The Dead Warrior Society
Exploring history's greatest soldiers, warriors, and armies throughout the ages. The Dead Warrior Society uses contemporary accounts of what actually happened from those who saw it as well as scholarly research.
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Podcasting since 2025 • 28 episodes
The Dead Warrior Society
Latest Episodes
El Cid: A Medieval Soldier of Fortune
Welcome back to The Dead Warrior Society, the podcast where history’s fiercest fighters live again. In this episode, we dive into the early life and legendary exploits of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—better known as El Cid. From his rise through the r...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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The First True Crusaders: Spain’s Relentless War Against Islam and Al-Andalus
In this episode we discuss when the Crusades first started. Although it is a complicated concept, we dive into the intimate details of what prompted Christan peoples to take up the Cross and wage war against Islamic forces not just in the Holy ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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The Rise and Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty in Al Andalus
In this episode of the Dead Warrior Society podcast, we explore the remarkable yet brief rise and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus.Once centered in the magnificent city of Córdoba, the Caliphate was hailed by contemporaries a...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:34:08
SHOCK AND AWE: The Islamic Invasion and Conquest of Visigothic-Roman Spain
In this first installment of our series on the Reconquest of Spain, we set the stage for one of the most defining struggles in European and World history—the fight to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula by the indigenous Catholic Hispanic-Roman peopl...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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How to Become a Historian
In this episode of the Dead Warrior Society, I discuss how I went from being a piss poor student who barely graduated high school to eventually getting a degree in History from an Ivy League University. Throughout my journey I made numerous err...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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