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The messy US invasion of France in WWII with Robert Fuller

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Robert Fuller After D-Day

The messy US invasion of France in WWII with Robert Fuller

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Robert Fuller is a professor and historian who took on the task of understanding the true nature of the US presence of France in WWII. We spoke about the war and the many ways in which France did and did not cooperate with the US during WWII. After D-Day: The U.S. Army Encounters the French (LSU Press, 2021)

0:41 – Robert talks about how he got into studying the US in France.

2:16 – Robert talks about how he laid the book out.

4:00 – Robert talks about the occupation of France.

5:04 – Robert talks about what was problematic between France and the US.

9:45 – Robert goes into details about problems at the ground level.

13:58 – Robert talks about French citizens who sympathized with the Nazis.

18:07 – Robert goes into detail about what happened in France after V-E day.

20:39 – Robert talks about what happened to the Germans in southwest France.

23:04 – Robert talks about de Gaulle.

24:48 – Robert talks about the aid given to France by the US.

28:09 – Robert talks about communism in France.

33:38 – Robert talks about research that didn’t make it into the book.

36:20 – Robert talks about French colonial territories.

42:08 – Robert talks about New Caledonia.

43:47 – Robert talks about French islands in the Caribbean.

47:37 – Robert talks about what resources he used for the book including the French town archives he went to.

52:42 – Robert talks about an American riot by the 101st in France.

54:32 – Robert talks about American crime and gangs in France.

57:15 – Robert talks about the size of the black market in France.

1:02:53 – Robert talks about the Red Ball Express.

1:05:20 – Robert talks about the Nazi massacre of French school girls.

1:06:21 – Robert talks about traveling through France.

1:15:17 – Information on the book can be found at the LSU Press website.

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https://lsupress.org/books/detail/after-d-day/

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Guests: Robert Fuller

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, LSU Press, American history, WWII, United States, Germany, France, Britain,

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How did the British lose the Saratoga Campaign and the American Revolution with Kevin Weddle

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Kevin J. Weddle Compleat Victory Saratoga

How did the British lose the Saratoga Campaign and the American Revolution with Kevin Weddle

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Kevin J. Weddle is Professor of Military Theory and Strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He graduated from West Point and served in the US Army for 28 years on active duty in command and staff positions before retiring as a colonel. We spoke about his new book on the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolution. The Compleat Victory (Oxford University Press, 2021)

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1:08 – Kevin talks about why he wrote about the Saratoga campaign.

2:01- Kevin talks about how he laid out the book.

5:09 – Kevin talks about Great Britain’s approach to the Saratoga Campaign.

7:12 – Kevin talks about British knowledge of the battlefield and how it affected planning.

13:00 – Kevin talks about the makeup of the forces involved in the fight.

13:47 – Kevin talks about US approaches to the British forces.

17:12 – Kevin talks about Washington’s knowledge of the British way of fighting.

18:07 – Kevin talks about the Congress’ feelings about the Saratoga campaign and the Northern department.

22:27 – Kevin talks about Washington’s planning for the campaign.

25:26 – Kevin talks about how British strategy developed for 1777.

32:16 – Kevin talks about poor British management in North America.

34:56 – Kevin talks about Native American participation in the campaign.

39:38 – Kevin talks about how he discusses strategy and leadership in the book.

43:06 – Kevin talks about the resources he used for the book.

44:40 – Kevin talks about the libraries he enjoyed using.

45:55 – Kevin talks about British feelings for the colonists.

46:58 – Kevin talks about being surprised by how much Washington ran everything going on.

48:17 – Kevin talks about Washington’s demeanor during the campaign.

49:30 – Kevin talks about French observers at the campaign.

50:37 – Kevin talks about other nations’ involvement in the war.

51:49 – Kevin talks about questions that will probably never be answered.

53:49 – Kevin goes into details about the two final battles.

58:38 – Kevin talks about the tragedy of the British POWs after the campaign.

1:02:09 – Kevin talks about Germans becoming Americans and praising North America.

1:04:02 – Kevin talks about British fortifications.

1:05:23 – Kevin talks about how Burgoyne felt about American forces and loyalist support for the British.

1:06:53 – Kevin talks about the siege of Fort Stanwix.

1:11:07 – Kevin talks about Burgoyne’s artillery.

1:15:12 – Kevin talks about the German troops.

