Wars of The World

Send us Fan Mail Life at sea during the Age of Sail had its ups and downs. The steady rhythm of the sea alone was enough to reduce many men to a chronic state of seasickness. But it wasn’t just the tumultuous oceans that could make it hard to keep down food… The horrifying punishments used onboard military vessels created a sickness of another kind: one of rigid hierarchy and brutal, even tortuous...

Send us Fan Mail A selection of the most feared Hungarian, Romanian & Bulgarian soldiers who took part in the second world war.​🎶🎶 All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...​Narrated by: William Earl Written & Researched by: Tony WilkinsHistory Should Never Be Forgotten... Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of wars of the world, we look at the deadliest Italian and Finnish soldiers during WWII.🎶🎶 All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...​Narrated by: William Earl. Written & Researched by: Tony WilkinsHistory Should Never Be Forgotten... Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us Fan Mail As the tide turned and the Soviets recaptured lost territory, they saw what the German troops had done to their countrymen and swore revenge. To that end, there were Soviet soldiers, sailors and airmen enraged by their enemy’s conduct who used their skills to exact retribution on the Germans and their Allies becoming some of the most feared combatants on the Eastern Front. In this...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Wars of the World Deadliest Combatants we take a look at some of the most proficient and feared warriors of the Empire of Japan. These are the Deadliest Japanese of World War II.  🎶🎶 All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...Narrated by: Will EarlWritten & Researched by: Tony WilkinsHistory Should Never Be Forgotten... Support the show Learn...

Send us Fan Mail During the First World War it took four hours for the armistice to come into effect, and thenover 12 hours for troops on the Western Front to actually stop fighting. The sad result of thistardiness? Some 11,000 casualties on the Allied side alone. In history, as today, things often took a long time to happen. And war is no exception. Well while some ponderous wars were still being...

Send us Fan Mail In August 1945, World War II was brought to its chilling climax in two brilliant, white flashes in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but while one chapter of history ended, another began. That of the threat of nuclear-armed conflict. Nuclear weapons changed the rules of global confrontation forever. The first atomic bombs were huge weapons for the aircraft to carry bei...

Send us Fan Mail In this latest instalment of Wars of the World’s Deadliest Combatants series, we are going to look at four Americans who not only went above and beyond in the service of their country but earned the respect of their comrades and the fear of their enemy. These are the four deadliest Americans of World War 2.🎶🎶 All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...Narrated b...

Send us Fan Mail As the 1980s drew on and the Cold War between east and west entered its final and perhaps most dangerous phase, the navy of the Soviet Union concocted a plan to conduct the ultimate test of their SSBNs. The launching of a full salvo of missiles. This is the story of Operation Behemoth.🎶🎶 All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...Narrated by: Will EarlWritten &...

Send us Fan Mail Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: the Christian Roman Empire, and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the sto...

Send us Fan Mail In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, British forces fought in every theatre of the conflict alongside troops raised from the nations that made up the Empire and allied powers such as the United States, France and the Soviet Union. The end of the war sparked the end of the Empire which transfor...

Send us Fan Mail We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no-man’s land. Artillery shells exploding all around them as they advanced while aeroplanes buzzed overhead firing machine guns down upon them. Often the enemy trench was only yards away yet...

Send us Fan Mail We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no-man’s land. Artillery shells exploding all around them as they advanced while aeroplanes buzzed overhead firing machine guns down upon them. Often the enemy trench was only yards away yet...

Send us Fan Mail For much of the world in the early 1940s, the face of Adolf Hitler came to personify true evil itself. Looking into Nazi Germany from the outside perspective, it seemed as though Adolf Hitler had an almost hypnotic grip on his people in every level of German society and yet the closest he ever game to being assassinated was not part of some Allied plot but instead came from men wh...

Send us Fan Mail Troops of the Third Reich fought all over Europe, North Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and the Middle East during the Second World War. They earned a formidable reputation as being professional and proficient soldiers regardless of the reasons why they fought. Here we look at soldiers who fought under the swastika and whose combat effectiveness earned them the begrudging respect and o...

Send us Fan Mail It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which to destroy one’s enemies. If used effectively, a weaponised virus could devastate an enemy’s population by tying up resources, disrupting economic progress and of course killing off the people who would fight in any military campaign with one’s own forces....

Send us Fan Mail In Frampol, a small town in Poland, town planning created a uniquely beautiful space for its residents to live in. What its designers could never have known was that it would create chaos and destruction, consigning the entire town to destruction centuries late. With its unique grid-pattern radiating from the market square, Frampol resembled a large bullseye when viewed from the a...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast will discuss some examples of the most fearsome booby traps ever made in history of warfare. Designed to trap, maim, and kill those who stumbled into them, they represent the worst product of the human imagination turned to engineering. All of them were used in one of the bloodiest wars in modern history: The Vietnam War.🎶🎶All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Wars of the World, we explore just a few terrifying weapons from the Second World War and examine their impact on the battlefield and the war as a whole.🎶🎶All music from CO.AGhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...Narrated by: Top5sWritten & Researched by: Tony WilkinsHistory Should Never Be Forgotten... Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...