WW2: Both Sides of The Wire

In today's episode, we'll go for a stroll through Berlin and Brandenburg and take you with us on the ground to some of the most interesting spots in a city layered in history. Our Berlin Tour: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026 Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details an...

In today’s episode, we follow the fighting on southern Okinawa to its bitter conclusion, as US forces face their toughest challenge against a series of imposing ridges, and an enemy determined to fight to the last. Checkout our First Book INFERNO: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/inferno Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠Select your rank – (Captain...

In this week’s episode, we celebrate our 100th show by answering listener questions on the German Army’s lack of winter equipment in 1941, Hitler’s “no retreat” orders, Portugal’s role as a neutral power, and the relationship between Hitler and his generals. Checkout our First Book INFERNO: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/inferno Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-...

In this week’s episode and in a long overdue collaboration between Not So Quite on the Western Front and WW2 Both Sides of the Wire, four of us sit down to explore what we feel are the battles that, for one reason or another, shaped the course of the 20th century. Pre-order here: ⁠⁠https://www.battleguide.co.uk/inferno Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the...

In today’s episode, we hit the beaches at Okinawa, as American forces begin a grinding 82-day campaign to capture the island from determined and dug-in Japanese defenders. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-free podcasts a...

In today’s episode, we’re off to the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, to the small but strategically important island of Okinawa. The US invasion of the island in 1945 would be the largest amphibious landings in the Pacific theatre, and set the stage for the final phase of the war against Japan. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠Select you...

In today’s episode, we tackle the legendary, controversial, and much mythologized US General George S. Patton – was he really as good as his reputation in popular memory? Checkout our First Book INFERNO: https://battleguide.co.uk/inferno Join us in Berlin in September: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.co...

In today’s episode, we examine the final phase of the Battle of Berlin, as Soviet troops conquer the city and Hitler meets his end. Join us in Berlin in September: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: ⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code...

In today's episode, we begin the end of the story of the Battle of Berlin, as for the fighting reaches the city itself Join us in Berlin in September: ⁠⁠⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026⁠⁠⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS -...

In today’s episode, we jump into the action in April 1945, as Soviet forces race towards Berlin and close the ring around the Nazi capital. Join us in Berlin in September: ⁠⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026⁠⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: ⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code...

In today's episode, we start the story with the launch of the Berlin Operation in April 1945, and the bitter struggle for Berlin that started on the high ground at Seelow. Join us in Berlin in September: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in you...

In today's episode, we pick up the story of the Battle of Berlin 1945, drilling down on the German side of the wire as the Berlin Operation begins. Join us in Berlin in September: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026 Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo co...

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In today’s episode, we once again take up the story of the Battle of the Bulge after the initial German breakthrough, and consider how the Allies turned the tide. Berlin Tour: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026 Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code:...

In today’s episode, we return to the Battle of the Bulge and take up the action with the first chaotic days of the German offensive – when no one was sure how things would turn out. Berlin Tour: https://battleguide.co.uk/bsotw-2026 Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill i...

In today’s episode, we’ll tackle Germany’s last-ditch offensive in the West to win the war in the west: the Battle of the Bulge. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-free podcasts and exclusive content with us!...

This bonus episode features a special guest appearance on the Untitled History Podcast with Gareth Edwards, where we dive into the espionage case of Alfred Redl, an Austro-Hungarian officer who spied for Russia before World War I. 🎧 Listen to this episode and explore more here: RSS: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-untitled-history-podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1pVhf1zLs05L1h...

In today's episode, we'll drill down to a relatively unknown battle from July 1944 that reveals much about the fierce fighting in the Normandy campaign — the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-f...

In today's episode, we'll test the waters of a historical counterfactual. Could or should France have fought on in 1940? Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-free podcasts and exclusive content with us! - Don’t fo...

In today’s episode, we’ll begin the story of the full-scale war between China and Japan, which started with the so-called China Incident in 1937. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-free podcasts and exclusive cont...

In today's episode, we'll continue the story of China's civil war and war of Resistance against Japan, including the debate around the long march that has become the stuff of legend in China today. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDAR...

In today’s episode, we’ll continue the epic story of the long fuse to the Second World War in Asia, where the Chinese Civil War spills over into a clash with Japan in Manchuria. Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in your details and use promo code: DEEPDARKWOODS - Enjoy ad-free...

In this week’s episode, we continue and bring to an end the fascinating and also gruesome story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: ⁠⁠https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/⁠⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) -...

In today’s episode, we drop into Prague in May 1942 and explore the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the terrible aftermath. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: ⁠https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/⁠ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Select your rank – (Captain comes with one month free) - Fill in you...

In today’s episode, we’ll explore one of the Second World War’s most dramatic and daring special operations: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi ruler in occupied Czechoslovakia. This week with Military Historian Dan Hill, check out his podcast: https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/ Join our community! The steps are simple: - Visit:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/⁠⁠⁠ - Select your...