Korean War Podcast

The first UN backed cease fire breaks down and it takes ten days to arrange a second cease fire. In the ten days of fighting the Israeli Army captures Nazareth, Ramla and Southern Judea but attempts to take Latrun and the Old City Jewish quarter in Jerusalem are repulsed by the Arab Legion. A biography of Egyptian Army commander in Palestine Major General Al - Mwawi.

The Israeli Army suffered a series of defeats in the West Bank, an attempt to take the town of Jenin is beaten by the Iraqi Army. Jordan's Arab Legion beat off Israeli attacks on Latrum and Radar Hill. The Arab Legion captured the Jewish Old City. Yet the Israelis build a new road to supply the Jewish areas of Jerusalem breaking the siege. A biography of Mickey Marcus the first Israeli General and commander in the Jerusalem sector.

The Syrian Army invades North Eastern Israel but they are firmly repulsed. The commander of the Israeli forces is Mosha Daylan a biography of him. The Egyptian Army advances along the coast towards Tel Avia but they are halted. The reason for the Soviet support for the creation of the state of Israel. The importance of the Communist arms sales to Israel.

The state of Israel was created in May 1948, it was a state born in battle for it would be attacked by the Arab states. However the Arab armies were a poor shape to conduct a modern war. A review of the problems faced by the Egyptian and Syrian Armies. The one Arab army that was well trained, well armed and well led was the Arab Legion of the Army of Jordan. A biography of its British born commander Glubb Pasha.

In the led up to the end of the British mandate, the level of violence between the Jewish and Arab community grows in scale. The both sides prepare for war. Jewish forces captured Arab cities such as Haifa, Jaffa and Acre, Arab refugees flee. Five thousand Arab fighters from the rest of the middle east arrive in Palestine to help the Arabs. Fighting starts well before the end of the British mandate. A profile of the King of Jordan.

The history of the British mandate in Palestine from 1917 to 1947. Jewish immigration into Palestine. The Arab revolt between 1936 and 1939. After the Second World War growing violence in Palestine which a hundred thousand British soldiers in Palestine can not control. British decides to withdraw from Palestine and leaves the United Nations to decide upon the future of Palestine.

In the this first episode of season five dealing with the Cold War in Africa and the Middle East. I talk of two colonial wars, the Madagascan uprising against the French and the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya against British rule.

In this last episode of season four, i discuss the Military Balance in Europe between 1945 and 1956. After the Second World War ended the Soviets maintained a much larger military force than the Western powers. Yet the Americans always a larger number of atomic weapons, which would have used if the Soviets had invaded Western Europe. The creation of NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the West German armed forces.

The history of the rest of Kadar dictatorship of Hungary until the fall of Communism. Then a brief history of Hungary from 1988 to the present date. A biography of the Catholic Archbishop of Hungary Josef Mindszenty, a former prisioner of the Communists who took refuge in the American embassy in Budapest for 15 years.

Following the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution by the Soviet Army., the Hungarian Communist Government of Kadar takes revenge, thousands are imprisoned and hundreds are hanged. Many spend years in prison. Two hundred thousand Hungarians flee the country. Imre Nagy is arrested, put on trail and hanged alongside of Pal Maleter and Miklos Gimes. A biography of Miklos Gimes, Hungarian freedom fighter and friend of Imre Nagy.