Curated playlist
National liberation armies
- Free FranceHow did a general sentenced to death for treason end up liberating Paris? It is the story of Free France.
- Provisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army, nicknamed the Provos, put out its first public statement on the 28th of December 1969. The statement declared loyalty to a 32-county Irish republic. It said that republic had been proclaimed at Easter…
- ChetniksThe Chetniks spent most of World War II fighting other Yugoslavs, not Germans.
- 26th of July MovementCuba's 26th of July Movement took its name from a raid that failed. Fidel Castro led it in 1953.
- Viet MinhThe Viet Minh, led by communists, also won over Buddhist monks and Catholic groups.
- Soviet partisansIn 1943, Soviet partisans blew up more than 230,000 rails to slow German troop and supply trains.
- People's Army of VietnamThe People's Army of Vietnam began in December 1944 with thirty-one men and three women.
- Yugoslav PartisansYugoslavia's Partisans reached Trieste two days before the Western Allies. They started with captured rifles.
- Ukrainian Insurgent ArmyIn 1943, about 4,000 to 5,000 armed Ukrainian police deserted to join the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
- People's Liberation ArmyChina's People's Liberation Army answers to a political party, not to the state.