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Supernova in the East I-V

"The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that’s been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story."
  1. 2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second World War by Cesare Salmaggi
  2. A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua by Peter Brune
  3. A Military History Of China by David Graff
  4. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon
  5. American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II by Jonathan W. Jordan
  6. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange
  7. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
  8. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II by John Prados
  9. Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941 by Franco David Macri
  10. Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor by Walter Lord
  11. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
  12. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris
  13. Fall of Singapore: The Undefeatable British Fortress Conquered by Mei Mei Chun-Moy
  14. Green Armour by Osmar White
  15. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II by Yuki Tanaka
  16. Island Fighting (World War II) by Time Life Ed
  17. Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by Waldo Heinrichs
  18. Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick K. O'Donnell
  19. Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan by Oleg Benesch
  20. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
  21. Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy
  22. Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
  23. Japan: A Modern History by James L. McClain
  24. Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons
  25. Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing: Memory and Healing by Robert Sabella
  26. No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Hiroo Onoda by Hiroo Onoda
  27. Pearl Harbor Papers (H) by Donald M. Goldstein
  28. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson
  29. President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 by Charles Beard
  30. Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott
  31. Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur
  32. Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter's Encounters With Nine Presidents by Hedley Donovan
  33. Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen
  34. Singapore Burning: Heroism And Surrender In World War II by Colin Smith
  35. Target: Pearl Harbor by Michael Slackman
  36. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie
  37. The Battle For Singapore: The true story of the greatest catastrophe of World War II by Peter Thompson
  38. The end of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Masanori Ito
  39. The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition by Richard Ernest Dupuy
  40. The Hinge of Fate (4) (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill
  41. The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II by Lord Russell of Liverpool
  42. The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
  43. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart by Jon E. Lewis
  44. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33 by Sandra Wilson
  45. The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
  46. The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938: Complicating the Picture (Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present Book 2) by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  47. The Pacific War: 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
  48. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance by Sir Winston Churchill
  49. The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew Rozell
  50. The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston
  51. The West Point Atlas of War: World War II, The Pacific by Vincent J. Esposito
  52. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
  53. Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor by Bill Sloan
  54. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
  55. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II by Nathan Miller
  56. War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy
  57. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy by H. W. Brands
  58. World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds

Hardcore History 61 – (BLITZ) Painfotainment

"Pain is at the root of most drama and entertainment. When does it get too real? This very disturbing and graphic show looks into some case studies and asks some deep questions. WARNING: Very intense subject matter."
  1. Dark Justice: The History of Punishment and Torture by Karen Farrington
  2. Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood
  3. Lynching in America: A History in Documents by Christopher Waldrep
  4. Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day by Nigel Cawthorne
  5. Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evans
  6. Seeing Justice Done: The Age Of Spectacular Capital Punishment In France by Paul Friedland
  7. Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome by Donald G. Kyle
  8. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington
  9. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 by V. A. C. Gatrell
  10. The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games by Garrett G. Fagan
  11. The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial metropolis to the European Experience by Pieter Spierenburg
  12. Theatre of Horror: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany by Richard Van Dulmen
  13. Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America by Frederick Drimmer
  14. Witnesses to the Scaffold: English Literary Figures As Observers of Public Executions: Pierce Egan, Thackeray, Dickens, Alexander Smith, G. A. Sala, Orwell by Antony E. Simpson

Hardcore History 60 - The Celtic Holocaust

Julius Caesar is our travel guide as he takes us through his murderous subjugation of the native Celtic tribal peoples of ancient Gaul. It sounds vaguely like other, recent European colonial conquests…until the natives nearly win.
  1. ​Ancient Warfare by John Carmen and Anthony Harding
  2. Agricola and Germania (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
  3. Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words by Andrew M. Riggsby
  4. Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
  5. Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34 (Loeb Classical Library No. 279) by Diodorus Siculus
  6. History of Rome by Michael Grant
  7. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Titus Livy
  8. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
  9. Roman Warfare (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Adrian Goldsworthy
  10. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
  11. The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
  12. The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History, 1000BC - AD51 by Peter Berresford Ellis
  13. The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds) by Miranda Green
  14. The Celts: Origins, Myths and Inventions by John Collis
  15. The Cutting Edge: Military History of Antiquity and Early Feudal Times by Paul F. Gavaghan
  16. The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition by Richard Ernest Dupuy
  17. The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius (Oxford World's Classics) by Julius Caesar
  18. The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Duane W. Roller
  19. The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World by Michael Howard
  20. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham
  21. The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
  22. War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals by Jeremy Armstrong
  23. War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts by Philip Freeman
  24. Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I by Hans Delbrück
  25. Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome by John Warry

