School of War | 11 April 2023 | 0h 42m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Peter Wilson about his book Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500. Discusses Germany, Germans, and German speakers at war, covering The Holy Roman Empire, The Thirty Years War, the Treaty of Westphalia, Prussia’s emergence, Bismarck, and the World Wars.
Tag: Military history
Battle of Britain ‘What Ifs’
Dan Snow’s History Hit | 30 March 2020 | 0h 35m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Jamie Wood and Niall Mackay about their application of statistics to evaluate historical counterfactuals. Discusses how they use data on airframe losses from the Battle of Britain to test how close Germany came to victory in the battle. Similarly considers the Dogger Bank and Jutland naval battles.