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Join Chris and Luke in the North Georgia bunker as they drink beer and review the greatest battles in history on the battlecast podcast. Check out the website at thebattlecast.com.

In any poker game, “the turn” is arguably the most important hand. When the fourth card is dealt, most poker players have an ide...

The Battles of Trenton and Princeton almost single-handedly saved the cause of the American Revolution. For weeks, as Thomas Paine admitted,...

The Battle of Long Island was the largest battle of the American Revolution. Tens of thousands of men along with thousands of sailors strugg...

In the fall of 1775, 1,000 Americans entered the western wilds of Maine and pushed overland to the very edge of modern-day Quebec. The trip...

Bunker Hill was one of the most important battles of the American Revolution. In this struggle, Britain attempted to break out of Boston, su...

Before The Battle of Lexington and Concord many thoughtful commentators, in both England and the American colonies, thought peace was possib...

The Guangxi Massacre was the largest documented case of mass cannibalism in human history. The Guangxi culinary abomination took place betwe...

Monaco is a nation smaller than one square mile but filled with more wealth per capita than almost any other country in the world. According...

The Battle of Pearl Harbor was one of the most important events in United States – and human – history. It unleashed the most po...

The Battle of Pearl Harbor: a day that lived in infamy. Thousands of American servicemen were caught unaware – fish in a tropical barr...

In this concluding episode of the definitive podcast history of torture, the focus is on interpersonal torture by non-state actors. This epi...

American torture. For years, philosophers, jurists, and legal theorists struggled with American use of torture in the war on terror. Just a...

This is a history of torture on the North American continent, including Native American, Canadian and United States torture practices. It’s...

The Cambodian Genocide was a second holocaust. Approximately 1.6 million human beings were killed in the terrible bloodletting. But the geno...

The Soviet punitive system was the heir of literally hundreds of years of secret police interrogation. For centuries, the Czar’s secre...

The Inquisition: it’s a byword for tyranny in much of the Western world – especially among the English-speaking peoples of the w...

This is part two of an ongoing series providing an exhaustive history of torture. All forms of torture, including forms never detailed in an...

“Torture was legal, morally accepted, and commonplace in most ancient, medieval, and early modern societies.” This was the way h...

The Battle of Takur Ghar, also known as the Battle of Robert’s Ridge, was one of the bloodiest engagements in the history of the Unite...

Thousands of drone strikes have killed tens of thousands of targets since the introduction of unmanned aerial vehicle warfare in the early 2...

A man is sitting on his porch before he suddenly geysers upward, somersaulting through the air like a discarded plaything. A work truck is c...

The Battle of Hamburger Hill was one of the most famous battles of the Vietnam War. Almost immediately after the conclusion of the battle, d...

Hamburger Hill is one of the most famous battles from the Vietnam War. This is the complete story of that bloody conflict. It’s all here and...

Hamburger Hill. It’s a battle made famous by the 1987 film with the same name. But the real battle of Hamburger Hill, also known as th...

Mass suicide. It’s a rare event, something unique, like an uncommonly beautiful woman – it commands our attention. Using the met...

Anarchy. Cannibalism. Disorder. These are adjectives, empty words, that we use to try, however futilely, to describe the total pain, the upr...

This podcast is a complete history of violence in the small African nation of Liberia. This is part two of an ongoing series. You can find p...

In the 1820s, a small number of freed Black Americans settled in West Africa. They called their country Liberia, land of freedom. From the b...

The Battle of New Market took place on May 15, 1864 and has been made famous in numerous films and literary works. Hundreds of cadets from t...

The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was one of the most important battles of the American Civil War. Fort Fisher was the last shield of Wilming...

In this podcast history of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, Dr. Luke Wolf recounts the epic battle in all it’s gory detail. This is p...

It was Christmas Day, 1864 when one of the largest armadas ever assembled by mankind began to deluge Fort Fisher, one of the largest forts i...

This is the story of the New Mexico State Prison Riot – the most violent penitentiary riot in United States history. This is not an ep...

Murder. Mass rape. Mass torture. Violence beyond violence. Millions upon millions of dollars of property damage. An institution turned upsid...

Made famous in the film We Were Soldiers, the Battle of Ia Drang was the first major conventional battle between regular North Vietnamese fo...

The Battle of Ia Drang was the first conventional conflict between American forces and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. For d...

For more than a decade after the September 11th attacks, the United States of America devoted a seemingly limitless amount of time and resou...

Today’s episode recounts the life and death of Chris Kyle – the greatest American sniper in United States history. It’s th...

Chris Kyle was the greatest sniper in American history. The subject of the book and film American Sniper, this is the definitive biographica...

On March 1, 1896 one of the most important events in Western imperial history took place; it was the Battle of Adwa. In this one decisive ba...

This is the concluding episode of the definitive history of the Battle of Berlin and the fall of Nazi Germany. You can find parts one throug...

On April 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. By this time the Fuhrer bunker walls were literally tremblin...

On April 28th, 1945 nearly the entire developed world joined together to destroy one city: Berlin. This is the story. It’s all here an...

“Historically speaking, investigating sexual violence in war has been taboo. Nonetheless, sexual violence in armed conflict has been p...

April 26, 1945. Berlin is almost totally surrounded. The Soviets are pouring into the city. Small squads of German soldiers and Hitler Youth...

Imagine millions of men trying to kill each other on a front more than 30 miles long. That’s what this podcast is all about. Millions...

The Fall of Berlin was one of the most important battles in human history. In this ongoing series, Dr. Wolf recounts the story of the last t...

This is part four of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This special double episode covers April 21-23. You can find ep...

This is part three of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 20. You can find episode two here: e...

This is part two of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 17 through April 19. You can find epis...