March 21, 2023 • 40m
Enjoy this episode for free for a limited time. The Cold War started in the same place that World War II ended: Berlin. On the Eas...Read more
March 21, 2023 • 36m
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the fragile alliance between the Allied countries in the west and Joseph Stalin’s battle-hardene...Read more
March 28, 2023 • 53m
Immediately following World War Two, Germany was divided into four parts: British, Russian, American and French. Berlin was divide...Read more
April 4, 2023 • 1h 5m
Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold War was anything but bloodless...Read more
April 10, 2023 • 41m
Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the Atlantic, a...Read more
April 18, 2023 • 1h 12m
In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. His patriotism on the ba...Read more
April 25, 2023 • 42m
The man who returned to his native country with Che Guevara on a leaky tub, bringing communism to the Western Hemisphere with him....Read more
May 2, 2023 • 54m
As US reconnaissance overflights of Cuba resume after a hiatus following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion attempt, analysts are...Read more
May 9, 2023 • 1h 33m
With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilities of the...Read more
May 16, 2023 • 1h 12m
They stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, into the kind of heat, and humidity that even Americans raised in the Deep...Read more
May 23, 2023 • 1h
Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, but from outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declining morale, ...Read more
May 30, 2023 • 1h 4m
A change of command comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnamization' eases...Read more
June 6, 2023 • 1h 25m
Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy. But befor...Read more