Charles Gordon at Khartoum: Defying Gladstone to a 10-Month Siege
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1880s Sudan was ruled by Egypt, itself under British financial control, when Muhamm...
11 Okt 24min
Bushido's Shifting Code: Kamakura Head-Hunters to Corporate Japan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The polished image of the honorable samurai hides a far grittier past. In the Kamakura period, f...
11 Okt 22min
The Roman Testudo: Shield Roofs from Carrhae to Modern Riot Lines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The testudo, or tortoise, turned a block of Roman legionaries into a moving armored box. It depe...
11 Okt 20min
Flying Aces: Red Baron, Hartmann's 352 Kills and the Five-Kill Rule
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The flying ace was created as much by wartime propaganda as by combat. In 1915, with millions dy...
11 Okt 23min
No Man's Land: From the Domesday Book to Ukraine's Drone Kill Zones
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phrase no man's land did not start in the trenches. In the Domesday Book of 1086, William th...
11 Okt 22min
The Cannon's Rise: Song Fire Lances to Napoleon's Mud at Waterloo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The word cannon traces back through Italian and Latin to the Greek word for a reed, and the weap...
11 Okt 23min
Richard III Unburied: Tudor Propaganda vs the Leicester Car Park Bones
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In September 2012, archaeologists digging beneath a council car park in Leicester found a skelet...
11 Okt 20min
Carl von Clausewitz: Friction, Fog and the Unfinished On War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carl von Clausewitz entered the Prussian army in 1792 at 12 years old as a lance corporal and sa...
11 Okt 21min
