Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland returns to Someone Talked! to discuss his latest book The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943, in which he narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campai…
Mari K. Eder, retired U.S. Army Major General, returns with more stories of extraordinary women who stepped out of line and into history during WWII, forever altering the world's landscape.
A renowned speaker and author, an…
This Women's History Month, Mari K. Eder, retired U.S. Army Major General, discusses her book, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of WWII. This page-turning narrative, craft…
Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad was named Book of the Year by TIME and Publishers Weekly and is a New York Times Notable Book.
This Black Hi…
This Black History Month author Matthew F. Delmont joins the program to discuss Half American, his definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective.
Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Pr…
Multi-award-winning-author Rich Frank further discusses his research on the often-overlooked Asia-Pacific War and the forthcoming volumes in his narrative history trilogy.
In this episode, James Holland and twin brothers walk into a pub… The author shares that and other tales of memorable veterans who inspired his work. In “We Salute You” Rudolph Arthur was there for the capture of a German U-…
In this episode, Brothers in Arms author James Holland recounts the harrowing tails of the Sherwood Rangers, the legendary tank unit that would receive the most battle honors of any unit ever in the British army. Both a comb…
Richard B. Frank is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Georgetown University Law Center. He served in the Vietnam War with the 101st Airborne Divisions as an aero rifle platoon leader.
Frank is an independent scho…
Self-proclaimed "groupie for the 1st Division" Gregory Fontenot returns to further discuss his divisional history of The Big Red One.
In "We Salute You," as a child Charles Chibitty was sent to a school to erase his native …
Col. Gregory Fontenot joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II.
As a soldier in a graves registration company, Robert Berry cared for D-Day's fallen an…
2023 National Infantry Association Order of St. Maurice recipient Joe Balkoski rejoins the podcast. As research moves from veteran accounts to archeology, we discuss the future of D-Day scholarship.
Blinded while in a Japan…
Named "top living D-Day historian" by USA Today, author Joe Balkoski takes us back to Utah Beach.
In "We Salute You," we honor Peter Monsma, a Dutch native who would return to the Netherlands while serving his adopted home …
Our hosts jump right into the airborne experience in Normandy in this discussion of paratroopers and gliders.
In "We Salute You," we honor, Herman Addleson, a paratrooper who was so eager to serve but lost his life in the …
Peggy Noonan wasn't alive when Rangers scaled the cliffs but was tasked with writing President Reagan's speech to be delivered at Pointe du Hoc. In the audience - the veterans who saved the world. No pressure!
As an army ph…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
Paratrooper-turned-historian James M. Fenelon re-joins our hosts to discuss the 11 th
Airborne Division’s Pacific campaigns, narrated in his latest book…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
Four Hours of Fury author James M. Fenelon goes from Europe to the Pacific as he
chronicles another lesser-known airborne unit in his latest book, Angel…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
In this episode, historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck shares more profiles of World War
II heroines of aviation, from among the 1,100 women who earned the…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
Katherine Sharp Landdeck is an associate professor of history at Texas Woman's
University, home of the WASP archives. She joins the podcast to discuss h…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
While profanity famously rolled off the general's tongue, his hand-written words tell us
even more. Author Kevin Hymel is back with more of Patton uncen…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
Wanna read Patton's diary? Author Kevin Hymel did. Hymel returns to Someone
Talked! to discuss volume 2 of Patton's War: An American General's Combat
Le…
Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.
Some names go down in history while others live in infamy. Find out which World War II
generals get five stars from our hosts.
From musical talent to m…
