Empire: World History
The rise and fall of empires and the events that shaped world history. William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the intricate stories of revolutions, imperial wars, and the people who built and lost empires. From the British Empire to the Ottomans to Ancient India, history is shaped by power struggles and territorial conquests. How does it continue to affect the world today? Empire Club: Become a member of the Empir
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- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Defense of Muslim LandsAbdullah Azam · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll · 1× across 1 episode
406. Norman Conquest: The First Crusade (Part 6)
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405. Norman Conquest: Medieval Mafia Invade The East (Part 5)
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
the author of the silk roads but in the next two episodes we're gonna be taking him back to all the stuff he did ▶ tap to play from here
The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Peter Frankopan
looking uh in the next episode at his first book the first crusade the call from the east which completely changed for many of us the way that we looked at ▶ tap to play from here
Tabula Rogeriana
Al-Idrisi
we have a book called the the the tabula rogeriana or the the the book of roger i guess which doesn't sound quite as glamorous today ▶ tap to play from here
Domesday Book
William the Conqueror (Commissioned by)
so i mean the the doomsday book is a classic byzantine roman imperial textbook ▶ tap to play from here
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Peter Frankopan
from my golden road this is this is a a a story which i got very excited about because this is the first time that the indian number system ▶ tap to play from here
404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4)
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Domesday Book
William the Conqueror (Commissioned by)
well last time we had such fun and got so chatty about um the harrying of the north and doomsday book that we barely had mention of the really important uh events ▶ tap to play from here
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Unknown
not least because wessex survives and we have the anglo saxon chronicle produced in wessex ▶ tap to play from here
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
from the man who would be king exactly ▶ tap to play from here
403. The Norman Conquests: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3)
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
Mark Morris
mark morris whose books on both the anglosaxons which i've got my copy here this wonderful cover ▶ tap to play from here
The Norman Conquest
Mark Morris
and the norman conquest is very much the um the book which well certainly the british museum welcomes you to uh its bookshop with a great wall of mark morris ▶ tap to play from here
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Unknown
we're told that by the anglo saxon chronicle when when he lets them go in early september ▶ tap to play from here
The Song of the Battle of Hastings (Carmen de Hastingae Proelio)
Guy of Amiens
the other one is something i mentioned in the previous episode which is called the song of the battle of hastings which was written very soon after the event the carmen ▶ tap to play from here
Gesta Guillelmi
William of Poitiers
a biography of william the conqueror which is written after the carmen and using the carmen and reacting to what's said in the carmen by a chap called william of poitier ▶ tap to play from here
The Norman Conquest of the North
William E. Kapelle
the norman conquest of the north think of the fines on that just think of the fines on that ▶ tap to play from here
Domesday Book
William the Conqueror (Commissioned by)
but the doomsday book shows that in fact it was a real mess ▶ tap to play from here
402. The Norman Conquests: The Real Story of 1066 (Part 2)
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Norman Conquest
Marc Morris
the great mark morris author of the anglo saxons and the norman conquest ▶ tap to play from here
Vita Ædwardi Regis
Anonymous (sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Bertin, commissioned by Edith of Wessex)
it's i'll i'll set it up because it's called the life of king edward who rests at westminster ▶ tap to play from here
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Unknown
the anglo saxon chronicle which is perhaps the most sober although written with an agenda like all of them ▶ tap to play from here
King Harald's Saga
Snorri Sturluson
this is said by the the norse saga king harold saga but it's confirmed ▶ tap to play from here
Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
Guy of Amiens
there's a wonderful source um called uh the song of the battle of hastings the carmen ▶ tap to play from here
401. Norman Conquest: Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry (Part 1)
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Normandy Before 1066
David Bates
when i was at uni i bought i remember it cost me a fortune and i had to save up for it but this is david bates's normandy before ten sixty six ▶ tap to play from here
400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
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Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin
Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy
and she wrote with clifford gaddy the book many people reach for first when they want to understand this president it's called mr putin operative in the kremlin ▶ tap to play from here
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
i'm gonna think about the brothers karamazov the whole discussions that you can't have light without dark ▶ tap to play from here
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
and as we know from all the work that timothy snyder has done on bloodlands you know for example and anthony beaver and you know his work on world war ii and the soviet union ▶ tap to play from here
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Antony Beevor
and anthony beaver and you know his work on world war ii and the soviet union some pretty awful things happened in what is now the modern territory of ukraine ▶ tap to play from here
399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
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Stalingrad
Sir Antony Beevor
