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Dr. Luke Wolf
Battlecast is the world’s foremost podcast about war and it’s sociopolitical impact. Each month Dr. Luke Wolf works to bring you an unfiltered understanding of the most important battles and wars of mankind’s history. The official motto of the show: “not left, not right: above,” provides a fresh look at the conventional understandings found in history books. So pull up a chair, grab a beer, and join the conversation.
Thousands of drone strikes have killed tens of thousands of targets since the introduction of unmanned aerial vehicle warfare in the early 2000s. This is the story of that warfare.
It’s all free and it’s all here on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 93 here: download link
This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find part one here.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Maps and Images:Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of drone warfare located here
Music Source:Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
Drones References:Mohsan, S.A.H. et al. (2023). “Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends.” Intelligent Service Robotics 16:109–137.
Rehman, A. (2013). “Impact of drone attacks in Pakistan and the war on terror: A consideration of the effects of drone attacks in Pakistan and whether they are helping or not to win the war on terror!” International Relations 3. Malmö University: Department of Global Political Studies.
Fields, N.R. (2012). “Advantages and challenges of unmanned aerial vehicle autonomy in the Postheroic age.” [Unpublished Master’s Thesis]. James Madison University.
Blom, J. D. (2010). Unmanned aerial systems: A historical perspective. Combat Studies Institute Press.
Amnesty International (2013). “Will I be next?: Us drone strikes in Pakistan.”
Anderson, K. (2011). “Targeted killing and drone warfare: How we came to debate whether there is a ‘Legal Geography of War’.” Hoover Institution.
Witt, S. (2022). “The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare.” The New Yorker. (May 9, 2022). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-turkish-drone-that-changed-the-nature-of-warfare
Turse, N. & Engelhardt, T. (2012). Terminator planet: The first history of drone warfare 2001 – 2050. Dispatch books.
Franke, U. (2018). The unmanned revolution: How drones are revolutionizing warfare. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford.
Sommerville, Quentin. (2024). “Ukraine thrown into war’s bleak future as drones open new battlefront.” BBC.com. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cne4vl9gy2wo
Walsh, J.I. & Schulzke, M. (2018). Drones and support for the use of force. University of Michigan Press.
Fisk, K & Ramos, J.M. (2016). Preventive force: Drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare. New York University Press.
Gordon, N. (2016). Drones are changing our conception of warfare in Cunningham, A.C. (ed.). “Drones, surveillance, and targeted killings.”
Newman, K. (2018). How effective was the drone campaign in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, 2009 – 2017? Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Canterbury Christ Church University.
Zenko, M. (2017). Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data. Council on Foreign Relations. Web. https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
Johnsen, G.D. (2014). “Nothing Says Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party’ Like $800,000 And Some Guns. Buzz Feed.” Web. https://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/wedding-party-drone-strike
Kagg, J. and Kreps, S. (2014). Drone warfare. Polity press.
Williams, B. (2013). Predators. Potomac books.
Scahill, J. (2016). The assassination complex. Simon and Schuster.
Cooper, H. (2016). U.S. airstrikes at Somali site kill about 150. The New York Times. Section A, Page 1.
Cooper, H. (2017). Over 100 Shabab militants killed in U.S. airstrike in Somalia. The New York Times. Section A, page 11.
Olson, J. and Rashid, M. (2013). Modern drone warfare: An ethical analysis. 2013 ASEE Southeast Section Conference.
Newcome, Laurence R. (2005). Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Jordán, J. and Baqués, J. (2014). Guerra de drones. Política, tecnología y cambio social en los nuevos conflictos.
McCurley, T and Maurer, K. (2015). Hunter killer: The true story of the drone mission that killed Anwar al-Awlaki.
Frontline. (2023). America and the Taliban: Part two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKERL9h7Yo&rco=1
New America Foundation. (n.d.) “The war in Somalia.” https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/reports/americas-counterterrorism-wars/the-war-in-somalia/
Human Rights Watch. (2014). A wedding that became a funeral. http://www.hrw.org.
The Economist Data Team. (2015). Drone strikes: cause or effect. The Economist. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2015/09/23/drone-strikes-cause-or-effect
Soliman, A.S.F. and Mahmoud, K.A. (2023). Applications des véhicules aériens sans pilote: Développement vers un poids de quelques grammes.
A man is sitting on his porch before he suddenly geysers upward, somersaulting through the air like a discarded plaything. A work truck is cruising across the Gaza Strip at fifty-miles-an-hour and then is suddenly crushed like a coke can and engulfed in flames. Scores of mass-produced Turkish drones flood the Armenian sky, raining death on soldiers before they even knew what hit them, the only warning a low, mechanical hissing sound. This is drone warfare. This is the future of war – a frightening, science-fiction future that is bursting from the pages of our literature into the real world. Tens of thousands of drones watch everything we do; many models can fly for more than twenty-four hours, a ceaseless, lidless eye. Men half-a-world away kill other men with devastating firepower. In Ukraine, soldiers adapt commercially-built drones to serve as mobile killing machines, while their operators sit in a basement scores of miles away, almost completely safe from immediate retaliation. In this episode is the future of combat, the future of intelligence-gathering, and the future of the invasion of human privacy. George Orwell’s 1984 was a tea party compared to the world we are creating for our children. There is an eye in the sky controlled by anonymous, bored pilots. There is an eye in the sky watching you. There is an eye in the sky that can kill you with the press of a button.
This is the story of drone warfare.
It’s all free and it’s all here on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its socio-political impact.
Download episode 92 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of drone warfare located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
Drones References:Mohsan, S.A.H. et al. (2023). “Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends.” Intelligent Service Robotics 16:109–137.
Rehman, A. (2013). “Impact of drone attacks in Pakistan and the war on terror: A consideration of the effects of drone attacks in Pakistan and whether they are helping or not to win the war on terror!” International Relations 3. Malmö University: Department of Global Political Studies.
Fields, N.R. (2012). “Advantages and challenges of unmanned aerial vehicle autonomy in the Postheroic age.” [Unpublished Master’s Thesis]. James Madison University.
Blom, J. D. (2010). Unmanned aerial systems: A historical perspective. Combat Studies Institute Press.
Amnesty International (2013). “Will I be next?: Us drone strikes in Pakistan.”
Anderson, K. (2011). “Targeted killing and drone warfare: How we came to debate whether there is a ‘Legal Geography of War’.” Hoover Institution.
Witt, S. (2022). “The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare.” The New Yorker. (May 9, 2022). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-turkish-drone-that-changed-the-nature-of-warfare
Turse, N. & Engelhardt, T. (2012). Terminator planet: The first history of drone warfare 2001 – 2050. Dispatch books.
Franke, U. (2018). The unmanned revolution: How drones are revolutionizing warfare. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford.
Sommerville, Quentin. (2024). “Ukraine thrown into war’s bleak future as drones open new battlefront.” BBC.com. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cne4vl9gy2wo
Walsh, J.I. & Schulzke, M. (2018). Drones and support for the use of force. University of Michigan Press.
Fisk, K & Ramos, J.M. (2016). Preventive force: Drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare. New York University Press.
Gordon, N. (2016). Drones are changing our conception of warfare in Cunningham, A.C. (ed.). “Drones, surveillance, and targeted killings.”
Newman, K. (2018). How effective was the drone campaign in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, 2009 – 2017? Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Canterbury Christ Church University.
Zenko, M. (2017). Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data. Council on Foreign Relations. Web. https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
Johnsen, G.D. (2014). “Nothing Says Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party’ Like $800,000 And Some Guns. Buzz Feed.” Web. https://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/wedding-party-drone-strike
Kagg, J. and Kreps, S. (2014). Drone warfare. Polity press.
Williams, B. (2013). Predators. Potomac books.
Scahill, J. (2016). The assassination complex. Simon and Schuster.
Cooper, H. (2016). U.S. airstrikes at Somali site kill about 150. The New York Times. Section A, Page 1.
Cooper, H. (2017). Over 100 Shabab militants killed in U.S. airstrike in Somalia. The New York Times. Section A, page 11.
Olson, J. and Rashid, M. (2013). Modern drone warfare: An ethical analysis. 2013 ASEE Southeast Section Conference.
Newcome, Laurence R. (2005). Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Jordán, J. and Baqués, J. (2014). Guerra de drones. Política, tecnología y cambio social en los nuevos conflictos.
McCurley, T and Maurer, K. (2015). Hunter killer: The true story of the drone mission that killed Anwar al-Awlaki.
Frontline. (2023). America and the Taliban: Part two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKERL9h7Yo&rco=1
New America Foundation. (n.d.) “The war in Somalia.” https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/reports/americas-counterterrorism-wars/the-war-in-somalia/
Human Rights Watch. (2014). A wedding that became a funeral. http://www.hrw.org.
The Economist Data Team. (2015). Drone strikes: cause or effect. The Economist. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2015/09/23/drone-strikes-cause-or-effect
Soliman, A.S.F. and Mahmoud, K.A. (2023). Applications des véhicules aériens sans pilote: Développement vers un poids de quelques grammes.
The Battle of Hamburger Hill was one of the most famous battles of the Vietnam War. Almost immediately after the conclusion of the battle, dumbfounded American journalists described the horrific assault of Hill 937 – and the inexplicable American withdrawal from the hill just a few days later. To journalists, and their well-fed, luxuriating readers back in the United States, the battle for Hamburger Hill encapsulated everything that was wrong with American military tactics in Vietnam. And the battle had been terrible. So terrible, many soldiers actually refused the orders of their commanding officers in the last days of the conflict. The struggle for the pyramid-like pinnacle of Hamburger Hill was an anarchic bloodbath: men fighting hand to hand while scores of jets and strike-helicopters hovered like malevolent hornets above the grim-faced troops murdering one another amidst a moonscape setting worthy of Paul Nash’s Menlin Road.** This is the story of that battle.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find part one here.
You can find part two here.
Download episode 91 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of The Battle for Hamburger Hill located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Hamburger Hill, May 11-20, 1969 by Samuel Zaffiri. (1988).
