World War Two

An interview with Susan Elia MacNeal, author of the novel, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy. The book is inspired by a real-life mother and daughter to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II.

An interview with Ben Macintyre, author of the new book, Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison. In the book, Macintyre looks at one of history’s most notorious prisons, and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors.

In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and a portrait of living, dying, and surviving in war-torn Berlin. (Part II of interview).

In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and a portrait of living, dying, and surviving in war-torn Berlin.

Note: This is an encore edition of our program that first aired in April 2020.In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how…

Note: This is an encore edition of our program that first aired in April 2020.In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how…

This is an encore presentation.It’s May 1943. The Battle of Attu between American and Japanese forces was raging on the Aleutian island, with an Arctic…

This interview originally aired Oct. 1, 2020.During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were ordered by the U.S. government to be incarcerated…

During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were ordered by the U.S. government to be incarcerated in remote camps. The order, signed by…

This interview originally aired Apr. 20, 2020. Most college students dread group projects. Dividing the work evenly is always hard, and even basic…