The Real Time History Podcast (formerly The Great War podcast) is hosted by Jesse from Real Time History. We are an independent production company known for The Great War and Real Time History channels on YouTube, the documentary series 16 Days in Berlin and Rhineland 45 and more. On the podcast Jesse interviews historians from around the world on their topics and current publications to bring you the newest in historic research.
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S E11: Grant T. Harward about Romania in the Second World War
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Dr. Grant T. Harward is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC. In his new book Romania's Holy War, Harward rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759963/romanias-holy-war/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.…
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S E10: Peter Samsonov about the Soviet IS-2 Heavy Tank
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IS-2 - Development, Design & Production of Stalin's War Hammer http://www.is-2tank.com/ The IS-2 is the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2. Heavily armored and boasting a fearsome 122mm gun, this tank matched the German panzers on the Eastern front by more than just its fierce appearance. In his new book Peter Samsonov tells this tan…
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S E9: Katya Hoyer about the GDR "beyond the Wall"
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In our newest podcast episode we have invited our previous guest Katja Hoyer again. This time she's not talking about the German Empire but about the GDR which she portraits in her new book Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447141/beyond-the-wall-by-hoyer-katja/9780241553787 See Privacy Policy at https://art…
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S E8: Jade McGlynn on Russia's Use of History for Political Goals
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Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She has been studying Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014 and the surrounding propaganda. Her latest book, Russia’s War, explains why Russians support the war on Ukraine: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russia%E2%80%B2s-War-Jade-McGlynn/dp/1509556761…
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S E7: Michael S. Neiberg About France 1940 and the Anglo-American Alliance
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We're delighted to announce the return of the Real Time History podcast in which Jesse interviews historians about their works. Our first guest this year is Michael S. Neiberg author of "When France Fell - The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance": https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674258563 See Privacy Policy at …
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S E6: RTH006 - Mackenzie New Walker and Catherine Moore About the West Virginia Mine Wars
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Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial: https://www.blair100.com/ West Virginia Mine Wars Museum: https://wvminewars.org/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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S E5: RTH005 - Dr Karine Varley About the Franco-Prussian War In French Memory
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Dr Karine Varley is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Strathclyde. She researched the Franco-Prussian War for her book "Under the Shadow of Defeat - The War of 1870-71 in French Memory": https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230005198 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p…
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S E4: RTH004 - Alex Mayhew on British WW1 Wartime Myths
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S E3: RTH003 - Dr. Wanda Vilcox About the Italian Empire and the First World War
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The Italian Empire and the Great War by Vanda Wilcox https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-italian-empire-and-the-great-war-9780198822943?cc=us&lang=en& OUP Greater War Series: https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/g/the-greater-war-tgw/?lang=en&cc=us See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht…
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S E2: RTH002 - Meet The Team Behind Our Franco-Prussian War Documentary - Prof. Dr. Tobias Arand and Cathérine Pfauth (Glory & Defeat)
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Support Glory & Defeat: https://realtimehistory.net/indiegogo Twitter Project "Heute vor 150 Jahren": https://twitter.com/krieg7071 Tobias Arand "1870/71 - Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges erzählt in Einzelschicksalen" and "Fröschweiler Chronik Kriegs- und Friedensbilder aus dem Jahr 1870 von Karl Klein" See Privacy Policy at https:…
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S E1: RTH001 - The Last Set Piece Battle of WW2 in the West - The Rhineland Campaign (Rhineland 45)
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Get access to Rhineland 45 streaming and the Rhineland 45 Companion Book: https://realtimehistory.net/collections/shop Rhineland 45 Battlefield Tour: https://onthefront.com/rhineland-45 Battleguide Virtual Tours: https://battleguide.co.uk/tours/ Welcome to the newly renamed Real Time History podcast - where a new name doesn't mean the topics change…
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S E43: TGW043 - DeNeen Brown About The Tulsa Race Massacre
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DeNeen L. Brown is a Associate Professor for Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College. She is also an award winning journalist currently known for her work at the Washington Post where she covered The Tulsa Race Massacre and its remembrance. A white Republican mayor seeks the truth about Tulsa’s race massacre a century ago ht…
