Forgotten Wars

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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....

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 wen...

In 1941 World War 2 isn't going well for Britain. In North Africa a new German General called Erwin Rommel is running rings around them, turning the desert into this own playground. Desperate to turn the tide they launch a commando mission that was as ambitious and daring, as it was badly implemented and dogged by bad luck. Its mission was simple, to 'Get Rommel.' #worldwar2 #history /#rommel Host...

Who is the worst traitor in American history? The man with the best claim to that dubious title is James Wilkinson! Join me for an epic tale of espionage, corruption, wine and woman, as Wilkinson undermines George Washington, spies for Spain, tries to assassinate the explorers Lewis and Clark, and plots to split up the United States with Aaron Burr. In between he finds the time to cause the worst...

After her husband is falsely accused of treason and executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson embarks on an epic rampage of revenge. Taking to the high seas, she became a pirate, earning the nickname the Bloody Lioness of Brittany. #war # history #france #pirates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After disasters in North Africa and Greece, the last thing Fascist Italy needs is another front to fight on. Yet Mussolini will launch his soldiers into the Russian snows, where despite early successes, they will meet their doom as the Battle of Stalingrad unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we enter the murky world of mercenaries in Cold War Africa. 'Mad Mike' Hoare became a global celebrity as he led his famous 5th Commando against the Simba rebellion in the Congo, and then tried to overthrow the government of the Seychelles in possibly the worst coup in history. Yet behind the glamour there was a dark side of ex-Nazis, war crimes and rampant looting. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

At the end of the Cold War coups, cartels and cocaine have left Haiti in chaos, leading to yet another American occupation. Join me for a tale of a Voodoo priest president waging a spirit war on Bill Clinton, an anti-American militia leader who was a CIA agent, and how not to rebuild a shattered nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As World War One rages in Europe, America invades the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. Join me a for tale where the US Marines commit one of the largest bank robberies in history and battle Voodoo priests, all in the name of Wall Street. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saladin sets a trap for King Guy, but will he fall for it? Join for me for a battle that will decided the fate of the Holy Land Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Its 1187 and the Crusader States face the gravest threat in their history, Saladin. Join me for a tale of bravery, treachery, nobility and stupidity as the countdown to the Battle of Hattin begins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pancho Villa - Bandit, revolutionary hero, general, war lord. Down on his luck in the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution, he launches a devastating attack on America, the 9/11 of its day. Soon American troops will be hunting Pancho across a war torn Mexico in the last days of the old west. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.