Monty & Patton vs. the Nazis (TRIH ep 247)
1942 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Al Murray to discuss his book Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War. The conversation asks whether individual commanders matter versus institutional, comparing Titanic figures (Patton, Nelson, Alexander) with system-driven outcomes (Roman legions, Allied industrial power).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1942
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Korean War (1950)