Vietnam: the bloodbath at Hamburger Hill by John DiConsiglio (2010).
“I Led A Brigade At Hamburger Hill.” The Washington Post. May 27, 1989: a23.
“Hamburger Hill’ remembered.” by Grey, Philip . The Leaf Chronicle. May 15, 2013.
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow.
Major General Melvin Zais and Hamburger Hill by Major Kelly Owen Carl Boian.
“The Capture of Hamburger Hill.” by James Wright. Vietnam. June, 2010.
Steinman, R. (2015). The soldiers’ story: Vietnam in their own words.
The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam 1945-1975 by Michael MacLear.
The history of the 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles: the first 50 years by Robert E. Jones. (2005).
Hamburger Hill is one of the most famous battles from the Vietnam War. This is the complete story of that bloody conflict.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find part one here.
Download episode 90 here: download link.
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of The Battle for Hamburger Hill located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Hamburger Hill, May 11-20, 1969 by Samuel Zaffiri. (1988).
Vietnam: the bloodbath at Hamburger Hill by John DiConsiglio (2010).
“I Led A Brigade At Hamburger Hill.” The Washington Post. May 27, 1989: a23.
“Hamburger Hill’ remembered.” by Grey, Philip . The Leaf Chronicle. May 15, 2013.
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow.
Major General Melvin Zais and Hamburger Hill by Major Kelly Owen Carl Boian.
“The Capture of Hamburger Hill.” by James Wright. Vietnam. June, 2010.
Steinman, R. (2015). The soldiers’ story: Vietnam in their own words.
The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam 1945-1975 by Michael MacLear.
The history of the 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles: the first 50 years by Robert E. Jones. (2005).
Hamburger Hill. It’s a battle made famous by the 1987 film with the same name. But the real battle of Hamburger Hill, also known as the Battle for Hill 937, took place almost two decades before the film was released – comprising more than a week of fierce, modern combat in horrendous mountainous terrain which left thousands of men killed and dismembered, wounded and captured. This is the story of that battle. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 89 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of The Battle for Hamburger Hill located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Hamburger Hill, May 11-20, 1969 by Samuel Zaffiri. (1988).
Vietnam: the bloodbath at Hamburger Hill by John DiConsiglio (2010).
“I Led A Brigade At Hamburger Hill.” The Washington Post. May 27, 1989: a23.
“Hamburger Hill’ remembered.” by Grey, Philip . The Leaf Chronicle.May 15, 2013.
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow.
Major General Melvin Zais and Hamburger Hill by Major Kelly Owen Carl Boian.
“The Capture of Hamburger Hill.” by James Wright. Vietnam. June, 2010.
Steinman, R. (2015). The soldiers’ story: Vietnam in their own words.
The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam 1945-1975 by Michael MacLear.
The history of the 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles: the first 50 years by Robert E. Jones. (2005).
Mass suicide. It’s a rare event, something unique, like an uncommonly beautiful woman – it commands our attention. Using the methods developed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, this podcast is an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of mass suicide through he lens of three case studies – one ancient, and two modern.
The Siege of Masada 73 A.D.
The Siege of Masada was the culminating event of the First Roman-Jewish War. Surrounded and facing down legions of pitiless Roman troops, more than 900 Jewish zealots chose to commit suicide, with their wives and children, rather than face death and slavery. They burned all their belongings. They gave everything in their suicides. Their sacrifice is still commemorated in Israeli society today. This is the story of that black day.
The Cowra Breakout 1944 A.D.
It was an Australian prisoner of war camp containing approximately a thousand Japanese – but not any Japanese, these were Japanese steeped like tea bags in the Bushido Samurai ethic. The prisoners were literally told from the time they were infants that death was preferable to dishonor. For them, every breath they took was shameful – and the solution was in the Australian guard towers – in the bristling, gleaming machine guns and the baseball-like grenades. At the fence line, death could be found easily. This is the story of that black day.
The Jonestown Massacre 1978
They called him “Father;” they called him “God.” He led them to death. Jonestown is the sad source of the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid.” Almost a thousand of Jones’s followers, including women, children and infants did just that – they drank the poison-laden Kool-Aid, sending their bodies into flopping convulsions – “slain by the spirit” of a demon named Jim Jones. This is the story of that black day.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 88 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of the Cowra Breakout and The Siege of Masada are located here and here.
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References
Raven: The untold story of the Rev. Jim Jones and his people by Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs.
Japanese prisoners of war in revolt : the outbreaks at Featherston and Cowra during World War II by Charlotte Carr-Gregg (1978).
The wars of the Jews by Josephus, Flavius (1974).
Break-Out! – The Japanese POW Break-Out at Cowra, 1944 by Hugh V. Clarke
The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan
The night of a thousand suicides: The Japanese outbreak at Cowra by Teruhiko Asada (1972)
Dead Men Rising by Seaforth Mackenzie [aka. Kenneth Mackenzie]
The road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
Die like carp! By Harry Gordon (1981)
Jerusalem’s traitor by Desmond Seward (2009)
The Jewish Revolt AD 66-74 by Si Sheppard (2013)
Masada: Herod’s fortress and the Zealots’ last stand by Yadin, Yigael (1966)
Masada: From Jewish revolt to modern myth by Jodi Magness
Jones, Jim (1978). Death Tape.
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle. Storyville. BBC. (not dated).
Anarchy. Cannibalism. Disorder. These are adjectives, empty words, that we use to try, however futilely, to describe the total pain, the uprooted lives, the destroyed families, the ethnic cleansing that have taken place throughout human history. In this episode of Battlecast, we will tear our thesaurus in half looking up synonyms for torture and bloodshed, ruin our books in the search for words as the sordid history of The Liberian Civil Wars are told in minute detail.
Down the street from you, every October, is a haunted house. People, decent people, pay money to enter and be scared, to be frightened by chainsaws without blades, to be screamed at by men in masks who spend their days shoving boxes for UPS. But tonight, I’ll bring the haunted house to your eardrums for free. Tonight, the horror show is in your speakers.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This is part three of a three part series. You can find part one here and part two here.
Download episode 87 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of Liberia located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment. (2014).
Degges, D.J. (2020). Black Skin, White Money. The Transatlantic Propaganda Campaign to Recolonize West Africa 1786-1863. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation/master’s thesis]. University of Texas at Arlington.
Beyon, A.J. (1985). The American Colonization Society and the Formation of Political, Economic and Religious Institutions in Liberia, 1822-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of West Virginia.
Burin, E.A. (1999). The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Allen, W.E. (2002). Sugar and Coffee: A History of Settler Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Florida International University.
The Liberian Civil War by Mark Huband. (1998).
The Mask of Anarchy by Stephen Ellis. (1999).
An African Republic by Marie Tyler-Mcgraw. (2007). University of North Carolina Press.
Shick, T.W. (1977). The Social and Economic History of Afro-American Settlers in Liberia. 1820-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana.
Akpan, M.B. (1973). Black Imperialism: Americo-Liberian Rule Over the African Peoples of Liberia, 1841-1964. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 7(2), 217-236.
Käihkö, I. (2016). Bush Generals and Small Boy Battalions: Military Cohesion in Liberia and Beyond. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Uppsala University.
Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State by Colin Waugh. (2011).
Sellers, H.A. (2018). Rebel Governance in Civil War: Variations in Rebel Governance – A Case Study Analysis. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Louisiana State University.
Scruggs, A. (2010). “The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here”: The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University.
Dennis, D.A. (2011). The Mississippi Colonial Experience in Liberia, 1829-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Claremont Graduate University.
Gallen, M.P. (2018). The Spirit of Enterprise: Christianity and Capitalism in the Colony and Republic of Liberia, 1816-1928. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation].Carnegie Mellon University.
Varnie, J.N. (2004). Wealth Extraction, Not Economic Development: A Case Study on Liberia. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Wilson, H.B. (2007). Firestone and Liberia: A Case Study in One-Sidedness. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Somah, S.L. (1995). Historical Settlement of Liberia and its Environmental Impact.
Ngovo, S.B. (2011). The Bandi of Northwestern Liberia: A Study of Change and Continuity in Bandi Society to 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Western Michigan University.
Clausewitz and African War by Isabelle Duyvesteyn. (2005).
Reese, D.G. (2018). Liberia: America’s African Stepchild.
Collins, T.Z. (2019). A Case Study of the Impact of Civil War on the Economic Development of Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Southern University.
Lidow, N.H. (2011). Violent Order: Revel Organization and Liberia’s Civil War. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Stanford University.
Murray, R.P. (2013). Whiteness in Africa: Americo-Liberians and the Transformative Geographics of Race. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Garcia, B. (2020). “We feel sadly the effects:” America’s Civil War, Colonization, and Liberia’s Struggle to Build up a Nation. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. George Mason University.
Benda, E.M.V. (2004). The Internationalization of Civil War: Liberia as a Case Study.. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. American University.
Greenwood, R. (1993). The Presidency of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia 1944-1971. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Northern Arizona University.
Lyon, H.G. (1997). Liberia: The Quest for Democracy and the Politics of Ethnicity. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Southern Connecticut State University.
Jones, S.S. (2016). The Sweet, Sweet Sound of Liberty: Black Settlers and Their Early Education Initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Price, R.W. (1980). The Black Republic of Liberia, 1822-1912: A Ninety Year Struggle for International Acceptance. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Norris, E.P. (1961). United States and Liberia: The Slavery Crisis, 1929-1935. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.
Akingbade, H.O. (1977). The Role of the Military in the History of Liberia: 1822-1947.[Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Howard University.
Walton-Hanley, J.A. (2009). Reversing the Middle Passage: The American Colonization Society and Race Relations, 1816 – 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Dillon, E.C. (2007). The Role of Education in the Rise and Fall of Americo-Liberians in Liberia, West Africa (1980). [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Georgia State University.
Sullivan, J.M. (1978). Settlers in Sinoe County, Liberia, and Their Relations with the Kru, c (sic), 1835-1920. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Boston University.
Staudenraus, P.J. (1961). The History of the American Colonization Society. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation] University of Wisconsin.
