Empire: World History
The rise and fall of empires and the events that shaped world history. William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the intricate stories of revolutions, imperial wars, and the people who built and lost empires. From the British Empire to the Ottomans to Ancient India, history is shaped by power struggles and territorial conquests. How does it continue to affect the world today? Empire Club: Become a member of the Empir
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“I've got here this um th this now out of print, but very important Uh by Salehman Musa. Which makes the case very strongly from an Arab perspective that Lawrence far from being the hero that we see in the”
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“and Anthony also wrote Nomads and The Gates of Africa”
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“As George Antonius writes very uh assertively in the Arab awakening”
“I'm just gonna read the beginning of Seven pillars of wisdom, this This uh poem that Lawrence wrote”
“Foster Shows uh allows Lawrence to read his n his gay novel Maurice. Maurice. Maurice, yeah, I was thinking, yeah”
“I encountered the the following quote in his memoirs. He died before you can complete the memoir, so this is volume one”
“my friend Max Hastings brings out in his book on the Missile Crisis, a very fine book, which I recommend to people”
“One reason for writing profiles encouraged. was because of this lingering worry he had that he had not been strong enough. On On McCarthy”
“He is also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Embers of War”
“he's breaking God's word, he's breaking what the Bible uh says is uh is”
“Peter Fran back again uh talking about his his very very first book and I think what was originally his PhD, uh The First Crusade, The Call from the East”
“my first sort of big work was a translation of the Alexiad written by Anna Comnine”
“starts to mount a very specific uh dark arts campaign of propaganda, particularly with a text called The Gesta Francorum, which is a sort of widely circulated, becomes a bestseller in Europe in the early 1100s”
“the author of The Silk Roads, but In the next two episodes, we're gonna be taking him back to all the stuff he did”
“looking uh in the next episode at his first book, The First Crusade, The Call from the East, which completely changed for many of us the way that we looked at”
“we have a book called the the the Tabula Rogeriana or the the the book of Roger, I guess, which Doesn't sound quite as glamorous today”
“So I mean the the Doomsday Book is a classic Byzantine Roman imperial textbook”
“from my Golden Road this is this is a a a story which I got very excited about because this is the first time that the Indian number system”
“Well, last time we had such fun and got so chatty about um the Harrying of the North and Doomsday book that we barely had mention of the really important uh events”
“Not least because Wessex survives and we have the Anglo Saxon Chronicle produced in Wessex”
“Mark Morris, whose books on both the Anglo-Saxons, which I've got my Copy here, this wonderful cover”
“and The Norman Conquest is very much the um the book which well certainly the British Museum welcomes you to uh its bookshop with a great wall of Mark Morris”
“We're told that by the Anglo Saxon Chronicle when when he lets them go in early September”
“The other one is something I mentioned in the previous episode, which is called The Song of the Battle of Hastings, which was written very soon after the event. The Carmen”
“A biography of William the Conqueror which is written after the Carmen and using the Carmen and reacting to what's said in the Carmen by a chap called William of Poitier”
“The Norman Conquest of the North. Think of the fines on that. Just think of the fines on that”
“But the doomsday book shows that in fact it was a real mess”
“the great Mark Morris, author of The Anglo Saxons and the Norman Conquest”
“It's I'll I'll set it up because it's called The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster”
“the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, which is perhaps the most sober, although written with an agenda like all of them”
“this is said by the the Norse saga, King Harold saga, but it's confirmed”
“There's a wonderful source um called uh the Song of the Battle of Hastings, the Carmen”
“When I was at uni, I bought I remember it cost me a fortune and I had to save up for it, but this is David Bates's Normandy before ten sixty six”
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“I'm gonna think about the brothers Karamazov, the whole discussions that you can't have light without dark”
“And as we know from all the work that Timothy Snyder has done on Bloodlands, you know, for example, and Anthony Beaver and, you know, his work on World War II and the Soviet Union”
“and Anthony Beaver and, you know, his work on World War II and the Soviet Union, some pretty awful things happened in what is now the modern territory of Ukraine”
“To guide us through this monumental moment in history, we're joined by none other than the great Sir Anthony Beaver, author of Stalingrad, a book that has redefined the way we view the battle in the West”
“he is the author of the Stalin affair, The Impossible Alliance that won the war”
“One man enters the Guinness Book of Records. Tell us a little bit about him”
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“Robert Service has a a wonderful book on Trotsky and he has this observation that his mum wasn't exactly, you know, sort of apple pie and hugs”
“and author of the Stalin Affair, The Impossible Alliance that won the war, to discuss Stalin's rise in the shadow of Lenin”
“And we have this wonderful story at this period from Bob Servis's Stalin biography of Stalin's incredible impatience about the the the the”
“and she'd write a fascinating book called 20 Letters to a Friend about life with a monstrous father and an unhinged mother”
“Martin Amos wrote a book about Stalin called Koba the Dread”
“author of several books on Al Qaeda, including the Zama bin Laden I know. And The longest war. Peter Bergen”
“including the Zama bin Laden I know. And The longest war. Peter Bergen”
“classic kind of book about Pearl Harbor called Warning and Decision by Roberto Walstetter”
“author of a wonderful book, The Rise and Fall of Azama bin Laden, which I just reread yesterday and which is just uh a spectacular summation of a long and complicated story”
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