Real Time History Podcast

Dr. Grant T. Harward is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC. In his new book Romania's Holy War , Harward rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759963/romanias-holy-war/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

IS-2 - Development, Design & Production of Stalin's War Hammer http://www.is-2tank.com/ The IS-2 is the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2. Heavily armored and boasting a fearsome 122mm gun, this tank matched the German panzers on the Eastern front by more than just its fierce appearance. In his new book Peter Samsonov tells this tank’s history is told from the beginning of the...

In our newest podcast episode we have invited our previous guest Katja Hoyer again. This time she's not talking about the German Empire but about the GDR which she portraits in her new book Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447141/beyond-the-wall-by-hoyer-katja/9780241553787  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She has been studying Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014 and the surrounding propaganda. Her latest book,  Russia’s War ,  explains why Russians support the war on Ukraine: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russia%E2%80%B2s-War-Jade-McGlynn/dp/1509556761 Her next book,  Memory Mak...

We're delighted to announce the return of the Real Time History podcast in which Jesse interviews historians about their works. Our first guest this year is Michael S. Neiberg author of "When France Fell - The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance": https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674258563 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...

Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial: https://www.blair100.com/ West Virginia Mine Wars Museum: https://wvminewars.org/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Dr Karine Varley is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Strathclyde. She researched the Franco-Prussian War for her book "Under the Shadow of Defeat - The War of 1870-71 in French Memory": https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230005198 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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The Italian Empire and the Great War by Vanda Wilcox https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-italian-empire-and-the-great-war-9780198822943?cc=us&lang=en& OUP Greater War Series: https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/g/the-greater-war-tgw/?lang=en&cc=us See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...

Support Glory & Defeat: https://realtimehistory.net/indiegogo Twitter Project "Heute vor 150 Jahren": https://twitter.com/krieg7071 Tobias Arand " 1870/71 - Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges erzählt in Einzelschicksalen " and "Fröschweiler Chronik Kriegs- und Friedensbilder aus dem Jahr 1870 von Karl Klein" See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

Get access to Rhineland 45 streaming and the Rhineland 45 Companion Book:  https://realtimehistory.net/collections/shop Rhineland 45 Battlefield Tour:  https://onthefront.com/rhineland-45 Battleguide Virtual Tours:  https://battleguide.co.uk/tours/ Welcome to the newly renamed Real Time History podcast - where a new name doesn't mean the topics change. Jesse and Flo talk about RTH's...

DeNeen L. Brown is a Associate Professor for Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College. She is also an award winning journalist currently known for her work at the Washington Post where she covered The Tulsa Race Massacre and its remembrance. A white Republican mayor seeks the truth about Tulsa’s race massacre a century ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/13/tu...

Prof. Mark Cornwall is a historian of modern East-Central Europe with a current focus on the late Habsburg Empire. In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to happen o...

Get War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923: https://amzn.to/386oQHx [Affiliate Link] Dr. Tomas Balkelis received his PhD in History at the University of Toronto in 2004. After graduation he worked at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. During 2009-2013, he was a European Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, and in 2015 and 2016...

Wolfram Dornik - Des Kaisers Falke: https://amzn.to/2JKAJLl (Affiliate Link) Conrad von Hötzendorf is an infamous character of the Great War (both the channel and the actual historic event). We interviewed Hötzendorf biographer Wolfram Dornik and asked him all the questions that you had about dear ol' Conrad. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

Get The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia: https://amzn.to/3nnNHwO [Affiliate Link] Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books,...

Get The Ottoman Army and the First World War:   https://amzn.to/3gQIThd [Affiliate Link] Mesut Uyar is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Dr. Uyar is a retired Turkish Army colonel and former associate professor from the University of New South Wales, Australia and the Turkish Military Academy. He is...

Follow Sofya Anisimova on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sofyadanisimova  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Get Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918: bookdepository.com Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud Prussians, Bavarians and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European n...

Get The Fiume Crisis Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire : https://amzn.to/37uWM1F Dominique Kirchner Reill is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Miami and author of the award-winning Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands: https://amzn.to/2WeHEPq Historian Alexander Watson tells the story of a siege that changed the course of the First World War and that is all too familiar to the viewers of The Great War channel.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-in...

*SORRY FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY* Harry Perry Robinson wasn't a name we were immediately familiar with but when we read the text about his biography, we were intrigued:  "The life of Harry Perry Robinson-a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines and helping to elect a US president, to the First World War and the discovery of Tu...

Sönke Neitzel's work:  Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik - eine Militärgeschichte: https://amzn.to/2IGyVT5 Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: https://amzn.to/3lNoUBw Dr. Sönke Neitzel is a professor for military history and cultural history of violence at the university of Potsdam. He has published several books looking at the German Army in the 20th century and b...

Kate Imy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas. In her new book "Faithful Fighters - Identity and Power in the British Indian Army" she takes a look at one of the biggest colonial forces in the first half of the 20th century that it often overlooked.    Order Faithful Fighters: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31378 Follow Kate Imy on Twitter: https://twit...

This episode is a premiere as we interviewed a special guest that already joined us on this podcast. Historian and author Damien Wright is back to talk with us about the intervention of the Allied forces in the Russian Civil War and other related topics.  Damiens Book is called Churchills Secret War With Lenin (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/3ddOD2Q Our first episode of the podcast with Dam...