Full Memoir Episodes

PART TWO Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year second world war journey through World War II.  By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards. PLUS: What someone's father found in the jungle AFTER the war. Who wrote to Bob Metcalfe upon publication of...

Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II.  By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards Bob Metcalf enlisted in the fourth battalion, the Green Howards in December 1935. He saw action in France in 1940, where...

Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry

Part 1 of a classic tale of British infantry adventure in WW2. How the Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast put the families of two war comrades in touch with each other. Sicily and D-Day campaigns featured.

A poignant reminder for us to be at peace with each other

Save the Last Bullet by Heidi Langbein-Allen. The biography of a 13 year old who had his youth cruelly stolen by the Nazis during six years of WW2, from witnessing Jewish persecution to hand-to-hand fighting on the front line.

Pic above: Henry Topf

1943/44 WWII memoirs

More Australian second world war adventures

Stop Press: Great Escape family tale by Canadian Alfred B Thompson, see pic above.

Six full years of an Australian soldier’s war, with all its ups and downs.

Siegfried line, Battle of Bulge, Hill 400

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond. Featuring Able Company.

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond. Featuring Able Company. Overseas and Then Over the Top.

Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars

POW in Japan, WWII

Commemorative episode for 75th anniversary of D-Day landings June 1944

My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw

Great revelations about Dunkirk war heroes. How one man's sacrifice saved the lives of possibly thousands of others.

Dramatic Diary from WW2 France, Italy, Greece, Singapore and Indonesia

Culinary survival skills and a Women's Royal Naval Service morse coding memoir

Memoirs of a British POW in WWII Poland, "Long Time, no WC"

Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2

COMPLETE and Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee small ship

First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WW1

First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WWI

Danger - Unexploded Bomb! WWII London Blitz.

Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee, Dunkirk little ship. Mesmerising!

Part 2 of WW2 memoir

Part 1 of WW2 memoir

Two gripping veteran accounts of the D-Day landings, 1944. WWII.