Episodes

  • Now Published: How to Start a War – New and Expanded Edition
    Apr 16 2024

    How to Start a War: New and Expanded Edition is now available on Audible, Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and wherever you get audiobooks.

    Your support for this audiobook will directly support the creation of new stories like How To Start a War. You can sign up for updates at howtostartawar.com and follow along on Instagram at @howtostartawarpod

    I'm giving away free copies of the audiobook edition for anyone that writes a review, and sends me a screenshot of their review. You can send the screenshot of your review to michael@howtostartawar.com or DM it to me on Instagram @howtostartawarpod.

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    4 mins
  • Were we Wrong About Appeasement?
    Apr 1 2024

    The benefits of hindsight are infinite. It's easy for us to look back on Britain's pre-war strategy of Appeasement and say it was cowardly and short sighted. But were there really better options?

    Join Historian James Levy in the first of a new Context conversation series about the key moments in How to Start a War bring brings them to life.

    The series is brought to you by the New and Expanded Edition of How To Start a War, available as an audiobook wherever you get them.

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    52 mins
  • Major News – Getting Published: New & Expanded Edition!
    Mar 4 2024

    Huge Update: How to Start a War is getting published!

    A new and expanded edition of How To Start a War, including a never before heard chapter, a new introduction, new sound design, and complete audio remaster is getting published by Blackstone Publishing, the audiobook publisher for Harper Collins, The BBC, and Disney.

    You can pre-order today on Audible, Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and wherever you get audiobooks.

    **Stay tuned for a brand new series** of conversations with historians, diplomats, veterans, and other experts starting soon right here in this podcast feed.

    Your support for this audiobook will directly support the creation of new stories like How To Start a War. You can sign up for updates at howtostartawar.com and follow along on Instagram at @howtostartawarpod

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    5 mins
  • Announcement Soon
    Feb 19 2024

    Hi there, it's Michael. It's been a while. In the coming weeks, I'll be sharing an exciting announcement on this podcast feed, something that How To Start a War Listeners will really love.

    If you want to be the first to hear the news, you can sign up for updates at howtostartawar.com and add your email address. Those listeners will get the news a week before everyone else and early access to everything that comes next.

    Stay tuned. Sign up for updates. You'll hear from me soon!

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    1 min
  • Catastrophe | Final Chapter – Part Two
    Dec 20 2021

    The Final Chapter, Chapter Eight – Part 2of 2. This is the final episode of the series.

    The world goes to war, and how this story from the past helps us understand our world today.

    This is the second installment of the two-part series finale.

    The End.

    Follow @howtostartawarpod on Instagram say in touch or go to https://www.howtostartawar.com for updates.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Catastrophe | Final Chapter – Part One
    Dec 13 2021

    The Final Chapter, Chapter Eight – Part 1 of 2

    In the last chance for peace, desperate diplomats will criss-cross Europe in an attempt to prevent a World War, and a return to the horrors of only 20 years before.

    This is the first installment of the two-part series finale.

    Part 2 will release next week.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Permission | Chapter Seven
    Sep 7 2021

    What permission structure allows a nation to wage war? In the second-to-last chapter in the series, we follow the foreign ministers of two hostile nations find that they are actually more alike than they thought. What is public is not reality.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Broken Glass | Chapter Six
    Jun 14 2021

    In the darkest chapter of this series, we experience Kristallnacht through the voices of survivors. We take a candid look at ourselves, and ask what could have been done to stop the Holocaust – and prevent something like it from happening again.

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    1 hr and 12 mins