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Hosted by Colin and Rejoy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 55 episodes
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Expect episodes that discuss the human aspect of warfare throughout the evolution of weapons, tactics, strategy, and leadership. Topics will vary but will always bring in the aspects that your average soldier, sailor, and aviator had to endure when giving their all for their cause.Rejoy Chatterjee and Colin Robinson are two amateur military historians who were both infantry officers in the past. They have a shared love and admiration of the camaraderie and selflessness of combatants the world over, and are eager to bring to life stories of ordinary folks who achieved the extraordinary
Colin and Rejoy hosts Rum Ration, a history show with 55 episodes published.
On 1 July 1916, the British Army suffered the bloodiest day in its history as the Battle of the Somme opened beneath machine-gun fire, unbroken wire, and shattered expectations. Yet the Somme was more than one catastroph
What makes someone a soldier: the name on the muster roll, or the hardship they endured beside their comrades? In Episode 54 of The Rum Ration Podcast, Rejoy and Colin explore the remarkable stories of women who disguise
In 1943, the Allies faced a problem: everyone knew Sicily was the obvious next target. To make Operation Husky succeed, British intelligence needed the Germans to believe the real invasion would strike somewhere else. Th
Rejoy and Colin tackle one of the darkest questions in modern warfare in our latest episode of The Rum Ration Podcast: Can bombing civilians actually break a nation's will to fight? Beginning with Colin’s visit to the ha
In March 1919, long after the guns had fallen silent on the Western Front, nearly 20,000 Canadian soldiers found themselves trapped in another kind of battlefield: Kinmel Park, a bleak repatriation camp in North Wales. I
At 4:20 a.m. on August 8, 1918, the silence east of Amiens shattered. No warning bombardment. No days of shellfire. Just fog, fire, tanks, and thousands of Allied soldiers moving forward behind one of the most carefully
In this episode of The Rum Ration, hosts Colin Robinson and Rejoy Chatterjee tackle one of the most controversial, brilliant, infuriating, and undeniably influential figures in Canadian military history: Sir Sam Hughes.
On the latest episode of The Rum Ration, Rejoy and Colin tackle one of military history’s most irresistible “what ifs”: what if Erwin Rommel had direct control of the German Panzer reserves on D-Day? Rather than drifting
In this episode of The Rum Ration, Rejoy and Colin explore one of the darkest and least understood chapters of Canada’s First World War: the 25 Canadian soldiers executed by their own side, “shot at dawn.” Through the st
On this episode of The Rum Ration , Rejoy and Colin take listeners into the life and legend of Billy Bishop, Canada’s most famous and most controversial First World War air ace. Beginning with his dramatic final patrol o
On this episode of The Rum Ration, Rejoy and Colin take on one of the most revered and sobering subjects in British and Commonwealth military history: the Victoria Cross. Beginning with the astonishing story of Charles U
In this episode of The Rum Ration, Colin and Rejoy explore the little-known story of the Canadian Berlin Battalion, a composite unit created to represent Canada in the Allied victory celebrations in Berlin in July 1945.
In this episode of The Rum Ration, Colin and Rejoy explore the story behind one of Canada’s most iconic wartime rifles: the Lee-Enfield No. 4. Joined by military industry researcher William Patterson, they look beyond th
In April 1951, the Korean War’s front lurches again as the Chinese Spring Offensive surges south and a South Korean division collapses, cracking the line. Suddenly, the narrow Kapyong Valley becomes the gate on the road
At Waterloo, Napoleon’s Old Guard crested the ridge and met a silent wall of British red. In this episode of The Rum Ration Podcast, Colin and Rejoy unpack the real story behind that iconic colour: not vanity or intimida
Canada’s 1950s defence sprint looked like science fiction: Arctic radar lines, a research reactor at Chalk River, and the Mach-2 Avro Arrow. In this episode of The Rum Ration, hosts Rejoy Chatterjee and Colin Robinson ta
On this special Valentine’s Day episode of Rum Ration, retired infantry officers Colin Robinson and Rejoy Chatterjee celebrate a different kind of “Valentine”: the Infantry Tank Mk. III. They start with the martial origi
In this special Winter Olympics episode, Rum Ration heads to St. Moritz 1948, when Canada needed to fix the national bruise of 1936. But the enemy wasn’t another team, it was the IOC’s amateur oath. With senior clubs una
Episode 37, is the third of a three-part series where the Rum Ration Podcast works to correct the myth of French-Canadian reluctance in the world wars. Social scientist and Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Garon joins the host
Episode 36 continues our three-part series on French-Canadian participation in Canada’s world wars, with historian Julien Lehoux joining us to examine Hong Kong as Québec’s forgotten battle. We revisit how “C Force” was
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