Episodes

  • The Mayaguez Incident - The Last Battle of the Vietnam War

    The Mayaguez Incident - The Last Battle of the Vietnam War
    Dec 15 2025
    It's 1975 and the United States is still reeling from the Watergate scandal and the fall of Saigon, when Communist Cambodians seize an American ship on the high seas. What sounds like the start of an 80's action flick would turn into one of the most tragic, hilarious and flawed operations ever launched by the US military. #History #USA #MilitaryHistory #War

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    55 mins
  • The Boxer Rebellion Part 3 - The Fall of Beijing

    The Boxer Rebellion Part 3 - The Fall of Beijing
    Dec 8 2025
    In the final part of our series on the Boxer Rebellion, the allied army fights its way to the gates of Beijing, all the while dealing with the terrible heat and squabbling among themselves. Meanwhile in the besieged Legations, the foreigners desperately try to hold on as the Chinese go all out to crush them. #History, #militaryhistory #war #china

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    56 mins
  • The Boxer Rebellion Part 2 - The Empires Strike Back

    The Boxer Rebellion Part 2 - The Empires Strike Back
    Dec 1 2025
    The Boxer Rebellion is in full swing as Northern China descends into chaos. While one of the strangest army's ever assembled, combining troops from all the Great Powers, assaults Tientsin, the foreigners trapped in the Beijing Legations desperately fight for their very survival as the siege rages on. #History #War #China

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    47 mins
  • The Boxer Rebellion Part 1 - Kill the Barbarians!

    The Boxer Rebellion Part 1 - Kill the Barbarians!
    Nov 24 2025
    Get ready for a tale of one the strangest wars in history. China explodes into the blood chaos of the Boxer Rebellion, as rebels who believe their martial arts make them invincible to bullets go on the rampage. Trapped in Beijing and Tientsin, the Western and Japanese communities are soon desperately fighting for their very lives. Meanwhile one of the strangest alliances in history is being formed, as all the great powers join forces to rescue their citizens.

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    51 mins
  • St Clair's Defeat - Washington's Worst Disaster

    St Clair's Defeat - Washington's Worst Disaster
    Nov 17 2025
    Today the US army is the most formidable in the world, but in the young nations early years it was a very different story. Amateurish, badly led and underfunded, it stumbled into the worst military defeat in American history. A defeat so terrible it would change the American army forever.

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    59 mins
  • Freikorps Part 3 - Terminators of the Third Reich

    Freikorps Part 3 - Terminators of the Third Reich
    Nov 10 2025
    In the last episode Adolf Hitler takes central stage in the story of the Freikorps. On the backfoot after the assassination of Walter Rathenau, the Freikorps stage a comeback as Poland threatens Germany's boarders, France invades the Ruhr, and hyperinflation devastates the land. With Germany in chaos and the Republic gravelly weakened, Hitler and his Freikorps allies will launch the Munich Putsch.

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    56 mins
  • Freikorps Part 2 - Terminate the Republic

    Freikorps Part 2 - Terminate the Republic
    Nov 3 2025
    After rampaging through Germany and invading the Baltic States, the Freikorps still thirsted for combat and blood. Turning on the very Republic that had been paying and supplying them, they would bring a reign of terror that would shake Germany to its very foundations. #Germany #WorldWar2 #Nazis

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    1 hr
  • Freikorps Part 1 - Germany's Terminators

    Freikorps Part 1 - Germany's Terminators
    Oct 27 2025

    What does a society do when it has trained killing machines that it can't turn off? That is the situation Germany faced after World War 1, as its elite Storm Troopers returned home to a country where the old order had collapsed. Despising the new German Republic, they would band together to crush Communist revolts and even invade the Baltic states, leaving death and destruction everywhere they went. All the while they waited to turn on the Republic itself. They would become Germany's Terminators.


    #War #Germany #WorldWar1

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    55 mins