Episodes
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Episode 6, Part 1: The Decline of Yugoslavia and the Ten-Day War
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the Balkans were a powder keg waiting to go off. A spark from a gunman's bullet in Sarajevo ignited the inferno that was First World War. The embers of the conflict in turn fuelled the Second World War, history's deadliest conflict. By the latter's end, the world was changed, as were the Balkans. Under the facade of a slavic union, unseen embers were beginning to glow again. As the 20th Century came to a close, the Balkans would once again ignite into the last great conflict of those 100 years. The consequences of a dying Yugoslavia would ripple across the world, and the first shots would be fired in the country of Slovenia.
This is the beginning of a conflict which would see evils we hoped were long behind us……ones we failed to prevent, and stop.
Music: Hej, Slaveni (Yugoslavia's national anthem, 1945-1992)
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Episode 2, Part 2: The First Crusade
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
The mouth of Anatolia is littered with the bodies of the dead. These were the people who believed they would retake the Holy Land out of the promise of glory and absolution. Instead, the Eastern end of the Bosphorus has become their grave. As the summer of 1097 comes to a close, a group of Princes depart their homes, each with thousands of soldiers and knights accompanying them. These are the chosen Princes, the ones believed to be strong enough, noble enough, to represent the Christian world in a divine conquest. Jerusalem, and sanctity await them……
Intro music: Moorland by Kevin Macloud
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Episode 2, Part 1: The Peasants Crusade
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
The Byzantine Empire is dwindling, Pope Urban II's power is threatened, and claims of autrocities committed against Christian pilgrams to Jerusalem have sparked horror and outrage across Western Europe. With the cry of "Deus Vult", The First Crusade is declared. However, a group of Peasants decide they are the heroes God has chosen for this journey. Are they? Join us as we discuss the misadventures that were The Peasants Crusade.
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
Episode 1: The Korean War
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
The Second World War has come to a close, the world has found itself divided on a new level. Much of Europe lays in ruins, the last Empires are collapsing, and two new players have entered the fray: the Eagle and the Bear. The two began to scramble for global influence, taking advantage of both the battle wounded states desparate to rebuild, and new states stuggling to take their first steps. For the first half-decade, the eyes of the world were focused on Europe, a continent divided by an Iron Curtain between Western Democracies and Eastern Communist states. On the other side of the globe, however, was a second divide, not between East and West, but North and South. The Korean Pennisula was experience a tension stretching closer to the breaking point, and yet no one was watching. Then, on July 25, 1950, Communist forces of the North invaded the faux-Democratic Dictatorship of the South. Suddenly, the world was watching, and both American and Soviet forces (with their respective allies) decended into the conflict, the first war of the Cold War, tragically nicknamed The Forgotten War.