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On the On 27 May 1942 Czech SOE agents and local resistance fighters attacked Reinhard Heyrdrich's Mercedes as it drove through Prague. Heydrich, number 2 in the SS, died in agony a few days later. This month's delayed Film Club is Anthropoid, the movie depicting the operation starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan, directed by Sean Ellis.
Joining is Roger Moorhouse, author of The Forgers, and film maker Tim Hewitt.
Links
Anthropoid on IMDB
Anthropoid on Wikipedia
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Hitler and his cronies are often derided as monsters, but that lets them off the hook. Today Richard Evans joins to look at the leading figures of Nazi Germany for who they were as human beings. We also discuss the trial Evans was a key witness for, when holocaust denier Davig Irving attempted to sue Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Random House for libel, later dramatised in the movie, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and John Sessions.
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
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Sensitivity readers; fake history; favourite authors and actors, all are discussed in this bonus episode to coincide with the upcoming Buckingham History Festival.
Jane Thynne, Paul Lay and Miranda Malins join to talk how best to write about the past.
Episode Links
Buckingham History Festival
Jane Thynne: Midnight in Vienna
Paul Lay: Providence Lost
Miranda Malins: The Rebel Daughter
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80 years ago on the 25th August 1944, the great city of Paris was liberated as the German garrison surrendered and Allied troops arrived along the Champs Elysée. The Nazi grip on France may have been broken, but things were not all as they seem. The allied leadership was reluctant to divert precious resources, and the soldiers who arrived first were mostly Spanish. Patrick Bishop joins to discuss his new book and we discuss the initial surrender in 1940, the occupation, the impact on France today as well as the liberation. Patrick has lived in Paris for many years as Bureau Chief for The Telegraph and so brings a knowledge of contemporary events too.
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Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
Josephine Baker: Paris Paris Paris
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On the 1st September 1922 the Turkish Parliament in the new capital of Ankara formally abolished the Sultanate, so ending more than 600 years of Ottoman Rule. The Ottoman Empire had ended, but in its place came the Republic of Turkey, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha also known as Ataturk. Today we discuss the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Turkey with historian Murat Siviloglu and journalist and author Alec Marsh.
Alec’s new book, After the Flood, is a thriller set in the new state of Turkey in the 1930s and Murat is a historian of the period.
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After the Flood
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On the 9th February 1933 the Oxford Union held a debate with the motion “That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country." The motion passed and in a time when such debates were big news, the result sent shockwaves through Europe. This was during the rise of the Nazis, the Soviet grip on Russia and throughout the decade there was an increase in the number of spies, and traitors, in England.
Joining me is Alex Gerlis, author of Every Spy a Traitor as we delve into the atmosphere of the 1930s.
Alex Gerlis Links
Every Spy a Traitor
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Armand D'Angour joins to discuss his new pod, but then we go into a really interesting conversation about Socrates and whether he really is the origin of Western Thought? Is there in fact a woman we should be talking about, the beguiling Aspasia.
Armand D'Angour Links
It's All Greek (& Latin) to Me on Spotify
It's All Greek (& Latin) to Me on Apple
Socrates in Love
Ancient Greek Music on YouTube
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The French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the Industrial Revolution and the collapse of Poland, all these major events were witnessed by Izabela Czartoryska, a Polish aristocrat who was self-taught and is the subject of Adam Zamoyski's latest book. This episode is a sweeping discussion covering many facets of Europe in the 18th century.
Adam Zamoyski is the author of 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow and Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth.
Adam Zamoyski Links
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Izabela Czartoryska - Aspects of History
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
YouTube Debate with Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Roberts on Napoleon
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This week three writers join to talk summer reading recommendations from the world of history and historical fiction.
Books
Paris '44, Patrick Bishop
The King's Mother, Annie Garthwaite
Izabela the Valiant, Adam Zamoyski
Endgame 1944, Jonathan Dimbleby
Sky Warriors, Saul David
The Muse of History, Oswyn Murray
Bonjour, Sophie, Elizabeth Buchan
Iran, Ali Ansari
Spy Masters, Various
The CIA, Hugh Wilford
The Eastern Front, Nick Lloyd
The Sleeping Beauties, Lucy Ashe
Guests
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Antonia Senior - Historical Fiction Reviewer The Times
Roger Moorhouse - Historian
Richard Foreman - Author and Publisher
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When war in Europe ended on the 8th May 1945, much of continent was in ruins. Cities were destroyed and civilians were at the mercy of occupying powers, partisans, bandits and criminals. There were no police forces, no judicial system and food was scarce. Keith Lowe joins to discuss the chaos from France to Poland and Greece to Germany.
