The British mandate

In this first episode of a ten part series on the First Arab – Israeli War, I will deal with the British mandate in Palestine, starting with the British occupation in 1917, the British Government promise to create a Jewish state made during the First World War, the increased level of Jewish immigration into Palestine, the Arab revolt (1936 to 1939), the troubled history of Palestine after the Second World War.  The decision by the United Nations to create two states in Palestine, a Jewish and Arab state.  A biography of Jewish leader David Ben Gurion.

Starting from Saturday 12th September, I will be beginning a ten part series on the First Arab – Israeli War (1948 – 1949).  This will focus on the military history of the war rather the moral rights or wrongs of the Middle East conflict.  The series will begin will the start of the British occupation of Palestine in 1917, take in the Arab Revolt (1936-1939), the troubled history of Palestine after the Second World War.  The decision of the United Nations to divide Palestine into two states.  The Civil War which engulfed Palestine in the early months of 1948.  The declaration of the state of Israel, the Arab invasion of Israel and the course of the war.  I shall also discuss the outcome of the war, and finish with the overthrown of King Fakour of Egypt.

Kenya and Madagascar

To start season five which deals with the Cold War in the Middle East and Africa between 1945 and 1965, which will be published weekly for the next eight months..  This episode deals with the Madagascan uprising against French Colonial rule and the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya against the British. There is a biography of General Erskine the commander of the British Army in Kenya.

To be published on Saturday 5th September.

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This is a podcast series on the wars involved in the Cold War between 1945 and 1965. Unlike other Cold War this is mainly a military history podcasts rather than a political history. Each episode is twenty minutes long.

Season One

This was a sixty-eight-episode military history series on the Korean War, giving the background to war, the North Korean invasion of South Korean. The United Nations defence of the Pusan perimeter and the Inchon invasion. The Chinese intervention into the war and the stalemate of the last two years of the war.

Season Two

This was a twenty-part episode on the First Indochina War between the Communist Viet Minh fighting the French Army for independence for Vietnam. The war ending in the French Army defeat at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Season Three

A ten-part episode on the Malay emergency as Communist guerrillas fought the British Army in Malaya. This was followed by a four-part series on the Indonesia Confrontation when Indonesia tried to invade North Borneo.  A final episode deals with the Communist revolts in the Philippines and Burma.

Season Four

Season Four deals with the Cold War with a ten-part episode on the Greek Civil War and a ten-part series on the Hungarian Revolution. There were two episodes on the Trieste crisis and single episode on the communist take over of East Europe, the Berlin airlift, the attempt to overthrown of the Albanian Communist Government and the East Germen People Revolt.

Season Five

Season Five starts in September 2020 and will deal with the First Arab-Israel War, the Algerian War of Independence, the Suez crisis of 1956 and well as single episodes on the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya, events in Iran in 1953, the Congo crisis and the North Yemeni civil War.

The Military Balance in Europe 1945 – 1956

After the Second World War the Soviet Union demobilises its armed forces to a much lesser degree than the Western power, giving the Soviet Union a larger military force in Europe than the Western powers.  However the Americans process the atomic bomb and even after 1949 when the Soviets develop their own atomic bomb, the American still have many more atomic weapons than the Soviets.  The creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.  The creation of the West German armed forces and a biography of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

To be published on Saturday 14th March

This episode will be the last in season four.

Recovery

In the last in this ten part serial on the Hungarian Revolution, I tell of the rest of the dictatorship of Hungarian Communist Kadar until the fall of Communist in 1988.  How the end of Communism in Hungary, allowed the Hungarians to be more able to discuss the revolution of 1956.  I give the biography of Catholic Cardinal Mindszenty who sought refuge in the American embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971,  Then I give a brief history of Hungary to the present day.

To be published on Saturday 7th March

Retribution

The Soviet imposed Hungarian Communist regime of Kadar takes revenge upon the supporters of the Hungarian Revolution.  Thousands are imprisoned, some for many years, hundreds are hanged.  Two hundred thousand Hungarian flee the country for the west.  Imre Nagy, the Hungarian Prime Minister during the revolution seeks the protection of the Yugoslavia embassy in Budapest but he is latter arrested.  Imre Nagy, Pal Meleter and Milkos Gimes, a journalist are hanged in 1958.

To be published on Saturday 29th February

Repression

On Sunday November 4th 1956, the Soviet Army with an overwhelming number of tanks and troops invades Budapest to crush the Hungarian Revolution.  Fierce fighting takes place for several days but the battle is one sided given the power of the Soviet Army.  Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy seeks refuge in the Yugoslavian embassy in Budapest.  A biography of General Bela Kiraly, commander of the Hungarian National Guard in Budapest.

To be published on Saturday 22nd February

Reinforcement

The events of November 1st to November 3rd.  The Soviet Army reinforces its troops and tanks in Hungary and prepares to assault Budapest and crush the Hungarian Revolution.  The Soviet Ambassador lies to Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Government about Soviet plans.  Leader of the Hungarian Communist Party Janos Kadar flies to Russia to offer his services to the Soviet Government, who choose him to the new puppet leader of Hungary, his biography.

To be published on Saturday 15th February