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Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II

19 November 2023 - 6 hours 23 mins
Podcast Series Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia's neighbors

6 hours 23 mins

Series Episodes

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation

What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, and Nepotism.

4 hours 11 mins

7 June Finished

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.

5 hours 10 mins

15 January 2023 Finished

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources

The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.

5 hours 39 mins

6 March 2022 Finished

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI

When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.

5 hours 45 mins

8 June 2021 Finished

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V

Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.

3 hours 32 mins

13 November 2020 Finished

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