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How do you win a war alongside someone you distrust? In a new season, Allied by War, historian David Reynolds and producer Russell Barnes explore the uneasy Second World War alliance of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, the bargains behind victory and the consequences still shaping our world. A new 13-part series from Creating History.
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Allied by War is hosted by David Reynolds and Russell Barnes. Original music by Rich Farnsworth. Sound production by Andrew Chappell. Studio facilities by Storm Post.
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- Allied by War: CHURCHILL'S SOFT UNDERBELLY · 39 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 5Britain’s familiar war story jumps from Churchill’s finest hour to D-Day. But what happened in between? As Singapore and Tobruk fall in 1942, the prime minister faces humiliation…
- Allied by War: STALIN ÜBER ALLIES · 39 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 4The Red Army is now advancing west, and Stalin intends to claim the victory. From Operation Bagration in June 1944 to the climactic battle for Berlin, Soviet military success…
- Allied by War: STALIN'S FIGHTBACK · 45 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 3Hitler’s invasion brings the Soviet Union close to collapse. Stalin’s response mixes dogged defiance with appalling cruelty, but survival demands something else, something…
- Allied by War: THE DICTATOR WHO MISREAD HITLER · 43 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 2On 22nd June 1941, Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Stalin has dismissed repeated warnings. How did a man who saw enemies everywhere so disastrously misjudge the threat from Nazi…
- Allied by War: AN ALLIANCE OF MISTRUST · 18 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 1In the Kremlin in October 1944, Churchill slides a sheet of paper across the table. Stalin marks it with his blue pencil. Behind the public show of Allied unity, power is being…
- Summitry: Trumpery 2.0 & Conclusions · 35 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 12In this conclusion to Creating History’s series on international summitry, we dissect how Donald Trump has returned with a vengeance, turning summitry into something like a…
- Summitry: Trumpery 1.0 · 44 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 11In the first of a double Creating History episode, we dissect Donald Trump’s unorthodox first-term foreign policy through the lens of historical analysis. How did a reality-TV…
- Summitry: Bushwhacking · 54 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 10We dissect one of the most consequential - and controversial - political partnerships of the 21st century: the alliance between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S…
- Summitry: End of the Evil Empire part 2 · 32 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 9When history hinges on a handshake... Concluding a double episode on Reagan and Gorbachev’s high-stakes diplomatic dance, Creating History explores a series of summits in the…
- Summitry: End of the Evil Empire part 1 · 42 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 8In the first of a double episode charting the end of the Cold War, we go behind the scenes of the dramatic 1985 Geneva Summit, where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev…
- Summitry: Cabin Diplomacy · 45 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 7Thirteen days. Three leaders. One impossible goal. In 1978, Jimmy Carter corralled Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin at Camp David, demanding an end to 30 years of…
- Summitry: Nixon Dances · 36 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 6In this episode of Creating History, we unravel the paradox of Richard Nixon’s 1972 summits in Beijing and Moscow, where his political cunning and outsider ambition inspired…
- Summitry: Nutcracker · 50 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 5Step into the pressure cooker of Cold War diplomacy as we dissect the explosive 1961 Vienna Summit - a face-off between John F. Kennedy, America’s untested young president, and…
- Summitry: Big Three · 39 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 4In this episode: we dissect the Tehran and Yalta summits between the so-called ’Big Three’ of Allied leaders in World War Two, American President Franklin Roosevelt, British…
- Summitry: Peace for Our Time part 2 · 43 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 3In this second episode dissecting the tense negotiations of September 1938, when Neville Chamberlain raced against time to prevent a war with Hitler’s Germany over…
- Summitry: Peace for Our Time part 1 · 39 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 2Step into the high-stakes world of 1938, where peace in Europe hung on a series of summits between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, culminating in the notorious Munich…
- Inventing Summitry · 31 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 1In episode 1 of Summitry, producer Russell Barnes and historian David Reynolds explore the backstory of high-stakes diplomacy on the world stage, from the Field of the Cloth of…
- Creating Churchill: CONCLUSIONS · 39 mnt · Musim 1 Episode 11In the final episode of the series, published on the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth, David and Russell bring together the main themes of the podcast, discussing…
- Creating Churchill: DEVOTED CRITIC · 48 mnt · Musim 1 Episode 10In this episode, we come to the person who knew Winston Churchill better than any other, and for the longest time - his wife of 56 years, Clementine. Their marriage was a stormy…
- Creating Churchill: OPPOSITION · 30 mnt · Musim 1 Episode 9In this episode, we explore Winston Churchill’s relationship with his political opponent Clement Attlee: Labour leader, wartime coalition colleague and eventually Churchill’s…