to guide us through this monumental moment in history we're joined by none other than the great sir anthony beaver author of stalingrad a book that has redefined the way we view the battle in the west ▶ tap to play from here
398. Stalin: The Great Terror (Part 4)
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The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Giles Milton
he is the author of the stalin affair the impossible alliance that won the war ▶ tap to play from here
Guinness World Records
Multiple authors / corporate
one man enters the guinness book of records tell us a little bit about him ▶ tap to play from here
397. Stalin: Killing Trotsky (Part 3)
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The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Giles Milton
anyway we are joined today by the wonderful giles milton friend of the show and author of the stalin affair the impossible alliance that won the war ▶ tap to play from here
Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service
robert service has a a wonderful book on trotsky and he has this observation that his mum wasn't exactly you know sort of apple pie and hugs ▶ tap to play from here
396. Stalin: The Bolshevik Revolution (Part 2)
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The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Giles Milton
and author of the stalin affair the impossible alliance that won the war to discuss stalin's rise in the shadow of lenin ▶ tap to play from here
Stalin: A Biography
Robert Service
and we have this wonderful story at this period from bob servis's stalin biography of stalin's incredible impatience about the the the the ▶ tap to play from here
20 Letters to a Friend
Svetlana Alliluyeva
and she'd write a fascinating book called 20 letters to a friend about life with a monstrous father and an unhinged mother ▶ tap to play from here
395. Stalin: The Rise of A Tyrant (Part 1)
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The Patricide
Alexander Kazbegi
on the band list called the patricide by alexander kaspeghi ▶ tap to play from here
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Martin Amis
martin amos wrote a book about stalin called koba the dread ▶ tap to play from here
394. Road To 9/11: Hijackers, CIA Failures, and America’s Darkest Day (Part 6)
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
Peter Bergen
author of several books on al qaeda including the zama bin laden i know and the longest war peter bergen ▶ tap to play from here
The Longest War
Peter Bergen
including the zama bin laden i know and the longest war peter bergen ▶ tap to play from here
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
which i was studying for my book the golden road ▶ tap to play from here
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter
classic kind of book about pearl harbor called warning and decision by roberto walstetter ▶ tap to play from here
393. Road To 9/11: Interviewing Bin Laden In The Caves of Tora Bora (Part 5)
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Peter Bergen
author of a wonderful book the rise and fall of azama bin laden which i just reread yesterday and which is just uh a spectacular summation of a long and complicated story ▶ tap to play from here
392. Road To 9/11: Bin Laden vs Saudi Arabia (Part 4)
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001
Steve Coll
double pulitzer prize winning author of ghost wars the secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century steve cole ▶ tap to play from here
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
ghost wars the secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century steve cole ▶ tap to play from here
391. Road To 9/11: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (Part 3)
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
steve cole the author of ghost wars secret history of the cia afghanistan and bin laden ▶ tap to play from here
The Bin Laden: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
and the bin laden an arabian family in the american century ▶ tap to play from here
390. Road To 9/11: The Soviet-Afghan War (Part 2)
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Defense of Muslim Lands
Abdullah Azam
in nineteen eighty five he publishes this extraordinarily influential book which is in defence of muslim lands ▶ tap to play from here
389. Road To 9/11: Origin of Al-Qaeda (Part 1)
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Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
Jason Burke
al qaeda the true story of radical islam the book that taught the world what this movement actually was ▶ tap to play from here
Revolutionists
Jason Burke
most recently the award winning revolutionists the story of the extremists who hijacked nineteen seventies ▶ tap to play from here
Milestones
Sayyid Qutb
the publication of his key work which we'll talk about in a minute the milestones ▶ tap to play from here
Thorns
Sayyid Qutb
he writes a um i kind of think love lawn rather weird romantic tortured book at one point called thorns ▶ tap to play from here
In the Shade of the Quran
Sayyid Qutb
and he writes this enormous kind of exegesis of the quran six volume work which is really engaging in the literary elements of the quran ▶ tap to play from here
388. Viking Mythology: Thor, Ragnarok, & Jesus Christ (Ep 6)
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Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
we've got two texts in particular we've got the prose edda by an icelandic politician poet um saga writer called snorri stotlessen ▶ tap to play from here
The Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
everyone that wants to get into this read the children of ash and elm by neil price which he did only it'cause he started with anthropology looking at the inuit indians ▶ tap to play from here
Saga of Erik the Red
Unknown
eric sagareva the saga of eric the red there's this horrible famine in one of the settlements in greenland ▶ tap to play from here
387. The Vikings Invade Britain (Ep 5)
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Beowulf
Unknown
a lovely man called john porter who did the translation of beowulf ▶ tap to play from here
Book of Kells
Unknown
maybe the home of the real home of the book of cales which i've very gone to this idea ▶ tap to play from here
Codex Aureus
Unknown
the codex aureus the golden book and that tells us everything this is a bling book ▶ tap to play from here
Egils saga
Unknown
he also appears in some of the icelandic sagas so ailes saga in particular ▶ tap to play from here
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