Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Episode 570
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyo…
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S4E14 Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov
Episode 126
Join us as we discuss Yaroslav Trofimov’s recent publication, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence (Pengui…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
Episode 248
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasan…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1496
Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anythin…
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Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 250
Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developmen…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lee Brice and Timothy Roberts, "The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History" (Marine Corps UP, 2024)
Episode 251
The expansion of trade and communication networks has been active since the fifteenth century and has had an undeniable impact on connecting military…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 9
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany,…
1 year, 11 months ago
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
Episode 64
In times of profound crisis, when violence and hatred seem to dominate our world, we often search for voices that can help us navigate through the da…
1 year, 11 months ago
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 110
The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the mas…
1 year, 11 months ago
Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 249
This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and uncertainties of the globa…
1 year, 11 months ago