War Queens

At nearly 75, a Jewish grandma named Golda Meir made critical military decisions as she led the young nation of Israel through the Egyptian-Syrian surprise attack known as the Yom Kippur War. Brilliantly playing a three-dimensional game of diplomatic chess, Golda triangulated the battlefield, superpower détente, and long-term peace prospects to bring Israel out on top of a two-front war. Golda’s decisions not to strike first, to refuse the use of nuclear weapons, and to end the war on terms Egypt’s president could accept without losing face led to a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel and changed forever the history of the Middle East.

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Golda Meir.

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Indira Gandhi led the world’s largest democracy when war broke out on two sides of her country in 1971. She climbed a slippery political ladder to become India’s first female prime minister as her homeland emerged from uncertain days of independence to take its place as a power in South Asia. Facing a humanitarian crisis on her border, confronted by enemies in Pakistan and China, and despised by an American president, the yoga practitioner from Kashmir fused military might with diplomatic skill as she sent modern armies to liberate Bangladesh from a repressive Pakistani government.

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Indira Gandhi.

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A bastard child whose mother was beheaded by her father, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and threatened by her half-sister “Bloody Mary,” young Elizabeth Tudor was unlikely to survive long enough to sit on the English Throne. But when she took the crown, she skillfully navigated the shoals of a divided Europe. Determined to avoid her father’s mistakes of plunging England into war with France, she found herself forced into wars in Spain, France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Atlantic Ocean, and the New World. Elizabeth’s management of generals and admirals would lead England into its golden age of exploration, science, literature and art: The Elizabethan Age.

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Elizabeth I.

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Conqueror. Drinker of blood. 17th century fashionista. Queen Njinga of Ndongo-Matamaba displayed unmatched ferocity as she fought the slave-trading Portuguese for control of modern Angola. One of the few women war leaders who was unafraid to get her hands really dirty, she arranged a "Red Wedding" and led men and women through arrow storms and musket fire over ravines, rivers, and fortress walls. Using religion to meld a coalition of Catholics, cannibals and ancestor-worshiping pagans, she built an army of 80,000 men and drove the Portuguese conquistadors to the brink of ruin. 

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Queen Njinga of Ndongo-Matamaba.

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There are a Great Pyramid of misconceptions about Cleopatra, last pharaoh of Egypt. One of the smartest, hardest working, and wealthiest women of the ancient world, Cleopatra leveraged Egypt’s resources and used personal diplomacy with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony to protect her kingdom. From her recruitment of a mercenary army to battle her brother for Egypt’s throne, to her star-crossed battle campaign with Marc Antony against Rome’s Octavian, hear how history’s greatest femme fatale used her nine languages, geopolitical insight, and understanding of the nature of war to hold power in history’s most dramatic era.

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Queen Njinga of Ndongo-Matamaba.

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Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father plus daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to bring your riveting stories of history's great women war leaders. In history class, we were all taught the stories of great wartime leaders—but the stories have always been about men. Now, for the first time, listen to a new podcast that brings you the stories of the fearless, powerful women leaders: War Queens. History’s war queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola’s Queen Njinga was willing to shed (and occasionally drink) blood to establish a stable kingdom in an Africa ravaged by the slave trade. Caterina Sforza defended her Italian holdings with cannon and scimitar, and Indira Gandhi launched a war to solve a refugee crisis. Join Emily Jordan, an historian, along with her father, Jonathan Jordan, an historian and bestselling author, and actor Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Fast & Furious, The Maze Runner) every week as we bring you the stories of extraordinary leaders: War Queens. All of them, legends.

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