
The WW2 Podcast
by Angus Wallace
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79K to 281K🎙 ~2x weekly·305 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
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318 - Transport Pilots of WWII
Sep 1, 2026
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317 - Generalship on the Eastern Front
Aug 24, 2026
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316 - The Tank
Aug 15, 2026
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315 - The Thin Khaki Line
Aug 1, 2026
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314 - The Nazi Ghost Train
Jul 20, 2026
46m 09s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/1/26 | 318 - Transport Pilots of WWII | The C-47 Dakota, or Skytrain as it was known in American service, was one of the most important aircraft of the Second World War. It carried paratroopers into battle, towed gliders packed with men and equipment, flew vital supplies to surrounded troops, and crossed some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth. Yet the crews who flew these missions are often overshadowed by the fighter aces and bomber crews. Their job demanded a different kind of courage. Flying unarmed, often at low level and in tight formation, they were expected to stay on course, arrive on time and, even under heavy fire, resist the instinct to take evasive action. Whether over Normandy, Arnhem, Bastogne or the Himalayas, they played a vital role in Allied victory. Joining me today is Scott McGaugh, author of 'Into the Firestorm: The Allied Heroes Who Flew World War II's Most Daring Missions', to tell the story of the transport pilots who flew these extraordinary missions. You can also find Into the Firestorm on Audible and Spotify. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | 317 - Generalship on the Eastern Front | The war on the Eastern Front was fought on a scale unlike anything the world had ever seen. Stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, it consumed millions of soldiers, saw entire armies destroyed, and ultimately decided the fate of Nazi Germany. When we tell the story of this campaign, we often focus on a handful of famous names: Zhukov, Manstein, Guderian, Model. But were they really the men directing the war throughout its four brutal years? Behind these household names stood dozens of army and army group commanders whose decisions shaped the course of the fighting, yet whose contributions have largely been overlooked. In this episode, I'm joined by Robert Forczyk, author of Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command. Together we'll explore what made an effective commander on the Eastern Front, compare the German and Soviet approaches to leadership, and shine a light on some of the remarkable generals who have slipped from popular history. Generalship on the Eastern Front is also available on Audible and Spotify. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 8/15/26 | 316 - The Tank | The tank first appeared on the battlefields of the First World War as an experimental weapon designed to break the deadlock of trench warfare. Within a generation, it had become the defining weapon of modern land warfare, playing a central role in campaigns across Europe, North Africa and beyond. In this episode, I'm joined by Hamish de Bretton Gordon, former tank commander and author of Tank Command: How the Tank Changed the Face of Battle. We explore how the tank evolved from the lumbering machines of 1916 into the formidable armoured vehicles that dominated the Second World War, and how the lessons of those early decades shaped the development of the Chieftain and the tanks that followed. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 8/1/26 | 315 - The Thin Khaki Line | The British Army in the Second World War is often judged through the lens of manpower shortages and a sense of being overstretched. Critics point to a force spread across too many theatres and suggest that this inevitably limited its effectiveness. But is that a fair assessment of an army that expanded from a few hundred thousand men into a global fighting force of over eight million, operating across Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Far East? In this episode, I am joined by Brian Walter to explore his argument that the British and Commonwealth armies emerged from the legacy of the First World War as a reduced force, entered the Second World War underprepared, but went on to adapt, expand, and ultimately play a decisive role in defeating Germany, Italy, and Japan across multiple theatres of war. Brian is the author of The Thin Khaki Line: An Operational History of the British and Commonwealth Armies during World War II. | — | ||||||
| 7/20/26 | World War IIGerman occupation+5 | Greg Lewis | Belgian ResistanceSOE | BrusselsGermany | Nazi Ghost TrainBelgian Resistance+5 | — | 46m 09s | ||
| 7/15/26 | Nazi GermanyWorld War II+4 | Richard Hargreaves | 1942: Hitler's Gamble for Victory | — | HitlerNazi Germany+7 | — | 59m 43s | ||
| 7/1/26 | NormandyWorld War II+3 | John Delaney | Imperial War MuseumWW2 Road Trips | NormandyCaen | Operation MartletNormandy 1944+3 | — | 46m 36s | ||
| 6/22/26 | World War IIGeneral Patton+4 | Kevin Hymel | World War 2 LivePatton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership | — | PattonThird Army+5 | — | 45m 24s | ||
| 6/15/26 | prisoners of warStalag Luft III+5 | David McCormack | The Great Escapism: The Theatrical Entertainers of Stalag Luft III | Stalag Luft III | Stalag Luft IIIGreat Escape+7 | — | 48m 08s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Special Operations Executiveaircraft+3 | Paul Smiddy | Moonlight Crusaders: Special Duties Pilots over Occupied Europe | — | Special Duties Flightsoccupied Europe+3 | — | 45m 35s | ||
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| 6/1/26 | World War IIBritish Navy+4 | Edward Abel Smith | Royal NavyA Hateful Decision | Mers el KébirFrance+1 | Mers el KébirOperation Catapult+5 | — | 43m 07s | ||
| 5/24/26 | World War IIprisoner of war+3 | Katrina Wood | Time Will Pass Johnny | Singapore | Percy HerbertPOW+6 | — | 43m 04s | ||
