Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Hitler? What was the greatest army of all time? Which U.S. President was the worst? Hardcore History discusses the issues and questions history fans love.

Show 72 - Mania for Subjugation II 01/03/2025

Show 72 - Mania for Subjugation II Is it safe to hand control of the deadliest army in the world to a 20-year old? If you are Thracian, Triballian, Illyrian or Theban, the answer is definitely no. Alexander becomes king and fights off threats to his rule in all directions. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/34711720

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation 06/07/2024

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, and Nepotism. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/31659047

Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II 11/19/2023

Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia's neighbors /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/28710133

Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV 06/04/2020

Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/14689565

Show 64 - Supernova in the East III 10/25/2019

Show 64 - Supernova in the East III Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/11775164

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir 01/16/2023

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/25619010

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources 03/07/2022

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/22361795

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI 06/08/2021

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/19407680

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V 11/14/2020

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/16805744

Show 63 - Supernova in the East II 01/12/2019

Show 63 - Supernova in the East II Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives.. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/8231354

Show 62 - Supernova in the East I 07/14/2018

Show 62 - Supernova in the East I The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story. /episode/index/show/dancarlinhh/id/6811393

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