Hardcore History 59 (BLITZ) The Destroyer of Worlds

What happens if human beings can’t handle the power of their own weaponry? This show  examines the dangerous early years of the Nuclear Age and humankind’s efforts to avoid self-destruction at the hands of its own creation.
  1. A history of strategic bombing by Lee B Kennett
  2. Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat by Donovan Webster
  3. American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil by Conrad C. Crane
  4. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963 by Robert Dallek
  5. Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings by Sheldon M. Stern
  6. Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills
  7. Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione
  8. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
  9. Doctor at Nagasaki: My First Assignment was Mercy Killing by Masao Shiotsuki
  10. Grand Strategies in War and Peace by Professor Paul Kennedy
  11. Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Gaynor Sekimori
  12. How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century by James F. Dunnigan
  13. Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
  14. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara
  15. In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s by Michael S. Sherry
  16. Khrushchev Remembers by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
  17. LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak
  18. Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age by Francis Gavin
  19. On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
  20. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko
  21. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone
  22. Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter's Encounters With Nine Presidents by Hedley Donovan
  23. Strategic Nuclear War: What the Superpowers Target and Why by William Martel
  24. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present by Martin Van Creveld
  25. The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis by James G. Blight
  26. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon M. Stern
  27. The Culture of the Cold War by Stephen J. Whitfield
  28. The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order by Michael Howard
  29. The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 2: The Atomic Energy Years 1945-1950 by David E. Lilienthal
  30. The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000 by Steven J. Zaloga
  31. The Lessons of History by Will Durant
  32. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
  33. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis by Sheldon M. Stern
  34. The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
  35. To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans by Michio Kaku
  36. War, Peace and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century by Colin S. Gray
  37. War: Ends and Means, Second Edition by Angelo Codevilla
  38. War: The Lethal Custom by Gwynne Dyer
  39. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
  40. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy by H. W. Brands
  41. Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation by Lynn Eden
  42. World War III: Strategies Tactics and Weapons by John BRADLEY
  43. Would the Insects Inherit the Earth? and Other Subjects of Concern to Those Who Worry About Nuclear War by Jack C. Greene

Hardcore History 56-58 Kings of Kings I-III

​Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta’s spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen.
  1. ​A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
  2. A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire (Ancient Near East) by Dandamaev, Vogelsang
  3. Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph by A. B. Bosworth
  4. Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green
  5. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels
  6. Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History) by Georges Roux
  7. Armies of the Ancient Near East, 3,000 BC to 539 BC: organisation, tactics, dress and equipment by Nigel Stillman
  8. Babylon (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Joan Oates
  9. Barbarians of Asia: The People of the Steppes from 1600 B C by Stuart Legg
  10. Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green
  11. Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks (The New Antiquity) by P. Meineck
  12. Ctesias' 'History of Persia': Tales of the Orient by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  13. Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King by Touraj Daryaee
  14. Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books (Volume 1) by Giles Laurén
  15. Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
  16. Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia by John Curtis
  17. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant
  18. From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies by Richard A. Gabriel
  19. Good News Bible: Today's English Version by American Bible Society
  20. Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities by Hans van Wees
  21. History of Assyria by A. T Olmstead
  22. Holy Bible: King James Version, 1611 Edition by Hendrickson Publishers
  23. Hoplites by Victor Davis Hanson
  24. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
  25. Our Oriental Heritage Part 1 by Will Durant
  26. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
  27. Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus
  28. Philip II of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander by Richard A. Gabriel
  29. Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
  30. The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History by Michael H. Hart
  31. The Ancient Historians by Michael Grant
  32. The Art of War in Western World by Archer Jones
  33. The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
  34. The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon by Irving Finkel
  35. The Defence of Greece: 490-479 BC (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts) by J. F. Lazenby
  36. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by René Grousset
  37. The Generalship Of Alexander The Great by J.F.C. Fuller
  38. The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Duane W. Roller
  39. The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
  40. The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia by George Cawkwell
  41. The Histories by Herodotus
  42. The Iliad by Homer, W. H. D. Rouse
  43. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler
  44. The Madness of Alexander the Great: And the Myth of Military Genius by Richard A Gabriel
  45. The Origins Of War: From The Stone Age To Alexander The Great, Revised Edition by Arther Ferrill
  46. The Persian Empire From Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I by Maria Brosius
  47. The Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Rex Warner
  48. The Story of Mankind by John Merriman
  49. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
  50. The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East by John Curtis
  51. Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West by Warwick Ball
  52. Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I by Hans Delbrück
  53. Warhorse by Phil Sidnell

Hardcore History 50-55 - Blueprint for Armageddon I-VI

The planet hadn’t seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora’s Box of violence engulfs the planet.

