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Episode 169
Birds of Prey, by Philip W. Blood
A little known history that finally puts to bed the assumption that it was only Nazis who carried out killings during the Holocaust.
Birds of Prey, by Philip W. Blood The Bialowieźa forest, in Poland and Belarus, is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The forest is full of interesting plant life and a wide range of wildlife including wolves, wild boar, deer and European bison. No wonder then, that...
Episode 150
Philip W. Blood on Birds of Prey
The historian of the Second World War has uncovered new detail on atrocities in eastern Poland.
Philip W. Blood, Birds of Prey is an extraordinary piece of work using groundbreaking research to produce an original book on the Second World War. Not an easy feat. Was this a story you discovered, or one you always wanted to tell? The book is both a narrative I was...
Philip W. Blood
The historian of the Second World War discusses history, his writing and influences.
Philip W. Blood, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? My fascination with twentieth-century warfare was ignited by several memorable moments in childhood. My father, an aircraft design engineer with Avro, introduced me to the fascinating...
How Did the Ordinary German Soldier Behave During the War and the Holocaust?
A new collection of essays raise important questions on the war in Ukraine.
How did the Ordinary German Soldier Behave During the War and the Holocaust? In 1997, I unearthed the war diaries of two Luftwaffe security battalions from the years 1942 to 1944. These diaries meticulously chronicled the battalion, company, platoon, and squad level...
Philip W. Blood
Dr. Philip W. Blood, a British historian based in Germany, who delves into the darkest chapters of human history through original research. Renowned for his ground-breaking works - Hitler’s Bandit Hunters (2006) and Birds of Prey (2021), he exposes the harrowing realities of the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. In his latest masterpiece, War Comes to Aachen (2024), he unveils the tragedy of Total War's brutality.
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Putin’s War, Russian Genocide, Edited by Philip W. Blood
Will stand the test of time much in the same way as Ken Burns' iconic series on the American Civil War.
On 24 February 2022, President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in effect a massive escalation of a war he had begun in 2014 as a direct result of Ukraine’s ‘Revolution of Dignity’ which ousted the authoritarian regime of his ally Viktor...
Philip W. Blood on Putin’s War
A new book looks at the Russo-Ukrainian War from social media to Putin's genocidal tendencies.
Philip W. Blood, many congratulations on this fascinating collection of essays. Why did you want to embark on this project? Thank you. The impetus to write the book originally followed from posting an open access paper on academic websites. The paper postulated that...