Overlord
7/7/202638 min
After years of discussion over how to take the fight directly to Germany, the Allies set a target for a cross-channel invasion: Normandy, spring of 1944. But the road to Operation Overlord is no easy journey, with Hitler lying in wait. For the Allies, it’s a race to pull off one of the most complicated operations in military history.
This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):
- Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster
- Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum
- Craig L. Symonds, military historian and author
- Sarada Peri, presidential speechwriter and political analyst
- Dan Carlin, podcaster, Hardcore History
- Jon Meacham, presidential historian
- Michel Paradis, professor, Columbia University
- Geoffrey Wawro, professor, University of North Texas
- Dr. Peter Lieb, military historian and author
- James Holland, military historian and author
- Colonel Douglas Douds, professor, US Army War College
- Dr. Rebecca Grant, national security analyst
- Martin Morgan, military historian and author
- Paul Woodadge, author and Normandy battlefield guide
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Tom Hanks0:29
The History Channel Original Podcast. [suspenseful music] By the late fall of 1943, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union have dealt the Third Reich multiple blows. The Allies have dislodged the Germans from North Africa and Sicily, and are fighting their way up the Italian boot, while the Red Army, after victories at Stalingrad and Kursk, pushes west towards Germany. The next step for the Allies is the long-anticipated invasion of Northern Europe.
Jeremy Reagan1:07
[bombs exploding] This is World War 2 with Tom Hanks, Episode 13: Overlord.
Speaker 41:17
Wings over the mountains by Baghdad and the Dead Sea, three planes from the supreme headquarters of Britain, the United States, and the USSR bring to the capital of Persia the leaders of the war against Germany. This is for the three-way conference