| 5/15/26 | Battle for BerlinNazi Germany+4 | Prit Buttar | AudibleSpotify+2 | BerlinSeelow Heights | Berlin1945+7 | — | 42m 03s | ||
| 5/6/26 | boy soldiersHitler's Army+4 | Heidi Langbein Allen | Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army | Third ReichEastern Front+1 | boy soldierHitler's Army+5 | — | 1h 03m 51s | ||
| 5/1/26 | 304 - Eisenhower and Churchill | The partnership between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill was one of the defining relationships of the Second World War. At the heart of the Anglo American alliance, they worked closely to plan major operations, manage coalition warfare, and steer the Allies towards victory. In this episode, I am joined by Jonathan W. Jordan to explore how that relationship worked in practice, shaped by the pressures of global conflict and the demands of leadership at the highest level. The conversation also looks at how their connection continued beyond the war, as both men navigated the uncertain early years of the Cold War, drawing on insights from Jonathan's book Ike and Winston. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | 303 - The Link Trainer | Before the Second World War, learning to fly by instruments was one of the most difficult and dangerous skills a pilot had to master. Training had to be done in real aircraft, often in poor weather, and accidents were common. In the late 1920s, an American inventor named Edwin Albert Link came up with an ingenious solution. His Link Trainer, sometimes called the "Blue Box," allowed pilots to practise instrument flying safely on the ground using a mechanical flight simulator. By the time the war began, these machines had become an essential part of pilot training, and hundreds of thousands of Allied airmen first learned instrument flying inside one. To explore the story of the Link Trainer, I am joined by Robby Houben from the Belgian Royal Military Museum, which holds several examples of these remarkable machines. Robby also has an excellent video on his youtube channel - Two Dudes Talking Tanks - which looks at the Link Trainer in the museum. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 4/15/26 | 302 - Task Force Hogan | My guest today is William Hogan, and we are going to be talking about the remarkable story of his father, Sam Hogan, and the men of Task Force Hogan. At just twenty-eight, Sam was one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the US Army, commanding a battalion of Sherman tanks in the Normandy Campaign only weeks after D-Day. From the hedgerows of France through to the Battle of the Bulge and on into Germany, his unit fought at the sharp end of some of the toughest fighting in north-west Europe. William has written about his father's experiences in 'Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe'. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 4/1/26 | 301 - A Canadian in Stalin's Army | How does a Canadian end up fighting in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War? My guest today is Scott Bury, and we're going to tell the remarkable story of his relative, Maurice Bury — a Canadian citizen who found himself caught in Eastern Europe when war broke out. Drafted into the Red Army in 1941, he fought against the German invasion, survived a brutal POW camp, escaped, joined the resistance in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and was later forced back into the Soviet army for the final push into Germany. It's a story that takes us through some of the most complex and brutal parts of the Eastern Front. Scott has explored Maurice's experiences in three books: Army of Worn Soles, Under the Nazi Heel, and Walking Out of War. He's also the host of the podcast Beyond Barbarossa, which looks at the history of the Eastern Front in the Second World War. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 3/22/26 | 300 - Exploding Rats and the Devices of SOE | James Bond may have Q Branch supplying him with ingenious gadgets, but during the Second World War the agents of the Special Operations Executive had something just as remarkable — the SOE Camouflage Section. This secret unit developed ingenious ways to hide weapons, radios, explosives and documents inside everyday objects, from oil cans and firewood to record players and tubes of toothpaste, helping agents operate behind enemy lines under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo. My guest today is Craig Moore, whose book Exploding Rats and Other Devious Devices of SOE: The Camouflage Section 1941–1945 explores the remarkable work of this little-known wartime unit and the ingenious devices they created to keep agents alive and operational in occupied Europe. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 3/15/26 | 299 - Berlin, 1939-45 | In this episode, I am joined by Ian Buruma to talk about life in Berlin during the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the regime at the top or the battles fought far from the city, we look at how ordinary people experienced daily life as war, repression, bombing, and fear increasingly shaped everything around them. Our conversation centres on what it meant to survive in wartime Berlin, how behaviour and attitudes changed over time, and how the city moved from uneasy normality to catastrophe after Stalingrad and as the Red Army approached. We also discuss the experience of forced labourers in the city, including Ian's father, who was among the hundreds of thousands trying to stay alive under brutal conditions. Ian is the author of Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945, which looks at life in the German capital from the outbreak of war to its collapse in 1945, focusing on how ordinary people coped as survival gradually became the central concern. