Empire Builders: Then and Now

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Topics: History

No. 95 in HistoryNew

What if one wrong turn started World War One? What if one man — alone in a submarine, running out of oxygen — was the only thing standing between the world and nuclear war? These are the stories history forgot to simplify. Empire Builders: Then and Now goes deeper than the textbook — into the decisions, the leaders, and the human beings who changed the world. D-Day. Pearl Harbor. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Somme. Apollo. Two hosts. A historian and an analyst. Genuine disagreements. No easy answers. New episode every week.

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