5 Reasons the Allies Won the War
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What really tipped the scales in the Allies’ favour during World War II? In this episode, we break down five critical reasons behind the Allied victory - from strategic coordination to Hitler’s own catastrophic mistakes.
Joining us to dig into this is James Holland, historian of the Second World War and co-host of the 'We Have Ways of Making You Talk' podcast.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks, Dan here. I have some very, very exciting news for you. |
| 0:04.6 | To celebrate our 10th anniversary with you, we are doing a live show of Dan Snow's history, |
| 0:09.9 | hit the first for a very, very long time. |
| 0:12.4 | So please join me on Friday the 12th of September in London Town. |
| 0:16.5 | By popular demand, I'll be retelling the story of the legend Thomas Cochran, |
| 0:20.4 | the goat, greatest |
| 0:21.2 | of all time, the man who inspired the movie Master and Commander, and looking back, over 10 |
| 0:27.3 | years of making this podcast, Prime Minister's Oscar winners, World War II veterans, |
| 0:33.8 | Holocaust survivors, and some of the greatest historians in the world. |
| 0:38.2 | It's a time for me to hang out with you guys and answer any burning questions you may have. |
| 0:42.6 | So don't miss it. It's going to be an epic party and there is no one I'd rather spend it with. |
| 0:46.6 | All of you, dedicated listeners. |
| 0:48.4 | You can get tickets to the link in the show notes, but hurry because they are selling fast. |
| 0:52.1 | See you there. Welcome everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's Historyhead. It is the greatest and most terrible, destructive |
| 1:12.5 | war in history. World War II, the Second World War. We've talked about it so often on this podcast. |
| 1:22.8 | Many of us are so fascinated by its monstrous size, intensity, its scale, its repercussions, but also by the |
| 1:30.4 | details, the experiences that men, women and children had in the front line or in factories |
| 1:36.1 | or in crowded stations of the London Underground sheltering from the Blitz. |
| 1:42.2 | And yet something we haven't really done on this podcast is to just |
| 1:44.8 | step back and ask the biggest question of all. Why did the Allies win? And the answer isn't |
| 1:53.0 | straightforward. First of all, never forget that at the sharp end, victory had to be won, |
| 1:59.8 | out, to be carved out, to be delivered by the young men who |
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