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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:
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…
September 8, 2023
Beyond the Wall
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to …
September 3, 2023
Out of Mesopotamia
Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic Books, 2020), is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most…
August 17, 2023
Putin's War on Ukraine
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a le…
August 11, 2023
Goodbye, Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone now, and they might tell you that Estonia is in t…
August 4, 2023
The War Came To Us
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his late…
July 30, 2023
Uncertain Ground
When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no cho…
July 22, 2023
Conquistadors and Aztecs
Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal…
July 14, 2023
Memory Makers
Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasio…
July 11, 2023
The Russo-Ukrainian War
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why …