Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
We found 10 episodes of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “military history”.
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264 - Douglas Haig (pt6) - A legacy shaped by smooth brains.
January 5th, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
churchill, comedy, england, english history, great britain, history, military history, scandal, tabloid, uk, world war, wwi, wwii
We wrap up our series on Earl Douglas Haig and dive into how his legacy was born post-mortem. From a man-sized baby Winston Churchill, to an Adolf-loving PM David Lloyd George, to a crazy widow obsessed with deifying her lumpy late-husband.
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263 - Douglas Haig (pt5): Par 22 Million
December 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
20th century, battlefield, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, warfare, wwi
We wrap up the end of The Great War while Haig works on his handicap! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! And only 22 million dead!
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262 - Douglas Haig (pt4): The Passchen of Haig
December 15th, 2022 | 2 hrs 17 mins
battlefield, comedy, history, military history, passchendaele, podcast, ww1
Cullen from Cauldron Podcast joins us for as we take a deep dive into the infamous battle of Passchendaele
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261 - Douglas Haig (pt3): The Butcher of the Somme
December 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
20th century, battlefield, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, the somme, warfare, wwi
Today we dissect one of history's bloodiest battles, The Battle of the Somme and the failings of the Allies Field Marshall Douglas Haig. Did Haig deserve the gruesome title of The Butcher of the Somme, or was this massive loss of life inevitable? And more importantly, is Haig a bitch?
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260 - Douglas 'Horsegirl' Haig (pt2): Prancing into WWI
December 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 45 mins
19th century, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, warfare, wwi
That is right! We are going into WWI with nothing but horses and 19th century concepts of warfare. Let's see how Douglas and the Doughboys stack up against the Maxim gun!
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259 - Douglas Haig (pt1): Brogue, Boers and Brown Noses
November 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 38 mins
19th century, boer wars, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, south africa, sudan, warfare, wwi
We begin a deep dive into WWI's most controversial figures Field Marshall Douglas Haig a.k.a. The Butcher of the Somme. But before we get to the War to End All Wars. We take a look into his scottish, whiskey-distilling family, his money assisted climb up the social later and his time with the British Army in Africa.
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236 - Alexander the Great (pt5): Hitting the Hindu Kush
June 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 43 mins
alexander the great, ancient greece, ancient history, antiquity, battle tactics, comedy, empire, epic, history, india, iran, legend, military history, pakistan, persian, podcast, warfare
Alex expands further and further into Asia. Into a world previously unknown to the Hellenic states. Where people eat spicy curry, ride giant ants and smoke the dankest nugs!
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235 - Alexander the Great (pt4): Empire Building 101
June 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
alexander the great, ancient greece, ancient history, antiquity, battle tactics, comedy, empire, epic, history, legend, military history, persian, podcast, warfare
Alexander continues to steamroll around the the Mediterranean. He mashes the Gordian Knot, he poops his pants with malaria, he creates a freaking peninsula to attack the island city of Tyre!!! Oh and if you thought Zeus and Philip were his only daddies.... Try Amon-Ra. Cause guess what, he takes Egypt. All leading up to the decisive battle against the flaccid Darius at the Battle of Gaugamela!
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230 - Chiang Kai-Shek (pt3): WWII Gangbang
April 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 31 mins
1930s, 1940s, america, china, chinese history, combat, comedy, communism, history, international diplomacy, japan, military history, podcast, war, war crimes, warfare, wwii
We cover the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII as Chiang goes to war with modern mechanized Imperial Japan as he burns his own country to the ground. And after some sailors in Hawaii have a really bad day Dec 7th 1941, America joins the fight!
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229 - Chiang Kai-Shek (pt2): The Sloppy Nanjing Decade & Donald of China
April 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 31 mins
1920s, 1930s, asian history, china, chinese, chinese history, comedy, communism, history, japan, manchuria, military history, nanjing decade, podcast, revolution, war, warfare
Our story of Chiang Kai Shek continues and we dive head first into the Nanjing Decade. Chiang seizes power and leads a violent purge of the CCP. And one extremely white dude named Donald of China, saves the country from unraveling at the seams.