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You know about Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad, maybe Kursk. But how well do you know the history of the ”Russian front” of the Second World War? Join this detailed description of the largest part of WW2 in Europe, the titanic clash between tyrants Hitler and Stalin. Hosted on Audioboom. See Privacy Policy (https://audioboom.com/about/privacy) for more information. Copyright 2022 All rights reserved. World
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  • S5 Ep107: World War 2 in Norway: A conversation with author J.L. Oakley—Episode 107

    S5 Ep107: World War 2 in Norway: A conversation with author J.L. Oakley—Episode 107
    Sep 21 2026

    A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945

    Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that.

    Books mentionedBy J.L. Oakley:
    • The Jossing Affair
    • The Quisling Factor
    • The Brisling Code

    Hitler's Northern Utopia by Dispina Stratigakos
    Gold Run by Robert Pearson
    Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
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    38 mins
  • S5 Ep107: Special episode: The Cold War anniversary

    S5 Ep107: Special episode: The Cold War anniversary
    Sep 7 2026
    In this special episode of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War Two, we go beyond Beyond Barbarossa and beyond the end of the Second World War.

    80 years ago to the day of this publication a handsome young man approached Canadian media and officials with proof that the Soviet Union was spying on its allies. The Cold War was on.

    Former Soviet cypher clerk Igor Gouzenko, hooded to protect his identity, being interviewed by Associated Press reporter Saul Pett in Montreal in 1954.


    The Gouzenkos’ apartment building on Somerset Street in central Ottawa. There is no plaque commemorating Igor Gouzenko. (Photo by Scott Bury, 2025.)

    Igor Gouzenko in Canada, 1946.

    Sources

    Winston Churchill, “The Sinews of Peace,” speech given at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, U.S.A., 5 March 1946.
    https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/winstonchurchillsinewsofpeace.htm

    J.L. Granatstein and David Stafford, Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990.

    John Sawatsky, Gouzenko: The Untold Story. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1984

    Wikipedia, Gouzenko Affair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouzenko_Affair

    Wondery Podcasts, “The Spy Who, Season 7: The Spy Who Started the Cold War” https://wondery.com/shows/the-spy-who/season/7/

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    41 mins
  • S5 Ep106: The USSR vs. Japan, 1945: A conversation with James Scott

    S5 Ep106: The USSR vs. Japan, 1945: A conversation with James Scott
    Aug 24 2026


    Historian and author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito and the Descent into Total War

    James Scott’s latest book, Empire of Ashes, describes in detail the flights that brought nuclear bombs to Japan in August 1945. It also draws intimate portraits of the two leading antagonists on those days, U.S. President Harry Truman and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, from their earliest days through the personal transformations that ushered in a new era of warfare.

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    1 hr
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