Arnold, G. (1995). Wars in the Third World.
This podcast is a complete history of violence in the small African nation of Liberia. This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find part one here: A Military History of Liberia part one.
Download episode 86 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of Liberia located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment. (2014).
Degges, D.J. (2020). Black Skin, White Money. The Transatlantic Propaganda Campaign to Recolonize West Africa 1786-1863. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation/master’s thesis]. University of Texas at Arlington.
Beyon, A.J. (1985). The American Colonization Society and the Formation of Political, Economic and Religious Institutions in Liberia, 1822-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of West Virginia.
Burin, E.A. (1999). The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Allen, W.E. (2002). Sugar and Coffee: A History of Settler Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Florida International University.
The Liberian Civil War by Mark Huband. (1998).
The Mask of Anarchy by Stephen Ellis. (1999).
An African Republic by Marie Tyler-Mcgraw. (2007). University of North Carolina Press.
Shick, T.W. (1977). The Social and Economic History of Afro-American Settlers in Liberia. 1820-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana.
Akpan, M.B. (1973). Black Imperialism: Americo-Liberian Rule Over the African Peoples of Liberia, 1841-1964. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 7(2), 217-236.
Käihkö, I. (2016). Bush Generals and Small Boy Battalions: Military Cohesion in Liberia and Beyond. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Uppsala University.
Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State by Colin Waugh. (2011).
Sellers, H.A. (2018). Rebel Governance in Civil War: Variations in Rebel Governance – A Case Study Analysis. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Louisiana State University.
Scruggs, A. (2010). “The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here”: The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University.
Dennis, D.A. (2011). The Mississippi Colonial Experience in Liberia, 1829-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Claremont Graduate University.
Gallen, M.P. (2018). The Spirit of Enterprise: Christianity and Capitalism in the Colony and Republic of Liberia, 1816-1928. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation].Carnegie Mellon University.
Varnie, J.N. (2004). Wealth Extraction, Not Economic Development: A Case Study on Liberia. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Wilson, H.B. (2007). Firestone and Liberia: A Case Study in One-Sidedness. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Somah, S.L. (1995). Historical Settlement of Liberia and its Environmental Impact.
Ngovo, S.B. (2011). The Bandi of Northwestern Liberia: A Study of Change and Continuity in Bandi Society to 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Western Michigan University.
Clausewitz and African War by Isabelle Duyvesteyn. (2005).
Reese, D.G. (2018). Liberia: America’s African Stepchild.
Collins, T.Z. (2019). A Case Study of the Impact of Civil War on the Economic Development of Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Southern University.
Lidow, N.H. (2011). Violent Order: Revel Organization and Liberia’s Civil War. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Stanford University.
Murray, R.P. (2013). Whiteness in Africa: Americo-Liberians and the Transformative Geographics of Race. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Garcia, B. (2020). “We feel sadly the effects:” America’s Civil War, Colonization, and Liberia’s Struggle to Build up a Nation. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. George Mason University.
Benda, E.M.V. (2004). The Internationalization of Civil War: Liberia as a Case Study.. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. American University.
Greenwood, R. (1993). The Presidency of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia 1944-1971. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Northern Arizona University.
Lyon, H.G. (1997). Liberia: The Quest for Democracy and the Politics of Ethnicity. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Southern Connecticut State University.
Jones, S.S. (2016). The Sweet, Sweet Sound of Liberty: Black Settlers and Their Early Education Initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Price, R.W. (1980). The Black Republic of Liberia, 1822-1912: A Ninety Year Struggle for International Acceptance. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Norris, E.P. (1961). United States and Liberia: The Slavery Crisis, 1929-1935. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.
Akingbade, H.O. (1977). The Role of the Military in the History of Liberia: 1822-1947.[Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Howard University.
Walton-Hanley, J.A. (2009). Reversing the Middle Passage: The American Colonization Society and Race Relations, 1816 – 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Dillon, E.C. (2007). The Role of Education in the Rise and Fall of Americo-Liberians in Liberia, West Africa (1980). [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Georgia State University.
Sullivan, J.M. (1978). Settlers in Sinoe County, Liberia, and Their Relations with the Kru, c (sic), 1835-1920. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Boston University.
Staudenraus, P.J. (1961). The History of the American Colonization Society. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation] University of Wisconsin.
Arnold, G. (1995). Wars in the Third World.
In the 1820s, a small number of freed Black Americans settled in West Africa. They called their country Liberia, land of freedom. From the beginning, conflict with the more than 15 indigenous ethnic groups ensued, and the American-Liberians formed themselves into a new ruling class, dominating natives in the country for more than 150 years, until the nation exploded in anarchic violence. This is the story of that explosion. It’s ethnic cleansing. It’s the universal human yearning for sovereignty. It’s conflict and it’s pain. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 85 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas of Liberia located here
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment. (2014).
Degges, D.J. (2020). Black Skin, White Money. The Transatlantic Propaganda Campaign to Recolonize West Africa 1786-1863. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation/master’s thesis]. University of Texas at Arlington.
Beyon, A.J. (1985). The American Colonization Society and the Formation of Political, Economic and Religious Institutions in Liberia, 1822-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of West Virginia.
Burin, E.A. (1999). The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Allen, W.E. (2002). Sugar and Coffee: A History of Settler Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Florida International University.
The Liberian Civil War by Mark Huband. (1998).
The Mask of Anarchy by Stephen Ellis. (1999).
An African Republic by Marie Tyler-Mcgraw. (2007). University of North Carolina Press.
Shick, T.W. (1977). The Social and Economic History of Afro-American Settlers in Liberia. 1820-1900. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana.
Akpan, M.B. (1973). Black Imperialism: Americo-Liberian Rule Over the African Peoples of Liberia, 1841-1964. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 7(2), 217-236.
Käihkö, I. (2016). Bush Generals and Small Boy Battalions: Military Cohesion in Liberia and Beyond. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Uppsala University.
Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State by Colin Waugh. (2011).
Sellers, H.A. (2018). Rebel Governance in Civil War: Variations in Rebel Governance – A Case Study Analysis. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Louisiana State University.
Scruggs, A. (2010). “The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here”: The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University.
Dennis, D.A. (2011). The Mississippi Colonial Experience in Liberia, 1829-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Claremont Graduate University.
Gallen, M.P. (2018). The Spirit of Enterprise: Christianity and Capitalism in the Colony and Republic of Liberia, 1816-1928. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation].Carnegie Mellon University.
Varnie, J.N. (2004). Wealth Extraction, Not Economic Development: A Case Study on Liberia. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Wilson, H.B. (2007). Firestone and Liberia: A Case Study in One-Sidedness. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Somah, S.L. (1995). Historical Settlement of Liberia and its Environmental Impact.
Ngovo, S.B. (2011). The Bandi of Northwestern Liberia: A Study of Change and Continuity in Bandi Society to 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Western Michigan University.
Clausewitz and African War by Isabelle Duyvesteyn. (2005).
Reese, D.G. (2018). Liberia: America’s African Stepchild.
Collins, T.Z. (2019). A Case Study of the Impact of Civil War on the Economic Development of Liberia. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Southern University.
Lidow, N.H. (2011). Violent Order: Revel Organization and Liberia’s Civil War. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Stanford University.
Murray, R.P. (2013). Whiteness in Africa: Americo-Liberians and the Transformative Geographics of Race. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Garcia, B. (2020). “We feel sadly the effects:” America’s Civil War, Colonization, and Liberia’s Struggle to Build up a Nation. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. George Mason University.
Benda, E.M.V. (2004). The Internationalization of Civil War: Liberia as a Case Study.. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. American University.
Greenwood, R. (1993). The Presidency of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia 1944-1971. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Northern Arizona University.
Lyon, H.G. (1997). Liberia: The Quest for Democracy and the Politics of Ethnicity. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Southern Connecticut State University.
Jones, S.S. (2016). The Sweet, Sweet Sound of Liberty: Black Settlers and Their Early Education Initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Price, R.W. (1980). The Black Republic of Liberia, 1822-1912: A Ninety Year Struggle for International Acceptance. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Norris, E.P. (1961). United States and Liberia: The Slavery Crisis, 1929-1935. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.
Akingbade, H.O. (1977). The Role of the Military in the History of Liberia: 1822-1947.[Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Howard University.
Walton-Hanley, J.A. (2009). Reversing the Middle Passage: The American Colonization Society and Race Relations, 1816 – 1964. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky.
Dillon, E.C. (2007). The Role of Education in the Rise and Fall of Americo-Liberians in Liberia, West Africa (1980). [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Georgia State University.
Sullivan, J.M. (1978). Settlers in Sinoe County, Liberia, and Their Relations with the Kru, c (sic), 1835-1920. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Boston University.
Staudenraus, P.J. (1961). The History of the American Colonization Society. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation] University of Wisconsin.
Arnold, G. (1995). Wars in the Third World.
The Battle of New Market took place on May 15, 1864 and has been made famous in numerous films and literary works. Hundreds of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, many of them children, fought toe-to-toe with Union veterans, their small frames the only thing holding back the Federal blue tide. For years, the boys were honored in both Virginia and American history. New Market was a battle for the crucial Shenandoah Valley, the breadbasket of the South and a major southern transportation nexus. Tens of thousands of men met on the lush, mud-infused battlefield at the crossroads of New Market. This is the story of that battle. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 84 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the definitive historical atlas of the Battle of New Market located here.
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Seed corn of the Confederacy : the story of the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute at the Battle of New Market by James Gindlesperger (1997)
The Battle of New Market by William Davis (1975).
Long gray lines: The Southern military school tradition by Rod Andrew.
Cadets at war: the true story of teenage heroism at the Battle of New Market by Susan Beller
The Battle of New Market. A story of V.M.I. by Paxton Davis
Valley thunder: The Battle of New Market by Charles Knight (2011).
Harrison, L.H. (1951). John Breckinridge: Western statesman. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. New York University.
Engle, S.D. (1989). Yankee Dutchman: A biography of Franz Sigel. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University.
