When France capitulated in 1940 and the Vichy government came to power many of the French colonial possessions remained loyal to the new regime. The same was true for the Island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
In this episode I’m joined by Russell Phillips.
Russell’s book A Strange Campaign narrates the story of the battle for Madagascar, where British troops would fight the French for possession of the island.
If you want to hear more from Russell, spool back through the WW2 Podcast feed to episode 27. We discussed Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice as a reprisal by the Germans. Not only was the village physically destroyed all the visible remains were removed.
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66 - Northrop P-61 Black Widow
65 Lt Col William Edwin Dyess
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61 - RAF Liberators Over Burma
60 Alarmstart: German Fighter Pilots in Europe
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58 Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma
57 - The 110th Holds In The Ardennes, 1944
56 - Haile Selassie’s Mongrel Foreign Legion.
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54 - The Bataan Death March
53 - Her Finest Hour: Diana Rowden, SOE Agent
52 Shadow Over the Atlantic
51 The German Airborne Threat to Britain & the Psychological Impact
50 - Operation Tonga
49 - Castle of Eagles
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