🎧 Douglas Haig: The Most Hated Man in Modern British History?
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 31m
Gary Sheffield is Professor of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton, and a specialist on Britain at war 1914-45. Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory is Gary's latest book.
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🎧 Dresden: 75 Years On
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🎧 Dunkirk Veterans
Dan meets some of the surviving Dunkirk veterans on the famous Little Ships which helped to rescue them from the beaches.;The Little Ships of Dunkirk were 700 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helpin...
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🎧 Zeus
Zeus, the chief deity, is the Olympian god of sky and thunder. He is king of all other gods and men, and the key figure in Greek mythology.
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