Van Kirk, J.A. (1937). The public career of John Breckinridge. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Northwestern University.
Tucker, M.T. (1968). Political leadership in the Illinois-Missouri German Community, 1836- 1872. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois.
Work, D. (2004). Lincoln’s political generals. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University.
Shapira, Ian. December 7, 2020. “VMI removes statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson after long resistance.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vmi-stonewall-jackson-statue-removed/2020/12/07/a4721c98-3891-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html
Moody, Josh. January 30, 2022. “VMI Leader Issues Rare Public Rebuke of Alumnus.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/31/vmi-leader-issues-rare-public-rebuke-alumnus
The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was one of the most important battles of the American Civil War. Fort Fisher was the last shield of Wilmington, North Carolina – the final port open to the Confederacy in 1864. Outnumbered and outgunned, facing one of the largest armadas ever assembled in human history, the Confederates fought to the last man while the fate of a nation and more than one ethnic group hung in the balance. This is the story of that battle. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. This is part three of a three part series. You can find part one here and episode two here.
Download episode 83 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the definitive historical atlas of The Battle of Fort Fisher located here: Battle of Fort Fisher Atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
The Wilmington Campaign: Last rays of departing hope by Chris Fonvielle Jr.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
The last stronghold: the campaign for Fort Fisher by Richard McClaskin
Spring 1865 : the closing campaigns of the Civil War by Perry Jamieson
The Civil War in North Carolina by Barrett, John Gilchrist
The Tar Heel State: A New History of North Carolina by Milton Ready
Faces of Fort Fisher, 1861-1864 by Chris Fonvielle
Clayton, B. (2013). Applying GIS to locate the USS Louisiana: A study of the Fort Fisher Civil War Naval Battlefield. [Master’s Thesis, East Carolina University].
Ludwick, M.P. (1995). Your most obedient son: The Civil War letters of William Tell Cobb. [Master’s Thesis, The College of WIlliam and Mary].
Longacre, E.G. (1988). The army of the James, 1863-1865: A military, political, and social
history. (Volumes I – IV) [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Washington, V.F. (1995). Eagles on their buttons: The Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Ohio State University].
McAllister, R.M. (1968). The amphibious Battles of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December, 1864 – January, 1865; Showing the role of conflicting personalities and the chaos inevitable in the waging of war. [Master’s Thesis, University of Southern California].
Megelsh, M. (2015). A Mainer from Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War. [Master’s Thesis, Liberty University].
Henry C. Lockewood “The Capture of Fort Fisher,” The Maine Bugle, (January 1894).
Capture of Fort Fisher by Adelbert Ames
Jean Vial Pays des lions fidèles.
Anonymous. Assault on Fort Fisher. On Point Magazine, Spring 2010, Vol. 15, No. 4 , p. 48.
Black Troops in the Army of the James, 1863-65 by Edward G. Longacre. Military Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 1-8.
Butler’s Folly: The First Battle of Fort Fisher, December 1864 by Taylor Hess. On Point, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 6-13.
Lamb, W. (1893). The defender of Fisher; Col. Lamb’s address in Wilmington, N.C..
Fleet against Fort by: John Hayes. Ordnance, Vol. 45, No. 243 (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1960), pp. 357-360.
Fort Fisher: Amphibious Victory in the American Civil War by: Gary J. Ohls. Naval War College Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 81-99.
Fort Fisher (1865) by A.G. Lawrence.
Hurricane of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles Robinson
Rebel Gibraltar: Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A. by James Walker
Running the blockade. A personal narrative of adventures, risks and escapes during the American civil war by Thomas E. Taylor (1896).
Shock and Assault in the First Battle of Fort Fisher by Charles L. Price and Claude C. Sturgill. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January, 1970), pp. 24-39.
Wightman, S.K. In search of my son. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 14, No. 2 (February 1963).
Turner, H.M. “Rocked in the cradle of consternation. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 31, No. 6. (October/November 1980).
“Welcome Brothers!” The 1865 Union Prisoners of War Exchange in North Carolina by Chris Fonvielle Jr. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 92, No. 3 (JULY 2015), pp. 278-311.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by Admiral David Dixon Porter.
A Sailor’s Log: Recollections Of Forty Years Of Naval Life by Robley Evans
History of the 117th New York by J.A. Mowris.
The autobiography of Admiral Dewey by George Dewey.
Fonvielle, C.E. Jr. (1994). “The last rays of departing hope”: The battles of Fort Fisher, the fall of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the end of the Confederacy. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of South Carolina].
Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 by David W. Kummer, (2012).
The Fall of Fort Fisher: Contested Memories of the Civil War by Warren Ellem.The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (APRIL 2002), pp. 198-233.
Merrill, J.M. The Fort Fisher and Wilmington Campaign: Letters from Rear Admiral David D Porter. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (OCTOBER 1958), pp. 461-475.
Ryan, J.T. (1997). On Land and Sea:The United States Marine Corps in The Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Thompson, B. and Owsley, F.L. Jr. The War Journal of Midshipman Cary. Civil War History, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1963, pp. 187-202.
Helsley, A.J. Vox Populi and the Fall of Fort Fisher. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 71-73.
Wood, R.E. (1976). Port town at war: Wilmington, North Carolina 1860-1865. [Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University].
Hoole, S.W. (1956). Vizitelley covers the Confederacy.
Freeman, D.S. (1936). R. E. Lee: A Biography
Shea, A. June 3, 3020. 16 Statues And Memorials Were Damaged During Sunday’s Protests, Including One Dedicated To African American Soldiers https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/03/16-statues-memorials-damaged
In this podcast history of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, Dr. Luke Wolf recounts the epic battle in all it’s gory detail. This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find part one here: part one.
Download episode 82 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the definitive historical atlas of The Battle of Fort Fisher located here: Battle of Fort Fisher Atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
The Wilmington Campaign: Last rays of departing hope by Chris Fonvielle Jr.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
The last stronghold: the campaign for Fort Fisher by Richard McClaskin
Spring 1865 : the closing campaigns of the Civil War by Perry Jamieson
The Civil War in North Carolina by Barrett, John Gilchrist
The Tar Heel State: A New History of North Carolina by Milton Ready
Faces of Fort Fisher, 1861-1864 by Chris Fonvielle
Clayton, B. (2013). Applying GIS to locate the USS Louisiana: A study of the Fort Fisher Civil War Naval Battlefield. [Master’s Thesis, East Carolina University].
Ludwick, M.P. (1995). Your most obedient son: The Civil War letters of William Tell Cobb. [Master’s Thesis, The College of WIlliam and Mary].
Longacre, E.G. (1988). The army of the James, 1863-1865: A military, political, and social
history. (Volumes I – IV) [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Washington, V.F. (1995). Eagles on their buttons: The Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Ohio State University].
McAllister, R.M. (1968). The amphibious Battles of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December, 1864 – January, 1865; Showing the role of conflicting personalities and the chaos inevitable in the waging of war. [Master’s Thesis, University of Southern California].
Megelsh, M. (2015). A Mainer from Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War. [Master’s Thesis, Liberty University].
Henry C. Lockewood “The Capture of Fort Fisher,” The Maine Bugle, (January 1894).
Capture of Fort Fisher by Adelbert Ames
Jean Vial Pays des lions fidèles.
Anonymous. Assault on Fort Fisher. On Point Magazine, Spring 2010, Vol. 15, No. 4 , p. 48.
Black Troops in the Army of the James, 1863-65 by Edward G. Longacre. Military Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 1-8.
Butler’s Folly: The First Battle of Fort Fisher, December 1864 by Taylor Hess. On Point, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 6-13.
Lamb, W. (1893). The defender of Fisher; Col. Lamb’s address in Wilmington, N.C..
Fleet against Fort by: John Hayes. Ordnance, Vol. 45, No. 243 (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1960), pp. 357-360.
Fort Fisher: Amphibious Victory in the American Civil War by: Gary J. Ohls. Naval War College Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 81-99.
Fort Fisher (1865) by A.G. Lawrence.
Hurricane of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles Robinson
Rebel Gibraltar: Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A. by James Walker
Running the blockade. A personal narrative of adventures, risks and escapes during the American civil war by Thomas E. Taylor (1896).
Shock and Assault in the First Battle of Fort Fisher by Charles L. Price and Claude C. Sturgill. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January, 1970), pp. 24-39.
Wightman, S.K. In search of my son. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 14, No. 2 (February 1963).
Turner, H.M. “Rocked in the cradle of consternation. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 31, No. 6. (October/November 1980).
“Welcome Brothers!” The 1865 Union Prisoners of War Exchange in North Carolina by Chris Fonvielle Jr. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 92, No. 3 (JULY 2015), pp. 278-311.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by Admiral David Dixon Porter.
A Sailor’s Log: Recollections Of Forty Years Of Naval Life by Robley Evans
History of the 117th New York by J.A. Mowris.
The autobiography of Admiral Dewey by George Dewey.
Fonvielle, C.E. Jr. (1994). “The last rays of departing hope”: The battles of Fort Fisher, the fall of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the end of the Confederacy. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of South Carolina].
Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 by David W. Kummer, (2012).
The Fall of Fort Fisher: Contested Memories of the Civil War by Warren Ellem.The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (APRIL 2002), pp. 198-233.
Merrill, J.M. The Fort Fisher and Wilmington Campaign: Letters from Rear Admiral David D Porter. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (OCTOBER 1958), pp. 461-475.
Ryan, J.T. (1997). On Land and Sea:The United States Marine Corps in The Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Thompson, B. and Owsley, F.L. Jr. The War Journal of Midshipman Cary. Civil War History, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1963, pp. 187-202.
Helsley, A.J. Vox Populi and the Fall of Fort Fisher. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 71-73.
Wood, R.E. (1976). Port town at war: Wilmington, North Carolina 1860-1865. [Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University].
Hoole, S.W. (1956). Vizitelley covers the Confederacy.