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S E42: TGW042 - Mark Cornwall on Sarajevo 1914 Sparking the First World War
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Prof. Mark Cornwall is a historian of modern East-Central Europe with a current focus on the late Habsburg Empire. In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional co…
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S E41: TGW041 - Tomas Balkelis About War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923
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Get War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923: https://amzn.to/386oQHx [Affiliate Link] Dr. Tomas Balkelis received his PhD in History at the University of Toronto in 2004. After graduation he worked at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. During 2009-2013, he was a European Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow a…
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S E40: TGW040 - Wolfram Dornik about Conrad von Hötzendorf
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Wolfram Dornik - Des Kaisers Falke: https://amzn.to/2JKAJLl (Affiliate Link) Conrad von Hötzendorf is an infamous character of the Great War (both the channel and the actual historic event). We interviewed Hötzendorf biographer Wolfram Dornik and asked him all the questions that you had about dear ol' Conrad. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com…
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S E39: TGW039 - Jonathan Schneer About the Lockhart Plot To Topple Lenin
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Get The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia: https://amzn.to/3nnNHwO [Affiliate Link] Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships…
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S E38: TGW038 - Mesut Uyar about the Ottoman Army and the First World War
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Get The Ottoman Army and the First World War: https://amzn.to/3gQIThd [Affiliate Link] Mesut Uyar is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Dr. Uyar is a retired Turkish Army colonel and former associate professor from the University of New South Wales, Austra…
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S E37: TGW037 - Sofya Anisimova About WW1 in Russian Pop Culture
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S E36: TGW036 - Katja Hoyer About The German Empire Before the First World War
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Get Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918: bookdepository.com Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud Prussians, Bavarians and Rhinelanders to becom…
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S E35: TGW35 - Dominique Reill About The Fiume Crisis Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire
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Get The Fiume Crisis Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire: https://amzn.to/37uWM1F Dominique Kirchner Reill is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Miami and author of the award-winning Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice. See Privacy Policy at ht…
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S E34: TGW034 - Alexander Watson About Przemysl Fortress
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The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands: https://amzn.to/2WeHEPq Historian Alexander Watson tells the story of a siege that changed the course of the First World War and that is all too familiar to the viewers of The Great War channel. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at…
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S E33: TGW033 - Joseph McAleer about War Correspondent Harry Perry Robinson
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*SORRY FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY* Harry Perry Robinson wasn't a name we were immediately familiar with but when we read the text about his biography, we were intrigued: "The life of Harry Perry Robinson-a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines and helping to elect a US president, to…
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S E32: TGW032 - Sönke Neitzel About the Reichswehr and the Transition from the German Imperial Army
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Sönke Neitzel's work: Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik - eine Militärgeschichte: https://amzn.to/2IGyVT5 Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: https://amzn.to/3lNoUBw Dr. Sönke Neitzel is a professor for military history and cultural history of violence at the university of Potsdam. He has published several books looking …
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S E31: TGW031 - Kate Imy about The British Indian Army
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Kate Imy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas. In her new book "Faithful Fighters - Identity and Power in the British Indian Army" she takes a look at one of the biggest colonial forces in the first half of the 20th century that it often overlooked. Order Faithful Fighters: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31378 Fol…
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S E30: TGW030 - Damien Wright On Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War
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This episode is a premiere as we interviewed a special guest that already joined us on this podcast. Historian and author Damien Wright is back to talk with us about the intervention of the Allied forces in the Russian Civil War and other related topics. Damiens Book is called Churchills Secret War With Lenin (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/3ddOD…
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S E29: TGW029 - Damien Accoulon On the Flying Aces of World War 1
