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Apologies for the birdsongs in advance...
We've got a real treat for you in the latest episode of the Korean War guys, as niche diplomacy and underrat...
2018-07-08 23:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Have yourself the latest installment of 17th Century Warfare series ad-free on me - happy Friday!
Our series on 17th century warfare conti...
2018-07-06 15:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 26: United We Stand is out now, and within it we continue to surge ahead with our narrative of the Korean War through the lens of the body of the United Nations. We look at how it ...
2018-07-01 18:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another Imre Nagy pun must mean it's time to get back into the story, as I complete your serving of 1956 for the month!
Episode 1.11, Gone But Nagy Forgotte...
2018-06-28 23:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's about time we brought 1956 back from the dead! Another episode to follow on Friday, so stay tuned!
Here in Episode 1.10, I Did Nagy See That Coming...
2018-06-26 23:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is in some sense a two-pronged episode, where we look first of all at the days between 27-30 June 1950, and explain how the Truman administration managed to manipulate the strategic s...
2018-06-24 18:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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UNprecedented - get it, because UN = United Nations, and it's unprecedented because it's never happened before?! I'm a genius!
Episode 24: UNprecedent...
2018-06-19 22:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Korean War is back with a bang!
Episode 23: What Lies Beneath takes us to the halls of Washington, where as we saw in the last episode, the US was...
2018-06-17 11:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here we put the Military Revolution to the test, by applying a key aspect of it - the trace italienne system - to 17th century France &nb...
2018-06-12 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Time to get a bit technical, but I promise it'll be anything BUT boring!
Get your thinking caps on history friends, because in this episode we’re going to...
2018-06-10 20:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing; and so I think other men did their children: he taught me how to draw, how to la...
2018-06-05 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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At long last! Our series on 17th century warfare has finally landed, with our first episode looking at…nothing to do with 17th century warfare…Hmmm. Not to worry history friends – un...
2018-06-03 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our fifth introduction episode (if you're counting those TALK episodes), in this episode here we actually get down to the meat and bones of what you can expect from this series, what its s...
2018-05-28 10:30:17 +0000 UTC View Post
(Apologies for the lateness patrons - Patreon is acting up a bit today!)
'This is a fight between God or the Devil. If his Majesty wants to side with God, he must join me. If he prefers to side with...
2018-05-28 10:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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1618-2018 - on this day 400 years ago, one of the most destructive conflicts in human history erupted within the walls of Prague's Hradschin Castle. As we recount here, the conflict was ne...
2018-05-23 00:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Back again with the second part of our TALK episode, which concludes the analysis of the Thirty Years War timeline in the typical style which only a TALK episode can manage! Here we take t...
2018-05-18 10:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Happy birthday to us! When Diplomacy Fails is 6 years old today, and to celebrate we're jumping right into the Thirty Years War once again, with another intro epi...
2018-05-18 09:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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We're jumping back into the Thirty Years War and this is all super exciting, but to some of you guys it may also be a tad overwhelming, as a lot of unfamiliar stuff is about to be thrown a...
2018-05-13 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is something special! For all $1 Patrons and above, we have a special episode examining Henry VIII's foreign policy during the period 1509-47. This is an episode which I very much enj...
2018-05-06 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 9, Desperately Hungary takes a somewhat depressing journey into post-war Hungary, to present to you guys a story and a people which suffered much over the course of the Soviet occu...
2018-05-03 23:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
PATRONS: You don't get bombarded with the ad about it in the episode, but you should know about our new sponsor - onlinegreatbooks.com! To access some fascinating books, nerd out with like min...
2018-05-01 19:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 21: In Support of My Thesis is a kind of culmination of all we've learned so far. It's also a recap of our findings and my theses for this series. What do I believe, and why do I b...
2018-04-29 19:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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There's an awful lot to get into here, but we have to start somewhere! In this episode, I explain why my plans have effectively gone up in smoke, and what I plan to do to rectify these new...
2018-04-22 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLONG-ISH READ AHEAD.
Within this update I drop some good news on you guys, some meh news, and some bad news. Hopefully a good portion of you guys will...
2018-04-20 00:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 8, The Star Pupil continues our story from last time, as the Polish situation presents us with a few more questions which require our attention. Vladislav Gomulk...
2018-04-19 22:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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PATRONS: Make sure to give a warm welcome to our featured history podcast through the History Podcasting Platform: Noah Tetzner, and his History of Vikings Podcast. You can find No...
2018-04-15 22:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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2018-04-13 18:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 19: Korean Background Part 2 picks up where we left off last time with an examination of Syngman Rhee, by examining his counterpart up North. Who was Kim Il-sung, and where did he ...
2018-04-08 20:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 6, Polish Hammers, examines the fallout of Khrushchev’s February speech in the context of Poland. What was the Polish experience of living in the Soviet orbit? Here we set the sc...
2018-04-06 18:31:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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NEW: Subscribe to WDF's newsletter for a weekly update on the latest in WDF, exclusive deals, stories, quizzes, perspectives and so much more that you won't get anywhere else. Cut through ...
2018-04-01 22:07:22 +0000 UTC View Post