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Books of the Year with the Gang

65 min • 30 november 2024

It's time for this year’s Books of the Year podcast. We talk histories of the Middle East, medieval kings, nautical novels and naval epics plus much more. Roger Moorhouse, Antonia Senior and Richard Foreman join for an informal chat.

Books of the Year with the Gang

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Nelson's Pathfinders with Michael Barritt

Iran's Grand Strategy with Vali Nasr

Summer Reads with The Gang

Hiroshima with Iain MacGregor

Horace with Peter Stothard

Film Club: Apocalypto (2006)

Ancient Greece through Artemisia & Olympias with Daisy Dunn

The Tank with Mark Urban

The Spy Who Tried to Kill the KGB with Gordon Corera

Film Club: The Report (2019)

The SAS & Paddy Mayne with Damien Lewis

Film Club: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

The Korean War with Robert Lyman

Test Cricket with Tim Wigmore

D-Day: Sword Beach with Max Hastings

The Big Little War with James Dunford Wood

Victory 1945 with Al Murray

Women of the Troubles with Martin Dillon

Bose & Post War Empires with Phil Craig

Monuments to War with Tessa Dunlop

Film Club: Downfall (2004)

The Siege of Leningrad with Sinclair McKay

WW2 Titans: Churchill, Brooke & Ismay, with John Kiszely & Gordon Corrigan

WW2 Family History and the 1980s with Helen Lederer

The Greek Revolution with Yanni Kotsonis

Film Club: Cross of Iron (1977)

Women's History with Miranda Malins & Sarah Gristwood

Hadrian's Wall with Alistair Tosh

Operation Varsity with Saul David

The Vietnam War, Part Two: Breakdown with Geoffrey Wawro

The Vietnam War, Part One: Quagmire with Geoffrey Wawro

Ukraine with Gordon Corrigan

Putin's War with Philip W Blood

Film Club: The Third Man (1949)

Churchill's Right Hand Man with John Kiszely

The Causes of the Wars of the Roses: Part Two, Lancaster & York

The Causes of the Wars of the Roses: Part One, Henry VI

The Nazi Mind with Laurence Rees

The Nazis & the German Royal Family with Stephan Malinowski

Athens, Sparta and Honour with Paul A. Rahe

Athens, Sparta and the Sicilian Expedition with Paul A. Rahe

The Mafia & the Kennedys with Louis Ferrante Part 2

The Mafia & the Kennedys with Louis Ferrante Part 1

Film Club: Salvador (1986)

William Tell with Nick Hamm & Almut Seurbaum

SAS Rogue Heroes Series 2 with Gavin Mortimer

Espionage and Duplicity with William Boyd

The Naval History of Britain: The Rise with N.A.M. Rodger

The Naval History of Britain: Malaise with N.A.M. Rodger

Film Club: Apocalypse Now (1979)

Richard II & Henry IV with Helen Castor

The Battle of the Bulge Part 2 with Gordon Corrigan & Philip Blood

The Battle of the Bulge Part 1 with Gordon Corrigan & Philip Blood

Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman with Elizabeth Buchan

1066 with Adam Staten and Paul Bernardi

Books of the Year with the Gang

Film Club: All the President's Men (1976)

Aachen: Stalingrad of the West with Philip Blood

Monarchs with Charlie Higson

Trump: Foreign Policy & Intelligence with Michael Smith

Churchill's German with Helen Fry

The Iranian Embassy Siege with Ben Macintyre

The Gunpowder Plot with Peter Tonkin

The SAS in Italy with Gavin Mortimer

Film Club: Alexander (2004)

Blair 'Paddy' Mayne with Damien Lewis

The Battle of Trafalgar with Michael Barritt

Horatio Nelson with Dominic Sandbrook

Christendom vs. the Caliphate with Simon Mayall

Ovid with Fiona Forsyth

Naples 1944 with Keith Lowe

Henry V with Dan Jones

Film Club: A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Operation Market Garden with Gordon Corrigan & Philip Blood

Operation Market Garden: Black Tuesday with Al Murray

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem with Saul David

Vienna with Jane Thynne

18 Historical Figures at 18 with Alice Loxton