History Book Club

The NAM Rogers professor has no respect for the US Navy. He got the facts wrong about how the dive bombers got away with their attack at Midway land when, and said the battle was a mess despite the US clobbering all 4 of the Japanese carriers. It is very amusing to Pommies that the US armed forces are good at good at anything and would be hopeless without the help of the mother country. Love the show.

Fun and informative Thank you to Ollie and the rest of the crew for putting this on. The podcast adds something valuable to my days Matt

This is a wonderful podcast for anyone looking to further his or her academic knowledge of the past. I have personally enjoyed listening to Oliver while I work during the week as a farmer; his passion and enthusiasm for the show has led me to purchase some of the books mentioned in the podcasts, including Adam Zamoyski’s 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March.

Ah the British… lots of muttering and mumbling, exclamations of “brilliant!“… just a general quirkiness mixed in with heavyweight historical perspectives from such greats as Max Hastings and Antony Beevor.Never before heard a British perspective on the American Civil War, which by the way was a lot shorter than the English Civil Wars. One historian insults Patton, sort of. Lots of interesting stuff on World War II and European history. Dear host: might be interesting to interview a few non-Brits.