This year’s We Have Ways Fest was packed with talks, tanks, aircraft and artillery, reports Phil Loder
Mid-July saw the fourth outing of the We Have Ways Fest, the annual event focused on World War Two and linked to the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast hosted by James Holland and Al Murray. The date had moved forward from September, but the venue was still in rural Buckinghamshire.
We Have Ways Fest Vier, as it was dubbed to align with Al’s regular cry of ‘Achtung! Achtung!’, focused on 1944, with three speaker stages delivering a steady stream of talks by historians, experts and interviewers from across the UK, Europe and the United States. As well as the expected topics of D-Day, Cassino, Normandy, Arnhem and the Battle of the Bulge, presenters discussed the plot to assassinate Hitler, resistance in Czechoslovakia, the battle for the Scheldt estuary, and the war in the Pacific.
‘Much more was discussed than just D-Day, Normandy, Arnhem and the Battle of the Bulge’
The ‘forgotten’ Fourteenth Army in Burma was not forgotten, with analysis of the Battles of the Admin Box and Imphal, and the Warsaw Uprising and the Battle of Budapest also featured.
On Saturday afternoon, regular
