🎧 Tank 100: Part One - World War Two Tank Commander with Captain David Render
20th Century • 38m
Captain David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France to join a veteran armoured unit that had already spent years fighting with the Desert Rats in North Africa. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long.
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🎧 Tank 100: Part Two with David Willey
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🎧 Tariffs and Trade Wars with Marc Palen
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🎧 The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 1)
On Christmas Eve 1914 many sectors of the Western Front in France and Belgium fell silent. Troops from all sides put down their weapons and sang carols, exchanged gifts and buried their dead in No Man's Land. The following day the truce continued in many, but not all areas, and troops gathered in...
