OT: Hardcore History

[CochiseCowbell]

A big thank you to those who suggested Dan Carlin's podcast (& to those who offered others in that thread).

I listened to King of Kings first. Now, I'm in the middle of the 5+ episode The Wrath of Khans.

 

[121Josey]

A big thank you to those who suggested Dan Carlin's podcast (& to those who offered others in that thread).

I listened to King of Kings first. Now, I'm in the middle of the 5+ episode The Wrath of Khans.

Ditto. I've listened to the first two installments of Blueprint for Armageddon over the past two days. So much about WWI I and its dawn that didn't know.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Blueprint is next on my agenda.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

+1 heard them all. Very good!

 

[gptdawg]

I remember that thread and would also suggest that you might like "A Dark Secret Place " by Brian Suits. Good stuff on modern Middle East politics.

 

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

A big thank you to those who suggested Dan Carlin's podcast (& to those who offered others in that thread).

I listened to King of Kings first. Now, I'm in the middle of the 5+ episode The Wrath of Khans.

Glad you like it! The only problem is he seems to give priority to his political podcast, so he takes months to release a new episode, especially now with the elections in full swing. I've finished all his free episodes on iTunes and am probably going to have to cave pretty soon and buy one of his collections of older episodes.

 

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Ditto. I've listened to the first two installments of Blueprint for Armageddon over the past two days. So much about WWI I and its dawn that didn't know.

I finished that series and couldn't help but feel the conditions for the soldiers in WWII were a walk in the park compared to what the soldiers in WWI had to deal with. It was that bad.

I learned a ton about the politics behind the war though. And the Wrath of the Khans was especially fascinating since that's something that's never really talked about in our history classes.