#Dan carlin blueprint for armageddon 4 series#

There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses. Home / Dan Carlin's Hardcore History / Classic Hardcore History / Hardcore History 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IV Hardcore History 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IV Rated out of 5 based on 15 customer ratings ( 15 customer reviews) 2. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Show 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme.

Still, that’s enough military history for me for now. The war of maneuver that was supposed to be over quickly instead turns into a lingering bloody stalemate. He does go on and on about things, but I didn’t mind that as my mind could go off on a little wander of its own, then I could refocus and catch up with what he was saying (indeed, by the time I tuned in again, he was often still making the same point!) And although he does labour some ideas, at heart they’re often insightful, original and interesting points that he’s making. Even though he confessed his frustration at what he left out (even at 23 hours!), I thought that he did a good job of ranging across the different theatres of war, even picking up on the Australians and New Zealanders although his main focus is the western front. So why did I persist for 23 hours? Well, he did a really good job particularly in the first episode on laying out the groundwork for the war that was to follow, drawing heavily on Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.

He cited frequently from primary sources from soldiers fighting on different sides, read in a harsh tone to distinguish it from his commentary. Dan Carlins Hardcore History 'Blueprint for Armageddon' The Planet had not seen a major war between all the great powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

#Dan carlin blueprint for armageddon 4 series#

He spends too much comparing people and events for my liking, and at times I felt as if the series was descending into trench-porn as he tried to capture the experience of fighting on the western front. It’s about World War I, told chronologically and based largely on primary sources and a survey of secondary sources.ĭan Carlin is not a historian, but a broadcaster who loves history. Dan Carlin, Blueprint for Armageddon III, Hardcore History Podcast 52. For the past 23 hours I’ve been listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History opus, ‘Blueprint for Armageddon’, which runs for six episodes ranging in length from 3 hours and 7 minutes to a massive 4 hours and 29 minutes. John Arquilla, Rolling the Iron Dice: Can Kim Jong Un Use His Nukes and Get. I’ve taken to trying to walk a bit more for fitness, and so I kit myself up with my smartphone and wireless headphones, turn on a podcast and off I go.