Textbook dummies
Two guys with a passion for all things history
Podcasting since 2024 • 21 episodes
Textbook dummies
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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...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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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...
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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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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9:58
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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6:34
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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