Freeman, D.S. (1936). R. E. Lee: A Biography
It was Christmas Day, 1864 when one of the largest armadas ever assembled by mankind began to deluge Fort Fisher, one of the largest forts in the world, with tens of thousands of shells. The Confederates refused to surrender and fought to the last man. Their fort guarded the last remaining port of the Confederacy, an essential lifeline of the fledgling nation. If Fort Fisher fell, so too would fall the Confederate States of America and the men on the ground knew it, felt it, and their actions demonstrated they knew it. Death rained from the sky. The earthen walls absorbed the explosive shock. Humans were split apart, their entrails ticker-taping from their split-open torsos. Terror played concertos on human visages. And you should have seen the animals – butchered by shot and shell. Fort Fisher was a milestone in the human development of killing and this episode will provide the exhaustive details, an examination of mass-produced pain. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 81 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the definitive historical atlas of The Battle of Fort Fisher located here: Battle of Fort Fisher Atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
The Wilmington Campaign: Last rays of departing hope by Chris Fonvielle Jr.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
The last stronghold: the campaign for Fort Fisher by Richard McClaskin
Spring 1865 : the closing campaigns of the Civil War by Perry Jamieson
The Civil War in North Carolina by Barrett, John Gilchrist
The Tar Heel State: A New History of North Carolina by Milton Ready
Faces of Fort Fisher, 1861-1864 by Chris Fonvielle
Clayton, B. (2013). Applying GIS to locate the USS Louisiana: A study of the Fort Fisher Civil War Naval Battlefield. [Master’s Thesis, East Carolina University].
Ludwick, M.P. (1995). Your most obedient son: The Civil War letters of William Tell Cobb. [Master’s Thesis, The College of WIlliam and Mary].
Longacre, E.G. (1988). The army of the James, 1863-1865: A military, political, and social
history. (Volumes I – IV) [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Washington, V.F. (1995). Eagles on their buttons: The Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Ohio State University].
McAllister, R.M. (1968). The amphibious Battles of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December, 1864 – January, 1865; Showing the role of conflicting personalities and the chaos inevitable in the waging of war. [Master’s Thesis, University of Southern California].
Megelsh, M. (2015). A Mainer from Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War. [Master’s Thesis, Liberty University].
Henry C. Lockewood “The Capture of Fort Fisher,” The Maine Bugle, (January 1894).
Capture of Fort Fisher by Adelbert Ames
Jean Vial Pays des lions fidèles.
Anonymous. Assault on Fort Fisher. On Point Magazine, Spring 2010, Vol. 15, No. 4 , p. 48.
Black Troops in the Army of the James, 1863-65 by Edward G. Longacre. Military Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 1-8.
Butler’s Folly: The First Battle of Fort Fisher, December 1864 by Taylor Hess. On Point, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 6-13.
Lamb, W. (1893). The defender of Fisher; Col. Lamb’s address in Wilmington, N.C..
Fleet against Fort by: John Hayes. Ordnance, Vol. 45, No. 243 (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1960), pp. 357-360.
Fort Fisher: Amphibious Victory in the American Civil War by: Gary J. Ohls. Naval War College Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 81-99.
Fort Fisher (1865) by A.G. Lawrence.
Hurricane of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles Robinson
Rebel Gibraltar: Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A. by James Walker
Running the blockade. A personal narrative of adventures, risks and escapes during the American civil war by Thomas E. Taylor (1896).
Shock and Assault in the First Battle of Fort Fisher by Charles L. Price and Claude C. Sturgill. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January, 1970), pp. 24-39.
Wightman, S.K. In search of my son. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 14, No. 2 (February 1963).
Turner, H.M. “Rocked in the cradle of consternation. American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 31, No. 6. (October/November 1980).
“Welcome Brothers!” The 1865 Union Prisoners of War Exchange in North Carolina by Chris Fonvielle Jr. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 92, No. 3 (JULY 2015), pp. 278-311.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by Admiral David Dixon Porter.
A Sailor’s Log: Recollections Of Forty Years Of Naval Life by Robley Evans
History of the 117th New York by J.A. Mowris.
The autobiography of Admiral Dewey by George Dewey.
Fonvielle, C.E. Jr. (1994). “The last rays of departing hope”: The battles of Fort Fisher,
the fall of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the end of the Confederacy. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of South Carolina].
Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 by David W. Kummer, (2012).
The Fall of Fort Fisher: Contested Memories of the Civil War by Warren Ellem.The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (APRIL 2002), pp. 198-233.
Merrill, J.M. The Fort Fisher and Wilmington Campaign: Letters from Rear Admiral David D Porter. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (OCTOBER 1958), pp. 461-475.
Ryan, J.T. (1997). On Land and Sea:The United States Marine Corps in The Civil War. [Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University].
Thompson, B. and Owsley, F.L. Jr. The War Journal of Midshipman Cary. Civil War History, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1963, pp. 187-202.
Helsley, A.J. Vox Populi and the Fall of Fort Fisher. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 71-73.
Wood, R.E. (1976). Port town at war: Wilmington, North Carolina 1860-1865. [Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University].
Hoole, S.W. (1956). Vizitelley covers the Confederacy.
Freeman, D.S. (1936). R. E. Lee: A Biography
This is the story of the New Mexico State Prison Riot – the most violent penitentiary riot in United States history. This is not an episode for people who are squeamish because within these audio waves are embedded burst heads, mass sexual torture, drug-fueled abuse, a story more painful than pain. It’s a tale from… Continue reading American Nightmare: The New Mexico Prison Riot /// 80
Murder. Mass rape. Mass torture. Violence beyond violence. Millions upon millions of dollars of property damage. An institution turned upside down – the strong fool ruling over the weak doctor; the prisoner over the guard; evil let loose over the good and the weak. Such is the New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot. More than thirty… Continue reading The Definitive History of The New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot /// 79
Made famous in the film We Were Soldiers, the Battle of Ia Drang was the first major conventional battle between regular North Vietnamese forces and the United States military. Drawing from numerous first-person accounts, the Battle of Ia Drang is recounted with vivid detail in this episode. It’s a battle which directly changed the tactics… Continue reading The Battle of Ia Drang /// 78
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first conventional conflict between American forces and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. For days the two sides met at the foot of the Chu Pong Massif – giving and receiving death, pain, and disfigurement. It’s a battle made famous in the film We Were Soldiers. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 77 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas located here: Battle of Ia Drang historical atlas
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Albright, J., Cash, J.A., & Sandstrum, A.W. Seven firefights in Vietnam.
Appy, C. Patriots: The Vietnam War remembered from all sides.
Caldwell, J.D. (2018). Anatomy of a victory: Why the United States triumphed in World War II, fought to a stalemate in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and failed in Iraq. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Kelly, M. & Summer, H. G. (October, 1999). 1st Cav recon in the la Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Moore, H. We were soldiers once and young.
Moore, H. & Galloway, J.L. We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
Steinman, R. (2015). The soldiers’ story: Vietnam in their own words.
Coleman, J.D. Pleiku: the dawn of helicopter warfare in Vietnam
Carland, J. (2000). Stemming the Tide: May 1965 to October 1966.
Harris, J.P. (2016). Vietnam’s High Ground: Armed Struggle for the Central Highlands, 1954-1965.
Head, W.P. (2020). Storms over the Mekong : Major battles of the Vietnam War. Texas A&M University Press.
Leonard, S.M. (n.d.). Forward support at Ia Drang. Professional Bulletin of United States Army Logistics.
Hasset, S. (August, 2021). 1st Cav’s return to Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Ngyuen, T. (October, 2018). A New Look at Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Vance, R. & Beck, B. (December, 2011). Eyewitness Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
DelaRosa L. (August, 2005). Headhunters in the Ia Drang Valley. Vietnam Magazine.
Schifferle, P.J. (1994). The Ia Drang Campaign 1965: A successful operational campaign or mere tactical failure? School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College.
Arnold, D (November 11, 1995). The blood brothers of Ia Drang 30 years ago, the battle raged; today, the healing goes on. Boston Globe.
Vogrin, B. (July 14, 2010). Vietnam vet fulfills battlefield promise to injured comrade. The Gazette.
Hendrick, B. (February 27, 2002). Film’s horror too true, say 60’s soldiers. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Alley, J.L. (n.d.). The ghosts of the green grass. Codi Publishing.
Harris, J.P. & Kenneth, E. (2020). Ia Drang 1965: The struggle for Vietnam’s Pleiku Province. Osprey Publishing.
For more than a decade after the September 11th attacks, the United States of America devoted a seemingly limitless amount of time and resources to finding one man – Osama bin Laden. This is the story of that manhunt. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This episode is a continuation of episode 32 detailing the September 11th attacks. You can find episode 32 here.
You can download episode 76 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas located here: Zero Dark Thirty Historical Atlas
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Kill bin Laden: a Delta Force commander’s account of the hunt for the world’s most wanted man by Fury, Dalton.
Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden: from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Bergen, Peter (2012).
The rise and fall of Osama Bin Laden by Peter Bergen.
The longest war by Peter Bergen.
Jawbreaker : the attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda : a personal account by the CIA’s key field commander by Berntsen, Gary
The finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Bowen
The looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
No easy day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer (2012).
The operator: Firing the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden by Robert O’neill (not dated).
Osama bin Laden: A biography by Thomas Mockaitis.
Seal Target Geronimo by Chuck Pfarrer
Obama, B. (2011). President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden by Barak Obama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYmK19-d0U
Bolanos, A.M. (2010). Al Qaeda’s revolution in military affairs. [Doctoral dissertation, Tufts University].
Marwan, A.H. (2015). One death, three regions and two stories: A study of the media coverage of the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistani, British, and American media. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Sheffield].
Steiner, J.B. (2012). The psychology of terrorism: A case study of Osama Bin Laden. [Master’s thesis, Georgetown University].
Schueur, M. (2011).Osama bin Laden. Oxford University Press. 2011.
Smith, A.R. (2011). Belling the cat: The Neo-taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. [Master’s Thesis, University of New Hampshire].
Carey, C.R. (2008). The ideological foundation of Osama Bin Laden. [Master’s thesis, University of Kansas].
Mobely, B.W. (2008). Terrorist group counterintelligence. [Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University].
