Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

By James BartonEducationHistory
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Forgotten Wars episodes

  • The Secret Invasion - Operation Savannah
    Its 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 border seems about to come true, as the Communists appear on the verge of victory in Angola. As a last desperate throw of the dice, South Africa launches Operation Savannah, the secret invasion of Angola. #coldwar #history #historynerd #bushwars #southafrica #militaryhistory

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Mussolini's Folly - Disaster in the Alps
    Its 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 Alps in search of easy conquests. Instead he will suffer one his worst humiliations. #history #militaryhistory #italy #Mussolini #worldwar2 #historynerd

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    51 min
  • Holy Terror - The Siege of Mecca 1979

    1979 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 Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.

    For two weeks they held out against everything the Saudi Kingdom could throw at them.

    It is a crisis that even today is barely discussed, either in the Muslim world or the West. Yet the shockwaves from those two weeks would transform Saudi Arabia and help fuel the rise of radical Islam across the world.


    #history #militaryhistory #historynerd #saudiarabia #siegeofmecca

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    1 hr
  • The War over Bird Poop! The Battle for the Chincha Islands
    Today 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 America. #peru #chile #history #militaryhistory

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    49 min
  • The Kingmakers Last Battle - The Battle of Barnet

    England 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 across a ravaged land.


    On the battlefield of Barnet, two men are locked in a final struggle: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick—the man history remembers as the Kingmaker—and the very king he helped place upon the throne, Edward IV.


    Here, their feud will finally be settled. #militaryhistory #history #waroftheroses #england #englishhistory

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    59 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Conquest of the Dutch East Indies
    The 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 a single command to resist the Japanese juggernaut, Japan will launch arguably its most brilliantly executed campaign of the entire war. #history #historynerd #pacificwar #militaryhistory #worldwar2

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    55 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Singapore Surrenders
    Fortress Singapore stands alone as the British and Commonwealth forces are humiliatingly driven out of Malaya. As General Percival continues to make blunder after blunder, General Yamashita is under immense pressure himself from Tokyo to win this campaign quickly. The scene is set for an epic battle that will end in Britain's worst ever humiliation. #pacificwar #militaryhistory #history #historynerd #singapore #worldwar2

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    59 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - Collapse in Malaya
    It’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 highly fragile reality. As Japanese troops pour into Malaya, Britain is about to face the consequences of two decades of blunders. #history #militaryhistory #worldwar2 # britishempire #historynerd #pacificwar

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    56 min
  • Japanese Blitzkrieg - The Fall of the Philippines

    December 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 conquest of Southeast Asia.


    Starting with the Philippines, in this new series we’ll follow the Japanese Blitzkrieg as it sweeps across the Pacific, overrunning empires that had taken centuries to build and changing the fate of Southeast Asia forever.


    #Worldwar2 #pacificwar #history #militaryhistory #historynerd


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    57 min
  • The Plot that Started the Boer War - The Jameson Raid

    There’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 celebrate their newfound riches, in the shadows a conspiracy is forming to seize control of their entire nation.


    Cecil Rhodes—arch-imperialist and the richest man in South Africa—is about to launch one of the most daring and disastrous adventures in the history of the British Empire:

    The Jameson Raid. #history #militaryhistory #southafrica #boerwar #britishempire #historynerd



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    55 min

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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…