Une brève histoire de la Seconde Guerre ...

En juillet 1942 est lancé aux Etats-Unis le projet Manhattan destiné à produire la bombe atomique et gagner ainsi la course contre l'Allemagne sur la recherche nucléaire. Les travaux aboutiront le 16 juillet 1945 à l'explosion de la première bombe atomique de l'histoire à l'occas ... Show More

Si en Europe la guerre a pris fin le 8 mai avec la capitulation de l’Allemagne, il n’en est pas de même dans le Pacifique où le Japon occupe encore au début 1945 de nombreux territoires et surtout refuse toute idée de capitulation. Mais le pays, qui n’a connu que des défaites dep ... Show More

L’année 1945 sera celle de la fin du régime nazi d’Hitler. Le 12 janvier l’Armée Rouge lance sa dernière offensive en direction de Berlin tandis que les Anglo-Américains franchissent le Rhin en mars. La conférence de Yalta en février entre Américains, Britanniques et Russes prépa ... Show More

HISTORY A TO Z (3) - In this episode we continue to focus on events and characters beginning with the letter B. The Battle of Marathon, the Buddha, Burebista, Boudicca and Basil the Bulgar Slayer. 

HISTORY A TO Z (2) - In this episode we focus on events and characters beginning with the letter B. The Building of the Great Pyramid, the Bronze Age Collapse, the Babylonian Captivity and Belshazzar. 

Our regular look at the books and websites that helped to construct the episode. Also a reflection on this year's Podcast Show in London and the legacy of the late Nick Barksdale on the History of the World podcast itself. 

In the past decade, podcasting has taken the world by storm. The advent of smartphones and the ground-breaking podcast 'Serial' would see podcasting surge in popularity.In 2020 alone over a million new shows were launched. But does it have a future? Some are not convinced. In the ... Show More

Short History Of… will be back as usual on Monday, but today we are dropping an episode by our friends at We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast. Their podcast is a deep dive into World War Two, and today’s episode is all about the incredible story of the Dambusters raid in 1943 ... Show More

Screenwriter John Orloff joins Dan to talk about the new WWII mini-series 'Masters of the Air'. It tells the true story of the 'Bloody Hundredth', an American bomb group stationed in England that fought in the skies over Nazi-occupied Europe. A decade in the making, John explains ... Show More

Découvrez la seconde guerre mondiale en audio 

This is a taster episode of a brand-new podcast from the Noiser network. Host Paul McGann follows the real people involved in the D-Day landings.It’s 1944 and Europe is in the grip of the Nazi war machine. But on the shores of Great Britain, thousands of men and women are plannin ... Show More