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  • Haitian Inferno - Liberty and Death in the Haitian Revolution
    2024/12/07
    What do Voodoo priests, Slaves fighting for their freedom and Napoleon Bonaparte have in common? The Haitian Revolution! After the slaves of Haiti rose up and overthrew their French masters, Napoleon sends a vast army to restore French rules and reimpose slavery. Yet he had underestimated the man the French would come to call the Black Spartacus, Toussaint L'Ouverture

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    42 分
  • The Winter War: Finland's fight for survival
    2024/11/20
    As World Two rages in Europe, Finland has to fight its own desperate struggle for survival as it is invaded by the full might of the Soviet Union. The Finns would earn the respect of world and legends would be born in this epic David and Goliath struggle.

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    33 分
  • The Great Game - The First Anglo-Afghan War
    2024/11/04
    A British army invades Afghanistan expecting an easy victory, instead it would lead to the worst British military defeat in the 19th Century. Join me for a tale of heroism, incompetence, super spies and disaster.

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    35 分
  • When Two Bulls Fight the Grass Gets Flattened
    2024/10/23

    For our first episode we head to East Africa in World War One. Far from the trenches of the Western Front, Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck leads German forces on an epic campaign to tie down as many Allied troops as possible, ending the war as Germany's only undefeated General.



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    39 分