228. The Battle of the Bulge

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests of the Ardennes in Belgium, hoping to smash through the Allied lines in the west and retake the Belgian port of Antwerp on the coast of the English Channel. Joining Saul to discuss the Battle of the Bulge is bestselling historian Sir Antony Beevor, who provides a deeply informative and definitive account of the Battle from his expertise from writing his award winning book - Ardennes 1944: The Battle of The Bulge. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	The Hello and welcome to Battleground 44 with me, Saul David.
0:47.2	Patrick is taking the afternoon off, but we're very lucky to have with us today, Sir Anthony
0:52.7	Bieber, to discuss an event that took place roughly
0:55.8	80 years ago, and that was when Hitler's backs-to-the-wall army launched Operation Watch on the Rhine,
1:02.4	better known as the Battle of the Bulge, which was, of course, eventually, we know now,
1:07.1	the last great offensive of the war launched by the Germans against weekly held American
1:11.7	positions in the Ardennes Forest, which of course just happened to be the site of their original
1:16.7	Blitzkrieg success. Well, Anthony's written many bestselling and award-winning books, including
1:22.3	Stalingrad, Berlin, and most recently Russia, Revolution and Civil War, 1917 to 1921. But his title most relevant
1:30.8	to our discussion today is, of course, Ardennes, 1944, Hitler's Last Gamble, which was published in
1:37.1	2015, I think. Anthony, that was nine years ago. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm guessing you've had
1:43.5	to do a bit of reminding of yourself of exactly what happened.
1:47.0	So you're absolutely right. It is always rather alarming when one suddenly realizes that a book one's written quite a bit of time ago and how little you remember.
1:56.2	But actually you go back and you reread and you think, well, actually, that's not too bad. And then you think, well, perhaps in another place, well, perhaps I could have put that one better. But
2:03.9	anyway, the important thing is a question of remembering what happened. And of course, it was
2:10.0	one of not just the vital last great battle on the Western Front, but it was also, I'm afraid,
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