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Strife! History's Conflicts

Strife! History's Conflicts

De: John R. Huber
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Strife! History’s Conflicts immerses you in the chain reactions that shape nations, fuel wars, and ignite revolutions. Each episode kicks off with a gripping narrative, breathing life into the past through the eyes of those who experience it—beyond the cold dates and battlefield stats. Blending sharp historical insight, decision-making analysis, and deeply human stories, it provides a richer, more empathetic view of how history shapes lives.John R. Huber Mundial
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  • The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days of Tension (October 15 - October 28, 1962)

    The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days of Tension (October 15 - October 28, 1962)
    Oct 1 2025
    The Cuban Missile Crisis stands as the single most terrifying confrontation in human history, a thirteen-day stretch in October 1962 when the world balanced on the razor's edge of nuclear annihilation. It is not merely a story of political posturing between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, but a deeply human drama of miscalculation, fear, and stunning luck. This event exposes the terrifying fragility of our systems of control, revealing how the fate of millions rested on the split-second decisions of exhausted men in smoky rooms and sweltering submarines. The crisis was born from a volatile cocktail of strategic insecurity, personal vendetta, and catastrophic miscommunication, pushing both superpowers toward a war neither truly wanted. Its resolution did not come from a clear victory, but from a last-minute retreat forged in secret deals and a shared, visceral dread of the abyss. The enduring importance of those thirteen days lies in the profound and permanent scar they left on the global psyche, fundamentally altering the course of the Cold War and serving as an eternal warning of how close we came to ending our own story. It is a masterclass in the perils of brinkmanship and the absolute necessity of diplomacy, even with one's greatest enemy.
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    35 m
  • The Business Plot: The Time American Tycoons Tried to Overthrow FDR (1933-1934)

    The Business Plot: The Time American Tycoons Tried to Overthrow FDR (1933-1934)
    Sep 28 2025
    The year is 1933, and the Great Depression has brought the United States to its knees. In this atmosphere of profound desperation, a cabal of wealthy industrialists and Wall Street tycoons, fearing Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, conceives an unthinkable solution: a coup d'état. Their plan is to overthrow the president and install a fascist dictatorship with a beloved war hero, Marine Corps General Smedley Butler, as its figurehead. Butler, however, stunningly agrees to play along only to expose the conspiracy, testifying before Congress about the plot. The public revelation should have caused a seismic political earthquake, yet the affair was swiftly dismissed as a fantasy and faded from history. This near-forgotten event, known as the Business Plot, reveals a moment when American democracy hung in the balance. It forces us to confront the fragility of republican institutions when threatened by concentrated wealth and ideological extremism. The story is a gripping tale of one man's moral courage and a chilling lesson in how power protects itself from scandal.
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    25 m
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentices: Weaponizing Nazi Mysticism (1940 to 1945)

    The Sorcerer's Apprentices: Weaponizing Nazi Mysticism (1940 to 1945)
    Sep 24 2025

    In the shadow of the Blitz, a different kind of war is waged not with bullets, but with beliefs. British intelligence discovers the Third Reich's Achilles' heel: an ideological obsession with the occult and a desperate search for mythical artifacts like the Holy Grail and the Spear of Destiny. This is the story of the sorcerer's apprentices—a clandestine unit of psychologists, forgers, and strategists who learn to mimic the dark arts of their enemy. They craft an elaborate world of fake rituals, cursed relics, and magical threats, feeding the paranoia of the Nazi high command. Their goal is not to destroy tanks, but to corrupt strategy, waste resources, and turn the regime's greatest strength—its unifying mythology—into its most devastating liability. This clandestine struggle redefines the battlefield, proving that in modern warfare, the most powerful weapon is often a perfectly tailored lie.
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    34 m
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