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COMBAT STORY
Real combat stories from the military's elite. This podcast highlights the courageous, outrageous, crazy, and surreal experiences veterans recall from their toughest days in the foxhole, cockpit, and front lines. We interview JTACs, Special Operators (Delta), Special Forces, Jet Pilots, Combat Aviators, Infrantrymen, Marines, and vets from over 50 years of combat experience.Interviews touch on the toughest missions these vets faced, how they handled them, their first combat experiences, how they found their way to the military, and how they managed after leaving the combat behind.
CONSOLATION PRIZE
Consolation Prize is a podcast about the United States in the world through the eyes of its consuls. The responsibility for the United States’ reputation in other parts of the world often fell squarely on the shoulders of consuls and they were the first ones called in when Americans got themselves in trouble or were mistreated while they were abroad. How they interpreted their duties sometimes got them involved in all kinds of complicated circumstances. And often, their actions on a personal level had ramifications far up the chain, even making a difference in national politics or international relations. Please join us as we travel the globe with nineteenth-century consuls!
NINETY
Ninety-Pound Rucksack is a podcast about the US Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division, the gritty unit of World War II climbers and skiers who trained for more than two years in the Colorado Rockies (often wearing ninety-pound “rucksacks,” or backpacks) to fight the Axis powers in extreme cold and mountainous terrain. Not only did the Division's insertion into the war help end Germany’s occupation of Italy; post-war, its veterans founded and developed ski areas across America, started companies like NOLS and Nike and launched the fields of avalanche science and wilderness rescue. Ninety-Pound Rucksack examines the stories that made the unit famous as well as those history has forgotten. Equal parts real-time research, intimate conversation and revelatory journalism, Ninety-Pound Rucksack explores not only the conventional wisdom about the 10th, but the transformative power of the mountains to forge a collective identity among the mountain troops—and to ignite a passion for the outdoors that reshaped American society in the process.
HOOG TIJD
Hoog Tijd is de podcast van uitgeverij Walburg Pers en Amsterdam University Press. Twee zuster-uitgeverijen, gespecialiseerd is in hoogwaardige en toegankelijke non-fictie voor algemeen geïnteresseerde lezers, van zeer specialistische uitgaven tot uitgaven bestemd voor een breed publiek. Met publicaties willen wij graag iedereen die er belangstelling voor heeft, op de hoogte brengen van de schatten aan informatie die er beschikbaar zijn over het verleden, over cultuur en maatschappij en over kunstobjecten en architectuur. Sinds 2025 zijn we verbonden met WBooks en vanaf 2026 zullen ook boeken van die uitgeverij in de spotlights gezet worden.