January 6, 2024 • 25m
The Germans launch a new offensive, Operation Nordwind, in Alsace, even as their offensive in the Ardennes is stalled. The Allies...Read more
January 13, 2024 • 23m
In the East, the Soviets launch a massive series of new offensives. In the West, Monty holds an ill-judged press conference about ...Read more
January 20, 2024
The huge new Soviet offensives charge ahead this week, taking Warsaw and Krakow; in the west the Battle of the Bulge is officially...Read more
January 27, 2024 • 27m
A new German Army Group has been formed, tasked with protecting the Reich from the east and commanded by none other than Heinrich ...Read more
February 3, 2024 • 26m
Soviet forces have reached the old German border in force, however, logistical issues and a strong enemy presence possibly threate...Read more
February 11, 2024 • 28m
The American advance on Luzon has reached the Philippine capital, and it looks like they have a real fight on their hands with the...Read more
February 17, 2024 • 26m
The Germans finally launch a counterattack into the Soviet flanks, but it does not go as well as was as hoped: The Siege of Budape...Read more
February 24, 2024 • 25m
This week the Battle of Iwo Jima begins and American forces raise the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi. Elsewhere, the Allies ...Read more
March 2, 2024 • 24m
Bill Slim's master plan is near fruition and the Japanese are surrounded at Meiktila in Burma. The Allies have also nearly cleare...Read more
March 9, 2024 • 27m
The Allies manage to take an intact bridge over the mighty Rhine at Remagen, a major piece of luck; the Germans launch a new offen...Read more
March 16, 2024 • 26m
After the Allies took a Rhine Bridge last week, Adolf Hitler has again shuffled his commanders, moving Kesselring to the west. Me...Read more
March 23, 2024 • 25m
Chiang Kai-Shek is demanding his Chinese troops back from Burma, but this doesn't fit well with Mountbatten's plans for the region...Read more
March 30, 2024 • 28m
All along the Western Front the Allies break out in force, invading German territory and receiving German surrenders by the thousa...Read more
April 6, 2024 • 28m
It's the next step toward invading Japan's Home Islands- invading Okinawa, and it begins April 1st. Advances are easy by land, but...Read more
April 13, 2024 • 28m
The prizes of Vienna and Königsberg fall to the Soviets as they continue what seems an inexorable advance. In the West the Allies ...Read more
April 16, 2024 • 16m
The final Soviet assault on Berlin begins today. The Soviets have two million men supported by tens of thousands of guns, tanks, a...Read more
April 20, 2024 • 29m
The Soviet drive on Berlin continues, but it is now very much a race between the forces of Georgy Zhukov and those of Ivan Konev. ...Read more
April 27, 2024 • 27m
The Battle for the German capital rages on all week, as the Soviets get ever closer to the Reich Chancellery, under which lies Hit...Read more
April 30, 2024 • 34m
Europe is broken, its cities in ruins and millions have died in war and genocide. The world has risen against the Nazi threat, and...Read more
May 4, 2024 • 43m
So much goes on this week, and this is the longest episode of the war by like 15 minutes. But there's so much to cover! The Battl...Read more
May 5, 2024 • 13m
I don't want to give too much away about this extra regular episode here in the description, but it's true- German and American so...Read more
May 11, 2024 • 29m
Germany signs not one, but two unconditional surrenders and the war in Europe is officially over... although that does not mean th...Read more
May 18, 2024 • 27m
The kamikaze menace continues unabated, with suicide flyers hitting not one but two Admirals's flagships. There's plenty of fighti...Read more
May 25, 2024 • 23m
This week, the fighting in Europe finally comes to an end and the Allies round up more leading Nazis including Heinrich Himmler an...Read more
June 1, 2024 • 19m
This week President Truman and his aides meet to discuss the use of the atomic bomb. In Japan, the imperial government vows to fig...Read more
June 8, 2024 • 24m
The plans to invade the Japanese Home Islands in the fall grow ever more concrete, with the main issue being not just how to trans...Read more
June 15, 2024 • 25m
After several weeks of the Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong's power has consolidated to the point that it is ab...Read more
June 22, 2024 • 21m
Mitsuru Ushijima's forces are defeated and the Battle of Okinawa is officially over. However, since most of the Japanese fought to...Read more
June 29, 2024 • 17m
The casualty projections for the planned November invasion of Kyushu, Japan are in... or are they? They might have been 'massaged'...Read more
July 6, 2024 • 20m
Australian forces land at Balikpapan to hopefully secure the oil facilities there; In Burma, the Japanese try a diversion to allow...Read more
July 13, 2024 • 22m
Japan is aware that soon enough the Allies will invade the Home Islands, and they will mobilize absolutely everything and everyone...Read more
July 20, 2024 • 17m
This week the Americans explode a nuclear bomb at the Trinity Test in New Mexico. The plan is to possibly use more such bombs agai...Read more
July 27, 2024 • 22m
China, Britain, and the US issue a Declaration demanding Japan's unconditional surrender, and promising complete destruction if th...Read more
August 3, 2024 • 21m
The Japanese reaction to the Allied ultimatum for unconditional surrender is... mokusatsu. This can be translated several ways, bu...Read more
August 10, 2024 • 22m
This week atomic bombs are for the first time in history dropped on cities- Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The bombs kill over 1...Read more
August 17, 2024 • 23m
Hirohito broadcasts Japan's surrender to the world- despite an attempted to coup to prevent it from happening, and much of the wor...Read more
August 24, 2024 • 16m
The Soviet Red Army completes its conquest of Manchuria and the northern half of Korea this week, although Japanese Emperor Hirohi...Read more
August 31, 2024 • 17m
Mao Zedong takes his first ever journey by plane to go and meet with Chiang Kai-Shek. They begin what will be several weeks of tal...Read more
September 2, 2024 • 22m
The Japanese sign the official document of surrender and the Second World War is over. There are still some Japanese garrisons yet...Read more