Michael Baker
Death by Numbers
It's impossible to consider the Second World War without reaching for statistics. There are a multitude to choose from and the scale of...
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Michael Baker
- Aug 16
- 2 min
The Big Killer of WW2: Starvation
One of the more startling statistics to come out of the Pacific War of 1941-45 is this: of the 1.7 million Japanese soldiers recorded as...
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Michael Baker
- Jul 26
- 2 min
The Double V Campaign
On this day in 1948 US President Harry Truman signed off Executive Order 9981, directing the American armed services to desegregate by...
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Michael Baker
- Jul 16
- 2 min
Did a Japanese defeat lead to US entry into WW2?
Over the summer months of 1939, a Soviet army commanded by General Zhukov (famous later for becoming the captor of Berlin in 1945) fought...
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Michael Baker
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Was Britain Really 'Alone' in WW2?
Britain was on the winning side in both world wars. Yet it remembers them very differently. Partly perhaps because WW1 failed to 'finish...
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Michael Baker
- Jun 5
- 1 min
WW2's Violent Aftermath
In the immediate post-war years, people desperately wanted to return to some kind of normality. In keeping with this spirit, the popular...
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Michael Baker
- Jun 3
- 1 min
America's 'Good War'
In the 1990s, at roughly the 50th anniversary point, American perceptions of the Second World War became highly nostalgic and...
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Michael Baker
- May 28
- 1 min
China's Forgotten WW2
Present-day China is unthinkable without the Second World War. In 1937, the Communists led by Mao Tse Tung were confined to an area in...
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Michael Baker
- May 23
- 1 min
The Soviet-German War
Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the launch of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The...
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Michael Baker
- May 21
- 2 min
War In The Pacific 1941-45
Exactly 80 years ago today, during June and July 1944, while the Allies in Europe struggled to take back Normandy after D-Day, American...
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Michael Baker
- May 17
- 2 min
Resistance
What we might call the 'underground war' - secret agents, resistance cells and partisan activity - has always been a popular field to...
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Michael Baker
- May 16
- 1 min
The Real Holocaust
Today the Holocaust is misunderstood. At worst, it is simply equated with the death camp at Auschwitz, which actually killed only 1 in 6...
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Michael Baker
- May 14
- 2 min
The Hunger Plan
It's now abundantly clear that more people died of starvation and malnutrition in the Second World War than perished in battle. It's one...
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Michael Baker
- May 9
- 1 min
WW2: A World at War
It's obvious that the Second World War was a global conflict, even more so than WW1, yet we still tend to look at it from a national...
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Michael Baker
- May 8
- 2 min
Revisiting World War Two (WW2)
VE Day (Victory in Europe) falls on 8 May, the date on which the Nazi regime formally and unconditionally surrendered to the Allies in...
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Michael Baker
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
Lest We Forget... But Let's Remember How It Really Was
The Real First World War 10 Episodes - Leading Historians - New Perspectives www.unknownwarriorspod.co.uk
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Michael Baker
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
As we approach the 103rd anniversary of the Armistice...
Was WW1 a 'just' war? Big wars have a habit of changing what warfare means. If your enemy can find a means to best you, however heinous,...
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Michael Baker
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Unknown Warriors
As we approach the 104th anniversary of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, it's an opportune moment to get away from the myths and...
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Michael Baker
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Unknown Warriors - Shell Shock
Exactly 105 years ago today, the 11th Battalion of the Border Regiment, nicknamed the Lonsdales (after their patron the Earl of...
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Michael Baker
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
As we remember again the end of WW1 ...
Total War The idea of total war - which has come back into use during the worldwide battle against Covid - is usually associated with the...
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