Episodes

  • Mussolini's War - A Greek Tragedy

    Mussolini's War - A Greek Tragedy
    Sep 22 2025
    Not content with a disaster in North Africa, Mussolini decides to invade Greece to show Hitler whose boss in the Balkans. What he claimed would be a walkover turns into his most humiliating mistake.

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    52 mins
  • Mussolini's War - Operation Compass

    Mussolini's War - Operation Compass
    Sep 14 2025
    In a 3 part series we delve into why Italy's campaigns in World War 2 turned into humiliating defeats, starting with the beginning of the duel in the desert. As Mussolini tries to build a new Roman Empire by invading Egypt, a genius British general will launch one of the greatest forgotten offensives of the whole war.

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    1 hr
  • Canada in World War 1 - Stormtroopers of the Empire

    Canada in World War 1 - Stormtroopers of the Empire
    Sep 1 2025
    Today Canada is most famous for its politeness, maple syrup and ice hockey, but during World War 1 they were the most feared and brutal soldiers on the Western Front. Join me for a tale of heroism, raids on enemy trenches and a force that became the Stormtroopers of the British Empire.

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    55 mins
  • The Pig War - Keep your Potatoes out of my Pig!

    The Pig War - Keep your Potatoes out of my Pig!
    Aug 18 2025
    On a remote Island in the Pacific a grumpy farmer shoots a pig gouging on his potatoes. Little does he know that he will almost start a war between America and Britain.

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    39 mins
  • Cocaine Nazis - Bolivia's Nazi Cocaine Coup

    Cocaine Nazis - Bolivia's Nazi Cocaine Coup
    Aug 14 2025
    Find out how Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, escaped to Bolivia after working for US intelligence. Here he would ally with drug lords such as Pablo Escobar to build a cocaine empire that would seize control of Bolivia and almost build a Fourth Reich in the Andes. #History #WorldWar2

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    41 mins
  • The First Boer War Part 3 - Majuba Hill

    The First Boer War Part 3 - Majuba Hill
    Aug 4 2025
    After suffering devastating defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo, the British start negotiating with the Boers. But an increasingly erratic General Colley, desperate for redemption, seizes Majuba Hill. What follows is one of the most devastating defeats in British History. #Britishempire #Boers #History #Britain

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    35 mins
  • The First Boer War Part 2 - 'May Eton Flourish'

    The First Boer War Part 2 - 'May Eton Flourish'
    Jul 28 2025
    Britain's war against the Boers continues to be a bloody fiasco after defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo. Meanwhile the British garrisons in the Transvaal struggle to hold on with no support.

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    38 mins
  • The First Boer War Part 1 - A Tale of Boers and Brits

    The First Boer War Part 1 - A Tale of Boers and Brits
    Jul 21 2025

    Its South Africa in 1880 and Britain is about to drift into a war with the local Boer farmers, a war so disastrous that they won't win a single battle. Join me for tale of incompetence, arrogance, diamonds and a commander who couldn't tell the difference between cows and armed Boers.


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    37 mins