams
The Book Club | 5 July 2023 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Tom Whipple about his book The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War. Describes the ingenious technological, psychological and espionage battles that made electromagnetic warfare a decisive – if under-appreciated – contributor to Britain’s victory in the air war and, finally, in the Normandy Landings.
Escape from Colditz
History Extra | 13 September 2022 | 0h 37m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Ben Macintyre about his book Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle. Discusses the infamous German Second World War prisoner of war camp, some of the ingenious escape attempts from the hilltop castle, and reveals how the prisoner experience encompassed boredom, racism and class conflict.
The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World, with Jonathan Freedland
Intelligence Squared | 22 July 2022 | 1h 02m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jonathan Freedland about his book The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. Poignant story of Rudolph Vrba escaping Auschwitz to warn the world about the Holocaust, and the little that was done with that information by the Allies and even Jews.
Hitler’s American Gamble
Dan Snow’s History Hit | 13 December 2021 | 0h 25m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
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.
The Unheard Tapes of Bomber Command
Dan Snow’s History Hit | 4 September 2021 | 0h 37m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Blends an interview with 96-year-old Flight Lieutenant Steven with a tape he recorded in 1943 immediately after returning from a bombing raid on Essen. Presents a vivid insight into the life and bravery of WWII airmen.
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.
David Nasaw on The Last Million
Carnegie Council Audio | 23 September 2020 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with David Nasaw about his book The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. Discusses the management of and repatriation of the concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave labourers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators that did not return home after the end of WWII. Insights on why the Americans chose not to bring Nazi collaborators to justice, and the US domestic political considerations behind Jewish settlement in Israel.
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