Little known or forgotten stories from World War II. The spies, heroes, decision-makers and the moments that changed everything. Hosted by U.S. Navy Veteran and World War II historian Alan Best
The Warnings That Were There - Pearl Harbor, The Intelligence Failure, and The Forty Minutes Nobody Acted On
Send us Fan Mail WWII Unwound — S04E01Episode Title: The Warnings That Were There — Pearl Harbor, The Intelligence Failure, and The Forty Minutes Nobody Acted On Season Four Premiere — The Pacific and The Reckoning At 7:02 in the morning on December 7th, 1941, Private Joseph Lockard of the United States Army stared at the screen of a radar set on the northern tip of Oahu and saw something so large that his first thought was that the machine had malfunctioned. It hadn't. It was more than fifty...
3 Nov 2026
The Things I Saw Beggar Description - The Liberation of the Camps and Eisenhower's Decision to Make the World Witness
Send us Fan Mail WWII Unwound — S03E08Episode Title: The Things I Saw Beggar Description — The Liberation of the Camps and Eisenhower's Decision to Make the World Witness Season Three Finale — The Decisions That Shaped the Western War On April 4th, 1945, soldiers of the American 4th Armored Division and 89th Infantry Division entered a labor camp called Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald system in central Germany. It was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by American forces. Eight ...
26 Oct 2026
The Rising That Was Left to Die - The Warsaw Uprising and Stalin's Deliberate Pause
Send us Fan Mail WWII Unwound — S03E07Episode Title: The Rising That Was Left to Die — The Warsaw Uprising and Stalin's Deliberate Pause Season 3, Episode 7 — The Decisions That Shaped the Western War At five o'clock in the afternoon on August 1st, 1944 — the moment the Polish resistance called W Hour — the Polish Home Army rose against the German occupation of Warsaw. Approximately forty to fifty thousand fighters, many poorly armed, some carrying weapons hidden since the 1939 invasion, laun...
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