Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
In "Hardcore History" the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our mod
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Show 55 - Blueprint for Armageddon VI
The Americans are coming, but will the war be over ...
The Americans are coming, but will the war be over by the time they get there? Germany throws everything into a last series of stupendous attacks in the West while hoping to avoid getting burned by a fire in the East they helped fan.
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Show 54 - Blueprint for Armageddon V
Politics, diplomacy, revolution and mutiny take center stage at the ...
Politics, diplomacy, revolution and mutiny take center stage at the start of this episode, but mud, blood, shells and tragedy drown all by the end.
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Show 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV
Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery ...
Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation.
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Show 52 - Blueprint for Armageddon III
The war of maneuver that was supposed to be over ...
The war of maneuver that was supposed to be over quickly instead turns into a lingering bloody stalemate. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses.
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Show 51 - Blueprint for Armageddon II
The Great Powers all come out swinging in the first ...
The Great Powers all come out swinging in the first round of the worst war the planet has ever seen. Millions of men in dozens of armies vie in the most deadly and complex opening moves of any conflict in world history.
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Show 50 - Blueprint for Armageddon I
The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the ...
The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet.
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Show 49 - The American Peril
Imperial temptations and humanitarian nightmares force the United States of ...
Imperial temptations and humanitarian nightmares force the United States of the late 19th Century to confront the contradictions between its revolutionary self-image and its expanding national interests.
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Show 48 - Prophets of Doom
Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city ...
Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandora's Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.
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Show 47 - Wrath of the Khans V
Succession issues weaken the Mongol Empire as the grandchildren of ...
Succession issues weaken the Mongol Empire as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan fight over their imperial inheritance. This doesn't stop them from dealing out pain, suffering, and ironically good governance while doing so.
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Show 46 - Wrath of the Khans IV
The death of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol ...
The death of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire, should have slowed the momentum of Mongol conquests, but instead it accelerated it. This time though, all of Europe is on the Mongol hit list.
