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709 Camouflage
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Author: The History Network
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
When battles were a show of strength and close quarter combat dominated, the art of concealment was not important to an army as a whole, especially when military clothing, armour etc was designed to be seen and intimidate the enemy. Dur: 15mins File: .mp3
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708 The B-52
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Author: The History Network
Mon, Nov 2, 2009
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (to give it its
full name) came into service with the United Sates Air force in 1955 and was
commissioned to play a cold-war deterrence role served largely by its design to
specifically carry nuclear weapons. Dur: 13mins File: .mp3
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707 Tank Part 4
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Oct 18, 2009
The Second World War saw the rapid development of the tank, both in tactics and design, which would dominate tank warfare in the post war world...
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706 The Maginot Line
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Author: The History Network
Fri, Oct 2, 2009
Twice in 50 years Germany had attacked France. The trauma of the First World War caused France to re think her defence policy. The slaughter and destruction on French soil could not be allowed to happen again. The Maginot Line, a static line of defence along the French/German/Italian border was created to hold any foreign agression long enough for the French Army to mobilise. Although it is the second largest line of static defence, after the Great Wall of China, it proved to be a white elephant in the face of the German Blitzkrieg. Dur: 16mins File: .mp3
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705 Poitiers 732
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Fri, Sep 18, 2009
At the Battle of Poitiers East would meet West. The Saracens, moving through Spain and into France, would be stopped in their tracks by Charles King of the Franks, who would be lorded as saving Christianity in the struggle against Islam. Dur: 14.10 File: .mp3
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704 Swiss Army Knife
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Fri, Sep 4, 2009
The Swiss Army Knife was first produced in 1897. From its early origins as a multi tool come pocket knife the phrase has come to mean much more, often referring in popular culture to things that have a plethora of functions.
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703 Simon Bolivar
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Fri, Aug 21, 2009
At one time Simon Bolivar was simultaneously President of Gran Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. He was instrumental in the struggle for the independence of present day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela...and of course, he is the founder of Bolivia. He is held a hero in all of these countries. Dur: 27 mins File: .mp3
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702 The Battle of Leuthen
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Fri, Aug 7, 2009
1756 saw Frederick the Great launch a preemptive strike against Silesia. Austrian and Saxon forces were scattered, but this was just the beginning of what would become the Seven Years War. Dur: 12mins File: .mp3
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701 Merrill's Marauders
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Author: The History Network
Fri, Jul 24, 2009
With the tide slowly turning in favour of the Americans in the Pacific
throughout 1943 against the Japanese, on the mainland in Burma and
China the Japanese were still stubbornly holding out and a formidable
force. Merrills Marauders would be the first US troops to fight on the
Asian continent... Dur: 23mins File: .mp3
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Special - Season 7 Promo
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Author: The History Network
Fri, Jul 3, 2009
We recently watched the Northern WWII Association in action at Scarborough Castle. We were wondering what to do with the footage so we made up this promo for Season 7 which is due to start 26 July 2009.
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Special - Eisenhowers D Day Address
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
On the eve of the D Day invasion, in 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander of the allied forces made this address to his troops. I hope you enjoy this short film we out together, hopefully one of many. Dur: 2min File: m4v (its a video!!!)
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610 Tank Pt3
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Author: The History Network
Fri, May 22, 2009
The realisation of the importance of tanks on the battlefield was hammered
home with the defeat of France in 1940, it would take the allies a long
time to fully learn the lessons that the Germans already knew on the
use of tanks. But by the end of the war those miracle Blitzkrieg
tactics would themselves be blunted by new lessons learned through five
years of war, and the rapid development of new tanks. Dur: 16 mins File: .mp3
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609 The Law of War
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Sun, May 10, 2009
The lyrics famously ask the question âWar...what's it good for?â and while there's no definitive answer to that another similar question might be âWar...WHO is it good for?â or perhaps more importantly, how can war cause as little turmoil and distress to non-combatant civilians and innocents? War is an inevitable part of our world, and is governed, or seeks to be governed by rules and laws. What are these and how did they come about? Dur: 13.20 File: .mp3
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608 The French Foreign Legion
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Fri, Apr 24, 2009
The French Foreign Legion conjures up romantic images of soldiers marching in columns across the vast deserts of North Africa, led by brutal French officers the men a desperate bunch of internationals wanting to leave their pasts behind... Dur: 15mins File: .mp3
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607 Naval Warfare
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Author: The History Network
Sat, Apr 11, 2009
For thousands of years man has fought battles at sea, from manpowered fighting ships with rowers sweating away at their oars to giant nuclear powered aircraft carriers, naval warfare has extended a people's reach beyond their landbased boundaries, moving men and material to where it is needed or preventing the movement of men and material. Dur: 24 mins File: .mp3
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606 The Doolittle Raid
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Mar 29, 2009
Dawn of the 18th of April 1942 saw 16 B-25 medium bombers lumbering down just 467ft of runaway on USS Hornet. They were stripped of some armament and anything else that could save weight, because with extra fuel tanks fitted and an increased bomb load they had more than usual to weigh them down...this raid lead by Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle would show just how far America's reach could extend. Dur: 17mins File: .mp3
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605 The Grande Armee
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Author: The History Network
Fri, Mar 13, 2009
Since 1798 France had
been concentrating troops along the coast of the English channel, training and
preparing them for an invasion of Great Britain...
but with Russia
and Austria at his back, Napoleon ordered his troops to the east, and named
them The Grand Armee.
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604 The Seige of Constantinople
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Author: The History Network
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
For over a thousand years Constantinople had been one of the richest
cities in the world sitting at the cross roads where east meets west.
