15 episodi
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Dan Carlin
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In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This isn't academic history (and Carlin isn't a historian) but the podcast's unique blend of high drama, masterful narration and Twilight Zone-style twists has entertained millions of listeners.
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Twilight of the Aesir II
Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia's neighbors
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Twilight of the Aesir
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.
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BLITZ Human Resources
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.
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Supernova in the East VI
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.
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Supernova in the East V
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.
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Supernova in the East IV
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
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Daunting... but incredibly rewarding
Just as in the title, to start this podcast (at least for me) the first time it took me some courage and a serious lack of anything else to listen to while on my way for a very long trip.
Nowadays every time there’s a new episode, “Hardcore History” gets on top of my list. It really provides for a useful refreshing of the time periods it deals with, and it’s wonderful how it tries to put you into the perspective of people at the time.
To have a sample of that, I encourage you to start with the first episode of the WW1 series, with the dilemma faced by the Austro-Hungarian empire in answering to the murder of its emperor by Princip.
Finally, the voice of the narrator is intense and clear, and he knows how to play with it to create a certain tone and mood. It got me through an eight-hour drive with just 3-4 short stops for a coffee - better than a Redbull.
Incredibile
It’s just incredible. You listen for hours at a man speaking in your ears without breaks nor music nor anything else than his voice. And when he finishes (and maybe it’s 5 hours later) you say “oh, already finished?”
The best
I wish Dan Carlin was all my professors.