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World War II

15 stories

The deadliest conflict in human history. Heroes, villains, and impossible choices.

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The Invasion of Poland

On September 1, German tanks pour across the border. Two days later, Britain and France declare war. WWII has begun.

The Fall of France

German blitzkrieg goes around the Maginot Line. France falls in six weeks. Hitler dances a little jig in front of the Eiffel Tower.

The Dunkirk Evacuation

Trapped against the sea, 338,000 British and French soldiers are rescued by a flotilla of Navy ships and civilian fishing boats. A defeat that feels like a miracle.

The Battle of Britain

RAF pilots in Spitfires hold off the German air force in the skies over England. Churchill: 'Never was so much owed by so many to so few.'

Operation Barbarossa

Hitler invades the Soviet Union with 3 million men. The largest invasion in history. He thinks it'll take three months. It takes everything he has.

Pearl Harbor

On a quiet Sunday morning, Japanese carriers launch a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. America wakes up at war.

The Holocaust

Nazi Germany industrially murders six million Jews and millions of others. The darkest organized crime in human history.

The Battle of Midway

American codebreakers know exactly where Japan is going. U.S. dive bombers sink four Japanese carriers in five minutes. The Pacific war turns.

The Battle of Stalingrad

Five months of street-to-street fighting in a frozen ruined city. Two million casualties. Germany's army gets surrounded and surrenders.

D-Day

On June 6, 156,000 Allied troops storm five beaches in Normandy. The largest amphibious invasion ever. The beginning of the end for Hitler.

The Warsaw Uprising

The Polish Home Army rises up to free their own capital. They hold out for 63 days. The Red Army across the river watches and does nothing.

The Battle of the Bulge

Hitler's last big gamble. He hits the Allies in the freezing Ardennes during Christmas. Surrounded in Bastogne, the Americans answer surrender demands with one word: 'Nuts.'

The Fall of Berlin

The Red Army storms the Reichstag. Hitler shoots himself in a bunker beneath the city. The Soviet flag goes up over Berlin.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Two atomic bombs vaporize two Japanese cities in three days. Over 200,000 people die. Japan surrenders. The nuclear age begins.

The Nuremberg Trials

Top Nazi leaders are put on trial in their own former rally city. 'I was just following orders' is rejected as a defense. Modern war crimes law is born.

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What stories does the World War II era include?

History Tea covers 15 stories from World War II, including The Invasion of Poland, The Fall of France, The Dunkirk Evacuation, The Battle of Britain and 11 more. Each one is retold as immersive audio narration.

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The deadliest conflict in human history. Heroes, villains, and impossible choices. History Tea retells each World War II story as modern, immersive audio you can listen to anywhere.

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