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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Black Thursday 1943 and Crossing The Volturno

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland turn back the clocks to investigate two seismic events of the Second World War that happened 80 years ago this week. They first discuss the Fifth Army’s crossing of the River Volturno in Italy, drawing on eye-witness accounts, and then the disastrous second bombing of Schweinfurt on 14 October 1943 by the US Eighth Air Force that became known as Black Thursday. A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: wehavewayspod.com Members’ Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let James Holland take you to places in history. You've never been before.

0:04.6

The Savage Storm is the fascinating new book which brings to life the story of our Allied forces

0:09.8

as they crossed into southern Italy in 1943.

0:12.8

With unflinching and insightful detail, Holland places you in the heart of the action of this most pivotal

0:17.9

and brutal battles of the war with Germany.

0:20.4

The Savage Storm is out now in hardback and available from all good bookshops.

0:30.0

Alarm! Alarm! Welcome to We Have Ways To Make Your Talk.

0:38.0

That's more like it. It's actually better than actual, isn't it?

0:42.0

Well, it's just, I mean, it's been under a bunch of times.

0:46.0

It's 700 days I've been saying it in South Korean.

0:49.0

I mean, I just thought I'd mixed things up so you know, this is the first episode of the next 700 episodes

0:58.0

of We Have Ways To Make Your Talk.

1:01.0

700 first. Thank you everyone for sticking with us all for joining us.

1:06.0

It's a proper milestone. That was with Thursday's We Have Ways USA, which is fantastic stuff about 11th Airborne

1:14.0

and a little bit of Market Garden Chat as well, Jim, I noticed.

1:17.0

Yep. I'm a subject to which with Spanner's Descending, the re-me at Arnhem.

1:24.0

And it starts off basically. They're just, you know, they're for the Geek book.

1:28.0

Well, they're, you know, they're fixing stuff.

1:31.0

There's a brilliant bit where the bloat running...

1:34.0

Spanner's Descending.

1:35.0

...with the bloat running one of the field hospitals.

1:38.0

He captures a Nazi staff car which I have a suspicion James might be a citron.

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