WW2: Both Sides of The Wire
World War 2: Both Sides of the Wire is the podcast that takes you beyond the familiar and dives deep into the untold stories and surprising truths of the Second World War from the Allied and Axis perspectives.
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Episode 89: Battle of the Bulge - Bastogne, Sko...
In today’s episode, we once again take up the story of the Battle of the Bulge after the initial German breakthrough, and consider how the Allies turned the tide.
68 min
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Episode 88: Battle of the Bulge - Day One: When...
In today’s episode, we return to the Battle of the Bulge and take up the action with the first chaotic days of the German offensive – when no one was sure how things would turn out.
52 min
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Episode 87: The Battle of the Bulge Begins: Ger...
In today’s episode, we’ll tackle Germany’s last-ditch offensive to win the war in the west: the Battle of the Bulge.
43 min
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Episode Bonus: The 1913 Redl Spy Case
This bonus episode features a special guest appearance on the Untitled History Podcast with Gareth Edwards, where we dive into the espionage case of Alfred Redl, an Austro-Hungarian officer who spied for Russia before World War I.
64 min
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Episode 86: Normandy’s Forgotten Battle with Pa...
In today's episode, we'll drill down to a relatively unknown battle from July 1944 that reveals much about the fierce fighting in the Normandy campaign — the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits.
63 min
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Episode 85: Should France have fought on in 1940?
In today's episode, we'll test the waters of a historical counterfactual. Could or should France have fought on in 1940?
58 min
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Episode 84: From Clash to Total War: Japan vs C...
In today’s episode, we’ll begin the story of the full-scale war between China and Japan, which started with the so-called China Incident in 1937.
57 min
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Episode 83: 900,000 vs 90,000: The Fight That S...
In today's episode, we'll continue the story of China's civil war and war of Resistance against Japan, including the debate around the long march that has become the stuff of legend in China today.
58 min
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Episode 82: How Manchuria Lit the Fuse of World...
In today’s episode, we’ll continue the epic story of the long fuse to the Second World War in Asia, where the Chinese Civil War spills over into a clash with Japan in Manchuria.
49 min
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Episode 81: Operation Anthropoid - The Escape &...
In this week’s episode, we continue and bring to an end the fascinating and also gruesome story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/
38 min
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Episode 80: Operation Anthropoid - The Assassin...
In today’s episode, we drop into Prague in May 1942 and explore the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the terrible aftermath. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/
41 min
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Episode 79: Operation Anthropoid: The Attack Pl...
In today’s episode, we’ll explore one of the Second World War’s most dramatic and daring special operations: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi ruler in occupied Czechoslovakia. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/
44 min
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Episode 78: How the US Ended Up in Greenland in...
In today’s episode, we’re going to take on the Second World War story of one of today’s geopolitical hotspots – the mostly forgotten story of Greenland in WW2.
56 min
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Episode 77: Imperial Powers in China: The Eight...
In today’s episode, we’re turning our attention to East Asia, and the origins of the 14-year struggle between Japan and China that some say marked the real start of the Second World War.
51 min
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Episode 76: Behind the Eastern Front: Sabotage,...
50 min
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Episode 75: Behind the Eastern Front: The Parti...
In today’s episode, we’re continue the story of the Soviet partisan war against the Germans from 1941 to 1945 – how did the partisans fight, and how did the Germans try to stop them?
51 min
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Episode 74: Behind the Front Line: Soviet Parti...
In today’s episode, we’re losing ourselves in the forests and swamps deep inside the Soviet Union – where Soviet partisans waged an irregular campaign against the Germans that is still relatively unknown to outsiders.
55 min
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Episode 73: Why Crete Fell: Airborne Shock, Nav...
In today’s episode, we’ll jump into the action at Crete in 1941 – from the air vs naval battle to the shock of the German airborne assault and the missed opportunities of the Allied defence.
70 min
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Episode 72: The Battle for Crete – Hitler’s Air...
In today’s episode, we’ll head to one of the prettiest vacation spots in Europe - the Greek island of Crete. In May 1941, this key to the eastern Mediterranean witnessed the biggest German airborne operation in history, one that had far-reaching consequences.
54 min
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Episode 71: The 1941 Battle for Greece
In today’s episode, we’ll take up the story of the Balkan campaign in 1941 and follow the fighting as it spilled into Greece and witnessed dramatic fighting around storied places like Mount Olympus and Thermopylae.
53 min
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Episode 70: The Fall of Yugoslavia: How the Axi...
In today’s episode, we’ll follow one of Germany’s lesser known so-called Blitzkrieg victories, the campaign in the Balkans in 1941 – a victory that has given rise to heated debates about its impact on the future course of the war.
50 min
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Episode 69: Mussolini’s Disaster in the Balkans
In today’s episode, we’ll dig into a sometimes overlooked moment in the second world war - Italy’s expansion into the Balkans in 1939 and 1940. What might seem like a minor campaign to some at first glance was actually loaded with political significance and military consequences.
62 min
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Episode 68: Escape from East Prussia 1945
In today’s episode, we’ll round off our coverage of East Prussia in the Second World War by exploring the painful experiences of the German civilian population there - both during the fighting and in the aftermath.
56 min
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Episode 67: Königsberg 1945: The End of a Germa...
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the Red Army’s second – and this time successful – offensive into East Prussia in 1945. It’s a campaign that saw a bitter, months-long siege and resulted in the disappearance of a historic German region.
47 min
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Episode 66: The Moment the War Reached Germany ...
In today’s episode, we’ll head to a place that no longer exists – East Prussia. In 1944 and 1945, this region saw some of the fiercest fighting of the late war, and was the scene of widespread war crimes.
51 min