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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us for this weeks new episode on Portugal. Tricky wartime balancing act for Britains oldest ally. We look at how the use of the Azores became a concession by the neutral country. Listen here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New episode, this Friday… Join @merrynwalters.uk and @andyaitch.bsky.social this Friday for our second instalment of our Less Expected Destinations series. This week we go to Britains oldest ally, Portugal. Find out how they navigate neutrality during the war linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Argentina is not all about Nazis you know * Our latest episode looks at the political landscape during the war. Listen here: linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar *there’s also a lot of stuff about Nazis

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My takeaway from this episode is that British policy to Argentina in the SWW centred entirely on securing an uninterrupted supply of bully beef. * Find out all about Argentina in the war in this weeks episode *Fray Bentos: Uruguayan company - overwhelmingly Argentinian beef linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No episode last Friday, we were recovering from festival shenanigans. So our new series: Less Expected Destinations starts this Friday, 25th. We kick off with our first place Argentina. Oh Lordy 👀 linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fancy a little sideways look at the most talked about British battle of all time? We did an Arnhem Ep a few weeks ago on @newsofthewar.bsky.social linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kick off! Our football special. Join us for stories on how football was reported during war time. Some great bits, especially a 42 year old striker on a woman’s factory team. Join us here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You’re all off to WeHaveWaysPod Fest - so are we! And here’s this week’s football special… linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Football, football, football. We get nothing but football, morning, noon and night” Join us tomorrow for our football special. Listen when you make your way to WeHaveWaysPod fest! linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still very struck by this photo of Stanley Maxted and Guy Byam. Taken the day after they’d escaped over the Rhine from Oosterbeek at broadcasting house. But especially Maxted. He looks exhausted, mentally and physically. Still wearing his mud covered uniform.

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No surprises here, theirs was the glory across many column inches during mid September 1944 and on, afterwards, too. But in this week's News of the War, we meet some of the men who made that news reporting possible, too. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Arnhem. We decided the world needed another podcast about Arnhem. So here it is. Not a blow by blow account though, it’s a look at how it was reported in the papers. And I enjoyed it immensely. Give it a try here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh Lordy. Arnhem, this Friday on News of the War.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pop on down to watch me try to read text out loud live. It’s really quite entertaining just how bad I am at it. We also have lots of great news stories. It’ll be a lot of fun.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Re watching Michael Woods fantastic 1985 series In Search of the Trojan War on YouTube (good lord this type of documentary is missed) and who should crop up but the Enfant Terrible of 1st Airborne Division - John Hackett. I had missed him on first viewing 40 odd years ago.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Join us this week on NOTW where we bravely report on the forgotten air battle over Britain in 1940. How did the newspapers report on the battle? Listen here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s about time you got round to covering this Forgotten Campaign. Far too little recognition of the efforts of our Brave Lads in thwarting the Beastly Huns…

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At last, another podcast about the Battle of Britain. Join us tomorrow to hear what that newspapers were saying about the battle for the skies in 1940.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Originally it was going to be Malaya and Java… and then we realised just how much Java stuff was in the papers. Genuinely fascinating stuff. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Join us tomorrow for the latest instalment of our Battles series. We head to South East Asia and look at how the newspapers report on the battle for Java and its legacy. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Update The village Facebook page is out for blood now (no lit torches though)

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not the word of a lie, I’ve just seen a lit Chinese lantern fly over our village. Flames flickering. Ffs.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The story of Bloody or Edson’s ridge is one of my favourites from Guadalcanal. The Detroit Times has a story from a survivor of that battle… here’s a great USMC archive film of the marines digging and preparing positions on the ridge, shortly before Kawaguchis forces attacked.

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JMcN @jmcn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Another fascinating pod from @andyaitch.bsky.social and @merrynwalters.uk. I didn’t know that Guadalcanal was British territory. It was a huge scrap. The TV series Pacific is well worth watching.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Enjoyed doing this episode… I mentioned History Underground a few times this week in the ep. His YouTube channel is amazing and specifically his Guadalcanal videos. They cover all the bits we talked about today. Go check his YouTube out! youtu.be/VxEGdzoMotg?is…

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some lovely shark/alligator chat here.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Good morning. SPANGERS AND MASH FOR BREAKFAST

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Monschau is quite the vibe

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Reuters journalist Doon Campbell watched the bombing of Cassino from a hill overlooking the town, stood next to General Alexander and his entourage. In this weeks episode we read his article on the futility and counter-productiveness of the bombing. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Cologne. I am the Pershing. They are the Panther.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of my most favourite photos of the Second World War

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not the most accurate before and after, I didn’t have the 1944 one saved on my phone, so we’re about 70-90m too high up. But it’s the Kall Trail. Unbelievable how the yanks managed to get some tanks down there. The photos don’t show just how steep and precarious it is.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Walked the Kall trail. Stunning place. Lord knows how the 28th Division fought here

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not 2 minutes in the town 🇩🇪 and we’ve got TANK SPANG

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JMcN @jmcn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Another fascinating pod from @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social and @newsofthewar.bsky.social. Accounts of terrible privation mixed with mangled Russian names. Seriously though, bloody hell, grim history.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New series. First ep. LENINGRAD. The series we look at some of the key battles of the SWW, and how they were reported in the newspapers. We go first to Leningrad. The people of Britain followed the siege from start to finish…. Listen here: linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And so we dive into our next 6-part series on News of the War. This time it's what was in the newspapers during the Biggest, Baddest Battles*, and first up is Leningrad! @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk (*battles-ish) ваше здоровье!

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really excited about this new series…. It’s forced us to look at battles we didn’t know much about, and battles that are talked about so much, we track down how they were perceived at the time by Joe Public. The first one is Leningrad Join us this Friday linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Quite hard to like David Stirling, in this weeks SAS special we picked up a letter written in the 70s, reacting to Stirlings gang GB75. Essentially a military coup if Stirling and his cronies lifestyles were threatened. Adam Curtis covered it in his Mayfair Set film. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Some top plastic model making action in this weeks special SAS episode. Find out how I got on making the Tamiya SAS Jeep (36 years ago) linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It’s about time we started making some money out of this thing.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Field Marshal on the three most memorable moments of his life. ITN 1956 Perhaps not the ones people might expect. I wonder if privately, the death of his wife would have been on the list. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Even if you don’t listen to the episode, can you just take a second to appreciate the outfit? GOAT. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Completely random generalissimo generator just happens to land on Monty for the last in the series. Funny, that.

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We land on Rommel this week. Inevitable really. It’s interesting to see in the papers just when the legends any myths around him start. He looms large in the articles from 1941 onwards. Listen to how they came across in @newsofthewar.bsky.social pod. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We have no control over the random generalissimo generator… where it goes, nobody knows. Tomorrow we have celebrity general: Erwin Rommel

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Naughty, naughty, George. General George S Patton speaks at a Boston war bond drive. Joking of course about the malingerers in army field hospitals… some of whom he “interacted” with personally. New ep, Patton, out today. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Booked a lovely little holiday with the kids. I’ve promised them it’s not a sneaky battlefield tour. Anyway, as always, I’ve ordered a walking map of the area 👀

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