This summer it’s 80 years since the greatest conflict in human history came to an end. To mark the anniversary, the military historian, author and broadcaster James Holland has co-written a book that tells the story of the final moments of The Second World War through the Axis surrenders that brought the conflict to a close. In this episode James revisits these dramatic episodes in the company of Rob Attar.

James Holland is the author of Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders (Bantam, 2025).

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