Rosthauser, R.C. (2010). Terrorism conflict: How the United States responds to Al Qaeda violence and expressed grievances. [Master’s thesis, University of Denver].
Today’s episode recounts the life and death of Chris Kyle – the greatest American sniper in United States history. It’s the final episode of a two part series. It’s 2000 yard shots; it’s death; it’s confused anger and groundless indignation – mixed together into one potent podcast. It’s also the definitive podcast history of Chris Kyle’s life. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
You can find episode one in this series here: episode 74 link
Download episode 75 here: download link
American Sniper: Chris Kyle Maps/Images:
Maps and extensive images are located on the Historical Atlas of Chris Kyle page located here: historical atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
American Sniper: Chris Kyle References:
Chris Kyle: American Sniper by Alexis Burling
The life and legend of Chris Kyle: American sniper, Navy Seal by Michael Mooney
American Sniper by Chris Kyle and Scott McEwen et al.
American Sniper ou les contradictions de l’Amérique by Simon Desplanque. (2015). Défense et Sécurité Internationale. 117, pp. 66-71.
Bernstein, A. (2013, February 3). Chris Kyle, Navy Seal and author of ‘American Sniper,’ dies. The Washington Post.
Gibbons-Neff, T. (2016, July 9). After investigation, Navy lowers ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s medal count. The Washington Post.
Mediaite: New Report Claims That American Sniper Chris Kyle Embellished Own Military Award Record. (2016, May 25). Newstex.
McCoy, T. (2015, February 13). The tragedy of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s widow. The Washington Post.
Mooney, M. (2013, April). The legend of Chris Kyle. D Magazine.
Lamothe, D. (2015, February 11). ‘American Sniper’ trial: Chris Kyle’s eerie text
message about killer opens proceedings. The Washington Post.
McCoy, T. (2014, July 30). The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history. The Washington Post.
Department of the Navy (2016, January 25). Christopher Kyle official citations and awards.
Schmidle, N. (2013, June 3). In the crosshairs. The New Yorker.
Jesse Ventura vs. Taya Kyle. Civ. No. 12-472. (2014).
Canon, T. (2016). Man o’ War: Collisions of masculinity and militaristic patriotism in American Sniper (Publication number: 10124017) [Master’s thesis, University of Colorado].
Walter, J. (2017). Snipers at war: An equipment and operations history.
Rosenberg, A. (2015, April 28). What students protesting “American Sniper” get wrong about the movie. The Washington Post.
Chomsky, N., Crockford, K, & Summer, J. (2015). Townhall on Terror. The Baffler. 28, 66-82.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
House to house : an epic memoir of war by David Bellavia and John Bruning
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/16/
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/15/
On Killing by Dave Grossman
Americans at War: Eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. Volume 3. Edited by James Arnold. ABC-CLIO. 2018.
Chris Kyle was the greatest sniper in American history. The subject of the book and film American Sniper, this is the definitive biographical podcast regarding his life, the controversy surrounding his actions, and his battles. It’s also the story of the Second Battle of Fallujah – one of the bloodiest battles the United States has fought in recent history. It’s blood. It’s mile-long kills. It’s Noam Chomsky and Carl Schmitt – distilled and rendered into the foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast.
You can download episode 74 here: download link
American Sniper: Chris Kyle Maps/Images:
Maps and extensive images are located on the Historical Atlas of Chris Kyle page located here: historical atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
American Sniper; Chris Kyle References:
Chris Kyle: American Sniper by Alexis Burling
The life and legend of Chris Kyle: American sniper, Navy Seal by Michael Mooney
American Sniper by Chris Kyle and Scott McEwen et al.
American Sniper ou les contradictions de l’Amérique by Simon Desplanque. (2015). Défense et Sécurité Internationale. 117, pp. 66-71.
Bernstein, A. (2013, February 3). Chris Kyle, Navy Seal and author of ‘American Sniper,’ dies. The Washington Post.
Gibbons-Neff, T. (2016, July 9). After investigation, Navy lowers ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s medal count. The Washington Post.
Mediaite: New Report Claims That American Sniper Chris Kyle Embellished Own Military Award Record. (2016, May 25). Newstex.
McCoy, T. (2015, February 13). The tragedy of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s widow. The Washington Post.
Mooney, M. (2013, April). The legend of Chris Kyle. D Magazine.
Lamothe, D. (2015, February 11). ‘American Sniper’ trial: Chris Kyle’s eerie text
message about killer opens proceedings. The Washington Post.
McCoy, T. (2014, July 30). The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history. The Washington Post.
Department of the Navy (2016, January 25). Christopher Kyle official citations and awards.
Schmidle, N. (2013, June 3). In the crosshairs. The New Yorker.
Jesse Ventura vs. Taya Kyle. Civ. No. 12-472. (2014).
Canon, T. (2016). Man o’ War: Collisions of masculinity and militaristic patriotism in American Sniper (Publication number: 10124017) [Master’s thesis, University of Colorado].
Walter, J. (2017). Snipers at war: An equipment and operations history.
Rosenberg, A. (2015, April 28). What students protesting “American Sniper” get wrong about the movie. The Washington Post.
Chomsky, N., Crockford, K, & Summer, J. (2015). Townhall on Terror. The Baffler. 28, 66-82.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
House to house : an epic memoir of war by David Bellavia and John Bruning
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/16/
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/15/
On Killing by Dave Grossman
Americans at War: Eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. Volume 3. Edited by James Arnold. ABC-CLIO. 2018.
On March 1, 1896 one of the most important events in Western imperial history took place; it was the Battle of Adwa. In this one decisive battle, Ethiopia defeated Italy and threatened to drive the Italians into the sea. Crushed by the Ethiopians, Italy’s entire foreign policy was upended for decades. Hundreds of thousands of men faced each other in the tawny, undulating hills of Ethiopia and, as a consequence, Ethiopia retained her independence and sovereignty. There are few nations in the world which can say the same. This is the story of that battle, but it is more than that, it’s the story of true sovereignty, true power, and true force. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
You can download episode 73 here:download link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
Maps and Illustrations:
You can find maps and illustrations of the Battle of Adwa at the historical atlas located here.
References:
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the age of Empire by Raymond Jonas.
History of Italy by C.L. Killinger.
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
Garretson, P.P. (1974). A History of Addis Ababa from its Foundation in 1886 to 1910 [Doctoral Dissertation, University of London].
Memorie d’Africa (1892-1896) by Oreste Baratieri (1898)
La battaglia di Adua e il popolo italiano by Luigi Guarnieri (1897).
La battaglia d’Adua del 1. ̊Marzo 1896: desunta dale fonti più sicure con annessi due schizzi by Beniamino Melli (1901).
Haggai, Erlicfi. (1973). A political biography of Ras Alula 1875-1897 [Doctoral Dissertation, University of London].
Armies of the Adowa campaign 1896 by Sean Mclachlin.
Ethiopia by Paul Milkias
Battle of Adwa edited by Paul Milkias and Getachew Metaferia
Sul campo di Adua; diario, marzo-giugno, 1896. Migliaio by Eduardo Ximenes (1897).
The campaign of Adowa and the rise of Menelki by G.F.H. Berkeley.
