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708 The B-52
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[ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT ]


707 Tank Part 4
The Second World War saw the rapid development of the tank, both in tactics and design, which would dominate tank warfare in the post war world...Dur: 17 mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:20:00 GMT ]


706 The Maginot Line
Twice in 50 years Germany had attacked France. The trauma of the First World War caused France to re think her defence policy. The slaughter and destruction on French soil could not be allowed to happen again. The Maginot Line, a static line of defence along the French/German/Italian border was created to hold any foreign agression long enough for the French Army to mobilise. Although it is the second largest line of static defence, after the Great Wall of China, it proved to be a white elephant...

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[ Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:31:00 GMT ]


705 Poitiers 732
At the Battle of Poitiers East would meet West. The Saracens, moving through Spain and into France, would be stopped in their tracks by Charles King of the Franks, who would be lorded as saving Christianity in the struggle against Islam. Dur: 14.10  File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:51:00 GMT ]


704 Swiss Army Knife
The Swiss Army Knife was first produced in 1897. From its early origins as a multi tool come pocket knife the phrase has come to mean much more, often referring in popular culture to things that have a plethora of functions.Dur: 10mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT ]


703 Simon Bolivar
At one time Simon Bolivar was simultaneously President of Gran Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. He was instrumental in the struggle for the independence of present day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela...and of course, he is the founder of Bolivia. He is held a hero in all of these countries. Dur: 27 mins   File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:10:00 GMT ]


702 The Battle of Leuthen
1756 saw Frederick the Great launch a preemptive strike against Silesia. Austrian and Saxon forces were scattered, but this was just the beginning of what would become the Seven Years War.    Dur: 12mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:00:00 GMT ]


701 Merrill's Marauders
With the tide slowly turning in favour of the Americans in the Pacific throughout 1943 against the Japanese, on the mainland in Burma and China the Japanese were still stubbornly holding out and a formidable force. Merrills Marauders would be the first US troops to fight on the Asian continent... Dur: 23mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:26:00 GMT ]


Special - Season 7 Promo
We recently watched the Northern WWII Association in action at Scarborough Castle. We were wondering what to do with the footage so we made up this promo for Season 7 which is due to start 26 July 2009. Dur: 1min File: .m4v...

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[ Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT ]


Special - Eisenhowers D Day Address
On the eve of the D Day invasion, in 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander of the allied forces made this address to his troops. I hope you enjoy this short film we out together, hopefully one of many. Dur: 2min File: m4v (its a video!!!)...

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[ Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:31:00 GMT ]


610 Tank Pt3
The realisation of the importance of tanks on the battlefield was hammered home with the defeat of France in 1940, it would take the allies a long time to fully learn the lessons that the Germans already knew on the use of tanks. But by the end of the war those miracle Blitzkrieg tactics would themselves be blunted by new lessons learned through five years of war, and the rapid development of new tanks. Dur: 16 mins  File:  .mp3...

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[ Fri, 22 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT ]


609 The Law of War
The lyrics famously ask the question âWar...what's it good for?â and while there's no definitive answer to that another similar question might be âWar...WHO is it good for?â or perhaps more importantly, how can war cause as little turmoil and distress to non-combatant civilians and innocents? War is an inevitable part of our world, and is governed, or seeks to be governed by rules and laws. What are these and how did they come about? Dur: 13.20 File: .mp3...

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[ Sun, 10 May 2009 17:15:00 GMT ]


608 The French Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion conjures up romantic images of soldiers marching in columns across the vast deserts of North Africa, led by brutal French officers the men a desperate bunch of internationals wanting to leave their pasts behind... Dur: 15mins File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:10:00 GMT ]


607 Naval Warfare
For thousands of years man has fought battles at sea, from manpowered fighting ships with rowers sweating away at their oars to giant nuclear powered aircraft carriers, naval warfare has extended a people's reach beyond their landbased boundaries, moving men and material to where it is needed or preventing the movement of men and material. Dur: 24 mins File: .mp3...

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[ Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:21:00 GMT ]


606 The Doolittle Raid
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[ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:40:00 GMT ]


605 The Grande Armée
Since 1798 France had been concentrating troops along the coast of the English channel, training and preparing them for an invasion of Great Britain... but with Russia and Austria at his back, Napoleon ordered his troops to the east, and named them The Grand Armee.Dur: 13mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:00 GMT ]


604 The Seige of Constantinople
For over a thousand years Constantinople had been one of the richest cities in the world sitting at the cross roads where east meets west. Its fall would see the end of the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Roman Empire) and with the death of Constantine XI, the last Roman Emperor, bringing the ascendancy of the Muslim Ottoman Turks over the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean.  Dur: 22mins  File: .mp3 ...

