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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- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
395. Stalin: The Rise of A Tyrant (Part 1)
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394. Road To 9/11: Hijackers, CIA Failures, and America’s Darkest Day (Part 6)
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
Peter Bergen
author of several books on al qaeda including the zama bin laden i know and the longest war peter bergen ▶ tap to play from here
The Longest War
Peter Bergen
including the zama bin laden i know and the longest war peter bergen ▶ tap to play from here
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
which i was studying for my book the golden road ▶ tap to play from here
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter
classic kind of book about pearl harbor called warning and decision by roberto walstetter ▶ tap to play from here
393. Road To 9/11: Interviewing Bin Laden In The Caves of Tora Bora (Part 5)
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Peter Bergen
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 ▶ tap to play from here
392. Road To 9/11: Bin Laden vs Saudi Arabia (Part 4)
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001
Steve Coll
double pulitzer prize winning author of ghost wars the secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century steve cole ▶ tap to play from here
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
ghost wars the secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century steve cole ▶ tap to play from here
391. Road To 9/11: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (Part 3)
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
steve cole the author of ghost wars secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden ▶ tap to play from here
The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century ▶ tap to play from here
390. Road To 9/11: The Soviet-Afghan War (Part 2)
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Defense of Muslim Lands
Abdullah Azam
in nineteen eighty five he publishes this extraordinarily influential book which is in defence of muslim lands ▶ tap to play from here
389. Road To 9/11: Origin of Al-Qaeda (Part 1)
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Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
Jason Burke
al qaeda the true story of radical islam the book that taught the world what this movement actually was ▶ tap to play from here
Revolutionists
Jason Burke
most recently the award winning revolutionists the story of the extremists who hijacked nineteen seventies ▶ tap to play from here
Milestones
Sayyid Qutb
the publication of his key work which we'll talk about in a minute the milestones ▶ tap to play from here
Thorns
Sayyid Qutb
he writes a um i kind of think love lawn rather weird romantic tortured book at one point called thorns ▶ tap to play from here
In the Shade of the Quran
Sayyid Qutb
and he writes this enormous kind of exegesis of the quran six volume work which is really engaging in the literary elements of the quran ▶ tap to play from here
388. Viking Mythology: Thor, Ragnarok, & Jesus Christ (Ep 6)
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Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
we've got two texts in particular we've got the prose edda by an icelandic politician poet um saga writer called snorri stotlessen ▶ tap to play from here
The Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
everyone that wants to get into this read the children of ash and elm by neil price which he did only it'cause he started with anthropology looking at the inuit indians ▶ tap to play from here
Saga of Erik the Red
Unknown
eric sagareva the saga of eric the red there's this horrible famine in one of the settlements in greenland ▶ tap to play from here
387. The Vikings Invade Britain (Ep 5)
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Beowulf
Unknown
a lovely man called john porter who did the translation of beowulf ▶ tap to play from here
Book of Kells
Unknown
maybe the home of the real home of the book of cales which i've very gone to this idea ▶ tap to play from here
Codex Aureus
Unknown
the codex aureus the golden book and that tells us everything this is a bling book ▶ tap to play from here
Egils saga
Unknown
he also appears in some of the icelandic sagas so ailes saga in particular ▶ tap to play from here
386. The Picts: Scotland’s Tattooed Warriors (Ep 4)
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The King in the North: The Pictish Realms
Gordon Noble
co author of the king in the north the pictish realms gordon noble ▶ tap to play from here
The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland
J. Romilly Allen
starting with a man called romilly allen who went around the highlands with a horse and cart photographing every one of these pictures to i bought i got a copy of this fantastic fat leatherbound volume that he did in the 19th century ▶ tap to play from here
Book of Durrow
Unknown
one of the figures in the book of darrow the evangelist symbol of of the lion state mark is very similar to a pictish animal ▶ tap to play from here
The Problem of the Picts
Isabel Henderson
back in the twentieth century there's this famous book the problem of the picts and some of the work on the art history then was very much suggesting you know the pics were late to the game ▶ tap to play from here
