Angus Wallace covers the full arc of the Berlin battle — from the Seelow Heights assault through the street-by-street Soviet advance to the fall of the Reichstag. The episode benefits from a clear operational narrative that doesn't shy away from the staggering cost on both sides, and at 42 minutes it's tightly paced without feeling rushed. One of the better single-episode treatments of Berlin 1945 you'll find in podcast form.

Holland and Murray launch a new series on Operation Biting — the February 1942 parachute raid on the German Würzburg radar installation at Bruneval. Part 1 sets up the intelligence problem, the radar war context, and why Combined Operations needed a smash-and-grab on the French coast. At 33 minutes it's short for a Part 1, but Holland is excellent on the technical intelligence angle and the episode builds momentum toward the operational detail that presumably comes in Part 2.

Tristan Hughes and Roman historian Steele Brand spend nearly 80 minutes on Livy's famous counterfactual: what happens if Alexander doesn't die in 323 BC and turns west? This is a properly done military counterfactual — they engage seriously with the comparative force structures, logistics of an Adriatic crossing, Roman manpower reserves versus Macedonian quality, and the tactical differences between phalanx and manipular legion. The level of operational analysis here would hold up in any era bracket; it's a genuine exercise in military reasoning using Livy as the springboard, not a parlour game.

Tom Holland on Marathon is about as good as Tier 3 gets — this is his home turf from Persian Fire, and Part 2 covers the battle itself and its aftermath at proper length. Dominic Sandbrook mostly stays out of the way and lets Holland reconstruct the Athenian charge, the double envelopment, and the race back to defend Athens. The tactical reconstruction here is as rigorous as anything in this week's WWII-heavy lineup, grounded in terrain and timing rather than just cultural framing. Over an hour.

Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston take apart Charles the Bold's defeat at Grandson — a battle where overconfidence met Swiss pike tactics with devastating results. The Burgundian Wars are chronically under-covered in English-language podcasts, and having two medieval military historians with DeVries' and Livingston's credentials walk through the terrain, the order of battle, and Charles's catastrophic misjudgement makes this a genuine treat. Over an hour and properly anchored in the tactical realities of late-medieval warfare.

McManus and Hymel on the craft of turning archival records, after-action reports, and conflicting accounts into coherent battle maps — a meta-topic that rewards anyone who's ever stared at a book map and wondered how it was made. Over an hour and rooted in the specifics of WWII cartography.

Colin Ferguson hosts a conversation with defence tech entrepreneur Ian Garnett on digital fire control systems — how software is compressing the sensor-to-shooter loop and what that means for modern combined arms operations. Directly relevant to anyone following the lessons of Ukraine and the broader fires revolution.

Ray Harris Jr. covers the strategic decision-making after Midway — the Japanese move on Guadalcanal and the Nimitz-vs-MacArthur command dispute that shaped the Allied response. Short at 25 minutes but focused on the strategic pivot that launched one of the Pacific war's defining campaigns.