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The Rest of History

The Rest of History
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133 episodes

The Rest of History explores the most captivating moments, characters, and turning points from across the ages, revealing the stories, context, and hidden details that shaped our world and the rest is history. With a blend of sharp insight and engaging storytelling, the show brings history to life, connecting past events to the present and uncovering what really happened behind humanity’s most defining moments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

about 6 hours ago

12m


How WWII Spy Agencies Fought in the Shadows

about 9 hours ago

7m


How the KGB and CIA Battled Worldwide

about 11 hours ago

7m


Fighter Aces: How Pilots Became Sky Legends

about 17 hours ago

6m


Enigma: How Codebreakers Cracked Hitler’s Secrets

about 17 hours ago

7m


How Egypt Made Napoleon Famous

Jul. 17

5m


How Snipers Control Entire Battlefields With One Shot

Jul. 16

6m


How Aircraft Carriers Took Over the Seas

Jul. 16

6m


Vietnam: How a Guerrilla War Became a Superpower Showdown

Jul. 16

7m


How Ivan Ruled Russia Through Terror

Jul. 16

4m


How Che Guevara Tried and Failed to Export Revolution

Jul. 16

15m


How Tanks Evolved From Crawling Boxes to Modern Beasts

Jul. 15

7m


Submarine Warfare: How Silent Killers Changed Naval Battles

Jul. 15

7m


WWI Trenches: How Soldiers Survived Hell on Earth

Jul. 15

7m


How Ancient Armies Captured Fortified Cities

Jul. 15

6m


How Peter the Great Rewrote Russian Tradition

Jul. 15

6m


How Gunpowder Ended the Age of Castles

Jul. 14

6m


Medieval Sieges: How Castles Actually Fell

Jul. 14

5m


Afghan Jihad: How Mujahideen Fighters Crippled a Superpower

Jul. 14

8m


How Napoleon’s Marshals Executed His Battle Plans

Jul. 14

7m


SAS vs SEALs vs Spetsnaz: Which Elite Force Is Toughest?

