Jim McGeehin

We continue into the year 1917! This time, our focus is not on tactics, strategy, weapons and stuff but on the epochal e... Read more

We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1916. The battles of Verdun and the Somme are the most famous, a... Read more

We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1915. From the massive loss of human lives in the big offensives... Read more

We are finally here: World War I has broken out, and now it’s off to the military history. But not so fast! Before you t... Read more

After we followed Bismarck’s delicate attempt at maintaining European balance in the favor of German foreign policy inte... Read more

Bismarck famously refused to engage in colonialism, only to do an about-face in the 1880s to create the third-largest co... Read more

Bismarck felt, in the colloquial French of the times, the “cauchemar des coalitions”, the nightmare of coalitions. He wa... Read more

In the latest episode of our Kaiserreich series, we talk about the three great domestic fights that the ruling conservat... Read more

In our second episode of the Kaiserreich series, we’re wading through blood and iron as the new nation state is formed i... Read more

We are starting a new series on the history of the Kaiserreich! But before we can actually go into the history of German... Read more