History by Hollywood

In this week’s show Martin is joined by the Podfather, Cameron Reilly as they examine the 1970 epic Waterloo and argue about who actually won. It’s long but we hope it’s fun

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Nick Parkinson provided this link to the article “Why the French think they won the Battle of Waterloo”:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/why-french-think-won-battle-waterloo-napoleon/

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Below is the link to the US Supreme Court’s record of the US vs Abel. The whole document is quite a daunting read but if you skip to page 362 US 242 you will begin with Justice Douglas’ dissenting statement (dissenting from the verdict) followed by Justice Brennan’s and Justice Black’s and they are well worth a read.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/362/217/case.html

The two books used are Strangers on a Bridge by James B Donovan and Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell

https://historybyhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/6-mutiny-on-the-bounty.mp3Episode 6: Mutiny on the Bounty

Simone Higgin’s Classic Hollywood MTC Podcast can be found here:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/classic-hollywood-mtc-podcasts/id1137457686?mt=2#episodeGuid=15e8497f30d6a12d840ce3dd73dd33f3

The following links will take you to the UK Amazon Kindle Store but from there you will be able to find other formats for the books and if you live elsewhere, you can copy and title and paste it into your local Amazon site or Google it to find where these books can be obtained. We would highly recommend Caroline Alexander’s book but William Bligh’s own account is also a fascinating read.

https://historybyhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/5-dambusters.mp3 Episode 5: The Dambusters

https://historybyhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4-300-complete-edit.mp3 Episode 4: 300

Links:

Hilarious Helmet Histories take on 300 (with similar conclusions to our own):

Christian Cameron, author of the Long War series of books can be researched at his website here:

http://www.hippeis.com/

Also worth reading is Stephen Pressfield’s historical novel, Gates of Fire. Narrated by a fictional scribe to a Spartan soldier, this is also very well researched and brilliantly written:

http://www.stevenpressfield.com/gates-of-fire/

And if you’re looking for more podcasts on this period, we cannot recommend highly enough Ryan Stitt’s podcast series on the history of Ancient Greece. Like us, Ryan is not a professional historian although his degree, like our own Andrew’s, is in Ancient History and Classical languages. Give it a try:

http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/

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