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Forgotten Wars Podcast

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Podcast covering the conflicts popular history overlooks

Journey to World War One in East Africa with an undefeated General General & trek across Siberia during the Russian Revolution with a lost Czech Legion

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The Bombing of Guernica, the worlds first taste of carpet bombing city’s.

Relatively small, but a deeply symbolic city to the Basques, it was almost completely destroyed in just 3 hours by the German Condor Legion.

Its destruction would help Franco’s conquest of northern Spain.

February 14, 2026 at 10:28 AM

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The May Days in Barcelona, as the Communists tried to crush the Anarchists and the POUM.

Brief but bloody, by the time it was over the Communists were the unofficial rulers of the Republican zone.

February 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM

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The Battle of Guadalajara, Mussolini’s first great humiliation.

February 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM

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🚨New Episode Alert! The Spanish Civil War - Part 4

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February 9, 2026 at 7:35 AM

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After Franco failed to capture Madrid in November 1936, his German and Italian allies pounded the city from the air.

February 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM

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February 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM

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After the Battle for Madrid ended in a Nationalist defeat, Spain was split in two.

Franco held most of the west and north-west, except for a small enclave in the Basque Country and Asturia.

The Republicans controlled the east and the big cities.

February 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM

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🚨New Episode Alert - The Spanish Civil War Part 3!

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February 3, 2026 at 7:39 AM

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The Spanish Military’s coup in July 1936 was something of a failure.

They did well in the North/North West, the Canary and Balearic Islands, Spanish Morocco and some city’s in the south.

But it was crushed in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.

With Spain divided, the Civil War began.

January 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM

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New Episode Alert 🚨! The Spanish Civil War Part 2 - Into The Abyss

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January 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM

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New Episode Alert 🚨! The Spanish Civil War Part 1 - The Centre Cannot Hold!

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January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM

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Hannie Schaft, a famous Dutch Resistance fighter against the Nazi’s. When she was being executed by firing squad, they missed the first time. She taunted them that ‘I shoot better!’