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Forgotten Wars

James Barton

47 episodes

1 day ago

Forgotten Wars covers the conflicts overlooked in popular history. Journey to World War One in East Africa with an undefeated German General, trek across Siberia during the Russian Revolution with a lost Czech legion, watch as Britain bombards Chinese forts in service to the Opium trade, and find out if a war actually started because of a football result.

Expect bravery, incompetence, fascinating figures and incredible drama.

By James Barton, proud History Nerd

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Forgotten Wars covers the conflicts overlooked in popular history. Journey to World War One in East Africa with an undefeated German General, trek across Siberia during the Russian Revolution with a lost Czech legion, watch as Britain bombards Chinese forts in service to the Opium trade, and find out if a war actually started because of a football result.

Expect bravery, incompetence, fascinating figures and incredible drama.

By James Barton, proud History Nerd

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Episodes (20/47)

Forgotten Wars

The Mayaguez Incident - The Last Battle of the Vietnam War

It's 1975 and the United States is still reeling from the Watergate scandal and the fall of Saigon, when Communist Cambodians seize an American ship on the high seas. What sounds like the start of an 80's action flick would turn into one of the most tragic, hilarious and flawed operations ever launched by the US military. #History #USA #MilitaryHistory #War

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2 weeks ago

55 minutes 6 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The Boxer Rebellion Part 3 - The Fall of Beijing

In the final part of our series on the Boxer Rebellion, the allied army fights its way to the gates of Beijing, all the while dealing with the terrible heat and squabbling among themselves. Meanwhile in the besieged Legations, the foreigners desperately try to hold on as the Chinese go all out to crush them. #History, #militaryhistory #war #china

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3 weeks ago

56 minutes 2 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The Boxer Rebellion Part 2 - The Empires Strike Back

The Boxer Rebellion is in full swing as Northern China descends into chaos. While one of the strangest army's ever assembled, combining troops from all the Great Powers, assaults Tientsin, the foreigners trapped in the Beijing Legations desperately fight for their very survival as the siege rages on. #History #War #China

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1 month ago

47 minutes 3 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The Boxer Rebellion Part 1 - Kill the Barbarians!

Get ready for a tale of one the strangest wars in history. China explodes into the blood chaos of the Boxer Rebellion, as rebels who believe their martial arts make them invincible to bullets go on the rampage. Trapped in Beijing and Tientsin, the Western and Japanese communities are soon desperately fighting for their very lives. Meanwhile one of the strangest alliances in history is being formed, as all the great powers join forces to rescue their citizens.

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1 month ago

50 minutes 46 seconds

Forgotten Wars

St Clair's Defeat - Washington's Worst Disaster

Today the US army is the most formidable in the world, but in the young nations early years it was a very different story. Amateurish, badly led and underfunded, it stumbled into the worst military defeat in American history. A defeat so terrible it would change the American army forever.

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1 month ago

59 minutes 8 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Freikorps Part 3 - Terminators of the Third Reich

In the last episode Adolf Hitler takes central stage in the story of the Freikorps. On the backfoot after the assassination of Walter Rathenau, the Freikorps stage a comeback as Poland threatens Germany's boarders, France invades the Ruhr, and hyperinflation devastates the land. With Germany in chaos and the Republic gravelly weakened, Hitler and his Freikorps allies will launch the Munich Putsch.

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1 month ago

55 minutes 38 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Freikorps Part 2 - Terminate the Republic

After rampaging through Germany and invading the Baltic States, the Freikorps still thirsted for combat and blood. Turning on the very Republic that had been paying and supplying them, they would bring a reign of terror that would shake Germany to its very foundations. #Germany #WorldWar2 #Nazis

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2 months ago

59 minutes 38 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Freikorps Part 1 - Germany's Terminators

What does a society do when it has trained killing machines that it can't turn off? That is the situation Germany faced after World War 1, as its elite Storm Troopers returned home to a country where the old order had collapsed. Despising the new German Republic, they would band together to crush Communist revolts and even invade the Baltic states, leaving death and destruction everywhere they went. All the while they waited to turn on the Republic itself. They would become Germany's Terminators.

