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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

by Dan Carlin

Show 72 - Mania for Subjugation II

03.01.2025 • 03:51:26

Is it safe to hand control of the deadliest army in the world to a 20-year old? If you are Thracian, Triballian, Illyrian or Theban, the answer is def...

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation

07.06.2024 • 04:11:39

What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, ...

Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II

19.11.2023 • 06:23:08

Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard i...

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

15.01.2023 • 05:10:55

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 bre...

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources

07.03.2022 • 05:39:12

The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice,...

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI

08.06.2021 • 05:45:52

When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic we...

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V

14.11.2020 • 03:32:34

Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns agai...

Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV

03.06.2020 • 03:58:33

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 t...

Show 64 - Supernova in the East III

25.10.2019 • 04:53:43

Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict w...

Show 63 - Supernova in the East II

12.01.2019 • 04:01:55

Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost mod...