History on Fire

History on Fire

Author: Daniele Bolelli Language: English Episodes: 100
Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.
Episodes
EPISODE 105: Rationalizing Evil in El Salvador [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:09
“I didn’t know what to do. They were killing my children. I knew that If I went back there to help my children I would be cut to pieces. But I couldn’t stand to hear it, I couldn’t bear it. I was afraid that I would cry…
EPISODE 104: The Saint and the Death Squads [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:15
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter he kingdom of God.” Matthew 19: 24 "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access t…
[RERUN] EPISODE 65: The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3): A River of Death [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:25:48
“Everywhere in southern Anhui they are eating people.” Zeng Guofan “Infants but recently born were torn from their mother’s breasts, and disemboweled before their faces. Young strong men were disemboweled, mutilated, and…
EPISODE 103: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:16:57
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.” Miyamoto Musashi Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by listeners. Over the years, I received hundreds of…
EPISODE 102: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:45:24
“All warfare is based on deception.” Sun Tzu Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by listeners. Over the years, I received hundreds of messages asking me to cover the l…
EPISODE 101: The History Behind Killers of the Flower Moon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:13
“But the years of peace and plenty was not to last. Slowly the days turned sour and the watchful nights closed in. Thrór's love of gold grown too fierce and sickness had begun to grow within him. It was a sickness of the…
[RERUN] EPISODE 62: Plagues, Mystery and Dancing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:51:51
“The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveler… Knowledge is ex…
[RERUN] EPISODE 61: Raiders in the Night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:18:33
“Never in history had the United States Army been called on to rescue such a large number of POWs from so deep in enemy territory.” William Breuer “We were in the best shape of our lives, and with this mission we underst…