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
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On the 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attended a meeting at the Wolf's Lair at which Adolf Hitler was present. He placed a briefcase containing high explosives under the conference table and then departed. A few minutes later the bomb exploded killing four, but crucially not Hitler.
This month's film club is Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise, the 2008 depiction of the July Plot. Joining is Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitler, and film maker Tim Hewitt.
Links
Valkyrie on IMDB
Valkyrie on Wikipedia
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On the 20th July 1944, a bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded under a large table over which Adolf Hitler was examining maps of the Eastern Front. The man who had planted the device, Claus von Stauffenberg, had left just before the explosion to initiate the operation that he hoped would lead to the overthrow of the Nazi regime. The plan failed, and Hitler would survive for another 9 months before his suicide on 30th April 1945.
Was this the closest Hitler came to death? What about the November 8, 1939 when Georg Elser so very nearly succeeded where Stauffenberg would fail more than four years later. And what about Allied attempts - Operation Foxley by the British, and then the very strange idea from the American OSS? Roger covers all these in the first part of our series on the 80th anniversary of the July plot.
Part Two continues on Saturday with Valkyrie, the 2008 film starring Tom Cruise.
Roger Moorhouse Links
Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer
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The Ancient Greeks are the font of all our historical knowledge. Now that's quite a claim, but the historian who joins to discuss makes a strong argument in his book, The Muse of History. Oswyn Murray is one of the country's finest ancient historians and in this chat, beginning with the Peloponnesian War between Athens & Sparta, many subjects are addressed including colonialism, slavery, the wonder of the ancient world, ancient historians fighting in WW1 and WW2 and why we should all learn an ancient language.
Oswyn Murray Links
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
Cover of Thomas Hobbes' translation of Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Emperor Vespasian began construction of the Colosseum and it was completed by his son, Titus. Vespasian is played by Anthony Hopkins in the new show, Those About to Die, and Justin Pollard, historical consultant, joins to discuss gladiators, charioteers and the Circus Maximus under the Flavian Dynasty. Those About to Die hits Prime on the 19th July.
Justin Pollard Links
Charge! The Interesting Bits of Military History
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When Alexander crossed the Hellespont to invade the Persian Empire in 334BC, he began a thirst for war that could not be sated. Territory was not his aim, nor was power for its own sake. What of Germany in 1914 and 1939? Competition with the great powers in the former case, and a demand for resources in the second were important motivations.
Joining to discuss these and other examples is Richard Overy, historian of the Second World War and the author of many bestselling and award winning books.
Richard Overy Links
Why War?
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Between 1763 and 1767 two British surveyors, Charles Mason and Nathaniel Dixon, established the dividing line between the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. For the two hundred years since, the Mason Dixon Line became known as the cultural divide between North and South, Union and Confederate. But is that correct?
Jonn Elledge joins to discuss this and other boundaries including Ireland, India & Pakistan, Israel & Palestine, and most controversial of all, Middlesex.
Jonn Elledge Links
A History of the World in 47 Borders
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Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon
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On the 25th October 1415, the English under Henry V met with the French on the field of Agincourt. The resulting victory, and it was a total victory, has gone down in history alongside Blenheim and Waterloo as the finest by an English or British army.
Gordon Corrigan joins to discuss the build up, the internal strife in England and France, the battle itself and the aftermath.
Part One: Crécy
Part Two: Poitiers
Gordon Corrigan Links
A Great and Glorious Adventure – A History of the Hundred Years War
Agincourt
Finest Hours: Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt
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When France fell in June 1940, the country agreed an armistice with Nazi Germany, and a period of collaboration began, both in occupied France, and with the Vichy government.
Pirate Irwin joins to discuss deportation of the Jews, score-settling, the personalities involved and the murky moral compromises that were made.
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The Tortured Detective
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On a cold and dark night in February 1942, a company of paratroopers dropped on snow covered occupied France - their target: the Würzburg radar.
Max Hastings joins to discuss the thrilling raid, the personalities involved and its impact on the British bombing effort.
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Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
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Concluding our 80th Anniversary D-Day celebrations, Tim Hewitt joins Ollie to discuss the 1962 classic starring John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Robert Wagner, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Richard Todd, Kenneth More, Sean Connery, Curd Jurgens and a host of other Hollywood stars.
But is it any good? And should Cornelius Ryan have been allowed to write the screenplay? And, what about the CGI?
All these questions, and more, are answered in this month's Film Club.
Links
The Longest Day on Wikipedia
The Longest Day on IMDB
Why John Wayne’s Role in the Longest Day Was Hated by Everyone
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