#War #Germany #WorldWar1

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2 months ago

55 minutes 23 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Operation Flipper - The Failed Attempt to 'Get Rommel'

In 1941 World War 2 isn't going well for Britain. In North Africa a new German General called Erwin Rommel is running rings around them, turning the desert into this own playground. Desperate to turn the tide they launch a commando mission that was as ambitious and daring, as it was badly implemented and dogged by bad luck. Its mission was simple, to 'Get Rommel.'

#worldwar2 #history /#rommel

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2 months ago

50 minutes 29 seconds

Forgotten Wars

James Wilkinson - America's Worst Traitor

Who is the worst traitor in American history? The man with the best claim to that dubious title is James Wilkinson! Join me for an epic tale of espionage, corruption, wine and woman, as Wilkinson undermines George Washington, spies for Spain, tries to assassinate the explorers Lewis and Clark, and plots to split up the United States with Aaron Burr. In between he finds the time to cause the worst peace time disaster in the history of the American army and botches an invasion of Canada. He's the founding father everyone wants to forget about.

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2 months ago

53 minutes 39 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Jeanne de Clisson - The Bloody Lioness

After her husband is falsely accused of treason and executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson embarks on an epic rampage of revenge. Taking to the high seas, she became a pirate, earning the nickname the Bloody Lioness of Brittany. #war # history #france #pirates

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2 months ago

37 minutes 42 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Mussolini's War - Invading the USSR

After disasters in North Africa and Greece, the last thing Fascist Italy needs is another front to fight on. Yet Mussolini will launch his soldiers into the Russian snows, where despite early successes, they will meet their doom as the Battle of Stalingrad unfolds.

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3 months ago

50 minutes 11 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Mussolini's War - A Greek Tragedy

Not content with a disaster in North Africa, Mussolini decides to invade Greece to show Hitler whose boss in the Balkans. What he claimed would be a walkover turns into his most humiliating mistake.

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3 months ago

51 minutes 40 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Mussolini's War - Operation Compass

In a 3 part series we delve into why Italy's campaigns in World War 2 turned into humiliating defeats, starting with the beginning of the duel in the desert. As Mussolini tries to build a new Roman Empire by invading Egypt, a genius British general will launch one of the greatest forgotten offensives of the whole war.

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3 months ago

59 minutes 49 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Canada in World War 1 - Stormtroopers of the Empire

Today Canada is most famous for its politeness, maple syrup and ice hockey, but during World War 1 they were the most feared and brutal soldiers on the Western Front. Join me for a tale of heroism, raids on enemy trenches and a force that became the Stormtroopers of the British Empire.

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4 months ago

55 minutes 14 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The Pig War - Keep your Potatoes out of my Pig!

On a remote Island in the Pacific a grumpy farmer shoots a pig gouging on his potatoes. Little does he know that he will almost start a war between America and Britain.

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4 months ago

39 minutes 16 seconds

Forgotten Wars

Cocaine Nazis - Bolivia's Nazi Cocaine Coup

Find out how Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, escaped to Bolivia after working for US intelligence. Here he would ally with drug lords such as Pablo Escobar to build a cocaine empire that would seize control of Bolivia and almost build a Fourth Reich in the Andes. #History #WorldWar2

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4 months ago

41 minutes 12 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The First Boer War Part 3 - Majuba Hill

After suffering devastating defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo, the British start negotiating with the Boers. But an increasingly erratic General Colley, desperate for redemption, seizes Majuba Hill. What follows is one of the most devastating defeats in British History. #Britishempire #Boers #History #Britain

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5 months ago

35 minutes 9 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The First Boer War Part 2 - 'May Eton Flourish'

Britain's war against the Boers continues to be a bloody fiasco after defeats at Laings Nek and Ingogo. Meanwhile the British garrisons in the Transvaal struggle to hold on with no support.

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5 months ago

38 minutes 29 seconds

Forgotten Wars

The First Boer War Part 1 - A Tale of Boers and Brits

Its South Africa in 1880 and Britain is about to drift into a war with the local Boer farmers, a war so disastrous that they won't win a single battle. Join me for tale of incompetence, arrogance, diamonds and a commander who couldn't tell the difference between cows and armed Boers.

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5 months ago

37 minutes 23 seconds