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Hardcore History 50 – Blueprint for Armageddon I
The planet hadn’t seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora’s Box of violence engulfs the planet.
Publish Date:Tue, 29 Oct 2013
Duration – 03:07:20 minutes
Hardcore History 51 – Blueprint for Armageddon II
The Great Powers all come out swinging in the first round of the worst war the planet has ever seen. Millions of men in dozens of armies vie in the most deadly and complex opening moves of any conflict in world history
Publish Date:Thu, 30 Jan 2014
Duration – 03:20:29
Hardcore History 52 – Blueprint for Armageddon III
The war of maneuver that was supposed to be over quickly instead turns into a lingering bloody stalemate. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses.
Publish Date:Thu, 24 Apr 2014
Duration – 03:54:08 minutes
Hardcore History 53 – Blueprint for Armageddon IV
Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. There’s never been a human experience like it…and it changes a generation.
Publish Date:Tue, 05Â May 2015
Duration – 04:16:43 minutes
Hardcore History 54 – Blueprint for Armageddon V
Politics, diplomacy, revolution and mutiny take center stage at the start of this episode, but mud, blood, shells and tragedy drown all by the end.
Publish Date:Mon, 29 Dec 2014
Duration – 04:29:57 minutes
Hardcore History 55 – Blueprint for Armageddon VI
The Americans are coming, but will the war be over by the time they get there? Germany throws everything into a last series of stupendous attacks in the West while hoping to avoid getting burned by a fire in the East they helped fan.
Publish Date:Tue, 05Â May 2015
Duration:04:16:43 minutes
Dan’s research and book list:
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
The First World War
Hitler, Mein Kampf – Eine kritische Edition
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Germany’s Aims in the First World War
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The Lessons of History
1914
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Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
Books not sold on Amazon:
1. 1914, The First Months of Fighting by Lyn Macdonald -see book 7
2. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