385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3)
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Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200
Daibhí Ó Cróinín
author of a new edition the early medieval ireland four hundred to twelve hundred the most comprehensive and scholarly treatment of this period ▶ tap to play from here
The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History
J.B. Bury
he wrote a famous book on st patrick which was the standard account of patrick for many years called the life of st patrick and his place in history ▶ tap to play from here
UNNAMED: a very good book about Portmahomack and the Picts
Victoria Whitworth
there's a new book came out i forget the name of the author william must know the author i got it here i'm brisking actually my computer on it victoria whitworth yes yes i have the book it's actually a very good book ▶ tap to play from here
384. The Roman Invasion: Gods on Hadrian’s Wall (Ep 2)
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
mr taminus as if he's our accountant the podcast accountant he's a he's a fawn character in a book you may not have read called the line the witch and the wardrobe ▶ tap to play from here
383. Romans vs Druids: The War For Celtic Britain (Ep 1)
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Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
Ronald Hutton
author of pagan religions of the ancient british isles blood mistletoe the history of the druids in britain and the druids ▶ tap to play from here
Blood and Mistletoe
Ronald Hutton
author of pagan religions of the ancient british isles blood mistletoe the history of the druids in britain and the druids ▶ tap to play from here
The History of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton
author of pagan religions of the ancient british isles blood mistletoe the history of the druids in britain and the druids ▶ tap to play from here
The Druids
Ronald Hutton
author of pagan religions of the ancient british isles blood mistletoe the history of the druids in britain and the druids ▶ tap to play from here
382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2)
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Empire of AI
Karen Howe
she is the author of this fantastic fantastic book empire of ai ▶ tap to play from here
The Costs of Connection
Unknown
one book in particular was really influential is called the costs of connection ▶ tap to play from here
381. Musk, Bezos & The New East India Companies (Ep 1)
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The Last Will and Testament of Cecil Rhodes
W. T. Stead
who wrote the book the last will and testament of cecil rhodes in nineteen oh two ▶ tap to play from here
380. Algerian Revolution: The Rise of Le Pen (Ep 6)
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French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
Andrew Hussey
andrew hussey's french intifada is the book which i have been absolutely gripped by the long war between france and its arabs ▶ tap to play from here
379. Algerian Revolution: Black Panthers, LSD, & Nina Simone (Ep 5)
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
so willie then he he writes this this key text which is still taught in every colonial history module even even today the wretched yeah oh just tell us what the wretched of the earth is is all about ▶ tap to play from here
Animal Farm
George Orwell
dare i say four legs good two legs better you know the end of animal tharm where the pigs are just as bad if not worse ▶ tap to play from here
Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
Elaine Mokhtefi
it's by elaine mcdeffie and it's called algiers third world capital freedom fighters revolutionaries and black panthers ▶ tap to play from here
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
maya angelou yeah the author of uh i know where the cage bird sings ▶ tap to play from here
The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
and he reads all the facts the doors of perception ▶ tap to play from here
378. Algerian Revolution: Birth of Independence (Ep 4)
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La Question
Henri Alleg
above all henri alex the question published in nineteen fifty eight a first hand account of torture methods used on the algerian community newspaper by french paratroopers is a book that is banned in france almost immediately ▶ tap to play from here
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
and frederick forsyth's 1971 novel the day of the jackal is based on a real event in which this organization the oas so incensed by the betrayal of de gaulle contracts a professional killer to take him out ▶ tap to play from here
377. Algerian Revolution: The Battle of Algiers (Ep 3)
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
son of an ordinary family he's worked as a municipal clerk he's spent years in french prisons where he actually takes the time to educate himself reading marx lenin and mein kampf ▶ tap to play from here
376. Algerian Revolution: Repression and Rebellion (Ep 2)
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
author of democracy in america a man who no one can accuse of being unsympathetic to freedom ▶ tap to play from here
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