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Damien Accoulon is a PhD student at the University Paris Nanterre and Technische Universität Braunschweig and will talk with us about Flying Aces in World War 1. Besides background knowledge and deeper insights into the airwar he will serve us interesting facts about the actions of famous Aces like Manfred von Richthofen and french René Fonck. You …
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S E28: TGW028 - Wesley Livesay On Covering the War in Real Time
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Wesley Livesay produces history podcasts about the First and Second World War. Similar to us he covers the war in "real time" through weekly episodes. Flo and Wesley talk about the experience of covering war in real time by comparing audio to video formats. They also share their opinions on the end of World War 1. You can find his podcasts here: ht…
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S E27: TGW027 - Dermot Rooney On The Psychological Analysis Of Warfare
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Support Rhineland 45: https://realtimehistory.net/rhineland45 Dermot Rooney is military psychologist who also does operational research. He is working on his PhD on the tactics that that made the German soldiers run, hide and surrender during Operation Veritable. In this episode of the podcast, Flo is interviewing Dermot about the intersection betw…
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S E26: TGW026 - Matthew Novosad on Allied Submarines in World War 1
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Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattnovosad In this extensive interview we talk about submarine warfare in the first world war, particularly the Allied submarines which are lesser known compared to the German Uboats and the notorious unrestricted submarine warfare. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac…
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S E25: TGW025 - Sam Amenn On The Russian Civil War In Central Asia
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Sam Amenn is an amateur historian with a masters in international relations and the host of The Art of Asymmetrical Warfare, a podcast about, yes, asymmetrical warfare. Sam helped us put together a Great War episode on the Russian Civil War in Central Asia which will air in October. As a little teaser for this fascinating topic, Jesse and Sam talk …
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S E24: TGW024 - Robert Gerwarth On The Successes of The German Revolution of 1918
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Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at the University College Dublin and Director of the Centre for War Studies. His works on the post-armistice world ("The Vanquished - Why The First World War Failed To End") have been a huge influence for us. In his newest book, Robert Gerwarth examines the German revolution 1918 and its aftermath till…
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S E25: TGW Extra - The Future Of The Great War
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This episode is the audio version of the announcement video published today. Jesse and Flo outline what the future holds for The Great War project. We need your support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/thegreatwar See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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S E23: TGW023 - Vivian Reed on American Diplomat Hugh Gibson And The Creation Of The New Order in Europe 1919
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Vivian Reed is an independent historian who edited and commented excerpts of the writings of Hugh Gibson, an American diplomat who had a first hand look at the making of a new order in Europe during and after the First World War.You can get "An American in Warsaw" by following this link*: https://geni.us/Vivian-Hux-Reed*this is an affiliate link th…
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S E22: TGW022 - Laura Engelstein On The Russian Civil War
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Laura Engelstein is one of the world leading historians of modern Russia as Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University and Professor Emerita at Princeton. Her book "Russia in Flames" is a frequent source on our show. Russia in Flames was published by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/russi…
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S E21: TGW021 - Gwendal Piégais On The Allied Operations in The Balkans and the Russian Expeditionary Force
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In this episode we talk to French historian Gwendal Piégais (https://twitter.com/gpiegais) about the often forgotten Macedonian Front and how the Allied operation there came to be. We also talk about the Russian Expeditionary Force which served in France and on the Balkans. Cover Art: Russian soldiers with a Hotchkiss machine gun in France. See Pri…
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S E20: TGW020 - Dr. Jonathan Boff about German General Crownprince Rupprecht and the German perspective on World War 1
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Get Haig's Enemy Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front on Amazon: https://realtimehistory.net/haig * *This is an affiliate link that directs you to Amazon US, UK, CA, DE or NL and purchasing the book via this link directly supports The Great War. Dr. Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the Univer…
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S E19: TGW019 - Dr. Tamara Scheer on Languages in The Austro-Hungarian Army
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Hi everyone,a few weeks ago we had the pleasure to interview Dr. Tamara Scheer TwitterShe is researching how the different languages of the Austro-Hungarian influenced the army. You can read more about her work in Von Friedensfurien und dalmatinischen Küstenrehen: Vergessene Wörter aus der Habsburgermonarchie:HereAmazon: HereHer YouTube channelSee …
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S E18: TGW018 - Stephan Lehnstaedt on the Polish-Soviet War