​Hardcore History 49 – The American Peril

"Imperial temptations and humanitarian nightmares force the United States of the late 19th Century to confront the contradictions between its revolutionary self-image and its expanding national interests."
  1. 1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel
  2. America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War by Hugh Rockoff
  3. An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain Over Cuba, 1895-1898 by John L. Offner
  4. Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Creighton Miller
  5. Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz by Richard H. Immerman
  6. Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream by Gregg Jones
  7. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America As a Great Power by Ernest R. May
  8. Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century by Philip McFarland
  9. Spanish American War, 1898 (Great Campaigns) by Albert A. Nofi
  10. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Paul A. Kramer
  11. The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies) by Brian McAllister Linn
  12. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot
  13. The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898 by G. O'Toole
  14. The Spanish-American War and President McKinley by Lewis L. Gould
  15. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas
  16. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography by Louis A. Jr. Perez
  17. The War with Spain in 1898 by David F. Trask
  18. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
  19. Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America) by Theodore Roosevelt
  20. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy by H. W. Brands
  21. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies by W. Joseph Campbell

Hardcore History 48 – Prophets of Doom

Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandora’s Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.
  1. History in Quotations: Reflecting 5000 Years of World History by M.J. Cohen
  2. Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Munster, the Famous Metropolis of Westphalia by Hermann Von Kerssenbrock
  3. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
  4. The Radical Reformation by George Huntston Williams
  5. The Reformation by Will Durant
  6. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster by Anthony Arthur

​Hardcore History 43-47 – Wrath of the Khans Series

"In one of the most violent outbursts in history a little-known tribe of Eurasian nomads breaks upon the great societies of the Old World like a human tsunami. It may have ushered in the modern era, but at what cost?"
  1. A history of Russia by Sir Bernard Pares
  2. A Military History of China by David A. Graff
  3. Armies and Enemies of Ancient China, 1027 B.C.-1286 A.D. by John P. Greer
  4. Armies and Enemies of the Crusades, 1096-1291 by Ian Heath
  5. Armies of the Dark Ages, 600-1066 A.D by Ian. Heath
  6. Attila and the Nomad Hordes (Elite) by David Nicolle
  7. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia by Peter C. Perdue
  8. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky
  9. Genghis Khan: History's Greatest Empire Builder (Military Profiles) by Paul Lococo
  10. Genghis Khan’s Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant by Richard A. Gabriel
  11. How Great Generals Win by Bevin Alexander
  12. Kalka River 1223: Genghiz Khan's Mongols invade Russia (Campaign) by David Nicolle
  13. Mission to Asia (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by Christopher Dawson
  14. Nomads and Crusaders: A.D. 1000-1368 (A Midland Book) by Archibald R. Lewis
  15. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History by Charles Halperin
  16. Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 by Michael Khodarkovsky
  17. Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan by Paul Kahn
  18. Six Emperors: Rise of the Mongolian Empire, 1195 to 1295. A Study of Mongolian Imperialism in the Thirteenth Century. by Douglas S. Benson
  19. The Barbarians of Asia: The Peoples of the Steppes from 1600 B.C. by Stuart Legg
  20. The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 by Herbert Franke
  21. The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3 (Crusade Texts in Translation) by D.S. Richards
  22. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials) by Amin Maalouf
  23. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by René Grousset
  24. The History of Russia: Seventh Revised Edition by John T. Lawrence
  25. The History of the Mongol Conquests by J. J. Saunders
  26. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253–1255 by Peter Jackson
  27. The Mongol Art of War: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol military system by Timothy May
  28. The Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane (Heroes & warriors) by David Nicolle
  29. The Mongols (Men-At-Arms Series, 105) by Stephen Turnbull
  30. The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe) by David Morgan
  31. The Mongols and Global History (Norton Documents Reader) by Morris Rossabi
  32. The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410 by Peter Jackson
  33. The Story of the Mongols: Whom We Call the Tartars by Fr. Giovanni Carpini
  34. Warriors of Eurasia by Mikhael Gorelik

