WW2: Both Sides of The Wire | A Battle Guide Production

Prof. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander
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Dec 11, 2024 • 50min

Episode 20: Memory Part 1 - Germany

In today’s episode we are going to visit a global battlefield of the Second World War. But this battlefield is not an operational campaign in Europe or in the Pacific – its the controversial and political battle of our collective memory of World War Two. 80 years after the war ended, what does the war mean to us and why, and how is it made to serve current political goals?Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 9min

Episode 19: What-ifs of World War Two: the Invasion that Never Was

In this episode, we’ll venture into the fascinating but treacherous realm of the counterfactual, the what-ifs of the Second World War. There are endless topics among these might-have-beens, but today we’ll dig into the invasion that never was: Operation Sea Lion, the German Plan to invade Britain in 1940.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 4min

Episode 18: The Greatest Allied Victory of the War?

In this episode we’re going to talk about the biggest operational military defeat that Germany has ever suffered in its history, a campaign that completely destroyed an entire German Army group in a matter of weeks. Despite the massive scale of the damage inflicted and the immense operational achievement it represents, this operation gets nearly no attention in the English-speaking world. I am talking, of course, about Operation Bagration, the Red Army’s triumph against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 5min

Episode 17: The Forgotten Rhine Crossing. - Fuel waste or epic airborne operation?

In today’s episode, we are crossing the Rhine and push into the heartland of Germany. However, this is not the Rhine crossing you might have heard of, but the one that included the largest one-day airborne drop in history.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 12min

Episode 16: The Road to the Rhine - a Forgotten Victory?

In today’s episode, we are crossing the Rhine and push into the heartland of Germany. However, this is not the Rhine crossing you might have heard of, but the one that included the largest one-day airborne drop in history.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 21min

Episode 15: Monte Cassino - Allied perseverance or bloody blunder?

In this episode we will tackle some of the bitterest and, from the Allied side, most controversial actions of the Italian campaign and indeed of the entire war: the four battles of Monte Cassino, also known as the “Battle for Rome”. Why did the Allies struggle so much, did they commit a massive war crime, and was the campaign worth it in the first place - let’s find out.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 7min

Episode 14: Operation Mincemeat

In this episode, we are moving into a new field intelligence and covert operations. Did they influence the outcome of the war, or were they merely a sideshow? There's no shortage of examples and today we are concentrating on what is arguably the most famous and perhaps also the most successful, Operation Mincemeat.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 16min

Episode 13: Winter War

In this episode, we are heading to the far North and are going to look at a war within the Second World war that had a profound impact on how the wider conflict would develop and end. I am talking about the 1939-40 Soviet- Finnish War, also known as the Winter War.Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 32min

Episode 12: Barbarossa - General Winter’s greatest victory or German mistake?

In this episode we take a closer look at Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It was the largest campaign in the history of warfare, and the one that, arguably, turned the tide and decided the outcome of the Second World War.Why did the Germans decide to invade, what were the Soviets plans, and how did this campaign develop?  Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 9, 2024 • 60min

Episode 11: More Myths

In this episode, we are returning to the core theme of this podcast series, and this is busting myths and taking a closer look at overly convenient truths - those that are too good and too fantastic to be true. The list of these myths is endless, which is a good thing, because it means we can continue with the podcast series for a long time. Of course, one has to pick and choose what myths to bust, and, in this episode, we will take a closer look at some of the more famous, or infamous, myths, from both the Western and Eastern front. Do you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.comBecome a Supporter: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/supporters/pricingSupport via Paypal: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow-paypalE-Mail: ⁠both-sides@battleguide.co.uk⁠Website: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsowBattle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTOur WW1 Podcast: https://battleguide.co.uk/nsqIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterTwitter:@jesse_history@BattleguideVTCredits:- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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