The Battle of Stalingrad

History Podcasts

Podcast by Des Latham

Episodes

Episode 34 - The Battle of Stalingrad ends and the world changes

Episode 33 - Field Marshal Paulus surrenders but the northern pocket fights on

Episode 32 - Goebbels declares “Total War” as crows peck at the eyeballs of the dead

Episode 31 - Pitomnik Airfield overrun and Major Thiel talks to dead men at Gumrak

Episode 30 - Voronov’s “God of War” turns the melody of the front into a real-world Goya nightmare

Episode 29 - The noose tightens and Hoth’s elastic withdrawal delays the Russian attack on Rostov

Episode 28 - Tatsinskaya airfield overrun and Manstein turns around on Christmas eve

Episode 27 - Little Saturn steamrolls the Italian 8th Army

Episode 26 - Operation Winter Storm begins but Zhukov has other plans

Episode 25 - The Kessel forms as the Sixth Army receives a Last Tango in Stalingrad

Episode 24 - German horror in Stalingrad “we’re surrounded!”

Episode 23 - Trumpets herald the start of Operation Uranus

Episode 22 - Zhukov finalises plans for Operation Uranus as Paulus' health fails

Episode 21 -Hitler’s hubris at a Munich Beer Hall as crack German engineers arrive in Stalingrad

Episode 20 - Paulus receives a shocking briefing as ice floes drift down the Volga

Episode 19 - “Animals flee this hell, the hardest stones cannot bear it for long.. only men endure…”

Episode 18 - A massive attack begins on the 14th October as the Germans target the Tractor Factory

Episode 17 - Pavlov defends his house as Hitler orders a major attack on the 14th October

Episode 16 - Sergeant Pavlov, Railway Crows and the Sixth Army targets the Red October plant

Episode 15 - Dust and gore in the Grain Elevator as Hitler fires Army chief General Halder