Welcome to True Spies.

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Lobbin.

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

What do they know? What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

Vengeance felt good.

Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.

True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts.

In January of 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, became encased in the ice in the

Weddle Sea.

Through determination, grit and savvy, Shackleton would lead his men through a brutal winter, then over hundreds of miles

of Antarctic ice, followed by 800 miles across some of the roughest waters in the world. It is one of

the most extraordinary and inspirational journeys in the history of exploration. Find this story,

and many others, at the Explorers Podcast,

available wherever you get your podcasts or at explorerspodcast.com.

Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, episode

578, Operation Oration. Last time, we took a slight detour to see how the allies were further

reducing the supplies coming to Von Armin and his remaining Axis troops,

now bottled up in northeastern Tunisia. Tied to Operation Flacks was the reduction of the air

defenses on Sicily, the next target, but one thing at a time. Tunisia had to fall. The further north, General Mesa moved his first

Italian army. The more airfields in central Tunisia became accessible to the Allies. Soon,

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