Beste Military History podcasts (2024)

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Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 1:07:34

7h ago1:07:34

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warships—of enormous geopolitical import before the advent of intercontinental missiles or drones—had to shoot in poor light and choppy seas at distant mo…

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Sister Ellen Savage GM: The Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur 40:22

18h ago40:22

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14-MAY-1943: While serving as a Nurse aboard the 2/3rd Australian Hospital Ship Centaur as part of the Australian Army Nursing Service, Sister Ellen Savage survived the sinking of the Hospital ship at the hands of the Japanese submarine I-177 and in doing so became a symbol of resilience and compassion as she was the sole nursing survivor. In this …

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Ep. 14 | Custer Wins at Little Bighorn | How a Victory Would Have Changed the Great Plains Forever | Daniel Wrinn 38:55

2d ago38:55

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What if Custer had won at Little Bighorn, shattering Native American resistance and remapping U.S. history? Picture a scenario where this victory propels an era of unyielding expansion, as the hypothetical Custer Doctrine galvanizes the spirit of manifest destiny across the Great Plains. In this episode, we unravel this captivating alternate histor…

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SPECIAL: RNR - Battle of Kohima (Part 4) 38:15

4d ago38:15

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It's the final episode in our story of the Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War. The desperate Battle of Kohima concludes. Visit Gallipoli with Pete and Gary in 2025! Go to https://phbt.uk/ for more information! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and rec…

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123 - Jungle Combat in Vietnam with Gary McKay 24:42

10d ago24:42

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This episode is the first of a two part interview with retired LTCOL Gary McKay, who was a Platoon Commander in Vietnam, in D Coy, 4 RAR. He fought in Op Ivanhoe at the battle of Nui Le, where he was wounded. For his awarded the Military Cross for his performance during the battle. He was later the Commanding Officer of 8/9 RAR between 1988 and 199…

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Ep. 13 | Lenin's Missed Train | A Russia Without the Bolshevik Revolution | Daniel Wrinn 43:54

5d ago43:54

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What if the Russian Revolution had taken a different turn, right at its most critical juncture? Picture a world where Vladimir Lenin never returned to Russia in 1917. This episode embarks on a compelling exploration of this alternate military history, painting a vivid picture of a nation on the brink during World War I. Through the eyes of a soldie…

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Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016) 1:21:28

7d ago1:21:28

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General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of the most prominent military officers in China's Nationalist period (1928-49) and one of the most misunderstood figures in twentieth-century China. Western scholars have dismissed He Yingqin as corrupt an…

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Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024) 1:08:02

8d ago1:08:02

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Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wo…

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Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024) 53:59

8d ago53:59

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In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across the continent, independence was followed by a wave of military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them had a vision. …

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Ep. 12 | Tet Offensive | The Vietnam War’s Alternative Outcome and Its Global Impact | Daniel Wrinn 39:46

9d ago39:46

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What if the Tet Offensive had turned the tide of the Vietnam War completely? This episode of the Alternative Military History Podcast invites you to journey with us through one of history's most dramatic "what ifs." We explore how the Tet Offensive not only altered American perceptions but also imagine an alternate world where North Vietnamese forc…

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Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 54:14

9d ago54:14

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In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniles uses the transnational story of a single regiment to examine how ordinary soldiers, military women, and officers negotiated their lives within the chaos and uncertainty of the seventeenth century. Raised in Saxon…

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D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023) 1:11:48

9d ago1:11:48

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Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, D. M. Giangreco’s Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story (Potomac Books, 2023) will discomfort both Truman’s critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the e…

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Cathie Carmichael, "The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World" (CEU Press, 2024) 35:37

10d ago35:37

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In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) to talk about her new book with CEU Press, The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World. In the podcast we talked about the importance of Trebinje as a garrison town for the Habsburgs, the role of women in the town and the import…

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SPECIAL: RNR - Battle of Kohima (Part 3) 36:35

11d ago36:35

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Pete and Gary revisit one of their most popular series - the story of the Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War. In this episode the fighting gets desperate as the Battle of Kohima continues. Visit Gallipoli with Pete and Gary in 2025! Go to https://phbt.uk/ for more information! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachla…

