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How Poland was torn in half in 1939 – Interview with military history author Roger Moorhouse

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How Poland was torn in half in 1939 – Interview with military history author Roger Moorhouse

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Roger Moorhouse has been a historian for the Third Reich, Poland, and WWII for many years and has written many books on the subject. He recently published a book on the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939 and we spoke about the book and this military event. Poland 1939 (Basic Books, 2020)

0:39 – Roger talks about how he got into studying Poland and WWII.

2:14 – Roger talks about the strength of the German military in 1939 and the propaganda narrative.

5:52 – Roger talks about the scope of the book from tactical to a wider scope.

8:00 – Roger talks about the reasons for Germany’s early setbacks.

11:16 – Roger talks about the terrain and weather of Poland in 1939.

13:52 – Roger talks about German General Guderian reminiscing about his ancestral lands in Poland.

15:39 – Roger compares German tactics in Poland versus the French campaign and the massacres of POWs and civilians.

19:13 – Roger talks about ethnic German attacks against Poles.

22:08 – Roger talks about German propaganda and Goebbels.

27:01 – Roger talks about a battle with a German Panzer army.

28:22 – Roger talks about the Soviet invasion of Poland.

32:12 – Roger talks about Soviet propaganda about its invasion of Poland.

34:06 – Roger discusses Soviet atrocities against upper class and middle class Poles.

36:13 – Roger talks about the Polish death toll in WWII.

37:43 – Roger talks about what materials he used to do his research.

40:20 – Roger talks about the lack of access to Soviet materials.

41:54 – Roger talks about having visited some of the battlefields he wrote about.

48:05 – Roger addresses the concentration camps in Poland.

51:39 – Roger talks about the German and Russian use of elite troops to commit atrocities.

57:30 – Roger can be found at www.rogermoorhouse.com and on twitter @roger_moorhouse

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3eXW7Gp

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/roger-moorhouse/poland-1939/9780465095414/

https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/

https://twitter.com/Roger_Moorhouse

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Guests: Roger Moorhouse

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, Poland, WWII, Germany, 1939, September campaign, USSR, Great Britain, propaganda, espionage, air power, fortified, blitzkreig, Prussia, Guderian, Austria, liebensraum, France, massacres, Nazi, Goebbels, cavalry, tanks, class war, nationalists, Karte archives, concentration camps, NKVD, SS, Wehrmacht, Ukraine

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20th Century conflict – “The Oil Wars Myth (Cornell University Press, 2020) – Emily Meierding interview

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Emily Meierding has studied history and political science. She wrote her first book thinking she would prove that a number of wars have been started over oil and found the opposite. We spoke about the book and the research she did for it.

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0:47 – Emily talks about how she got into writing on oil and international wars.

1:33 – Emily talks about the wars she looking into including WWII and the Gulf War. She looked at conflicts from 1912 to 2010.

3:35 – Emily talks about Japan and WWII and other cases where oil was a goal versus other factors.

6:20 – Emily talks about the Falklands War.

7:59 – Emily talks about conflict in 1912 and on.

9:10 – Emily talks about how WWI affected government ideas about oil and war.

11:29 – Emily talks about peacetime activities to ensure energy security.

12:41 – Emily talks about US goals in the Iraq War.

14:56 – Emily talks about how she divided wars into four categories in relation to oil.

19:44 – Emily talks about Saddam going to war for survival.

20:30 – Emily talks about the Iran-Iraq war.

22:09 – Emily talks about Saudi Arabia and disputes with Yemen.

23:13 – Emily talks about African wars and oil.

25:01 – Emily talks about the influence of oil companies in war.

27:55 – Emily talks about why the wars for oil myth exists and persists.

31:57 – Emily talks about what she used for her research.

33:02 – Emily talks about some work she did in Africa.

34:42 – Emily talks about Iraq and the invasion of Kuwait.

39:11 – Emily talks about her strong interest in the subject matter.

43:58 – Emily talks about the [prevalence] strength of the oil myth over time.

45:37 – Emily talks about US plans to invade Saudi Arabia during the 70s oil crisis.

49:45 – Emily is on twitter @emeierding and on emilymeierding.net

 

Links of interest

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748288/the-oil-wars-myth/

http://emilymeierding.net/Welcome.html

https://twitter.com/emeierding

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Guests: Emily Meierding

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, oil, international war, WWII, world war two, gulf war, falklands war, China, Germany, Japan, coal, Great Britain, Royal Navy, Iran, Mesopotamia, Iraq, Chaco War, South China Sea, Persian Gulf War, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein, Iran-Iraq war, Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon, Iran-Contra, Russia, biofuel, Saudi Arabia, USSR

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War of 1812 military history book – “The Papers of James Monroe, Volume 7” – (ABC-CLIO, 2020) – Dan Preston interview

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Dr. Daniel Preston has spent much of his career compiling and editing the papers of early American Revolution hero and then President James Monroe. We spoke about the latest completed volume of his papers, volume 7, which covers the middle and end of the War of 1812 and then naval expeditions to the North African coast.

1:23 – Dan talks about how he got into studying James Monroe.

2:30 – Dan talks about the War of 1812.

5:16 – Dan talks about US incursions into foreign territory.

6:48 – Dan talks about Monroe’s feelings on the readiness of the US Army in this time.

10:11 – Dan talks about Monroe’s feelings about the War of 1812.

13:20 – Dan talks about what Monroe did as Secretary of War in the fall of 1814.

20:16 – Dan talks about worries that the British would win.

24:58 – Dan talks about the US military and Native Americans.

28:57 – Dan talks about the Native American military threat to the US.

34:37 – Dan talks about the Second Barbary War with Algeria and the South American revolutions.

38:31 – Dan discusses details of the Second Barbary War.

42:14 – Dan talks about the possibility of a US Britain alliance against common enemies.

46:29 – Dan talks about the financial troubles of both the US and Britain and the burning of Washington, DC.

49:56 – Dan goes into detail about the burning of Washington.

51:04 – Dan talks about Monroe’s ideas on defending Washington.

59:43 – Dan talks about the large volume of letters he had to research.

1:02:57 – Dan talks about where the Monroe letters and documents are found.

1:04:35 – Dan talks about President Madison’s cabinet.

1:06:32 – Dan talks about commentaries on the documents

1:09:29 – Dan talks about documents they couldn’t find.

1:10:55 – Dan talks about Monroe’s uncertain birthday.

1:12:43 – Dan’s work and the papers can be found on amazon and on the University of Mary Washington website and by searching “Monroe Papers” or at Academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers.

 

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3dIM4ok

https://products.abc-clio.com/abc-cliocorporate/product.aspx?pc=B5565C

https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/

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Guests: Dan Preston

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, James Monroe, Jefferson, James Madison, Presidency, Florida, Texas, Virginia, militia, Continental Congress, filibuster, France, Napoleonic Wars, engineers, coastal defenses, British Army, Royal Navy, Chesapeake, Baltimore, Washington, US history, American history, Andrew Jackson, Mobile, New Orleans, Long Island, New England, New York, Henry Dearborn, Canada, Maine, Tennessee Volunteers, Europe, Great Britain, Monroe doctrine, Republicanism, French Revolution, Native Americans, Creeks, Shawnee, Miami, Winnebago, Wyandot, Huron, Algiers War, Spain, Barbary, Libya, Tripoli, Morocco, US Navy, merchant fleet, Mediterranean, American Diplomatic Service, Great Lakes, Michigan, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Patuxent, Alexandria, Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, National Archives, Barbary War

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