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Great Battles in History

By Darryl Dee

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Subscribers: 42
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Episodes: 50

Maciek
Jun 21, 2026

owen
Sep 27, 2020
excellent in-depth telling of some of the greatest battles in history. told in a straight forward and easy to get into manner.

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Welcome to Great Battles in History. This podcast explores some of the most famous and most important battles in world history from ancient times to the Second World War. Each episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes. We will examine the contending forces, including some of history’s most celebrated armies, navies, and air forces. We will meet great captains like Hannibal Barca, Saladin, Napoleon, and Chester Nimitz. We will also delve into the experiences of the soldier at the sharp end: the Spartan hoplite at Thermopylae, the English longbowman at Agincourt, the mounted samurai at Nagashino, the Soviet tanker at Kursk. Battles are regarded as events that change the course of history; the most important have been described as decisive. We will come to question this idea, for, as we’ll see, while a handful of battles do qualify as momentous, epochal turning points, most others—including not a few widely considered decisive—changed very little if anything at all. Finally, battles are more than just exercises of pure strategy and tactics; they are artifacts— creations of the political, social, economic and cultural forces of their times. To investigate great battles is to open up history in its widest sense.

Episode	Date
Trailer-the Battle of Poltava Read the full episode description	Dec 01, 2025
The Battle of Breitenfeld Read the full episode description	Oct 30, 2025
Trailer-The Battle of Breitenfeld Read the full episode description	Mar 21, 2025
The Battle of Nagashino Read the full episode description	Feb 26, 2025
Trailer-The Battle of Nagashino Read the full episode description	Jul 15, 2022
Lepanto-The Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Jun 21, 2022
Trailer: the Battle of Lepanto Read the full episode description	Aug 30, 2021
Agincourt-The Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 10-Agincourt, France, and England Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 9-The Battle of Agincourt Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 8-The Road to Agincourt Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 7-Henry V and the Resumption of War Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 6-The Revival of France Read the full episode description	Jul 05, 2021
Agincourt, Part 5-The Black Prince Read the full episode description	Jun 28, 2021
Agincourt, Part 4-The English in France Read the full episode description	Jun 28, 2021
Agincourt, Part 3-The English Military Revolution Read the full episode description	Jun 28, 2021
Agincourt, Part 2-The Origins of the Hundred Years' War Read the full episode description	Jun 28, 2021
Agincourt, Part 1-Introduction Read the full episode description	Jun 28, 2021
Hattin-The Corrected Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Apr 12, 2021
Trailer: the Battle of Agincourt Read the full episode description	Mar 21, 2021
Hattin-The Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Mar 12, 2021
Hattin, Part 8-The Climax of Crusading Read the full episode description	Mar 12, 2021
Hattin, Part 7-The Horns of Hattin Read the full episode description	Mar 12, 2021
Hattin, Part 6-The Rise of Saladin Read the full episode description	Mar 05, 2021
Hattin, Part 5-The War for the Middle East Read the full episode description	Mar 05, 2021
Hattin, Part 4-The Armies of the Crusader States Read the full episode description	Feb 27, 2021
Hattin, Part 3-The Muslim Warlords and their Armies Read the full episode description	Feb 27, 2021
Hattin, Part 2-The First Crusade and the Crusader States Read the full episode description	Feb 26, 2021
Hattin, Part 1-Introduction Read the full episode description	Feb 26, 2021
Trailer: the Battle of Hattin Read the full episode description	Dec 03, 2020
Cannae, Part 7-The Battle of Cannae Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 8-Using a Victory Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 6-The Thunderbolt: Hannibal's Invasion of Italy Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 5-The Rise of Hannibal Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 4-The First Punic War Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 3-The Roman Legions Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 2-Carthage and Rome Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae, Part 1-Introduction Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2020
Cannae-The Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Sep 25, 2020
Trailer: the Battle of Cannae Read the full episode description	Jul 24, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 8-The Thermopylae Legend Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 7-The Last Stand and Its Aftermath Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 6-The Battle of Thermopylae Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 5-First Encounters Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 4-The Empire of the Persians Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 3-The Greeks and Their Way of War Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 1-Introduction Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae, Part 2-Herodotus and His History Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Thermopylae-The Complete Episode Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020
Introduction to Great Battles in History Read the full episode description	Jun 30, 2020