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The new podcast episode is live. Jesse talked to Stephan Lehnstaedt who wrote the book "Der vergessene Sieg" about the Polish-Soviet War which is soon available in its 3rd edition. Thanks for the Patreon supporters who sent in their questions, hope you enjoy the interview. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic…
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S E17: TGW017 - Podcast from Home - French Armor in WW1
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It took us a bit of time but we have a working recording setup for doing podcasts from home now. In this episode we talk a bit about our most recent Great War episode about the Middle East and we answer your questions about French Armor in WW1.The answers are from the lovely Camille Vargas Harlé who you should follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com…
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S E16: TGW016 - James Nagle on the Irish War of Independence
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In this special COVID edition of the Great War Podcast we are talking to James from The Irish Nation Lives to talk more about the Irish War of Independence. I hope you are as fascinated by the answers here as I was and for the next episode I can hopefully improve my home studio setup. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P…
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S E15: TGW015 - Jochen Böhler about Eastern Europe after 1918
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We are happy to bring you this month's expert interview with Jochen Böhler, a German historian who has written a very important book for our coverage of Eastern Europe in the post-armistice era:Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland (The Greater War) takes a step back and finds a different perspective to look at the pa…
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S E14: TGW014 - Steve R Dunn about the Royal Navy operations in the Baltic Sea 1918-1920
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Steve R Dunn is a naval historian and his new book about the Royal Navy in the Baltics 1918-1920 is coming out today: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Battle-in-the-Baltic-Hardback/p/16904See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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S E13: TGW013 - Our Review Of 1917 (the movie, not the year)
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Jesse and Flo went to see 1917 yesterday and in our first podcast episode of the year discuss the movie in great detail. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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To end the year (and the decade) Flo and Jesse took the time to answer some more Patreon questions and they also talk a bit about the past year and the future of The Great War. Thank you for your support this year and let's bring on 1920! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n…
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S E11: TGW011 - Flo and Jesse on German Politics in 1919 (Bonus Question about Armenia)
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It's almost Christmas and Jesse and Flo sat down to talk about the very festive topic that is German politics in 1919. We also answer a Patreon question about the status of Armenia. There will be another episode soon where we take more time to answer Patreon questions and reflect on this year of The Great War. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co…
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S E10: TGW010 - Dr. Roger R. Reese on the Red Army in the Russian Civil War
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Despite Flo's flu, we powered through another podcast episode for you. We talk about the upcoming episodes that will air in November and Jesse interviews Dr. Roger R. Reese about his research on the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se…
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S E9: TGW09 - Konstantin Travlos on the Greco-Turkish War
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A brand new episode of The Great War supporter podcast is upon us! In this episode we are talking about some topics that are hard to cover for us because they are not well documented in photographs and/or the archive situation involves pretty byzantine bureaucracy. If you want to jump into the coverage of the Greco-Turkish War with our expert Konst…
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S E8: TGW008 - Interview: Japan in 1919 and our new documentary 16 Days in Berlin
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In this new episode of the podcast, Jesse and Flo (briefly) talk about our new crowdfunded documentary 16 Days in Berlin. You can find out more about https://realtimehistory.net/indiegogoOf course, we also talk about the recent TGW episodes, and we have an expert interview on Japan in 1919.ThanksFloSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an…
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S E7: TGW007 - Dr Sandra Barkhof on German Colonies during and after WW1
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Dear, editing the two podcasts for July took a bit longer than expected but now we are back on track with this longer than usual episode that covers our episodes from July, answers some Patreon questions and features an interview with Dr Sandra Barkhof from the University of Plymouth. We have more questions on Patreon that we will answer in an upco…
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S E6: TGW006 - About the Baltics after the armistice
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Hi guys, this episode of our Podcast was supposed to be out in early July already as a bonus episode about the Baltics. Due to a lot of travelling and moving this didn't turn out that way, but we hope you enjoy the episode regardless. The next episode will be out next week already. Cheers Flo See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali…
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