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Great Battles in HistoryAuthor: Darryl Dee
Welcome to Great Battles in History. This podcast explores some of the most famous and most important battles in world history from ancient times to the Second World War. Each episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes. We will examine the contending forces, including some of historys most celebrated armies, navies, and air forces. We will meet great captains like Hannibal Barca, Saladin, Napoleon, and Chester Nimitz. We will also delve into the experiences of the soldier at the sharp end: the Spartan hoplite at Thermopylae, the English longbowman at Agincourt, the mounted samurai at Nagashino, the Soviet tanker at Kursk. Battles are regarded as events that change the course of history; the most important have been described as decisive. We will come to question this idea, for, as well see, while a handful of battles do qualify as momentous, epochal turning points, most othersincluding not a few widely considered decisivechanged very little if anything at all. Finally, battles are more than just exercises of pure strategy and tactics; they are artifacts creations of the political, social, economic and cultural forces of their times. To investigate great battles is to open up history in its widest sense. Language: en-us Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Trailer-the Battle of Poltava
Sunday, 30 November, 2025
Send a textFought on July 8, 1709, the Battle of Poltava was the turning point of the Great Northern War. It was the climax of the long duel between two of the greatest monarchs of the age: King Charles XII of Sweden and Tsar Peter I of Russia. Poltava marked the end of the Stormaktstiden, Sweden's Age of Empire, and the rise of Russia as a great power.
