Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples

School of War · Apr 11, 2023 · 42m

Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford, and author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, joins the show to talk about Germany, Germans, and German-speakers at war.

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Times

• 01:52 Introduction

• 03:07 A dominance myth?

• 06:58 The Holy Roman Empire

• 10:33 HRE longevity

• 12:38 The Thirty Years War

• 15:31 Westphalia

• 21:24 Prussia rising

• 24:09 Prussia and Austria

• 27:56 Napoleon

• 31:43 The Imperial legacy

• 34:42 Bismarck’s wars

• 37:06 1914 vs 1940

• 40:03 Blitzkrieg

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