History of the Second World War
History of the Second World War is a weekly podcast which will cover World War 2, beginning with the tumultuous years after the First World War, continuing into the descent into war during the 1930s, through the war years, and then into the post war aftermath.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 307
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
194: The Fall of France - Boulogne, Calais, and The Halt Order
The channel ports were critical for the BEF, and the Germans knew it.
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Wed 04 Sep 2024
193: The Fall of France - Cut Off
The British and French divisions that were cut off in Belgium had a real problem, and it was getting worse by the hour.
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Wed 28 Aug 2024
Interview 30: Hell Let Loose with Matt White of Expression Games
In this interview I was joined by Matt White, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Expression Games the developers of Hell Let Loose. Hell Let Loose is a grounded first person shooter which is based i…
00:56:09 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
192: The Fall of France - To The Coast!
Things were going very badly for the French, but then the Germans gave them a bit of a breather.
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00:28:17 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
191: The Fall of France - Breakouts
After the failure of the French counter attacks there was only one path forward, to the west.
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00:27:53 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
190: The Fall of France - Stonne and Flavigny's Failure
After the failures of the first counterattacks by forces available to Lafontaine, the French would have another opportunity, this time with 3 divisions under the command of General Flavigny.
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00:28:20 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
189: The Fall of France - French Counterattacks of May 14
After the first failed counterattacks on the morning of May 14th, the French would attempt to launch another, far larger, effort in the afternoon. The key word in that sentence is "attempt".
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Wed 31 Jul 2024
188: The Fall of France - Reinhardt and Rommel
Have you heard of this Rommel guy? He seems to always be doing things.
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Wed 24 Jul 2024
187: The Fall of France - Crossing the Meuse
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Wed 17 Jul 2024
186: The Fall of France - To the Meuse!
A critical part of the German plan for the invasion of France was to reach the Meuse as quickly as possible.
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Wed 10 Jul 2024
185: The Fall of France - Through the Ardennes
While fighting was occurring to the north, it was through the Ardennes that the decisive German forces were moving.
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Wed 03 Jul 2024
184: The Fall of France - Hannut and Gembloux
As the Germans moved across central Belgium the exact kind of battle that the French Army had been anticipating for years occurred, and they did very well.
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Wed 26 Jun 2024
183: The Fall of France - The Invasion of Belgium
The German invasion of Belgium would begin on the morning of May 10th. The Belgian army had one goal: to buy time until reinforcements could arrive.
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Wed 19 Jun 2024
182: The Fall of France - The Invasion of the Netherlands
On May 10th, 1940 there would be multiple countries invaded by the German military, the one that the podcast will cover first is The Netherlands.
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Wed 12 Jun 2024
181: The Fall of France - Fall Gelb
The original German plan for the invasion of France was safe, conservative, and downright boring. But then another plan appeared that was far more interesting.
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00:28:57 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
180: The Fall of France - French War Plans
The French had been preparing for this moment since 1919, so what did they come up with?
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00:31:24 |
Wed 29 May 2024
179: The Fall of France - Can We Fight Somewhere Else?
Join British and French leaders as they spend roughly 8 months trying desperately to fight a war anywhere but eastern France.
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00:27:52 |
Wed 22 May 2024
178: The Fall of France - Preparations for War
During the period of the Phoney War the French and British would frantically prepare for the war that they were already in.
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00:23:52 |
Wed 15 May 2024
177: The Fall of France - Playing the Long Game
When they entered the war the British and French had a plan, they would fight a long war against Germany. This would allow them to take advantage of their worldwide empire and their control of the se…
00:23:22 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Summary 3: The September Campaign
This is a new series of episodes that are designed to solve one problem, this podcast is going to take a long time. One side effect of the amount of content the podcast needs to cover is that there a…
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Wed 01 May 2024
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