Empire Builders: Then and Now

What if one wrong turn started World War One? What if one man — alone in a submarine, running out of oxygen — was the only thing standing between the world and nuclear war? These are the stories history forgot to simplify. Empire Builders: Then and Now goes deeper than the textbook — into the decisions, the leaders, and the human beings who changed the world. D-Day. Pearl Harbor. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Somme. Apollo. Two hosts. A historian and an analyst. Genuine disagreements. No easy answers. New episode every week.

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  The Treaty of Versailles — The Peace That Made the Next War Inevitable

  Aug 25, 202628 minS0

  <p>June 28th, 1919. Exactly five years to the day since the assassination in Sarajevo. The war is over. Twenty million dead. Four empires gone.</p><p>And in the most opulent room in Europe, a man who can barely hold a pen is about to sign a document he knows is wrong.</p><p>Woodrow Wilson came to Paris promising a new kind of peace. No punishment. No humiliation. A League of Nations that would make war obsolete. Crowds wept in the streets when he arrived. They called him the savior of the world.</p><p>That was six months...

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  Episode #9: The Somme — The Day 57,000 Men Fell Before Breakfast

  Aug 18, 202623 minS0

  <p>July 1st, 1916. The British artillery has been firing for seven days straight. One and a half million shells. The plan is simple — by the time the infantry goes over the top, the wire will be cut, the guns will be gone, and the men can walk across no man's land.</p><p>Walk. Not run. Walk.</p><p>The wire is not cut.</p><p>By the end of that single morning, 57,470 British casualties. Almost 20,000 dead. The worst day in the history of the British Army. And General Haig's diary entry that evening reads — the day went well for Engl...

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  Episode 8: The Assassination at Sarajevo — The 37 Days That Ended the Old World

  Aug 11, 202630 minS0

  <p>What if one wrong turn started World War One?</p><p>June 28th 1914. Sarajevo. An assassin fails, gives up, and stops for a sandwich. Then history parks five feet away from him.</p><p>What follows is 37 days of ultimatums, blank cheques, and military machines that nobody could stop — ending in a war that killed twenty million people and destroyed four empires.</p><p>In this episode we go inside the decision that nobody made and the catastrophe that nobody wanted. The blank cheque that made war likely. The trains that couldn't be stopped. And the leaders who built a...

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  Episode #7- Pearl Harbor — The Day America Entered World War II

  Aug 5, 202628 minS0

  <p>On the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever.</p><p>In a meticulously planned surprise attack, Japan struck the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, drawing America into World War II and setting the stage for one of history's greatest global conflicts. But how did the attack happen? Could it have been prevented? And why did a stunning tactical victory ultimately become a strategic disaster for Japan?</p><p>In this episode of Empire Builders: Then and Now, we explore the intelligence failures, leadership decisions, and strategic lessons behind Pearl Harbor—and what they can teach us ab...

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  Episode #6- The Cuban Missile Crisis — 13 Days from Nuclear War

  Jul 29, 202645 minS0

  <p>October 16th, 1962. A photograph lands on the President's desk.</p><p>Soviet nuclear missiles. In Cuba. Ninety miles from Florida.</p><p>What follows is thirteen days that brought the world closer to nuclear annihilation than it has ever been — three separate moments where one decision, made by one person, stood between civilization and everything after it.</p><p>One of those people was a submarine commander at the bottom of the Atlantic. Out of oxygen. Being shaken by explosions. Convinced the war had already started.</p><p>Most people have never heard of him.</p><p></p>

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