Forgotten Wars
oleh James Barton
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The Secret Invasion - Operation Savannah
The Secret Invasion - Operation Savannah
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Forgotten Wars covers the conflicts overlooked in popular history. Journey to World War One in East Africa with an undefeated German General, trek across Siberia during the Russian Revolution with a lost Czech legion, watch as Britain bombards Chinese forts in service to the Opium trade, and find out if a war actually started because of a football result.
Expect bravery, incompetence, fascinating figures and incredible drama.
By James Barton, proud History Nerd
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- The Secret Invasion - Operation Savannah · 1 jam 3 mnt · Episode 83Its 1975 and the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa is collapsing, while the Cold War rages across the globe. For Apartheid South Africa the nightmare of a red state on its…
- Mussolini's Folly - Disaster in the Alps · 51 mnt · Episode 82Its 1940, Paris fallen to Hitler's army and France faces its darkest hour. Believing his neighbour is already a defeated nation, Benito Mussolini launches his army across the…
- Holy Terror - The Siege of Mecca 1979 · 60 mnt · Episode 811979 was a pivotal year in the Muslim world. Iran plunged into revolution, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and most shocking of all, armed fundamentalists seized control of…
- The War over Bird Poop! The Battle for the Chincha Islands · 48 mnt · Episode 80Today we cover one of history’s strangest wars. Find out how islands covered in bird poop and a drunken fight in a tavern, led to Spain fighting a war against most of South…
- The Kingmakers Last Battle - The Battle of Barnet · 58 mnt · Episode 79England has been torn apart by the epic rivalry between the Houses of York and Lancaster. The humble rose—the emblem of both houses—has become an omen of death and destruction…
- Japanese Blitzkrieg - Conquest of the Dutch East Indies · 55 mnt · Episode 78The Empire of the Rising Sun stands on the edge of seizing the main target of its blitzkrieg, the Dutch East Indies. As the Dutch, Americans, Australians and British unite under…
- Japanese Blitzkrieg - Singapore Surrenders · 58 mnt · Episode 77Fortress Singapore stands alone as the British and Commonwealth forces are humiliatingly driven out of Malaya. As General Percival continues to make blunder after blunder…
- Japanese Blitzkrieg - Collapse in Malaya · 56 mnt · Episode 76It’s the British Empires turn to endure the Japanese Blitzkrieg. Malaya and Singapore are meant to be the strongholds of the empire in the east, but behind the façade alies a…
- Japanese Blitzkrieg - The Fall of the Philippines · 56 mnt · Episode 75December 1941. The world looks on in horror as American ships burn at Pearl Harbour. But Pearl Harbour is only one part of a vast surprise offensive. Its goal: nothing less than…
- The Plot that Started the Boer War - The Jameson Raid · 54 mnt · Episode 74There’s Gold in Them There Hills! It’s 1896, and the Boer Republic of the Transvaal is awash with gold after the largest gold discovery in human history. Yet even as they…
- The Miracle that Saved Europe - The Polish Soviet War · 57 mnt · Episode 73It's 1920, and out of the wreckage of the First World War a new, fragile Polish state has emerged. But to the east a storm is coming. The Red Army of Vladmir Lenin is racing…
- Bootleggers VS The Klan - Prohibition Wars · 49 mnt · Episode 721920s America. A land of jazz, Prohibition, gangsters and prosperity. But in southern Illinois, a war is raging. The local Ku Klux Klan is mobilising to wipe out bootlegging…
- Rome’s Most Corrupt War - The Jugurthine War · 58 mnt · Episode 71The enemies of Ancient Rome tried many different tactics to defeat them, from the ambushes of Arminius, to the legendary Parthian cavalry archers, who turned the sky black with…
- America's Deadliest Riot - The New York Drafts Riot · 57 mnt · Episode 70What was the worst riot in American History? Watts in 1965? Detroit in 1967? The LA riots in 1992 after the Rodney King beating? These were nothing compared to the mackdaddy of…
- African Cold War Chaos - The Ogaden War · 52 mnt · Episode 69The Cold War led to many crazy decisions and bizarre alliances, but the Ogaden War is up there with the best of them. As Ethiopia plunged into bloody red revolution, neighbouring…
- The Bombing of Darwin - Australia's Pearl Harbour · 55 mnt · Episode 68It's 1942 and as the Japanese juggernaut overruns South-east Asia, the eyes of the Empire of the Rising Sun fall on the Australian Port of Darwin. What followed was a devastating…
- The French & Indian War Part 5 - The Final Showdown · 52 mnt · Episode 671759 is the year when everything changed, the year of victories for the British and the colonists, the year that the back of French power in North America was finally broken…
- The French & Indian War Part 4 - Louisbourg to Ticonderoga · 47 mnt · Episode 66Britain is at its lowest point in the war, its army’s once again failing to make progress, its dreams for North America seemingly gone up in smoke along with the smouldering…
- The French & Indian War Part 3 - Rogers Rangers · 54 mnt · Episode 65In this episode we take a break from the main narrative to focus on one of the most remarkable units in American history; Rogers Rangers. Like so many innovations, they were born…
- The French & Indian War Part 2 - The French Strike Back! · 58 mnt · Episode 64In the shadow of Braddock's defeat, Britain's other offensives in 1755 have distinctly mixed results. As the war spreads to Europe and then around the world, Britain and her…