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 3/8/26 | 298 - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler | In April 1945, as the Third Reich collapsed around him, Adolf Hitler died in the Führerbunker in Berlin. It is one of the most famous deaths in modern history and yet, in many ways, one of the least securely witnessed. There was no public body, no official announcement at the moment it happened, and no single, uncontested account. What followed was confusion, rumour, investigation, and decades of speculation. Today I am joined by historian Caroline Sharples to talk about the death of Hitler itself. Why it unfolded as it did, how news of his death was received, how governments and intelligence services tried to verify what had happened, and why uncertainty and myth filled the vacuum almost immediately. Caroline is the author of 'The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History', a study of the aftermath of April 1945 and the cultural and political consequences of a death that was widely anticipated but never conclusively seen. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 3/1/26 | 297 - Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster | Pearl Harbor is often remembered as a stunning Japanese success, a perfectly executed surprise attack that changed the course of the Second World War. But what if that familiar story is wrong? In this episode, I am joined by now regular of the podcast Mark Stille to rethink one of the most famous events of the war. His book Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster argues that the attack was not a masterstroke at all, but a tactical disappointment, an operational failure, and ultimately a strategic catastrophe for Japan. Mark's book is also available on Audible and Spotify. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 2/15/26 | 296 - British Brigadiers, 1940 | For this episode, I am joined by Philip McCarty to discuss his book Point of Failure: British Army Brigadiers in France and Norway, 1940 . It is a study of the brigadiers who served in France and Norway in 1940. Rather than focusing on campaign narratives, Philip examines the men who held this rank. Their backgrounds. Their training. The influence of networks, regimental culture and staff college upon their careers. And what happened to them after the defeats in France and Norway? This is a fresh way to approach the early-war British Army, offering insight into how the institution thought about leadership, promotion, and responsibility at a moment of intense pressure. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 2/8/26 | 295 - Inside the Siege of Warsaw | In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, American photographer and film-maker Julien Bryan became the only foreign journalist to remain inside Warsaw during the Nazi siege. While other correspondents fled, Bryan stayed in the city, documenting the Siege of Warsaw from the streets, hospitals and civilian shelters as German bombs fell. Bryan's photographs and film captured the impact of the Second World War on civilians, showing wounded men, women and children, devastated neighbourhoods, and the resilience of ordinary Polish people under attack. His footage became some of the first uncensored images of Nazi aggression shown in the United States and Western Europe, shaping how the war in Poland was understood abroad. In this episode of the WW2 Podcast, I am joined by historian Pete Zablocki, host of the History Shorts Podcast and author of a recent article on Julien Bryan for WWII History Magazine. We explore why Bryan chose to stay in Warsaw, how he worked under constant danger, how his photographs and film escaped occupied Poland, and why his record of the 1939 Siege of Warsaw remains historically vital today. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
| 2/1/26 | 294 - Churchills Forgotten Generals: Slim, Auchinleck & Savory | Today, we are heading back to the Burma campaign, but through a slightly different lens. Rather than focusing on a single battle or operation, we examine three men who shaped how the war in Burma was fought and ultimately won. When people think of British commanders in the Far East, one name usually stands out: Bill Slim. His leadership of the Fourteenth Army and the victories at Imphal, Kohima and the advance into Burma rightly secure his place among Britain's most successful wartime commanders. Claude Auchinleck is also well known, though more often for the Middle East than for his crucial role in India during the later war years. But there is a third figure who is far less familiar, Reginald Savory. He was not a battlefield commander in the popular sense, but his influence on training, doctrine and the transformation of the Indian Army was profound. Without the changes he helped drive, the victories of 1944 and 1945 would have looked very different. Today, I am joined by Alan Jefferys and Raymond Callahan, authors of Churchill's Forgotten Generals: Victors in Burma. In the book, they bring these three careers together, showing how Auchinleck, Slim and Savory were shaped by the Indian Army, how they learned from early defeat, and how their combined efforts turned Burma from disaster into success. What makes this story so compelling is that it is not just about command at the front. It is about institutions, training, morale and the hard work of learning how to fight a modern jungle war. patreon.com/ww2podcast | — | ||||||
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Chart history for The WW2 Podcast
Peaked at #27 in GR, currently #27 in GR.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| GR | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| Australia | — | #67 | #67 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| PE | — | #71 | #71 | — |
| HU | — | #80 | #80 | — |
| HK | — | #86 | #86 | — |
| Canada | — | #88 | #88 | — |
| IS | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| United States | — | #98 | #98 | — |
| TR | — | #100 | #100 | — |
| Ireland | — | #123 | #123 | — |
| Finland | — | #125 | #125 | — |
| Germany | — | #144 | #144 | — |
| PH | — | #162 | #162 | — |
| South Africa | — | #167 | #167 | — |
| Sweden | — | #173 | #173 | — |
| BE | — | #174 | #174 | — |
| SG | — | #181 | #181 | — |
| TH | — | #190 | #190 | — |
Chart Positions
21 placements across 21 markets.
Chart Positions
21 placements across 21 markets.