Hardcore History 42 – (BLITZ) Logical Insanity

"After many listener requests, Dan examines the issue of the morality of dropping the Atomic Bombs in the Second World War. As usual, he does so in his own unique, unexpected way."
  1. 2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second World War by Cesare Salmaggi
  2. A history of strategic bombing by Lee B Kennett
  3. American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil by Conrad C. Crane
  4. Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look At World War Ll by Len Deighton
  5. Experience of War: An Anthology of Articles from Mhq : The Quarterly Journal of Military History by Robert Cowley
  6. Eyewitness to History by John Carey
  7. Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco
  8. London At War by Philip Ziegler
  9. MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History: Vol. 2. No. 4. by MHQ,
  10. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
  11. The Command of The Air (USAF Warrior Studies) by Giulio Douhet
  12. The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jörg Friedrich
  13. The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World by Michael Howard
  14. The Night Tokyo Burned by Hoito Edoin
  15. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
  16. The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
  17. To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II by Herman Knell
  18. War: The New Edition by Gwynne Dyer

Hardcore History 41 – Thor’s Angels

"What started as a standard podcast episode morphed into an audio book on what used to be called “The Dark Ages” in Europe. Dan gets into many areas he should probably avoid…Gods, Germans, bikers, Jesus…"
  1. A History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
  2. Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered by Peter S. Wells
  3. Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325 (Story of Civilization) by Will Durant
  4. Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero
  5. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne by Pierre Rich
  6. Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 by Roger Collins
  7. Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
  8. Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation by Arther Ferrill
  9. Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy by George T. Dennis
  10. Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe by Christine E. Fell
  11. The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325-1300 by Will Durant
  12. The Barbarian Invasions: History of the Art of War, Volume II by Hans Delbrück
  13. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  14. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
  15. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
  16. The Franks (The Peoples of Europe) by Edward James
  17. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
  18. The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard

Hardcore History 40 – (BLITZ) Radical Thoughts

"Using the two 20th Century “Red Scare” eras as case studies, Dan looks at the fear that can be generated by potentially dangerous ideas and examines the way such powerful mass emotions can cloud human judgment."
  1. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy by David M. Oshinsky
  2. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich
  3. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
  4. Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz
  5. Red Scare by Fariello Griffin
  6. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era by John Haynes
  7. Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
  8. The Culture of the Cold War by Stephen J. Whitfield
  9. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage
  10. The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
  11. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-48 by Richard M. Freeland
  12. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis

Hardcore History 34-39 – Death Throes of the Republic Series

"The wars which elevate Rome to superpower status also sow the seed for the downfall of its political system. Money, slaves, ambition, political stalemate and class warfare prove to be a toxic, bloody mix"
  1. A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
  2. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
  3. Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325 by Will Durant
  4. Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
  5. Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC by K. M. Gilliver
  6. Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius by Edward Spencer Beesly
  7. Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories (Penguin Classics) by Sallust
  8. ​Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
  9. Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green
  10. Cleopatra by Michael Grant
  11. Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World by Diana Preston
  12. History of Rome by Michael Grant
  13. Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
  14. Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation by Stanley Bing
  15. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
  16. The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
  17. The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History, 1000BC - AD51 by Peter Berresford Ellis
  18. The Civil War of Caesar (Penguin Classics) by Julius Caesar
  19. The Civil Wars (Penguin Classics) by Appian
  20. The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic by Fergus Millar
  21. The Fall of the Roman Republic by David Shotter
  22. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
  23. The Last Generation of the Roman Republic by Erich S. Gruen
  24. The Outline of History by H. G. Wells
  25. The Roman Republic: Second Edition by Michael Crawford
  26. The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
  27. The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard

Hardcore History 33 - (BLITZ) Old School Toughness

Does the toughness of peoples play any role in history? How can historians deal with such an amorphous human quality? Historiography, boxing, barbarians, philosophy and wisdom are among the subjects touched upon
  1. A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
  2. Anabasis: The March Up Country by Xenophon
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  4. Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
  5. Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
  6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  7. The Histories by Herodotus
  8. Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I by Hans Delbrück

Hardcore History 32 – Globalization Unto Death

"Ferdinand Magellan is the lead character in this episode about the collision between the Old and New worlds and what Dan calls “Globalization 1.0”. It is also full of controversy!"