Jul. 14

7m


How Spetsnaz Operated Behind Enemy Lines

Jul. 13

6m


How the Soviets Invaded Afghanistan — and Why They Failed

Jul. 13

10m


Vienna Resists the Ottoman Siege of 1529

Jul. 13

4m


French Foreign Legion: How an Army of Exiles Became Legendary

Jul. 13

7m


Inside Tamerlane’s Ruthless Military Campaigns

Jul. 13

5m


How the Great Leap Forward Triggered Mass Famine

Jul. 12

8m


The Power and Downfall of the Templars

Jul. 12

4m


How Ninjas Actually Used Espionage and Sabotage

Jul. 12

6m


How 1066 Changed England’s Destiny

Jul. 12

5m


Fall of Baghdad Ends Islamic Golden Age

Jul. 12

5m


How Vikings Evolved into Nation Builders

Jul. 11

5m


Lionheart vs Saladin: Power in the Holy Land

Jul. 11

4m


How Spanish Tercios Dominated 1500s Battlefields

Jul. 11

7m


Redcoats: How British Infantry Won an Empire

Jul. 11

7m


How Charlemagne Conquered and United Europe

Jul. 11

5m


The Last Viking King’s English Defeat

Jul. 10

5m


Samurai: How Japan’s Warrior Class Lived and Fought

Jul. 10

6m


How Genghis Khan Forged a Global Empire

Jul. 10

5m


How Typhoons Crushed Kublai Khan’s Invasions

Jul. 10

5m


Battle of Tours: Martel’s Historic Victory

Jul. 10

4m


How Longbows Shattered Knightly Warfare

Jul. 9

5m


Swiss Pikemen: How Farmers Became Europe’s Shock Infantry

Jul. 9

6m


Salamis: Greece Stops the Persian Empire

Jul. 9

4m


Ottomans Capture Constantinople in 1453

Jul. 9

5m


Crusades: How Christians and Muslims Fought Brutal Holy Wars

Jul. 9

7m


How the Mamluks Seized Power From Their Own Rulers

Jul. 8

6m


Spartacus and the Roman Slave Rebellion

Jul. 8

4m


Unpacking the MacArthur-Truman Feud

Jul. 8

6m


How Alexander’s Phalanx Crushed His Enemies

Jul. 8

6m


Janissaries: How Enslaved Boys Became Elite Soldiers

Jul. 8

6m


MacArthur vs Truman: How a General Lost His Command

Jul. 7

6m


Soviet Invasion: Finland's Unwavering Stand

Jul. 7

6m


Mao's Victory: How Peasants Won China's Civil War

Jul. 7

6m


Mao’s China: How a Peasant Built a Superstate

Jul. 7

6m


Che's Revolutionary Paradox

Jul. 7

8m


How Mao’s Strategies Defeated Chiang Kai-shek

Jul. 6

6m


The Truth Behind the 300 Spartans

Jul. 6

5m


Paul the Apostle - A Historical Chronicle

Jul. 6

33m


How Caesar’s Revolt Shattered the Republic

Jul. 5

5m


Cannae: Rome’s Worst Battlefield Defeat

Jul. 5

4m


How Propaganda Replaced Independent Thought

Jul. 5

4m


Rome’s Military Blueprint for Dominance

Jul. 5

5m


How Alexander Spanned Three Continents Fast

Jul. 5

5m


The Hidden Mechanics of the Holocaust

Jul. 4

3m


How Nazi Crimes Were Proven Later

Jul. 4

4m


Himmler’s Methodical Rise

Jul. 4

4m


Why Heydrich Ruled Without Mercy

Jul. 4

4m


French Foreign Legion: How an Army of Exiles Became Legendary

Jul. 4

7m


How Spetsnaz Operated Behind Enemy Lines

Jul. 3

5m


Hitler’s Ideological Army Explained

Jul. 3

5m


Okinawa and the Cost of Victory

Jul. 3

5m


How Yugoslavia Collapsed Into Chaos and Civil War

Jul. 3

6m


How Napoleon’s Marshals Executed His Battle Plans

Jul. 3

6m


Guadalcanal’s Marine War

Jul. 2

4m


How the Berlin Wall Rose — and Why It Fell

Jul. 2

5m


Northern Ireland: How The Troubles Turned Streets Into War Zones

Jul. 2

6m


Milosevic: How One Man Turned Nationalism Into War

Jul. 2

6m


Midway’s Defeat Japan Couldn’t Recover From

Jul. 2

4m


The Island That Changed US Strategy

Jul. 1

5m


Why North Africa Mattered in WWII

Jul. 1

4m


Pearl Harbor and Japan’s War Strategy

Jul. 1

4m


Why the RAF Beat the Luftwaffe

Jul. 1

3m


How Ho Chi Minh Outlasted the French and the Americans

Jul. 1

11m


How Stalingrad Shocked the World

Jun. 30

5m


Why German Tanks Failed at Kursk

Jun. 30

4m


Operation Barbarossa and Strategic Overconfidence

Jun. 30

5m


How Britain Fought a War 8,000 Miles Away in the Falklands

Jun. 30

13m


Air Power Made Blitzkrieg Deadly

Jun. 30

3m


Dunkirk Evacuation Kept Allies Alive

Jun. 29

3m


The Collapse of German Democracy

Jun. 29

3m


Hitler’s Ideology Takes Hold

Jun. 29

3m


Stalin’s Network of Camps and Purges

Jun. 29

4m


The Deal That Bought Time

Jun. 29

4m


Hitler’s Coup Crushed in Days

Jun. 28

3m


Gulf War 1991: How the US Won in 100 Hours

Jun. 28

9m


How Lawrence Undermined Ottoman Control

Jun. 28

3m


Spain Showed the Future of War

Jun. 28

3m


Lenin’s Takeover After the Uprising

Jun. 28

4m


Iran–Iraq War: How Eight Years of Slaughter Changed Nothing

Jun. 28

8m