Episode 487-A 2 Episode Special! Interview with Shannon Monaghan: A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men. Then, Merry Christmas From the Eastern Front

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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2 Ep Special! 1st, Interview with Shannon Monaghan about her book, A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of WW2. Then, as Christmas approaches, the Germans continually fall back, unable to face the onslaught of Zhukov’s attacks. The Holiday will be bleak for the fighting men, but rather lively for the officers far away. And Hitler will find out that his defiant speeches have been for nothing as he is told his men lack enough of anything, but mostly, winter clothing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	UK. Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast
1:15.0	episode 487 interview with Dr Shannon Monaghan about her book A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men, the Forgotten British Special Operation Soldiers of World War II.
1:28.9	Shannon Monaghan is a historian of Modern War. She started her career interning in international arms transfers at the State
1:36.4	Department. Since then, she has worked in strategy consulting in data analytics and taught
1:42.1	writing at Harvard. Her latest book is A Quiet Company of Dangerous
1:46.8	Men. At the height of the war, four SOE agents are dropped into Albania. From there, the war will turn to either Hitler or Stalin's
1:55.7	advantage. Germany has 30 divisions in the region and Berlin wanted to pull some of them
2:00.9	out to help on the eastern front. These SOE agents are to organize, train, and lead resistance
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