Hosted by Nik Osterman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall This is a story about why war happens when nobody truly wants it—until suddenly, everyone does. If you grew up with the usual explanation, you were told the First World War begins with a gunshot in Sarajevo. A young man steps forward, fires two rounds, and the world falls apart. It’s neat. It’s cinematic. It has a villain, a victim, a turning point, and a date you can underline. It also has the comforting illusion that history is a line of dominoes and that one pushed the rest. But the truth is crueler and more human. Sarajevo was not the beginning. Sarajevo was a match. The question is why the room was full of powder. This season is about the powder.
Nik Osterman hosts WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall, a society show with 29 episodes published.
Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Today’s episode is The Economy of War—the machinery beneath the speeches, the quiet engine that makes conflict not only possible but increasingly
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Episode Four of our buildup arc is The Victors in Fear: Britain and France Hold the Line. If you want to understand the interwar period properly,
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Episode Three of our buildup arc is Russia: Retreat, Revolution, and the New Empire. If Germany is the story of a crown falling and a republic try
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Episode Two of our buildup arc is Germany: The Crown Falls, the Republic Bleeds. The most dangerous moment in a collapsing empire is not the day i
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Episode One of our buildup arc is 1918–1919: The Peace That Continued the War. The first thing to understand about the armistice is that it doesn’
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. We’ve just walked out of Versailles—the great paper ending that doesn’t end anything—and now we take the next step exactly where you want it: into
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Today’s episode is called After the Guns: The War That Stayed in the Mind. Because the deeper claim is simple and brutal: 1914–1918 doesn’t end. I
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Today’s episode is about what the war did after the war. About how 1914 to 1918 didn’t just end with an armistice. It went underground. It moved i
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. We’re keeping the format, keeping the big machine in view, but we’re going to keep pressing the ear to the envelope—because the ugly truth isn’t i
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Lets keep the larger format, keep the bigger-picture engine running, but deepen the personal enough that the disgrace and terror can’t be politely
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Today we’re going to listen to the war the way most people actually encountered it at the time: through letters, speeches, headlines, sermons, roy
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. And today we’re going to do what polite history often avoids. We’re going to go down into the slaughter field and stay there long enough that it s
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. And before we step into the July Crisis and the opening months of 1914 and something that deserves to be said plainly, without flinching: the ordi
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Hello and welcome back. This is WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. We’ve moved into the Balkans, into the seam where old empires crack and new nations sharpen themselves like blades. And now we come to something t
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1918 — The Armistice and the Peace That Wasn’t Peace By the time the guns stopped, the war had already done its deepest work. Not only on borders, but on minds. What ended in November 1918 was the shooting. What did not
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1918 — The Last Gamble In early 1918 the war reached a strange moment of imbalance. Russia was out. The Eastern Front, which had consumed German divisions for years, had vanished. German leaders believed they finally had
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1917 — Mutiny, Submarines, and the Breaking Point By 1917, the war had entered a phase no one had planned for and no one could control. The optimism of 1914 was long dead, and even the grim determination of 1916 had begu
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By 1917 the war no longer pretended to be about glory. Whatever illusions survived 1914 had been buried in mud, wire, and arithmetic. This was now a war of exhaustion, and everyone involved knew it, even if they could no
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Hello and welcome to War — 1870 to 1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Season Two: World War One — The Age of Attrition. Episode Three: 1916 — Verdun, The Somme, and the Arithmetic of Endurance. By 1916, the war has stopped
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Hello and welcome to War — 1870 to 1949: How Empires Rise and Fall. Season Two: World War One — The Age of Attrition. Episode Two: 1915 — Trenches, Stalemate, and the Invention of Modern Suffering. By the start of 1915 t
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