In "Romania's Holy War", Grant T. Harward rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II

Jese talks to Peter Samsonov about the IS-2, the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2.

Jesse interviews Katja Hoyer about her new book Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990

Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She has been studying Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014 and the surrounding propaganda.

Our first guest this year is Michael S. Neiberg author of "When France Fell - The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance"

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Dr Karine Varley is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Strathclyde. She researched the Franco-Prussian War for her book "Under the Shadow of Defeat - The War of 1870-71 in French Memory": https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230005198 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Italian Empire and the Great War by Vanda Wilcox https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-italian-empire-and-the-great-war-9780198822943?cc=us&lang=en& OUP Greater War Series: https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/g/the-greater-war-tgw/?lang=en&cc=us See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Support Glory & Defeat: https://realtimehistory.net/indiegogo Twitter Project "Heute vor 150 Jahren": https://twitter.com/krieg7071 Tobias Arand "1870/71 - Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges erzählt in Einzelschicksalen" and "Fröschweiler Chronik Kriegs- und Friedensbilder aus dem Jahr 1870 von Karl Klein" See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get access to Rhineland 45 streaming and the Rhineland 45 Companion Book: https://realtimehistory.net/collections/shop Rhineland 45 Battlefield Tour: https://onthefront.com/rhineland-45 Battleguide Virtual Tours: https://battleguide.co.uk/tours/ Welcome to the newly renamed Real Time History podcast - where a new name doesn't mean the topics change. Jesse and Flo talk about RTH's newest project Rhineland 45 and why the Rhineland campaign of the Second World War is such a fascinating battle to learn about.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

DeNeen L. Brown is a Associate Professor for Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College. She is also an award winning journalist currently known for her work at the Washington Post where she covered The Tulsa Race Massacre and its remembrance. A white Republican mayor seeks the truth about Tulsa’s race massacre a century ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/13/tulsa-mayor-bynum-mass-graves/ Brown is listed as a filmmaker and producer of "Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten," which is scheduled to be released on May 31, 2021, on PBS. Here is an IndieWire story about the film: ‘Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten’: ‘Watchmen’ Dramatized the Tragedy, a New Doc Will Fill in the Blanks https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/tulsa-the-fire-and-the-forgotten-pbs-documentary-1921-tulsa-massacre-1234613867/ Brown is listed as a producer and "on-air talent" in "Tulsa and Red Summer," which will be released June 1 on National Geographic. Here is a Hollywood Reporter story explaining the documentary: Tulsa Massacre Doc From 'Good Trouble' Director Set at Nat Geo (Exclusive) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nat-geo-tulsa-massacre-doc-good-trouble-director See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Prof. Mark Cornwall is a historian of modern East-Central Europe with a current focus on the late Habsburg Empire. In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to happen or the murder's ripples which quickly spread out across the Balkans, Austria-Hungary and Europe as a whole. In this study, Mark Cornwall has gathered an impressive cast of contributors to explore the causes of the Sarajevo assassination and its consequences for the Balkans in the context of the First World War. The volume assesses from a variety of regional perspectives how the 'South Slav Question' destabilized the empire's southern provinces, provoking violent discontent in Croatia and Bosnia, and exacerbating the empire's relations with Serbia, regarded by Austria-Hungary as a dangerous state. It then explores the ripples of the Sarajevo event, from its evolution into a European crisis to the creation of a new independent state of Yugoslavia. Bringing together fresh perspectives by historians from Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, as well as leading British historians of Austria-Hungary, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Sarajevo violence and how it shaped modern Balkan history. Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War: Mark Cornwall: Bloomsbury Academic See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923: https://amzn.to/386oQHx [Affiliate Link] Dr. Tomas Balkelis received his PhD in History at the University of Toronto in 2004. After graduation he worked at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. During 2009-2013, he was a European Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, and in 2015 and 2016 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (2009) and a co-editor of Population Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th century: Experiences, Identities, and Legacies (2016). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wolfram Dornik - Des Kaisers Falke: https://amzn.to/2JKAJLl (Affiliate Link) Conrad von Hötzendorf is an infamous character of the Great War (both the channel and the actual historic event). We interviewed Hötzendorf biographer Wolfram Dornik and asked him all the questions that you had about dear ol' Conrad. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia: https://amzn.to/3nnNHwO [Affiliate Link] Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books, one of which, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), won a National Jewish Book Award. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Turkish and Chinese. Now an emeritus professor, he divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get The Ottoman Army and the First World War:  https://amzn.to/3gQIThd [Affiliate Link] Mesut Uyar is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Dr. Uyar is a retired Turkish Army colonel and former associate professor from the University of New South Wales, Australia and the Turkish Military Academy. He is the author or co-author of The Phaseline Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974 (2020); The Ottoman Defence Against the Anzac Landing 25 April 1915 (2015); A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk (2009); and numerous articles and book chapters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Get Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918: bookdepository.com Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud Prussians, Bavarians and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France – all without destroying itself in the process? In a unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. It is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get The Fiume Crisis Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire: https://amzn.to/37uWM1F Dominique Kirchner Reill is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Miami and author of the award-winning Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.