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Secret Warriors – British Submarines during the Cold War

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! During the Cold War, some of the most dangerous encounters between East and West took place far beneath the ocean’s surface.I speak with historian Dr. Paul Brown, author of Secret Warriors: British Submarines during … Read more

High School Student to The Top Secret USAF Red Eagles Soviet MIG Squadron Part 1

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! Rob “Z-Man” Zettel is the author of ⁠American MiG Pilot – Inside the Top Secret USAF Red Eagles”.⁠ In part one of a two-part episode, he reveals how he made it into this top-secret … Read more

Planning an Escape for 13 Years: How One Family Outsmarted the Iron Curtain

 Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! What would you risk to escape a totalitarian state—and how long would you be willing to wait? In this gripping episode, Peter Kasl, author of⁠ Escaping the Grip of Eastern European Communism⁠, tells the extraordinary true story of … Read more

When Terrorism Went Global: Plane Hijackings and Violence in the 1970s

 Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them was the young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal in … Read more

The Berlin Airlift – Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War when the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. I speak with … Read more

Outnumbered 8-1 : An untold story of the Korean War

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! At Chosin in the Korean War, a US Army force of 2,300 soldiers—a unit known as Task Force Faith—was positioned on the east side of the reservoir to protect the Marines’ flank but was overwhelmed by a Chinese force … Read more

The KGB defector who saved MI5 and changed the Cold War

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! ​Oleg Lyalin, was a KGB officer whose actions would provide British intelligence with pivotal information during the Cold War. I speak with Richard Kerbaj,  the author of a new book, ‘The Defector. The untold story of the KGB agent … Read more