Episode 8.16

An introduction to my new podcast series which will be published from September dealing with the wars of German unification and influence of Otto von Bismarck on Germany and Europe.  The first series ...

20 Elo 202421min

In this final episode of this season, I will be discussing nuclear weapons and the threat of a nuclear war which hung over the world during the cold war.

13 Tammi 202420min

After Che Guevara left Cuba, he would try to led two revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, neither of which would succeed.  He would be captured by the Bolivian Army and murdered in cold blood but ...

6 Tammi 202420min

An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile.  The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increases but President Kennedy decides not to bomb Cuba...

30 Joulu 202320min

An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba.  The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy decides above a naval blockade of Cuba instead.  President K...

23 Joulu 202320min

Cuban exiles with the secret support of the American Government would in 1961, attempt a landing on the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.  The invasion was crushed by the Cuban Army, President K...

9 Joulu 202320min

When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, his mask of being a liberal and a democrat fell.  There would be no free elections in Cuba.  Those who had fought in the Cuban revolution for a free and d...

2 Joulu 202320min