Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Episodes

• EP34 Atomic AccountabilityDan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you know about the subject.

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• EP33 Sledgehammer and Big ShotHenry Sledge, son of Eugene Sledge, writer of the classic war memoir "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" has released a book that includes tons of material left out of his dad's memoir along with details about growing up as the son of "Sledgehammer"

  33|1T 31M
• EP32 The Show with Mike RoweDan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist.

  32|2T 30M
• EP31 Kushite ConversationsDan talks with writer, broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi about the ancient African kingdom of Kush and her book on African history.

  31|1T 11M
• EP30 So, you say you want a revolution?This show could also have been called "Violent Reflections" as Dan repurposes old work he did on the revolutionary era of the late 1960s. This is NOT a deep HH-style look at the period, but is instead a brief gaze at a potential "Past is Prologue" moment.

  30|1T 37M
• EP29 The Handmaidens of the ApocalypseInvestigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war might unfold.

  29|1T 1M
• EP28 Superhumanly InhumanThis show starts off with an extended discussion of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust and the associated dangers of extreme governmental power followed by an interview with Holocaust expert and historian Dan Stone.

  28|3T 18M
• EP27 More Steppe StoriesHuns, Mongols, Turks, Scythians and other nomadic steppe tribes are longtime interests of Dan's. In this show he interviews historian Kenneth W. Harl who specializes in the study of those fascinating peoples. 1. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth W. Harl 2. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia by Peter C. Perdue

  27|1T 10M
• EP26 Dig This!Daniele Bolelli the fabulous host of "History on Fire" and I fanboy out over archaeology. We had some inexplicable audio problems at times with the recording, so hopefully that doesn't detract from the greatness of the guest.

  26|1T 42M
• EP25 The Long ViewDan tries focusing a much wider historical lens on perennial human issues like war, land ownership, immigration, ethnicity, environmental worries and the double-edged sword that is human inventiveness. 1. Agricola and Germania by Tacitus 2. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs

  25|1T 12M