La battaglia di Adua by Emilio Bellavita
This is the concluding episode of the definitive history of the Battle of Berlin and the fall of Nazi Germany. You can find parts one through ten at the following links: episode ten, episode nine, episode eight, episode seven, episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Download episode 72 here: download link
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
The Man Outside by Wolfgang Borchert
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Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
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The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
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Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
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Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
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With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
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World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
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“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
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Battleground Berlin by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945 by James Lucas
Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showwalter
From the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Allison Owings
The Battle for Berlin by John Strawson
The Fall of Berlin by David Fischer and Anthony Read
Last Thirty Days: The War Diary of the German Armed Forces High Command from April to May 1945:The Battle for Berlin Reflections in the Events of 1945 by Joachim Schultz-Naumann
On April 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. By this time the Fuhrer bunker walls were literally trembling like a flag in the wind from the constant artillery shelling taking place all around him. While Hitler said goodbye, more than 2,000 die hard veterans of the SS,… Continue reading The Fall of the Third Reich and the Death of Adolf Hitler /// 71
On April 28th, 1945 nearly the entire developed world joined together to destroy one city: Berlin. This is the story. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. Download episode 70 here: download This episode is part eight of an ongoing series. You… Continue reading A Funeral for an Empire: The Fall of Berlin /// 70
“Historically speaking, investigating sexual violence in war has been taboo. Nonetheless, sexual violence in armed conflict has been part of the spoils of war since time immemorial. Sexual violence takes many forms in armed conflicts across time and cultures. Sexual violence in war is often accompanied by torture, mutilation, and cannibalism. However, sexual violence is… Continue reading Sexual Violence and Mass Rape in War: The Berlin Case /// 69
April 26, 1945. Berlin is almost totally surrounded. The Soviets are pouring into the city. Small squads of German soldiers and Hitler Youth, often operating in groups of two or four, vainly attempt to stem the Russian tide. They fail, but they kill many in their downfall. This is the story. This episode is part… Continue reading House to House: Street Fighting in the Battle of Berlin /// 68
Imagine millions of men trying to kill each other on a front more than 30 miles long. That’s what this podcast is all about. Millions of men fought in both urban and rural settings, tens of thousands were killed and wounded on this one day. It was April 25th, 1945. This is the story. It’s… Continue reading A City Burning: The Battle of Berlin /// 67
The Fall of Berlin was one of the most important battles in human history. In this ongoing series, Dr. Wolf recounts the story of the last titanic struggle between two totalitarian regimes in minute, exhaustive detail. Drawing from sources never translated into English, this is the definitive history of the Fall of Berlin and the… Continue reading A World in Flames: The Battle of Berlin /// 66
This is part four of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This special double episode covers April 21-23. You can find episode three here: episode three, episode two here: episode two, and episode one here: episode one. It’s one of the most exhaustive histories on the Fall of Berlin that’s ever been… Continue reading Twilight of the Idols: The Battle of Berlin /// 65
This is part three of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 20. You can find episode two here: episode two and episode one here: episode one. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. Download episode three… Continue reading A Military History of the Battle of Berlin /// 64
This is part two of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 17 through April 19. You can find episode one here: episode one. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. Download episode 63 here: download link… Continue reading Der Untergang: The Fall of Berlin /// 63
The Battle of Berlin was one of the most important battles in human history. One of the greatest cities ever built, a city whose culture had transformed the Western world, was utterly destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of Germans were killed, wounded, or captured. Hundreds of thousands of Soviets lost their lives. Millions of women were… Continue reading Downfall: The Battle of Berlin /// 62
The Imjin War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Hundreds of thousands were enslaved. Entire regions were depopulated – former provincial capitals turned into ghost towns. In this episode there is weeping without end; pain without ceasing. An entire people abused and mistreated. This is the story… Continue reading Samurai Onslaught: The Japanese Invasion of Korea /// 61
In this third episode of an ongoing series, Dr. Luke details the massive Chinese counterattack which spilled across the Chinese-Korean border in the winter of 1593. Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers linked up with tens of thousands of Korean guerillas and warrior monks to drive the samurai across the Korean peninsula and into the… Continue reading A Military History of the Imjin War /// 60
Admiral Yi Sun-sin single-handedly safeguarded the entire existence of the Korean people. Without this one man Korean culture, the Korean language, and Korean political independence would have ceased to exist. Sun-sin is one of the greatest military minds in recorded human history. This is his story. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast… Continue reading Admiral Yi Sun-sin: Military Genius and Savior of Korea /// 59
The Imjin War, also known as the Japanese invasions of Korea, were a series of conflicts which took place in Korea after the unification of Japan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, were killed or enslaved by the samurai invaders. The Korean people may have ceased to exist as an unique people if… Continue reading Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Japanese Invasions of Korea: The Imjin War /// 58
The Cuban Revolution was one of the most important events in military, diplomatic and political history. Here is the story of the men who tore a revolution from nothing, and sent the world to the very brink of nuclear destruction. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on… Continue reading Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution /// 57
During the 1950s, two wealthy brothers named Fidel and Raul Castro, along with their Argentinian medical doctor Che Guevara Lynch, upturned the entire Western hemisphere. Whole industries, where Americans had spent tens of millions of dollars on gambling or prostitution, were suddenly wiped out. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled the advent of Castro’s regime… Continue reading A Military History of the Cuban Revolution /// 56
The Rhodesian Bush War was just the start of modern Zimbabwe’s tragedy. In today’s special double episode we pick up where we left off: in the middle of the bloody Rhodesian Bush War. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives in the conflict. Hundreds of thousands more lost everything they owned in the struggle.… Continue reading The Rhodesian Bush War and the Rise and Fall of Zimbabwe /// 55
The Rhodesian Bush War was one of the bloodiest conflicts since the Second World War. Tens of thousands were killed. Tens of thousands more were wounded. Hundreds of thousands of African civilians were moved from their ancestral homes and concentrated in “protective villages” – a massive movement of population that in itself demonstrates the tremendous… Continue reading The Rhodesian Bush War – a Forgotten African War /// 54
The First Chimurenga was a near simultaneous uprising by the veteran warriors of the Ndebele tribe and their former serfs of the Shona tribe against the few thousand settlers who had colonized Rhodesia during the first decade of its existence. Tens of thousands of people died – including many women and children – no one… Continue reading A Military History of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe: The First Chimurenga /// 53
In 1890, the country of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe did not exist. What did exist were two regions dominated by the Ndebele tribe, a tribe who broke off from the battle-hardened Zulu. The area of modern-day Zimbabwe was called Matabeleland and Mashonaland. The Ndebele ruled over the Shona like Spartans over Helots. In the early 1890s, British settlers… Continue reading A Military History of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe: The First Matabele War /// 52
The 2012 Benghazi Attack on two isolated American diplomatic and intelligence compounds is a well-known story to millions of film-viewers across the world. In tonight’s show, a few Americans will battle for their lives against overwhelming odds. It’s a case study of static defense warfare in the modern setting: cut off and alone – hundreds… Continue reading 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and the 2012 Benghazi Attack /// 51
Leslie Bull Allen: orphan, pig farmer, day laborer, hero. Seventeen: that’s how many wounded and helpless men were saved from direct modern combat by Bull Allen – a man beyond measure. Bull braved dangers that actually drove him insane. The thing is: he didn’t have to do it. He volunteered to do the impossible. There… Continue reading Leslie Bull Allen: Australian Hero /// 50
The Siege of Jerusalem is one of the most important battles in human history. The siege has a direct and lasting impact on millions of Jews and Christians across the globe. It’s a story of hundreds of thousands of deaths, forced enslavement, and barbaric mass destruction. It’s the fall of the temple that could not… Continue reading The Siege of Jerusalem /// 49
It’s a war that goes by many names: The First Jewish-Roman War, The Great Revolt, The Jewish War; but whatever name you prefer, The Great Revolt was a war that influences untold millions today. The Revolt directly altered the entire calendar of the Western World – moving the sacred day of rest (and your primary… Continue reading The Great Revolt: The First Jewish-Roman War /// 48
This is part four of a four part series on the military history of modern Israel. You can find the other three parts here: part three, part two, and part one. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its socio-political impact. Download episode 47… Continue reading A Military History of Modern Israel: The Yom Kippur War /// 47
In the Six-Day War, Israel once again faced much of the combined might of the Soviet-equipped Arab world. Once again, Israel stunned the world in her elegant defense of her borders and conquest of hundreds of square miles of territory. Tens of thousands of men were either killed, wounded, or taken prisoner – over a… Continue reading A Military History of Modern Israel: The Six-Day War
In 1956 the world held it’s breath. Israel invaded Egypt, penetrating to within ten miles of the Suez Canal – a key choke point for the world economy. The Egyptians struggled to stem the Israeli tide of shrapnel-spewing steel. The British and French threatened to intervene. The United Nations fell into an uproar. The Soviet… Continue reading A Military History of Modern Israel: The Suez Crisis /// 45
100,000 British soldiers – a massive army in the annals of human history; that’s how many soldiers The United Kingdom sent to Palestine in order to quell the budding revolt of the Israeli nation. It didn’t work. Thousands died. Tens of thousands of Arab and Israeli soldiers clashed. Hundreds of thousands of people lost everything… Continue reading A Military History of Modern Israel: The First Arab-Israeli War /// 44
Today’s show is the story of modern military medicine. It’s burns. It’s amputations. It’s disfigurement. It’s the story of medical staff and wounded in war zones – the horror, the deaths, the exhaustion. It’s a brief history of pain and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s… Continue reading Burn Ward 13: Modern Military Medicine /// 43
In May 1968 the nation of France came apart at the seams. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded into the streets. Strikes across the nation brought production to a standstill. Veteran politicians fled the country. Protestors met police in the streets: club versus bat, stone versus grenade. This is the story of the month France… Continue reading May 1968: The Month France Exploded /// 42
Today we’re diving back into a war that has touched all our lives – the Mexican Drug War. It’s the deaths behind so many parties across the length and breadth of North America – the sin behind the fun – the endless pain that birthed endless euphoria. It’s a war that lays bare our true… Continue reading El Narco: The Mexican Drug War /// 41
Tonight we’re going back to Scotland – back to the front line where Robert the Bruce is going to roll the dice and gamble it all – facing down the gathered strength of England. He traded wine and women – a comfortable chair by the fire – for the bitter cold of water-drenched journeys, bloodshed… Continue reading Outlaw King: Robert the Bruce /// 40
William Wallace is an enigmatic figure – most of what we know about him was written by his enemies but tonight we go deep down the rabbit hole to find every shred of evidence that we know about his life. It’s an epic tale complete with guerilla warfare, vicious torture, and the making and breaking… Continue reading Braveheart: William Wallace and the Battle for Scotland /// 39
Dunkirk. It’s a battle that has inspired countless filmmakers, novelists, and historians – a battle that saved a nation, and quite possibly, the modern world as we know it. As a direct result of the actions of the men you will hear about in this episode, Great Britain survived to fight another day. The cornerstone… Continue reading The Battle of Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo /// 38
