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About AJ Woodhams
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AJ Woodhams hosts the "War Books" podcast. You can subscribe on Apple here and on Spotify here. War Books is on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
NBN Episodes hosted by A:
January 31, 2026
Iron and Blood
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the…
August 29, 2025
Project Mind Control
The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.Sidney Gottlieb…
August 13, 2025
When the Sea Came Alive
June 6, 1944—known to us all as D-Day—is one of history’s greatest and most unbelievable military triumphs. The surprise sunrise landing of more than …
June 25, 2025
By the Second Spring
An intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered. Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrai…
June 1, 2025
Warbody
A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the hum…
May 20, 2025
The Raider
The extraordinary life of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of America’s first special forces, secret confidant of FDR, and one of …
March 24, 2025
Lincoln's Peace
One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies…
December 31, 2024
The CIA
As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA…
April 26, 2024
Your Presence Is Mandatory
Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his …
March 24, 2024
Cold War 2.0
A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new C…
January 21, 2024
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies be…
January 5, 2024
The Fall of Robespierre
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight,…
December 21, 2023
My Life in Propaganda
My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes (Durvile, 2023) is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with commu…
December 15, 2023
On Great Fields
Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdo…
December 8, 2023
Fatherland
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this “unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of…
November 25, 2023
American Visions
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 (Norton, 2023) is a revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation def…
November 12, 2023
Battle for the Island Kingdom
In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066 (Osprey, 2023) reveals the li…
November 7, 2023
Women in Intelligence
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both w…
October 29, 2023
F-35
The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied com…
October 25, 2023
Overreach
An astonishing deep dive into the war in Ukraine - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the mos…
October 14, 2023
Gallop Toward the Sun
The conquest of Indigenous land in the eastern United States through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of t…
October 12, 2023
Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia
In 1812 the French emperor Napoleon decided to invade Russia. For this purpose, he gathered an army of half a million men and women, consisting of sol…
October 5, 2023
When Washington Burned
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington…
September 17, 2023
Bismarck's War
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 187…