Radio War Nerd

Guest: Annibale Part 2 of our Italian Wars series with Annibale, the battles begin! We discuss the first key battle, between the French and a Venice-led alliance, at the Battle of Fornovo, that ended in French withdrawal, and later, back home in Paris, French King Charles VIII's death-by-pissoir. *M

Guest: Lucas Fernandez, history nerdo Recorded: January 27, 2022 This episode we look at the decline of the Spanish Empire, which entered the 17th-century as the most powerful & wealthy in Europe, bar none...and ended the 17th-c. as the sick man of Europe, in seemingly terminal decline. We talk to f

Guest: Annibale, Italian war nerd Recorded: January 17, 2020 BANGKOK — The War Nerd unexpectedly lands in Bangkok just in time to bring you the fourth installment of our series on the amazing & strange history of the Venetian Republic empire with the popular, highly-decorated war nerd-vet Annibale.

Guest: Annibale, Italian war nerd Recorded: December 11, 2019 In this episode, the War Nerd & Ames catch up on some recent war news — funny reporting on Libya in the New York Times & the "Afghanistan Papers" in the WaPo . . . At 48:30 we're joined by Annibale for Part 3 of our series on the Republic

Guest: James McDougall, author & professor Recorded: September 24, 2019 Judging by subscriber requests over the years, you can't call yourself a true war nerd podcast until you've covered the famous France-Algeria War of the 1950s. Lucky for us, we're joined by Oxford U. history professor James McDo

Recorded: May 30, 2019 LIMA, PERU — For our fifth and final episode this month, the War Nerd descends from the oxygen-challenged heights of Cusco to the strange sea-level streets of Lima, to tell the amazing & tragic story of the Incan Empire — or at least, what we can glean from the few historical