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  • 10. Archie Wavell with Victoria Schofield

    10. Archie Wavell with Victoria Schofield
    2025/08/04
    This week Jack and Rob welcome Archie Wavell's biographer Victoria Schofield onto the pod.

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    1 時間 11 分
  • 9. Experiencing the Retreat - James Lunt

    9. Experiencing the Retreat - James Lunt
    2025/07/28
    This week Jack and Rob take review their first book: the truly excellent A Hell a Licking: Retreat from Burma by James Lunt. A staff officer during the retreat, he recalled, the confusion, lack of preparedness, but also courage of the men of 1st Burma Division.

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    1 時間 4 分
  • 8. Reporting the Retreat - War Correspondents in Burma

    8. Reporting the Retreat - War Correspondents in Burma
    2025/07/21
    This week Jack and Rob welcome historian Philip Woods, author of Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma - hear some fascinating stories of the brave journalists in Burma in 1942 as the imperial edifice collapsed around them.

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    1 時間 3 分
  • 7. The Burma Rifles & the Burma Army

    7. The Burma Rifles & the Burma Army
    2025/07/14
    Joining Jack and Rob this week is Historian Steve Rothwell to talk about the Burma Rifles, and the Burma Army in general. Steve also runs the indiaburmasoldiers.co.uk website, and fantastic resource to begin research into the Burma Campaign.

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    1 時間 15 分
  • 6. The Chinese in Burma

    6. The Chinese in Burma
    2025/07/07
    This week Rob and Jack look into the Chinese role in the retreat from Burma, and the relationships between the US, China and Britain. They focus on the military side of things, although there will be more on Chinese troops as they evacuated the country in another episode later in the series...

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    52 分
  • 5. The Jungle Rats - 7th Armoured Brigade in Burma

    5. The Jungle Rats - 7th Armoured Brigade in Burma
    2025/06/30

    Jack finally gets to nerd out on 7th Armoured Brigade in the retreat in 1942 - and Rob happily indulges him!



    Listeners may notice that Jack mentions an interview with Victoria Schofield the previous week - due to unforeseen circumstances this has been pushed back to later in the series.

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    52 分
  • 4. James Holland on Harold Alexander

    4. James Holland on Harold Alexander
    2025/06/23
    This week Jack and Rob welcome author and historian James Holland onto the pod to discuss Harold Alexander.

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    52 分
  • 3. Rangoon Falls

    3. Rangoon Falls
    2025/06/16
    After the Sittang Bridge disaster, Rangoon was the next. Rob and Jack now look at the decision to abandon the capital, followed by the famous roadblock action at Taukkyan, and the retreat north to Prome.

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    58 分