The Wild History Of War
The Wild History of War uncovers the strangest, most unbelievable true stories from wartime history. From Civil War Donkey Missiles to CIA vampires, each episode delivers gripping, humorous tales that reveal the chaos, ingenuity, and unpredictability of war in ways you never could have imagined.
Episodes
Wars of attrition, as in the case of prolonged siege warfare, are all about seeing who can last the longest.
And today's story is all about one of those siege warfare breaking points, and how an army was defeated by a w...
In this episode we'll explore how the German people's love of margarine (and the concurrent dwindling of their supply lines) led to an audacious plan that almost led to a spectacular German landgrab all the way down in the Antarctic!
Hosted by history teache...
This is the incredible tale of ...
Instead, a drunken argument somehow ended with thousands of Austrian soldiers firing on each other. Cavalry were mistaken for enemy troops, artillery opened fire on friendly forces, and Emperor Joseph II ended up fleeing for his life.
By the time the real Ottoman army arrived, the Austrians had already done most of the dam...
But as we'll find out, donkeys aren't always reliable when it comes to navigation!
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).
New episodes release EVERY TWO WEEKS!.
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Quite a lot, as it turns out!
This is the story of the American airforce pilot Gail Halvorsen, the "Candy Bomber of Berlin", who began dropping little sweet packages from his aircraft to the children of Berlin and accidentally became one of the most famous pilots of the early Cold War.
Hosted by history teacher turned podca...
After repeatedly sneaking onto trains to follow his sailor friends into Cape Town, the Navy solved the problem by officially enlisting him, giving him a rank and the right to free rail travel.
From attending parades and breaking up fights to escorting drunken sailors home, Just Nuis...
But in 1763, outside Fort Michilimackinac, the Ojibwe and Sauk used it for something even more dramatic: a deception so simple the British never saw it coming.
This is the bizarre but true story of how a ball game, an open fort gate, and one very badly timed lack of susp...
This episode tells the bizarre true story of Edward Lansdale, the Aswang legend, and one of the CIA’s most disturbing psychological warfare operations.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcast...
This is the infamous Emu War, a true story involving machine guns, some entirely misguided military strategy, and of course a deeply humbling loss for the Australian forces.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).
New episodes release EVERY TWO WEEKS!.<...
Covered in foliage, fake trees, and camouflage so ridiculous it fooled the Japanese forces, this is the story of one of the most bizarre naval escapes ever attempted.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of&nb...
In part two, we follow the ripple effects of one of history’s most unbelievable intelligence operations and see just how close it came to catastrophic failure.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).
New episodes release EVERY TWO WEEKS!.
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This is the setup to a plan so strange it sounds almost fictional, yet it helped change the course of World War II.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).
New episodes release EVERY TW...
In this episode, we dive into the bizarre and brilliant story of the Ghost Army, a top-secret unit of artists, designers, and sound engineers who used inflatable tanks, fake radio traffic, and theatrical deception to fool the Nazis on a massive scale.
From the beaches of D-Day to the banks of the Rhine, their illusions redirected entire German div...
Or that a Dutch warship escaped the Japanese by disguising itself as a floating tropical island…
Or that the Australian military once declared war on a group of emus…and lost?
Well all of these stories are true, and there are plenty more where they came from!
This show brings you the strangest, funniest, and mo...
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