Hardcore History 31 – (BLITZ) Suffer the Children

"Dan’s exposure to the idea of “psychohistory” gets him thinking about how children were raised in the past. Could widespread child abuse and bad parenting in earlier eras explain some of history’s brutality?"
  1. A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times by Colin Heywood
  2. Childhood in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar
  3. The History of Childhood (Master Work) by Lloyd deMause

Hardcore History 27-30 – Ghosts of the Ostfront Series

"Part one covering the conflict between the Germans and the Soviet Union in the Second World War. Dan gives an introduction to the subject and discusses the causes and opening moves of Operation Barbarossa."
  1. 1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Richard K. Riehn
  2. A Dictionary of Battles (1715-1815) by Michael Calvert
  3. Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat by Donovan Webster
  4. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
  5. Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45 by Alan Clark
  6. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter Koschorrek
  7. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
  8. Four Men Went to War: The True WWII Adventures of a U.S. Air Gunner, a British Paratrooper, a German Tank Driver, and an Italian Ski Commando by Bruce Lewis
  9. Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power by Eberhard Jackel
  10. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
  11. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
  12. Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin by Cornelius Ryan
  13. Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General by Erich Manstein
  14. National Socialism and the Religion of Nature by Robert A. Pois
  15. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
  16. Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
  17. Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
  18. Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
  19. STALINGRAD Memories of Hell by Joachim Wieder
  20. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
  21. The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
  22. The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
  23. The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians in the East, 1939-1944 by Hamburg Institute for Social Research
  24. The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
  25. The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
  26. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart by Jon E. Lewis
  27. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  28. The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
  29. The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
  30. Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945 by Boris Gorbachevsky
  31. War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II by Hannes Heer
  32. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz

Hardcore History 26 – (BLITZ) Addicted to Bondage

"Is slavery a natural feature of human societies? Dan looks at this timeless, evil institution and wonders if we have made as much progress freeing ourselves from its influence as we think we have.​"
  1. History in Quotations: Reflecting 5000 Years of World History by M.J. Cohen
  2. Slavery: A World History by Milton Meltzer
  3. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  4. The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries by Mary Boykin Chesnut
  6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Hardcore History 25 – The Dyer Outlook

"Dan discusses the past, present and future with influential Canadian historian, broadcaster and columnist Gwynne Dyer."
  1. Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer
  2. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
  3. Future: Tense: The Coming World Order? by Gwynne Dyer
  4. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Ph.D.
  5. Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq by Gwynne Dyer
  6. The Defence of Canada: In the Arms of the Empire, 1760-1939 by Tina Dyer, Gwynne;Viljoen
  7. The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman
  8. The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq by Gwynne Dyer
  9. War: The Lethal Custom by Gwynne Dyer

Hardcore History 24 – Classical Hanson

"Dan discusses history with famed historian, political commentator and classicist Victor Davis Hanson."
  1. Fields Without Dreams : Defending the Agrarian Ideal by Victor Davis Hanson
  2. Hoplites by Victor Davis Hanson
  3. The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson
  4. The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson
  5. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
  6. Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Victor Davis Hanson
 

Hardcore History 21-23 – Punic Nightmares Series *

"Was it geopolitics or simply bitter hatred that fueled the ancient bloodbaths known as “The Punic Wars”? Dan highlights the unimaginable things people experienced during this intense face-off between Rome and Carthage."
  1. A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
  2. Appian: Roman History, I, Books 1-8.1 (Loeb Classical Library #2) (Volume I) by Appian
  3. Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
  4. Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC by Duncan Head
  5. Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
  6. Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325 (Story of Civilization) by Will Durant
  7. Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War by Gregory Daly
  8. Carthage: A History by Serge Lancel
  9. Hannibal (Blackwell Ancient Lives) by Serge Lancel
  10. Hannibal: Challenging Rome's Supremacy by Gavin De Beer
  11. Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
  12. Roman Warfare (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Adrian Goldsworthy
  13. Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
  14. The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists by Barry S. Strauss
  15. The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant
  16. The Complete Works of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
  17. The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan
  18. The Fall of Carthage (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Adrian Goldsworthy
  19. The First Punic War: A Military History by J. F. Lazenby
  20. The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean by Nigel Bagnall
  21. The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius
  22. The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX (Penguin Classics) by Titus Livius Livy
  23. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
  24. War: The Lethal Custom by Gwynne Dyer
  25. Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I by Hans Delbrück

Hardcore History 20 – (BLITZ) History Under The Influence

"This first “Blitz Edition” of the show looks at the hidden side of history, the impact of drugs and alcohol on past events. Dan has a whole list of historical figures he wants to drug test."
  1. ​Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy: A Biography by J M O'Brien
  2. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963 by Robert Dallek
  3. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright
  4. Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life by Gretchen Rubin
  5. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
  6. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko
  7. The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer
  8. The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
  9. The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler by Leonard L. Heston
  10. The Secret History of Alcoholism: The Story of Famous Alcoholoics and Their Destructive Behavior by James Graham

