“The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” - Guglielmo Marconi, 1912Long before the first shots were fired in August 1914, Europe had been quietly preparing for disaster. In this episo...

"In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark TwainIn this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into o...

History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spectacle.In this Halloween special, The Hungry Histori...

"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." - James DeanBefore he was a legend frozen in time, James Dean was a small-town boy with a hunger for something greate...

"The men were simply mown down. They advanced in lines which seemed to melt away under the enemy’s fire." — British officer reflecting on the Battle of LoosIn this episode join The Hungry Historian as he turns back to September ...