36 min
Everybody Loves a Winner Historically Speaking Podcast
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- History
History is full of winners and losers, but rarely do you come across an individual who is a winner 100% of the time. Sometimes faced with insurmountable odds, these five military leaders always found a way to win. Whether facing Hannibal’s elephants in Zama, battling across the breadth of a river in Worcester or commencing a battle at 11pm to take their Ottoman enemies by surprise, these military geniuses of the Western world were the original action heroes not just of their time, but throughout the ages.
Episode Resources:
Books
The Campaigns of Alexander by ArrianThe Age of Alexander by PlutarchScipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician by H.H. ScullardScipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell HartThe History of Rome by Michael GrantPlutarch’s Lives: Life of Julius Caesar by Plutarch, John Dryden (Translator) Battles That Changed History by DK and Smithsonian Institution Cromwell, Our Chief of Men by Lady Antonia FraserGod’s Executioner Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Michael SiochruThe Reader’s Companion to Military History by Robert Cowley and Geoffrey ParkerEagles Over The Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland by Christopher Duffy Film
Alexander Revisited: The (Unrated) Final Cut (2016) Directed by Oliver Stone Julius Caesar (1953) Shakespeare’s version with Marlon Brando, directed by MankiewiczRome (2005) HBO SeriesCromwell (1970) with Richard Harris and Alec GuinnessPatton (1970) with George C. Scott
History is full of winners and losers, but rarely do you come across an individual who is a winner 100% of the time. Sometimes faced with insurmountable odds, these five military leaders always found a way to win. Whether facing Hannibal’s elephants in Zama, battling across the breadth of a river in Worcester or commencing a battle at 11pm to take their Ottoman enemies by surprise, these military geniuses of the Western world were the original action heroes not just of their time, but throughout the ages.
Episode Resources:
Books
The Campaigns of Alexander by ArrianThe Age of Alexander by PlutarchScipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician by H.H. ScullardScipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell HartThe History of Rome by Michael GrantPlutarch’s Lives: Life of Julius Caesar by Plutarch, John Dryden (Translator) Battles That Changed History by DK and Smithsonian Institution Cromwell, Our Chief of Men by Lady Antonia FraserGod’s Executioner Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Michael SiochruThe Reader’s Companion to Military History by Robert Cowley and Geoffrey ParkerEagles Over The Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland by Christopher Duffy Film
Alexander Revisited: The (Unrated) Final Cut (2016) Directed by Oliver Stone Julius Caesar (1953) Shakespeare’s version with Marlon Brando, directed by MankiewiczRome (2005) HBO SeriesCromwell (1970) with Richard Harris and Alec GuinnessPatton (1970) with George C. Scott
36 min