Between The Lines - Ep 14

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Welcome along to a new episode of our We Have Ways series - Between the Lines.

Between The Lines is a We Have Ways production

Julia ‘Ma’ Blyth is read by Ruth Sillers

David Blyth is read by Matthew Malthouse

Oscar Griswold is read by Michael Lyons

Chester Hansen is read by Lance Fuller

Vere Hodgson is read by Rachel Holland

Heinz Knoke is read by Lukas Wechsler

Bertie Packer is read by Paul Waggott

Willhelm Mauss is read by Alex Figuierdo

Jack Ward is read by Adam Jarrell

Harry Wilson is read by Joel Emery

Narration is by James Holland and Al Murray

Editing by Jon Gill and Joey McCarthy

Written and produced by Merryn Walters

The executive producer is Tony Pastor

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0:44.4	Hello and welcome to this edition of Between the Lines.
0:47.8	The podcast that desiphers the handwriting, unfolds faded pages and dips into the details of diaries,
0:54.8	logbooks and letters written during this same week. There or thereabouts.
0:59.6	In 1943, some 80 years ago.
1:03.9	Let's start with a quick recap of the situation.
1:19.2	This is the week that Operation Citadel begins on the Eastern Front.
1:23.4	More commonly known is the Battle of Kursk. The aim for Germany was to pinch off the Kursk
1:29.4	salient, a kind of bulge in the Soviet Front line that stretched for about 150 miles from north to
1:35.0	south and extended about 100 miles westward into the German lines. The German offensive
1:41.8	sent almost 781,000 men forward alongside 2928 tanks, attacking from both the north and the south
1:50.1	at the same time. However, the Russians had foreseen that threat to the area for some time and
1:55.8	counted it rapidly, with just under 1.5 million men and 5,128 tanks.
2:03.1	This has always been called the biggest tank battle of the Second World War.
2:07.1	That's been disputed in recent years, but there was certainly a lot of armor involved,
2:11.6	even if not quite as much as previously claimed. In fact, there was a lot of everything,
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