Its fall would see the end of the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Roman
Empire) and with the death of Constantine XI, the last Roman Emperor,
bringing the ascendancy of the Muslim Ottoman Turks over the Balkans
and Eastern Mediterranean. Dur: 22mins File: .mp3
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603 Enigma
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Feb 15, 2009
The Enigma machine has become synonymous with espionage, with the race to discover Germanyâs secrets during World War 2, with the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, and it was surely the
inspiration to Ian Felming for the LECTA chipher machine in the James Bond classic âFrom Russia with Loveâ. Dur: 15mins File: .mp3
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602 Spioenkop
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Feb 1, 2009
Spioen Kop would be the third defeat in one week of the British army in
January of 1900, at the height of its Imperial power, by a handful of
untrained men who only weeks previously had been farmers. It was a
battle, and indeed a war, the British were ill trained or prepared for. Dur: 18mins File: .mp3
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601 Rommel pt3
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Author: The History Network
Sun, Jan 18, 2009
Rommel had dominated the North African campaign throughout much of 1942âby
September he had pushed the British back to El Alamein. This was the last line
of defence before entering Egypt. It was an unusual position with the sea to the
North and the Qattara Depression to the south (the lowest point in Africa with
its saline marshes it is impassable to vehicles), it provided only a short front
of 40miles for the British and their new Commander Montgomery to defend and it
could not be turned on the flanks. Dur: 22min File: .mp3
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510 Battle of Tannenberg
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Sat, Nov 29, 2008
At the outbreak of the First World War the Germans instigated the Schlieffen plan, a strategy based on a swift knockout blow to the French before the Russians would have time to mobilise, thereby enabling the Germans to switch their forces to the East and check what they expected would be the slow mobilisation of the vast armies of the Russian Empire. Dur: 10.48 File: .mp3
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509 Belisarius
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Mon, Nov 17, 2008
With the Empire in decline and split, the western empire fell to pieces and only the eastern empire, Byzantium, could field anything that came close to Rome's former splendor. From this a young man of Greek or Thracian origin, Flavius Belisarius, would rise to become the last of the great Roman Generals. Dur: 13mins File: .mp3
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508 Battle of the Nile
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Sat, Nov 1, 2008
Napoleon, still a rising star in 1798, had sailed to Egypt with an army to conquer the country, as initial steps to threatening English domination of India. The British in reaction dispatched still junior Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson into the Mediterranean to intercept the French fleet. This, the Battle of the Nile, would be first of three grand triumphs against the French, finishing at Trafalgar. Dur: 13.22 File: .mp3
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507 Rommel - Part 2
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Sun, Oct 19, 2008
January 1941 after his successes storming across France, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General by Hitler and recalled to Berlin. His career was about to take a turn that would ensure his fame - he was ordered to North Africa to command the Deutsches Afrika Korps, his exploits to and fro across the vast expanses of North Africa would take him to within a hair's breadth of occupying Egypt, earning him the nickname the Desert Fox... Dur: 18.27 File: .mp3
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506 U-110
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Author: The History Network
Mon, Oct 6, 2008
One of the most famous U-boats of the second world war was U-110, being as it was the inspiration for the Hollywood blockbuster U-571. Yet for all itâs fame, U-110âs career was a short one, lasting well under a year. Her short initial capture just prior to being sunk would see the British lay their hands on many code books and one of the elusive Enigma machines that would provide the code-breakers back at Bletchley Park in the UK with invaluable information, inspiration and techniques for their continued fight in staying one step ahead of the German U-boat campaign, which was hell bent on strangling the allied supply routes of the North Atlantic. Dur:20min File: .mp3
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505 The First Crusade
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Mon, Sep 22, 2008
The First Crusade would see thousands of Europeans rally to the Papal call for a mission to recapture Jerusalem for the Christians and put an end to Muslim atrocities on Pilgrims. Thousands would die through starvation, lack of water and exhaustion ill prepared as they were for the climate, but religious favour, ferocious fighting ability would see these knights repeatedly turn what looked like impossible odds into victory. Dur:20min File: .mp3
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504 Logistics - A potted history
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Mon, Sep 8, 2008
The General Antoine-Henri Jomini writing in the 19th century defined logistics as "the practical art of moving armies..." and includes "providing for the successive arrival of convoys of supplies". The very base need of any commander throughout the history of war is to provide the magic three thousand calories a day a soldier needs... ... to march, to dig, to build and fight. Dur:17.45 File: .mp3
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503 The Balkan Wars
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Fri, Aug 22, 2008
The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 pushed the Ottoman Empire almost totally out of Europe, leaving her with a toe hold on Constantinople. Montenegro, Greece and Serbia, the Balkan League, after defeating the Turks then fell out over the spoils and fought one another. One result of this would be heightened Serbian aspirations which worried its Austria resulting in tensions that would inevitably lead the rest of Europe into World War One. File: .mp3 Dur: 12min
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502 The Hurtgen Forest
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Fri, Aug 8, 2008
By mid September 1944 the Allies had raced across France after hard fighting breaking out of the Bocage country of Normandy. On the Belgian-German border lies some 50 square miles of forest only eight miles deep and 25miles wide, with Aachen to the North. The Roer River ran along the eastern edge of the Hurtgen. Beyond it was the Rhine. This Forest, the Hurtgen, would see American troops fighting the longest battle in US history and even though they outnumbered the Germans five to one they would pay a heavy price - suffering over thirty thousand casualties. File: mp3 Dur: 11min
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501 Austerlitz
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Fri, Jul 25, 2008
The Battle of Austerlitz, or Three Emperors, took place in December 1805. Out-numbered, Napoleon faced the combined forces of Emperor Francis II of Austria and Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Operating in enemy territory and having been on the move since Austria the battle would provide Napoleon with one of his greatest victories, smashing the Third Coalition against him. File: .mp3 Dur: 13min
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