Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

By James BartonEducationHistory
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Forgotten Wars episodes

  • Freikorps Part 1 - Germany's Terminators

    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 went. All the while they waited to turn on the Republic itself. They would become Germany's Terminators.


    #War #Germany #WorldWar1

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    56 min
  • Operation Flipper - The Failed Attempt to 'Get Rommel'

    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

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    51 min
  • James Wilkinson - America's Worst Traitor
    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 peace time disaster in the history of the American army and botches an invasion of Canada. He's the founding father everyone wants to forget about.

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    54 min
  • Jeanne de Clisson - The Bloody Lioness
    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

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    38 min
  • Mussolini's War - Invading the USSR
    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.

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    51 min
  • Mussolini's War - A Greek Tragedy
    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.

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    52 min
  • Mussolini's War - Operation Compass
    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.

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    1 hr
  • Canada in World War 1 - Stormtroopers of the Empire
    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.

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    56 min
  • Cocaine Nazis - Bolivia's Nazi Cocaine Coup
    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

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    42 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…