1:16:14 – Information on the book can be found on the Oxford University Press website.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2PrwGpB

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-compleat-victory-9780195331400?cc=us&lang=en&

Sofia Glover talks about her fantasy novel set in post Civil War Philadelphia https://wp.me/p7CDU9-576

Jacqueline and Simon Mitton talk about astronomer Vera Rubin http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/760

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For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar1945 and on Instagram @crisalvarezwarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Kevin J. Weddle

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Oxford University Press, American Revolution, United States, Britain,

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How the OSS supported Yugoslavia independence movements in WWII – Interview with Blaz Torkar

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Blaz Torkar Mission Yugoslavia OSS

How the OSS supported Yugoslavia independence movements in WWII – Interview with Blaz Torkar

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Blaž Torkar is an assistant professor of history at the Military Schools Centre of the Slovenian Armed forces. He researches the history of intelligence services, Allied military missions in Yugoslavia during WWII, the Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defense, and the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991. He wrote a book on the OSS in Yugoslavia during WWII and we spoke about the book, the OSS, and Yugoslavian resistance movements. Mission Yugoslavia (McFarland, 2020)

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1:05 – Blaz talks about his interest in the OSS in Yugoslavia.

2:18 – Blaz describes the OSS and SOE.

4:12 – Blaz talks about the resistance movements in Yugoslavia.

5:56 – Blaz talks about Churchill’s ULTRA reports.

8:54 – Blaz talks about OSS support to the Yugoslavian resistance movements.

11:11 – Blaz talks about problems between the US and the movements they supported.

12:54 – Blaz talks how the OSS did some fighting in Yugoslavia.

14:06 – Blaz talks about Soviet advisors in Yugoslavia in 1944.

14:36 – Blaz talks about the physical security used for the operations

16:03 – Blaz goes into details about how operations were run.

18:15 – Blaz talks about the Yugoslavs who worked for OSS.

20:39 – Blaz talks about prisoner exchanges for OSS members.

22:10 – Blaz talks about Americans captured by the Germans.

23:22 – Blaz talks about partisans who killed Americans.

23:52 – Blaz talks about the resistance in Serbian areas. [Note: Blaz noted later that he accidentally neglected to mention the first Serbian resistance at the start of the country and region’s occupation.  He states by email that at the beginning of the occupation of Serbia in 1941 the resistance largely spread but it it was brutally suppressed by the Germans.  Then resistance continued in Serbia in 1944.]

25:18 – Blaz talks about the impact the OSS had.

27:18 – Blaz talks about the archives he used.

28:38 – Blaz talks about speaking with OSS and SOE veterans.

29:39 – Blaz talks about the airfields used to fly OSS and Soe into Yugoslavia.

30:26 – Blaz talks about how the partisans kept these airfields secret.

34:56 – Blaz talks about the Americans picked for these missions.

35:24 – Blaz talks about some of the exceptions to whom the OSS recruited.

36:00 – Blaz talks about how OSS and MI-6 were treated in Yugoslavia.

36:55 – Blaz talks about how many missions were working in Yugoslavia but they refused to send troops there.

39:55 – Blaz talks about the OSS sending people into the wrong areas of Yugoslavia.

41:23 – Blaz talks about German spies among the partisans.

42:42 – Blaz talks about how he focused on northern Yugoslavia missions.

43:41 – Blaz talks about the strongly preserved memory of this fighting even today.

45:49 – Blaz talks about the memorials to US and British soldiers.

46:42 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav preservation of allied memorials.

48:28 – Blaz talks about the discussions of the Yugoslavia post-war regimes.

49:30 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav history books highlighted Soviet help.

51:24 – Blaz talks about the so called betrayal of Churchill by Tito.

54:13 – Blaz talks about the recruited Yugoslavs and what they did after the war.

59:26 – Blaz is currently working on a book on WWI in Slovenia and Italy.

1:02:08 – Blaz be found on Amazon and McFarland.

Links of interest

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https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/mission-yugoslavia/

K. Lyn Wurth talks about her novel about Calamity Jane https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56U

Laird Thompson talks about how he helped discover cosmic voids http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/748

Contact Information

For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar and on Instagram @crisalvarezwarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Blaz Torkar

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, McFarland, Espionage, WWII, United States, Germany, Russia, Britain,

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