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American History: Tellers of Stories and Events — 136 episodes

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Warsaw Uprising: How a City Fought the Nazis Alone

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How Leningrad Survived 900 Days of Starvation

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El Alamein: How the Desert War Turned Against Rommel

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How the Soviets Crushed Germany’s Tanks at Kursk

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How Europe United Against Napoleon at Leipzig

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Battle of the Nile: How Nelson Stranded Napoleon’s Army

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How Japan Shocked Russia at Tsushima

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Trafalgar: How Nelson Won His Greatest Victory

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How the KGB and CIA Battled Worldwide

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How WWII Spy Agencies Fought in the Shadows

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Enigma: How Codebreakers Cracked Hitler’s Secrets

12

How Snipers Control Entire Battlefields With One Shot

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Fighter Aces: How Pilots Became Sky Legends

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How Aircraft Carriers Took Over the Seas

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Submarine Warfare: How Silent Killers Changed Naval Battles

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How Tanks Evolved From Crawling Boxes to Modern Beasts

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WWI Trenches: How Soldiers Survived Hell on Earth

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How Gunpowder Ended the Age of Castles

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Medieval Sieges: How Castles Actually Fell

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How Ancient Armies Captured Fortified Cities

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SAS vs SEALs vs Spetsnaz: Which Elite Force Is Toughest?

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How Spetsnaz Operated Behind Enemy Lines

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French Foreign Legion: How an Army of Exiles Became Legendary

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How Napoleon’s Marshals Executed His Battle Plans

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How Ninjas Actually Used Espionage and Sabotage

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Redcoats: How British Infantry Won an Empire

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Samurai: How Japan’s Warrior Class Lived and Fought

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How Spanish Tercios Dominated 1500s Battlefields

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How Longbows Shattered Knightly Warfare

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Swiss Pikemen: How Farmers Became Europe’s Shock Infantry

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Crusades: How Christians and Muslims Fought Brutal Holy Wars

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How the Mamluks Seized Power From Their Own Rulers

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How Alexander’s Phalanx Crushed His Enemies

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Janissaries: How Enslaved Boys Became Elite Soldiers

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How Spetsnaz Operated Behind Enemy Lines

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French Foreign Legion: How an Army of Exiles Became Legendary

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How Napoleon’s Marshals Executed His Battle Plans

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How the Berlin Wall Rose — and Why It Fell

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Milosevic: How One Man Turned Nationalism Into War

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How Yugoslavia Collapsed Into Chaos and Civil War

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Northern Ireland: How The Troubles Turned Streets Into War Zones

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How Britain Fought a War 8,000 Miles Away in the Falklands

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1917: How Lenin Seized Power

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How the Romanov Empire Collapsed Overnight

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Short War Changes European Power

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Gulf War 1991: How the US Won in 100 Hours

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How the Arab Revolt Crippled the Ottomans

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The Wars That Unified Germany

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How Saddam Seized Power Through Brutal Purges

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Waterloo Ends Napoleon’s Rule

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The Making of Prussia’s War State

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Iran–Iraq War: How Eight Years of Slaughter Changed Nothing

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Napoleon’s 1812 Invasion Ended His Empire

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Napoleon’s Austerlitz Victory Changed Europe

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How Egypt and Syria Nearly Overran Israel in 1973

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How Napoleon Turned Battles into Power

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Napoleon’s Failed Egypt Campaign Explained

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Six-Day War: How Israel Won Before Its Enemies Could Blink

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Peter the Great’s War on Old Russia

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Ivan IV’s Reign of Violence and Control

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Tet Offensive: How a Surprise Attack Shook the World

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How the Suez Crisis Exposed the End of an Empire

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Tet Offensive: How a Surprise Attack Shook the World

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Tet Offensive: How a Surprise Attack Shook the World

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How Ho Chi Minh Outlasted the French and the Americans

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Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

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How Ho Chi Minh Outlasted the French and the Americans

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Ottoman Forces Threaten Europe at Vienna

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How Tamerlane Forged an Empire Through Violence

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How Ho Chi Minh Outlasted the French and the Americans

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Castro’s Cuba: How a Small Island Defied the US

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How Ho Chi Minh Outlasted the French and the Americans

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Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

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Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

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Knights Templar: From Glory to Ruin

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Mongols Destroy Baghdad in 1258

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Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

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How Che Guevara Tried and Failed to Export Revolution

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Richard & Saladin: Battle for Jerusalem

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The Lasting Impact of England’s 1066 Conquest

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Afghan Jihad: How Mujahideen Fighters Crippled a Superpower

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How the Soviets Invaded Afghanistan — and Why They Failed

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How the Great Leap Forward Triggered Mass Famine

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From Raiders to Viking Kings

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Harald Hardrada’s Broken English Ambition

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Battle of Tours: The Clash that Shaped Europe

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Charlemagne’s Military Campaigns That Built an Empire

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Kublai Khan’s Fleets Destroyed by Kamikaze

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1453 Siege Brings Down Constantinople

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The Battle of Salamis Shapes Western History

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The Military Genius Behind Genghis Khan

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Spartacus Sparks the Third Servile War

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Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, Republic Falls

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Thermopylae: Beyond the Popular Myth

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Alexander’s Rapid Empire Across Three Continents

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How Hannibal Encircled Rome at Cannae

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Inside Rome’s Relentless War Machine

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Paul the Apostle: Rise of a Missionary

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Mao's Victory: How Peasants Won China's Civil War

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MacArthur vs Truman: How a General Lost His Command

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Forced Japan’s Surrender

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How the Atomic Bomb Was Built in Secret

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Battle of Manila 1945 Destroyed the City

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Nazi Hunters Tracked War Criminals Worldwide

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Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker

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Nuremberg Trials Redefined War Crimes

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Eichmann Used Railways to Scale Genocide

108

How Nazis Escaped to South America

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Heydrich Ruled Prague Through Fear

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How Goebbels Mastered Mass Propaganda

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How Himmler Built a Terror Empire

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How Hitler Created the Waffen-SS

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How Okinawa Became WWII’s Deadliest Battle

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Why the US Needed Iwo Jima

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Marines Battle for Guadalcanal Control

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Rommel vs Montgomery in Africa

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How Midway Turned the Pacific War

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How Soviets Won the Battle of Kursk

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Stalingrad Turned the Tide of WWII

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Operation Barbarossa Doomed Nazi Germany

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How the RAF Stopped Hitler’s Invasion

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How Japan Planned Pearl Harbor Attack

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Allies Escape Disaster at Dunkirk

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Blitzkrieg Let Armies Win in Weeks

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Hitler and Stalin’s Secret Europe Pact

126

How Hitler Won Power in 1933

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Hitler’s First Coup Ends in Failure

128

Verdun and the Rise of Industrial Warfare

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Hitler’s Rise From Failed Artist

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The Schlieffen Plan Explained Simply

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Spain Became WWII’s Testing Ground

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How One Killing Led to World War I

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How Stalin’s Terror State Operated

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Japan’s Victory Over Russia Shocks Europe

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Stalin Used Secret Deals to Kill Rivals

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Japan’s Rapid Military Transformation Explained