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History of the Second World War

Interview 41: Motorization with Bruce Gudmundsson

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this interview I was joined by Bruce Gudmundsson to discuss some of the benefits, challenges, and difficulties of motorization in the armies of the Second World War. Check out way more of Bruce's writing over on Substack: https://tacticalnotebook.substack.com/ Contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to advertise on History of the Second World War. History of the Second World War is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:09.4

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the

0:14.3

voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the

0:18.9

thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

0:23.0

and so many other famous, and not so famous, adventures from throughout history.

0:27.4

Go to Explorerspodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.

0:31.6

That's the Expl World War interview.

0:51.1

Today I'm joined by Bruce Goodminson, creator of the Tactical Notebook on Substack and the

0:56.5

author of several books on military history, including one I'm going to point out that was

1:00.4

written several years ago called Storm Troop Tactics, which I call out specifically because I

1:05.5

read the book back in the history of the Great War years, and I am, I have it back on my to read list for another

1:13.6

upcoming project. So Bruce, welcome to the podcast. And I'm going to try a new thing on this

1:18.7

interview. What is something that keeps you interested in history after all your viewers of

1:24.0

studying and writing about it? Oh, that's a great question.

1:27.6

First of all, thank you for inviting me.

1:29.8

I'm delighted to be here.

1:32.0

There's always something new.

1:35.6

There are always lots of surprises.

1:38.6

The things you think you know turn out to be, if not different, more nuanced. So you can always go further and

1:49.5

further. Yes. And on the tactical notebook, you often go quite deep into some topics for sure.

1:59.0

Yes, yes. No, no. There's a lot of really good military history

2:04.4

out there. And so I'm really looking to provide something that readers really can't find elsewhere.

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