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WW1 Part 3 1915
World War One – Part 3: 1915 – Stalemate, Gas, and a Global WarIn Part Three of our World War One series, we move into 1915 — the year the war stopped being a war of movement and became a brutal, grinding stalemate.With tre...
World War 1 part 2 1914
In Part 2 of our First World War series, we dive into the opening year of the conflict — 1914. After the long-term causes set the stage and an assassination lit the fuse in Part 1, this episode follows how Euro...
World War 1 Part 1 the causes
This is the first episode in a multipart series on the First World War.Over the next few episodes, we’ll be following the war from its origins, through the fighting itself, and finally to its world-changing consequences.But...
Operation Paul Bunyan
In August of 1976, a single act of violence in the Korean Demilitarized Zone pushed the Cold War to the brink.Two American officers were killed—not in battle, but while trimming a tree.What followed was one of the most extraordina...
The Algerian war of independence
In this episode, we dive into one of the most complex, brutal, and transformative struggles of the 20th century: the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). What began as a colonial uprising quickly turned into a full-scale war that reshaped ...