EP20 A Republic Lost at Sea
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ReleasedApril 15th, 2022 Professor Barry Strauss and Dan talk about Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar and a host of historical luminaries in a tale worthy of Shakespeare as the Roman Republic goes down with the ships at Actium.
EP19 Asymmetrical Perspectives
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ReleasedFeb 5th, 2022 Author, actor and senior fellow at the Modern War Institute Max Brooks joins Dan to discuss asymmetrical warfare and related societal issues.
EP18 Iranian Interconnections
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ReleasedJan 28th, 2022 Iranian-born historian John Ghazvinian’s new book is about the history of the U.S.-Iranian relationship. He and Dan discuss coups, oil, religion, history, arms deals, Shahs, U.S. presidents and wars.
EP17 Engineering Victory with Elon
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ReleasedDec 13th, 2021 Elon Musk and Bill Riley from SpaceX join Dan to discuss the underappreciated role of science and engineering in war. As you might imagine, military aircraft feature prominently in the conversation.
EP16 Powers, Thrones and Dan Jones
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Released Nov 5, 2021. Historian Dan Jones’ specialty is the Middle Ages. Dan Carlin adores the Middle Ages. Normans anyone?
EP15 The Supernova Coda
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Released Oct 25, 2021. Author Ian W. Toll who has written extensively on the Pacific Theater in the Second World War joins Dan to put the finishing touches on the Supernova in the East subject matter.
EP14 The Game of War
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Released Aug 2, 2021. Dan discusses his background in miniature wargaming and then talks to one of the architects of a popular Second World War themed video game about the genre, its development, growth and challenges.
EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia
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Released Apr 27, 2021. Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell joins Dan to discuss the development of U.S. precision bombing ideas, Curtis LeMay and the firebombing of Japanese cities.
Show Notes:
Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell joins Dan to discuss the development of U.S. precision bombing ideas, Curtis LeMay and the firebombing of Japanese cities.
Show Notes:
1. The Bomber Mafia
2. Malcolm’s podcast Revisionist History
3. The Destroyer of Worlds
4. Logical insanity
5. Logical insanity extra
6. “The wizards of Armageddon” by Fred Kaplan
EP12 Wolf Pack Hunting with Hanks
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Released Jul 9, 2020. Tom Hanks joins Dan to talk about his new Second World War naval-themed film “Greyhound”. This is an hour-long conversation with two fans of History geeking out over the past.
EP11 Toronto Redux
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Released May 4, 2020. Canadian television personality, radio and podcast host Jeff Marek takes over the show and interviews Dan.
EP10 Strangelove Whisperings
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Released Mar 2, 2020. In a world that can sometimes be obsessed with the current threat du jour, author Fred Kaplan reminds us that one of the all-time great threats to us all hasn’t gone anywhere.
EP9 Glimpses of Olympias
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Released Jan 30, 2020. Philip II of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great are two of the most impressive figures in history. Few could contend with either man. One woman held her own with both of them. Alexander’s mother Olympias.
Show Notes:
- Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
- Alexander to Actium: The Historical EvoluConquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great by A. B. Bosworthtion of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
- Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization) by Robin Waterfield
- Philip II of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander by Richard A. Gabriel
EP8 Caesar at Hastings
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Released Jun 7, 2019. Could militaries separated by ten centuries compete on a battlefield? In this alternative history experiment two armies that successfully invaded Britain a millennium apart are matched. Which side would you bet on?
Show Notes:
- Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
- Alexander to Actium: The Historical EvoluConquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great by A. B. Bosworthtion of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
- Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization) by Robin Waterfield
- Philip II of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander by Richard A. Gabriel
EP7 Hardcore History On Fire
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Released Feb 18, 2019. Dan and History on Fire host Danielle Bolelli do a crosscast together about Nazis, political spectrums, U.S. Presidents they want back and some other stuff. Basically it’s a typical phone call between these two guys that an audience gets to hear for once.
EP6 On The Vietnam War with Sir Max
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Released Oct 30, 2018. This show comes in two parts, an overview of the Vietnam War era by Dan, followed by a conversation with famed writer, historian and war correspondent Sir Max Hastings about his experience in Vietnam and his new book on the Vietnam War.
EP5 Nightmares of Indianapolis
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Released Sep 24, 2018. Imagine actual people living for real through the plot of several disaster and survival movies combined. That’s what the crew of the USS Indianapolis experienced after it was torpedoed at the very end of the Second World War.
EP4 Exposing the Hart of The Great War
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Release Apr 12, 2018. Dan and the British Imperial War Museum’s famed First World War historian Peter Hart talk about one of their favorite mutual interests…World War One.
Show Notes:
- The Last Battle: Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I by Peter Hart
- The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War by Peter Hart
- Gallipoli by Peter Hart
- The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart
- Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916 by Peter Hart
- Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes by Nigel Steel and Peter Hart
- Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel and Peter Hart
- Tumult in the Clouds: British Experience of War in the Air, 1914-18 by Nigel Steel and Peter Hart
- Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, 1917 by Peter Hart
- Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 by Peter Hart
- The 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy 1943-1945 by Peter Hart
- Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground by Peter Hart
- 1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
- The Heat of Battle: The 16th Battalion Durham Light Infantry : The Italian Campaign, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart
- At the Sharp End: The 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment 1939-1944 by Peter Hart
- Voices from the Front: The 2nd Norfolk Regiment: From Le Paradis to Kohima by Peter Hart
EP3 A Four-Star Conversation
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Release Mar 8, 2018. Dan talks about history, war and philosophy (and where those three subject might converge) with Four-Star General and former U.S. Air Force Chief-of-Staff Merrill McPeak.
EP2 Rome Through Duncan’s Eyes
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Released Dec 12, 2017. History podcasting legend Mike Duncan and Dan talk about Mike’s new book on the pivotal early era of Rome’s road from Republic to Empire.
EP1 Imperial Germany vs Nazi Germany
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Released Oct 19, 2017. Dan once said that he thought Germany’s First World War military was superior to Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht. He is often asked to elaborate, so he does in this show (note:this “pilot” show was previously posted on YouTube)
Show Notes:
- The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
- Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
- Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian (post war memoirs)
- Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton