I’m surprised I have never mentioned Dan Carlin’s historical podcasts here yet. I got a lot out of “Blueprint for Armageddon“, his six-part history of WWI (source of this account). Listening to his thoroughly-researched and passionately-delivered work has led me back to a number of books by serious historians as well as primary accounts. Those include G. J. Meyer’s A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 which I have gone through more than once as an audiobook and Ryan Cornelius’ The Last Battle about the fall of Berlin in 1945.
On the Greyhound trips to Ottawa and back, Myshka and I listened to three of the four episodes in “Ghosts of the Ostfront” — a macabre but instructive account of the Nazi-Soviet war from 1941 to 1945.
There are lots of reasons to be interested in the eastern front in WWII, but the familial connections were at the forefront of my mind. The series does a good job of explaining the situation faced by those in countries between the two great powers during the war, including all those who became double victims oppressed by both the Soviet and Nazi autocracies.
Carlin and his research and production team have lots of other great stuff, from a free discussion with favourite historian and thinker James Burke to his detailed history of the life of Genghis Khan to the unbelievable story of the Anabaptist takeover of Munster in 1534. His preference for the bloody ought to be noted, but to me his work doesn’t seem to revel in violence for its own sake but more to try to discern the broad lessons of history.
Ghosts of the Ostfront. Both Napoleon's army, and the Germans underestimated the great distances and harsh climate of Russia. Freezing cold, and sweltering summers, and the rainy seasons in between that turned the roads into a soup that could swallow canons and vehicles. I was walking on the southern steps of Russia listening to.
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Ghosts Of The Ostfront 3
- Through the Maelstrom: a red army soldier soldiers war on the eastern front, 1942-1945. There is also a German novel just like this one, and as Dan mentions in 'Ghosts of the Osfront' both of these soldiers were oppressed by the totalitarian state they lived under, ones father was sent to a concentration camp, the others father to a gulag, eventually they are both conscripted by their.
- Ghosts of the Ostfront was riveting. I'll have to listen to this one. I'm a captive audience for about an hour and a half every weekday. Ghosts on the Ostfront was.
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Ghosts Of The Ostfront. By Richard Morgan. Dchha27 Ghosts of the Ostfront I Dan Carlin.