Hitler, is only 16 minutes) and are more Carlin giving his random thoughts on the subject matter of the episode. All having a much shorter running time (the first episode, Alexander vs.
#BLUEPRINT FOR ARMAGEDDON FREE SERIES#
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first 20 or so episodes are rather different from what the series would eventually evolve into.Culture Clash: One of Carlin's Author Appeal's about history (particularly pre-globalized history) is when very different civilizations come into conflict with one another for the first time (and often with disastrous results) the Greeks and Persians in the Greco-Persian Wars or the Mongols and the people of the Middle East and Europe.Breather Episode: Has a few of these that are usually inserted in between his multi-episodic arcs.Romancing The Tribes and The Celtic Holocaust looks at Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.Death Throes of the Republic looks at the collapse of the Roman Republic into political violence and Civil War, starting with the Gracchi brothers in the 130s-120s B.C.E to the assassination of Julius Caesar.Punic Nightmares covers Rome's wars with Hannibal and Carthage during the Punic Wars.Ancient Rome: Has devoted quite a few series looking at the Ancient Romans (so far the middle and late Republican periods).Supernova of the East (Episodes 63 - 67): A look at the meteoric rise of Imperial Japan and it's collision course with The United States in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.King of Kings (Episodes 56 - 58): A Perspective Flip look at the The Achaemenid Empire and the Greco-Persian Wars, ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great.Overlapping somewhat with the actual centenary of the conflict. Blueprint for Armageddon (Episodes 50 - 55): Carlin's overview of the major events of World War I.Wrath of the Khans (Episodes 43 - 47): Series detailing the rapid and explosive conquests of Genghis Khan and his successors.Death Throes of the Republic (Episodes 34 - 39): Multi-episode look at the gradual and violent collapse of the late- Roman Republic.Ghosts of the Ostfront (Episodes 27 - 30): Centering on the brutal Eastern European Front of World War II between Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.With particular focus on the famed second one with Hannibal. Punic Nightmares (Episodes 21 - 23): Detailing the Punic Wars between Carthage and the emerging power of The Roman Republic.Sure puts the horrors of a few supportive police at your parade in perspective. Not only are you likely to be killed at any time, but when the shells landed the old decaying bodies of friends would get blown out of the ground. Imagine living months on end with your dead comrades buried beneath you in puddles of mud. So they had to bury them under their feet. The Allies couldn't get the dead bodies out of the trenches because they'd get shot doing it. Little details in the war stick with you. You can find the courage to bravely battle through a slow internet day at work with those images in your mind. Which of course brought the evil of the trenches. Brutal new technology coming up against the old battle techniques on a massive scale for the first time.Įventually, soldiers had no choice but to dig or die. Unfortunately, things had changed and they were mown down in their tens of thousands by the efficient German war machine.
They stood upright out in the open, fighting bravely for their country. Bright red pants, cloth hats, white gloves and even swords. Like the proud hopeful French soldiers turning up at the start of the war in fancy Napoleonic garb. Blueprint For Armageddon is populated with harrowing letters from soldiers on both sides. But not as hard as the individual accounts.
On August 22, 1914, alone, 27,000 allied soldiers died.
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