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The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2

The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2

By: Robert Lyman and Jack Bowsher
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The definitive podcast about the Burma Campaign of World War Two. Join historians and authors Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher as they take you through dripping monsoon and jungles, across parched plains, and over rivers and mountains sharing the incredible and often brutal story of the war against Japan in Southeast Asia.


In Series One (Spring 2025) Rob and Jack did a general broad brush narrative of the campaign.


Series Two began in June 2025 and includes interviews with historians, relatives of veterans, and plenty of narratives by Jack and Rob, all about the retreat in 1942.
Later series will be much of the same, covering anything and everything related to the Burma Campaign - or the China-Burma-India Theatre as it is known in the USA.


Sponsored by The Burma Star Memorial Fund, Sampan Travel, The Kohima Educational Trust, and Guidl.
You can follow the pod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (X), the handle for all is @forgottenwarpodYou can also email Rob and Jack at forgottenwarpod@gmail.com
By the hosts:Robert Lyman - Slim Master of War (2003), Japan's Last Bid for Victory (2016), A War of Empires (2021), Victory to Defeat (with General Lord Dannatt, 2023), Korea War Without End (with General Lord Dannatt, 2025), and many more.Jack Bowsher - Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma (2024), Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 (2025)


Produced and Edited by Robbie Maguire


*Note from the hosts: In some episodes there may be the use of language that is outdated in the modern world. This is only ever said in the show as quotations by individuals who lived at the time when those phrases were in common usage across the world.*

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Episodes
  • 23. A US Marvel - The Ledo Road

    23. A US Marvel - The Ledo Road
    Jun 15 2026
    Jack and Rob get into the detail of the Ledo Road - later called the Stilwell Road - one of the greatest engineering marvels in history, undertaken by the USA to support China.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 22. The Hump Airlift

    22. The Hump Airlift
    Jun 8 2026
    Jack and Rob are joined by Caroline Alexander, author of Skies of Thunder, all about the Hump Airlift.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 21. Phoenix from the Ashes pt2 - Retraining the Indian Army

    21. Phoenix from the Ashes pt2 - Retraining the Indian Army
    Jun 1 2026
    This week Jack and Rob welcome Dr Alan Jeffreys, author and curator at the National Army Museum, about the retraining of the Indian Army from 1943.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
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I love it because it keeps you entertained even if you don’t know about it. Keep it up I will listen to every one you post ( if I can ) thank you. Ps it’s really cool how you have made a podcast that is on something people don’t really know about

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So much information about an area and time during the second world war that is often overlooked. Interesting and varied with a fun double act pulling it all together. Well worth a listen.

Lots of amazing information

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