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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 493-The Rzhev Meat Grinder

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As both sides still think they can win in the East, Germany and Soviet Russia will clash along the entire line of fighting. But no where more intensely than Rzhev. It will become a black hole of human lives and war equipment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Enjoy what you like.

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Just how you like it.

0:31.2

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Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke.

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Hey everyone, Ray here.

0:46.0

Many of you will be familiar with the number one London Sunday Times bestselling author

0:50.7

and award-winning historian Damien Lewis,

0:53.7

whose many books cover the heroic

0:55.8

exploits of Britain's elite SAS Special Forces Unit, including his bestseller, the Ministry of

1:02.5

Ungentimently Warfare, recently turned into a feature film. Lewis has a new World War II

1:07.9

non-fiction narrative forged in hell, the gripping true story of the

1:12.7

Special Forces heroes who broke the Nazi stranglehold. Lewis was provided with access to the

1:18.6

SAS War Diary, a massive leatherbound volume that SAS leader, Lieutenant Colonel Blair Patty Main,

1:25.7

promoting from Shiren, Germany during World War II.

1:29.0

It was transformed into a diary-come-scrapbook embodying the SAS's wartime history.

1:34.6

For Lewis, this was a veritable treasure trove of never-before-accessed wartime information

1:39.7

that provided a framework for the book.

1:42.2

A note for all you podcast listeners and armchair historians,

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