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[ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:00:00 GMT ]


603 Enigma
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[ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:15:00 GMT ]


602 Spioenkop
Spioen Kop would be the third defeat in one week of the British army in January of 1900, at the height of its Imperial power, by a handful of untrained men who only weeks previously had been farmers. It was a battle, and indeed a war, the British were ill trained or prepared for. Dur: 18mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:04:00 GMT ]


602 Spioenkop
Spioen Kop would be the third defeat in one week of the British army in January of 1900, at the height of its Imperial power, by a handful of untrained men who only weeks previously had been farmers. It was a battle, and indeed a war, the British were ill trained or prepared for. Dur: 18mins  File: .mp3...

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[ Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:04:00 GMT ]


601 Rommel pt3
Rommel had dominated the North African campaign throughout much of 1942âby September he had pushed the British back to El Alamein. This was the last line of defence before entering Egypt. It was an unusual position with the sea to the North and the Qattara Depression to the south (the lowest point in Africa with its saline marshes it is impassable to vehicles), it provided only a short front of 40miles for the British and their new Commander Montgomery to defend and it  could not be ...

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[ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:39:00 GMT ]


601 Rommel pt3
Rommel had dominated the North African campaign throughout much of 1942âby September he had pushed the British back to El Alamein. This was the last line of defence before entering Egypt. It was an unusual position with the sea to the North and the Qattara Depression to the south (the lowest point in Africa with its saline marshes it is impassable to vehicles), it provided only a short front of 40miles for the British and their new Commander Montgomery to defend and it  could not be ...

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[ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:39:00 GMT ]


510 Battle of Tannenberg
At the outbreak of the First World War the Germans instigated the Schlieffen plan, a strategy based on a swift knockout blow to the French before the Russians would have time to mobilise, thereby enabling the Germans to switch their forces to the East and check what they expected would be the slow mobilisation of the vast armies of the Russian Empire. Dur: 10.48 File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:34:00 GMT ]


510 Battle of Tannenberg
At the outbreak of the First World War the Germans instigated the Schlieffen plan, a strategy based on a swift knockout blow to the French before the Russians would have time to mobilise, thereby enabling the Germans to switch their forces to the East and check what they expected would be the slow mobilisation of the vast armies of the Russian Empire. Dur: 10.48 File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:34:00 GMT ]


509 Belisarius
With the Empire in decline and split, the western empire fell to pieces and only the eastern empire, Byzantium, could field anything that came close to Rome's former splendor. From this a young man of Greek or Thracian origin, Flavius Belisarius, would rise to become the last of the great Roman Generals. Dur: 13mins File: .mp3 ...

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[ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:44:00 GMT ]


509 Belisarius
With the Empire in decline and split, the western empire fell to pieces and only the eastern empire, Byzantium, could field anything that came close to Rome's former splendor. From this a young man of Greek or Thracian origin, Flavius Belisarius, would rise to become the last of the great Roman Generals. Dur: 13mins File: .mp3 ...

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[ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:44:00 GMT ]


508 Battle of the Nile
Napoleon, still a rising star in 1798, had sailed to Egypt with an army to conquer the country, as initial steps to threatening English domination of India. The British in reaction dispatched still junior Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson into the Mediterranean to intercept the French fleet. This, the Battle of the Nile, would be first of three grand triumphs against the French, finishing at Trafalgar. Dur: 13.22  File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sat, 1 Nov 2008 15:05:00 GMT ]


508 Battle of the Nile
Napoleon, still a rising star in 1798, had sailed to Egypt with an army to conquer the country, as initial steps to threatening English domination of India. The British in reaction dispatched still junior Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson into the Mediterranean to intercept the French fleet. This, the Battle of the Nile, would be first of three grand triumphs against the French, finishing at Trafalgar. Dur: 13.22  File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sat, 1 Nov 2008 15:05:00 GMT ]


507 Rommel - Part 2
January 1941 after his successes storming across France, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General by Hitler and recalled to Berlin. His career was about to take a turn that would ensure his fame - he was ordered to North Africa to command the Deutsches Afrika Korps, his exploits to and fro across the vast expanses of North Africa would take him to within a hair's breadth of occupying Egypt, earning him the nickname the Desert Fox... Dur: 18.27  File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:39:00 GMT ]


507 Rommel - Part 2
January 1941 after his successes storming across France, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General by Hitler and recalled to Berlin. His career was about to take a turn that would ensure his fame - he was ordered to North Africa to command the Deutsches Afrika Korps, his exploits to and fro across the vast expanses of North Africa would take him to within a hair's breadth of occupying Egypt, earning him the nickname the Desert Fox... Dur: 18.27  File: .mp3 ...

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[ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:39:00 GMT ]

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