During the Boer War the British laid waste to huge swaths of South Africa. Homes were burned. Children starved. Battle raged across the countryside. Entire populations were imprisoned in concentration camps. Thousands died. This is the story. This is part 2 of a two part series. You can find part one here: Boer War part… Continue reading Scorched Earth: Concentration Camps and Guerilla Conflict in the Boer War /// 37
The Boer War was fought across the length and breadth of modern-day South Africa. It started as a conventional fight but degenerated into a protracted guerilla war that cost the British people 230 million pounds, approximately 27 billion pounds in today’s money. But the war left another legacy in South Africa – a legacy of… Continue reading The Boer War /// 36
The war for the Holy Land – the First Crusade. On today’s show, we’re taking the besieged crusaders all the way from Antioch to Jerusalem. It’s an epic story filled with war, savagery, and even ghosts the whole way. It’s the story of the Holy Lance of Christ and the bloody conquest of Palestine. It’s… Continue reading The First Crusade and the Conquest of the Holy Land /// 35
The First Crusade was a watershed moment in both Islamic and Christian history – influencing history across Africa, Europe, and Asia for centuries to come. This is the story. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact. I also want to give… Continue reading The First Crusade and the Double Battle of Antioch /// 34
The H.L. Hunley was the first submarine in human history to effectively engage and destroy an enemy. The story of the Hunley is equal to the story of the Wright brothers’ first flight or Armstrong’s moon landing – a first step with dire repercussions for the future of the world. This is the story. It’s… Continue reading The H.L. Hunley: First Combat Submarine /// 33
The September 11 attacks. Almost 3,000 died. Hundreds of millions of dollars of property was destroyed. 15 pregnant women lost their babies – their bodies spontaneously aborting their children as their fellow citizens fled from the crashing towers in absolute terror. But behind all these figures – these faceless, nameless numbers – there are tens… Continue reading 9/11: The September 11 Attacks /// 32
The battles for Hue and Khe Sanh were some of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. Hue was the third largest city in South Vietnam and its capture by Communist forces led to the first urban conflict of the Marine Corps since the Korean War. Khe Sanh was the battlefield where classical encirclement strategies… Continue reading The Tet Offensive part 2 / Hue and Khe Sanh /// 31
The Tet Offensive. It’s not a battle – it’s a campaign, a campaign that would change the course of American history. Tet combined major set-piece battles with guerrilla strikes up and down the length of South Vietnam, there was fighting everywhere. One Colonel said his situation map lit up like a pinball machine. With this one stroke, General Giap… Continue reading The Tet Offensive part 1 /// 30
Lone Survivor. It’s the deadliest day for United States special forces since World War II. Four Navy Seals, cut off and alone, fought for their lives on a literal mountain of pain – in terrain so hostile it actually fought against the men. I mean this literally, the terrain cut them, smashed them – foiled… Continue reading Lone Survivor: Operation Red Wings /// 29
Simo Häyhä was the greatest sniper that ever lived. Using only iron sights and the normal equipment of the Finnish soldier in the Russo-Finnish Winter War, he carried out a 90-day reign of terror on the Soviet invaders of his homeland. They called him “The White Death.” He had over 200 confirmed kills. He gave… Continue reading Simo Hayha – the Greatest Sniper of all Time /// 28
Waterloo. It’s a battle that’s on the top of every list of decisive battles in human history. It’s a day that changed the world forever. It’s the nail in the coffin for one of the greatest military leaders in human history and it’s all covered on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its… Continue reading Waterloo /// 27
In 1956 the Hungarian nation revolted against their Soviet masters. The Soviets responded with massive force – columns of tanks that went on for miles, like an interminable death train. The rest of the world looked on dumbfounded. They did nothing. The Hungarians fought against overwhelming odds – in the teeth of air strafing, tanks,… Continue reading The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
This is the second part of our series on the Paraguayan War, the bloodiest war in South American history. It’s a war of waste, of burned cities and child soldiers. It’s a war of tyrants and monarchs. It’s a war to the knife. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the… Continue reading Show 25: War to the Knife – the Paraguayan War II
The Paraguayan War. It’s the bloodiest inter-state war in South American history. It’s the bloodiest war in modern history on a per capita basis. Because of this war, the Paraguayan people, an entire culture, almost ceased to exist. And how many of you even knew about it before you read this? But it’s not just… Continue reading Show 24: The Paraguayan War and the Battle of Tuyutí
Christmas, 1944. The weakest sector of the American line is getting ready to celebrate the Yuletide when Nazi Germany, like a second-Mordor, disgorged multiple armies no one knew Hitler even had into the green American troops. The tide of steel was overwhelming. Hundreds of thousands of men would die. Hundreds of thousands of mothers would… Continue reading Show 23: Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge
Dracula. He’s a legend who will appear at innumerable parties on Halloween. Children will wear capes and not understand why. Adults will watch movies about vampires sucking blood and never know why they do it. As Armand said in Interview with the Vampire: “I know nothing of God, or the Devil. I have never seen… Continue reading Show 22: The Real Dracula
On May 29, 1453 Constantinople fell. This is the story of the fall. Check out the first part of the story here: Fall of Constantinople part 1 The beer this episode is Mythos, 3 bullets out of five. http://media.blubrry.com/429895/archive.org/download/BC21_2034/BC21.mp3 Download link: download Illustrations Contemporary depiction of Constantinople Battle map. Notice the shape of the walls. A modern… Continue reading Show 21: The Fall of Constantinople part 2
It’s a holy war between Islam and Christianity. It’s a battle known the world over. It’s the last outpost of Christian Europe in the Near East facing down a Turkish onslaught. It’s a battle that has profound and lasting implications for our modern world: from debates about Turkish entry into the European Union to the… Continue reading Show 20: Total Jihad – Fetih 1453 and the Last Battle of Constantinople
What can you write to describe this battle? It’s Stalingrad. It’s a scar on all ethics – all morality – all outlooks that men are basically good. Were men good when they massacred each other, starved each other, shot and stabbed and exploded one another at Stalingrad? Homo homini lupus – Man is a wolf… Continue reading Show 19: The Last Hell is Never the Very Last – Stalingrad part 2
Stalingrad. It’s a name we’ve all heard before. It’s a showdown between two totalitarian systems and a battle that sent millions of people to the grave. Can you even imagine millions upon millions of men at war? Think about it. In our show today, this tragedy will take place in your ear drums, will desecrate… Continue reading Show 18: Enemy at the Gates: The Battle of Stalingrad part 1
On September 11, 1973, tanks ground the pavement of Chile’s capital city. Chilean air force jets bombed the presidential palace. Men fought in the streets. Snipers danced in between buildings, shooting friend and foe, and even each other. The whole nation was under martial law. The radio was taken over. The schools were taken over.… Continue reading Show 17: The Caravan of Death – The Chilean Coup
Japan Triumphant On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States navy at Pearl Harbor. On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. But Japan didn’t stop at Pearl Harbor, she launched a series of daring assaults across the Pacific theater of war. On the tenth of December, the… Continue reading Show 16: Australia Turns the Tide – The Kokoda Track
In today’s episode we have one of the most important battles in world history: Teutoburg Forest. A loose confederation of Germanic tribes, led by a Romanized German named Arminius, seeks to stem the irresistible Roman advance into the heart of Germany. It was Arminius’s actions that saved the German language. It was his actions that… Continue reading Show 15: Death Forest – Battle of Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought outside the walls of Quebec City. It decided the fate of not only the French in North America but also hundreds of Native American tribes across the continent. In today’s show we have ethnic cleansing on a vast scale – entire provinces and regions deliberately depopulated. We have human sacrifice. We have the destruction of villages and towns. We outline a war and a battle that echoes across our time today. We show the direct link this battle has on modern Canadian politics – the vast sums spent, the thousands of man hours exhausted and the tensions of the modern Canadian state. All of it starts here, on the Plains of Abraham. In our show you’ll meet a young George Washington, who arguably starts a war between the French and British Empires. The burnt homes, the weeping widows, the lost languages, lost cultures, lost religions – it all begins at this one point in time. Steel and blood carved the modern Canadian and American states – nothing else. It’s all on today’s show and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast about military history and its socio-political impact.
The beer this episode is La Fin du Monde from the great people at Unibroue, 4.5 bullets out of 5.
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References:
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War by Fred Anderson
The Penguin History of Canada by Bob Bothwell
A Short History of Quebec: Fourth Edition by John A. Dickinson and Brian Young
British Newspaper Accounts of Braddock’s Defeat by N. Darnell Davis. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 23, No. 3 (1899), pp. 310-328
A Journal of the Expedition up the River St. Lawrence by a Serjeant-Major of Gen. Hopson’s Grenadiers
An Independent Quebec: The Past, the Present and the Future by Jacques Parizeau and Robin Philpot (Translator)
Colonial Pennsylvania: A History by Joseph E. Illick and Milton M. Kline
Colonial New York: A History by Michael G Kammen
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People by Shane K. Bernard
Maps and Illustrations:
Map of France’s land claims in North America. The area shaded yellow shows French claims. The area shaded green shows British claims.
The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West. Oil on canvas, 1770
General Montcalm, mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham, is taken to Quebec. Watercolour by Louis Bombled
Initial deployment of Anglo-Americans flanking Quebec
Map illustrating the battle of the Plains of Abraham
Land Acquired by British at the conclusion of the war.
A Canadian monument showing the depopulation of Nova Scotia called La Grand Derangement
It’s our anniversary show here at Battlecast and we’re starting our second year off with an action-packed episode on the Battle of Mogadishu. In today’s episode you’ll hear an epic story of self-sacrifice as two Delta Force operators attempt to hold back an entire city of hostiles. Meanwhile, General Garrison struggles to scrape together a relief column for the 100 men still battling for their lives in Mogadishu. It’s a battle that spawned the epic film Black Hawk Down and it’s one of our most widely requested battles. It’s modern war in all its savagery and it’s only on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on military history.
The beer this month is Tusker: 2 bullets out of 5.
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Maps and Illustrations:
Map showing the location of Mogadishu in East Africa and battlefield. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON.
Map of crash sites. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON.
Map of first crash site. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON.
Somali militiamen in a “technical” – a vehicle modified to mount a heavy weapon for combat.
Audio Clips:
Survivors from the Battle and Radio Traffic: http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/audio.asp
References:
A Modern History of the Somali by I.M. Lewis
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
In the Company of Heroes by Mike Durant
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
“Black Hawk Down: An American War Story” by Mark Bowden. Web. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp
It’s October 3, 1993 and 160 soldiers of an American task force are making a routine raid into Mogadishu. It should have been just another minor skirmish. It became a battle that would cost the lives of thousands. On today’s show we’ve got a classic showdown of cutting-edge military technology and training versus the sheer numbers of the ill-led Somali militias. It’s a unique battle made famous in the epic war-film Black Hawk Down. It’s also our first show about modern warfare here on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast about war. We released this one a week early as a Christmas gift to you and want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. To all of you traveling out there, stay warm and stay safe.
The beer this episode is Sam Adams Winter Lager – 4 bullets out of 5.
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Maps and Illustrations:
Map showing the location of Mogadishu in East Africa and battlefield. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON.
Map of initial assault on target building. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON
Locations of crash sites and target building. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON
Initial deployment of Rangers around the first crash site. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON
Typical Street in Mogadishu
A US Marine helicopter flies over Mogadishu. Note, this is not a Black Hawk or Little Bird helicopter. Notice the unpaved streets.
General Garrison’s letter to President Clinton. Courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer / MATTHEW ERICSON
Audio Clips:
Survivors from the Battle and Radio Traffic: http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/audio.asp
References:
A Modern History of the Somali by I.M. Lewis
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
In the Company of Heroes by Mike Durant
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
“Black Hawk Down: An American War Story” by Mark Bowden. Web. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp
Music References:
Kemper Crabb – “Es Kommt Ein Schiff”
http://www.kempercrabb.net/