Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples School of War

Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford, and author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, joins the show to talk about Germany, Germans, and German-speakers at war.
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Times 
• 01:52 Introduction 
• 03:07 A dominance myth? 
• 06:58 The Holy Roman Empire 
• 10:33 HRE longevity
• 12:38 The Thirty Years War
• 15:31 Westphalia
• 21:24 Prussia rising
• 24:09 Prussia and Austria 
• 27:56 Napoleon 
• 31:43 The Imperial legacy 
• 34:42 Bismarck’s wars  
• 37:06 1914 vs 1940 
• 40:03 Blitzkrieg