Dan Snow's History Hit
Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum in Rome to the Great Wall of China, the battlefields of Waterloo to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, join Dan as he explores the how and why of the greatest monuments, battles, heroes, villains and events that have shaped our world. New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays with bonus subscriber only episodes every
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- 1 Fighter Heroes of World War OneJoshua Levine · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Sagittarius RisingCecil Lewis · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Winged VictoryCecil Lewis · 1× across 1 episode
“He's recently written Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, and he's gonna help us unpack The final days of Imperial Russia”
“Voyage through mighty canyons in the seabed, like the heroes of twenty thousand leagues under the sea, which we opened this episode with. In fact, I read it to my kids the other day”
“prize winning author of The fortress. The Great Siege. Opshield”
“I have a book coming out next year uh with Penguin which is about the revolutionary movement in uh the reign of Alexander the Second, and it's called The Emperor Hunt”
“It's called Gilgamesh Inky Doo and the Underworld and basically uh Gilgamesh's best friend Iggy doo goes down to the underworld”
“he writes the demonology in fifteen ninety seven, and it's all about how demons are real”
“when John Locke is writing um educational treaties about how we should be like raising proper young men so that they learn things. He's like, listen, be careful with the ghost thing”
“my favorite MR James uh ghost story is uh Canon Albert's scrapbook”
“Richard's the Professor of History at King's College London and author of The Last Titans. A jewel biography of Churchill and DeGaulle”
“he gives a set of lectures to his fellow prisoners during the First World War. And he it's called Discord among the enemy”
“He also becomes associated, he publishes His book on tank warfare. Under the title Ver Lame du Mettier. towards the professional army”
“The famous opening lines of his memoirs are All of my life I've had a certain idea of France”
“Anyone who's read the Bible. knows about, you know, the treatment of of Jacob and these kind of Egyptian ways of doing things”
“Shakespeare writes about it, I think. Desdemona. And Othello. Has This in her handkerchief and it's it's meant to be a cure all”
“He's the author of lots and lots of acclaimed books, How Paul Pot Came to Power”
“Blood and soil. A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur”
“And a sequel called The Pul Put Regime”
“Here to break all down for us is Michael Taylor, historian and author of Illuminati, The History of a Conspiracy Theory”
“Barrowell in the second volume of his four books had suggested that the French and the Illuminati might be at work in Ireland”
“In the early twentieth century they appear in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain”
“the forgery that's known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
“His book, The Russian Revolution, brings together the personalities, the politics, and the human drama behind one of the defining events of modern history”
“He's also the author, more recently, of Weimar Germany, Death of a Democracy, there you go. Which was published earlier this year”
“There's a second book of common prayer produced by Thomas Cramer in Edward's reign, and the second book is fifteen fifty one strips away any vestiges of Catholic practice”
“Jeremy Paul's written this book called The House of Dudley”
“He's not read that book about how to win friends and influence people”
“author of Yakuza, a 400 year history of the Japanese underworld”
“published thirteen days, and in that book he painted JFK in his inner circle as as enlightened, flawless crisis managers”
“Giles Milton, author of Empire at the Edge of the World, Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic”
“Stephenson, who writes, has already written one book called The Friendly Arctic, saying the Arctic is ready to be colonized”
“And he will now write another book called The Adventure of Wrangell Island”
“author of a new book called Regina, A New History of Women and Power”
“let the meat brioche, but it was actually written by Jean Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions”
“Antonia Fraser, who's written just an iconic book about Marie Antoinette, she writes so well about this small group”
“I've just been reading David Abilathia's history of the sea, and it we should say it's not quite like Christopher Columbus is heading out into”
“One of the great novels of Chinese history is a book called The Jinping Me, which is like the Lady Chatterley's lover, but way better written”
“which is like the Lady Chatterley's lover, but way better written. It's the kind of thing, if you read it on the subway, you'd be blushing”
“It doesn't appear. In that great Royal Survey of England, the Doomsday Book, compiled about a generation later”
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