The Commanders: The Best of the Rest
4/6/202641 min
For the final episode in our 'Commanders' series, we've drawn on your suggestions to pay tribute to the commanders who didn’t make our main episodes, but left a lasting mark on the Second World War.
Joining us is Jonathan Bratten, a historian and serving Major in the Maine National Guard.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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Have you been enjoying my podcast and now want even more history? Sign up to HistoryHit and watch the world's best history documentaries on subjects like how William conquered England, what it was like to live in the Georgian era, and you can even hear the voice of Richard III. We've got hundreds of hours of original documentaries, plus new releases every week, and there's always something more to discover. Sign up to join us in historic locations around the world and explore the past. Just visit historyhit.com/subscribe. [gentle music] Hey, folks, welcome to Dan Snow's HistoryHit. The Great Commanders of World War II series has come to an end, but, um, lots of you got in touch to howl at me and demand explanation on why this or that person was not on the list, why they're not included. Where is Yamashita? Eh, where's Slim, Guderian, Manstein? Where are so many others? So by popular demand, really, here is a podcast in which we'll shout out a few other commanders. Sadly, this still won't be comprehensive, but at least it gives us a chance to get a few others out, the ones that we feel really do deserve a mention. Now, there's only one man I could think of to help me with this. That is Jonathan Bratton, a longtime contributor to this podcast. You'll have heard him on here before. We talked about the great commanders of history a couple years ago. But he's also, he's accompanied me around battlefields, the French-Indian War, the Seven Years War in North America, and the American Revolutionary Wars. We were recently in Lexington and Concord together. He has written books, excellent