Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Episodes
Show 73 - Mania for Subjugation III
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Attacking the largest empire the world had ever seen is a huge endeavor at any age, but try doing it at 21. Alexander, fusing the qualities of a Napol...
Show 72 - Mania for Subjugation II
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it safe to hand control of the deadliest army in the world to a 20-year old? If you are Thracian, Triballian, Illyrian or Theban, the answer is def...
Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, ...
Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard i...
Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying bre...
Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice,...
Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic we...
Show 66 - Supernova in the East V
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns agai...
Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific t...
Show 64 - Supernova in the East III
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict w...
Show 63 - Supernova in the East II
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost mod...
Show 62 - Supernova in the East I
14 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If ther...