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Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022) 1:30:38

11d ago1:30:38

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When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the former territory of Transnistria, located in occupied Soviet Ukraine and governed by Nazi Germany's Romanian allies, many Jews perished due to disease, starvation, and …

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S4E14 Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov 45:06

11d ago45:06

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Join us as we discuss Yaroslav Trofimov’s recent publication, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence (Penguin, 2024). We dive into the history of his journalism, the personal account of his reporting, and the ongoing war on Ukraine. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent m…

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Ep. 11 | Israel's Gamble | Disarming for Peace in an Uncertain Middle East | Daniel Wrinn 44:04

12d ago44:04

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What if Israel took the extraordinary step of disarming its military to foster peace and support a fully independent Palestinian state? This episode of the Alternative Military History Podcast challenges conventional wisdom by exploring this bold scenario. We trace Israel's history, emphasizing the pivotal role its military has played since 1948, a…

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Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019) 53:03

12d ago53:03

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The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed. Over the past decade, the heavily forested,mineral-rich region of Bastar in central …

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Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:01:06

13d ago1:01:06

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Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or recycled. Entrepreneurs, policy makers, and ordinary citizens conjured up countless schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, n…

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Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018) 47:36

15d ago47:36

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Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the background to the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary wars and ending with the rec…

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Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War 57:55

15d ago57:55

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In times of profound crisis, when violence and hatred seem to dominate our world, we often search for voices that can help us navigate through the darkness while holding onto our humanity. Today's conversation with Parker Palmer, one of America's most respected Quaker elders and thought leaders, explores the complex landscape of faith, hope, and he…

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Lee Brice and Timothy Roberts, "The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History" (Marine Corps UP, 2024) 57:09

15d ago57:09

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The expansion of trade and communication networks has been active since the fifteenth century and has had an undeniable impact on connecting military activity around the world. This fact is visible in the historical record, but has it in the last several decades transformed the historiography of military history? The Boundaries of War: Local and Gl…

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Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024) 44:41

15d ago44:41

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During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918) (Duke Universit…

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Ep. 10 | Patton vs. the Red Army | A Potential Showdown with the Soviets | Daniel Wrinn 38:11

16d ago38:11

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What if the Cold War had ignited into a full-scale battle between the Allies and the Soviet Union right after World War II? Get ready for a mind-bending exploration of this alternate history scenario, where General George S. Patton is unleashed to confront the Red Army. We dive into the strategic and logistical challenges of such a confrontation, f…

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Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022) 42:22

17d ago42:22

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The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the massive network of overseas military deployments. However, the US now faces pressures to limit its overseas presence and spending. In Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opini…

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SPECIAL: RNR - Battle of Kohima (Part 2) 41:18

18d ago41:18

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Pete and Gary revisit one of their most popular series - the story of the Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War. In this episode we rejoin the regiment as the Battle of Kohima rages on. Visit Gallipoli with Pete and Gary in 2025! Go to https://phbt.uk/ for more information! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Prod…

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Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023) 1:20:39

18d ago1:20:39

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This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and uncertainties of the global security environment raise timely and important questions about the future of humanity's oldest occupation: war. Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare (Routledge, 2023) edited by Artur Gruszcza…

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Ep. 9 | WWII Japanese Internment | A Spy Network Unrealized on American Soil | Daniel Wrinn 42:13

19d ago42:13

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What if the decision not to intern Japanese Americans during World War II had changed the course of history? Imagine a scenario where Japan could have built a formidable spy network right on American soil, significantly impacting the outcome of battles in the Pacific theater. This episode revisits the real historical context of Japanese internment,…

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Ep. 8 | WWI Assassination | Archduke Ferdinand’s Survival and a Century Without World War | Daniel Wrinn 1:11:17

20d ago1:11:17

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What if a single moment in 1914 could have changed the course of history, averting the devastation of two world wars? Today, we tackle this intriguing question and imagine a Europe where the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand never happened. We'll explore an alternate history where diplomacy outweighs militarism, and the Austro-Hungarian Emp…

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