Home »
Phil Craig
Episode 266
Episode 262
Episode 261
Episode 259
The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal and Hell, by Gautam Hazarika
A history of Indian soldiers captured by Japan in 1942, centred on the Indian National Army and the choices men made to survive.
At a time when when India's independence narrative centres on either the much acclaimed (especially by PM Modi) courage and vision of Britain’s implacable enemy, Subhas Chandra Bose, or else Gandhi's non-violence and eloquence, writers and readers alike owe Gautam...
Episode 254
Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two, by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
A sweeping, vividly told history of the Arctic convoys, combining harrowing first-hand testimony and sharp political analysis to reveal the brutal cost and strategic importance of supplying Stalin’s USSR.
In Battle of the Arctic, a magisterial and exhaustive chronicle, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore lays out the perils faced by Allied merchant and naval forces ferrying supplies to Stalin’s Soviet Union with a very well-judged mixture of original testimony – much of it...
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War, by Roger Moorhouse
Wolfpack examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of German U-boat crews and places their experiences within the wider strategic and technological context of the war.
It is hard not to feel for a petrified young man cowering in the dark, his underwater home groaning, cracking and springing leaks, as high explosives detonate yards away and there is just eighteen millimetres of steel holding back oblivion. Yes, even if he is a...
War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World
Bestselling author and award-winning film-maker Phil Craig explains why he felt compelled to tackle the historical forces at play in his new globe-crossing examination of the final year of World War Two.
Not every distinguished historian announces his arrival by the roar of a V8 engine, but Robin Prior is no ordinary historian and - for me at least - this was to be no ordinary lunch. I was planning a new book, the final volume in my Finest Hour trilogy about Britain...