One of our sister podcasts on the Parthenon Network is Key Battles of American History.

In this episode, we're giving you a preview of that podcast.

And in this episode, host James Early and guest Sean McIver follow a long-established

key battles tradition by giving brief overviews of the post-war lives and careers of the major leaders,

allies and Axis, discussed in the series.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Key Battles of World War II in Europe, our 10,000-foot

survey of the Second World War in Europe and the areas around it.

I'm your host, James Early, as always, and my co-host, as always, is Sean McIver.

We are in the middle of a four-part series, which we're calling our epilogue, or massive epilogue.

You may recall in our last episode, we talked about some of the changes that the Second World War wrought on Europe, on America,

and on other places. So we saw a lot of changes were made, a lot of major changes. And we're

going to shift gears. And in this episode, we're going to follow a longstanding key battles

of American history tradition. And we are going to focus on key leaders in the war.

We're going to tell you what happened to just the top of the top leaders after the war and

what went on with their career and their life, and when did they die, and how old were they?

So this is a tradition going all the way back to my Civil War series many years ago.

And it's one of my favorite things to do. So we're going to jump right into it just a minute.

And again, we can't possibly cover every single person. You may be thinking, well, what about so-and-so?

I deliberately limited this to people who, first of all, they had to be alive at the end of the war.

So that eliminated a lot of people. Especially Germans of all, they had to be alive at the end of the war, so that eliminated a lot of

people.

Especially Germans.

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