​Hardcore History 19 – Apache Tears

"A traumatized people who traumatized their neighbors, the Native American tribe known as Apache were among the last Indians to surrender to the U.S. Government. Dan, of course, has thoughts. This is a long show!"
  1. Apache wars: An illustrated battle history by Ernest Lisle Reedstrom
  2. Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (Volume 204) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Edwin R. Sweeney
  3. Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (Volume 142) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Angie Debo
  4. In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache by Eve Ball
  5. Indeh: An Apache Odyssey, with New Maps by Eve Ball
  6. Life Among the Apaches by John Carey Cremony
  7. The Apache Frontier: Jacob Ugarte and Spanish-Indian Relations in Northern New Spain, 1769–1791 (Volume 90) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Max L. Moorhead
  8. The Conquest of Apacheria by Dan L. Thrapp
  9. The People Called Apache by Thomas E. Mails
  10. The Truth About Geronimo by Britton Davis
  11. Western Apache Raiding and Warfare by Grenville Goodwin

Hardcore History 17 – Judgment at Nineveh

"Will our modern society ever decline and fall? Dan uses that idea as a backdrop for a look at the first great empire in history, the biblical-era Assyrians. Were they ancient Nazis, or the guardians of civilization?​"
  1. Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History) by Georges Roux
  2. Everyday life in Babylonia & Assyria by H. W. F Saggs
  3. History of Assyria by A. T Olmstead
  4. Our Oriental Heritage (Story of Civilization) by Will Durant
  5. Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War by Kaveh Farrokh
  6. The Ancient Assyrians (Elite) by Mark Healy
  7. The Cutting Edge: Military History of Antiquity and Early Feudal Times (American University Studies) by Paul F. Gavaghan
  8. The Origins Of War: From The Stone Age To Alexander The Great, Revised Edition by Arther Ferrill
  9. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon​

​Hardcore History 16 – Nazi Tidbits

"What accounts for the fascination people still have with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis? Dan looks at some of the ideas of the German National Socialists and examines the demonic, charismatic Nazi Fuhrer."
  1. Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power by Eberhard Jackel
  2. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
  3. The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Hardcore History 15 – Desperate Times *

"The tough economic climate after the First World War fostered the growth of radicalism around the world. Did it also create tougher people? Dan looks at the connection between tough times and the “Greatest Generation”."
  1. Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking TRUE Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow F.D.R. by Jules Archer
  2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Hardcore History 14 – The Macedonian Soap Opera *

"When Alexander the Great bequeathed his empire “to the strongest” he set off a funeral contest that shook the world for decades. Murder, marriage, intrigue,and drama all feature prominently in the story."
  1. Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy: A Biography by J M O'Brien
  2. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
  3. Alexander's Tomb: The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer by Nicholas J. Saunders
  4. Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars by Duncan Head
  5. The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics) by Arrian
  6. The Hellenistic Age: A Short History by Peter Green
  7. The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
  8. The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 2) by Will Durant

Hardcore History 13 – Bubonic Nukes *

"What would happen if half the population died in a short period of time? Dan looks at the Black Death and other plagues that created almost apocalyptic conditions in the past…and maybe in the future."
  1. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
  2. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
  3. Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
  4. The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization, 4) by Will Durant

Hardcore History 9 – Darkness Buries the Bronze Age *

"What was the cause of the collapse of the Bronze Age? War? Famine? Natural disaster? Sauron the Dark Lord? Dan looks at all the potential villains…except for Sauron."
  1. Collapse of the Bronze Age: The Story of Greece, Troy, Israel, Egypt, and the Peoples of the Sea by Manuel Robbins
  2. The Coming of the Greeks by Robert Drews
  3. The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition by Robert Drews
  4. Timaeus and Critias (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato

Hardcore History 7 – The X-History Files *

"Napoleon is supposed to have said that “History is a set of lies agreed upon”. With that in mind, Dan looks at some of the alternative and pseudo history ideas that many people embrace."

  1. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization by Martin Bernal
  2. Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken
  3. Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock

Hardcore History 1 – Alexander versus Hitler *

"Dan compares the way the modern world sees Adolf Hitler with the way history views Alexander the Great and wonders if the two men weren’t more alike than different."
  1. Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph by A. B. Bosworth
  2. Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter Green
  3. National socialism and the religion of nature by Robert A Pois

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