Bloody Violent History

That's it folks.  Jamie and I have produced over 90 episodes for this show.  Here we talk about some of our favourites.  Thank you for listening.E79 Spy PlaneE69 WaterlooE80 Civil WarE91 MobsterE76 Disastrous ExpeditionsE77 Dambusters RaidE11 Twentieth Century HeroinesE2 Cavalry ChargeE8 Irish Terrier - True Dogs of WarE49 IED pt2 - The Combat SurgeonE51 PiratesE28 Bomber Harris speech 1977 so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Intro  2.Mutiny through the ages  3.Naval Mutiny  4.Army Mutiny  5.Air Force Mutiny  ps The Wagner GroupThere is always an underlying grievance.  Jamie and Tom dive into the history of Mutiny.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Mob Rule  2.Power Play  3.The Hit  4.Global Rampage  PS ' The 5 Families'Organised crime has huge resources, wealth, high political connections.  They own and operate billion dollar corporations.  Jamie and Tom take a look at the underworld - the mafia man, the gangster, the mobster.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Intro  2.Foundation  3. Genocide  4.Rampage  5.Explotation  6.Cull  ps St Valentine's Day MassacreJamie and Tom take a long look at Massacre - the wholesale, indiscriminate killing of persons.  This episode was recorded before Palestinian Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilian men, women and children on 7th october 2023.It is a difficult subject so we have split it into 5 sub headings, listed above.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reference:Richard 1 and the Massacre at Acre - reportage See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Royalty v Republic  2.  The 'Crown' tv show  3.  Princess Alice, the Duke of Edinburgh's mother  4.  Mad, bad and bonkers  5. Modernisation of the Royal Family.  6. ConclusionTom talks with the UK's pre-eminent expert on royalty, Hugo Vickers.  He has written many biographies of 20th century figures, including Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Andrew of Greece, and the Queen Mother.  His book, The Quest for Queen Mary, sold 40,000 copies in various forms.  He has attacked the fifty episodes of the Netflix series of The Crown – in his book, The Crown Dissected (2019), all of which are available as an e-book.So It GoesTom Assheton & James JacksonRef:Hugo VickersSee also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Jamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Chapters cont... 4. Dysentery  5. Typhoid & Cholera  6. Yellow Fever, Typhus and Malaria  7. Small Pox  8. Aids to Covid  ps Biological WarfareThe second and concluding part to our dive into the story of Contagion.Mankind has defeated all comers in the struggles we have had with the animal kingdom – no sabre-tooth tiger, crocodile or shark has been able to stall the Ascent of man … except perhaps our microscopic competitors; pathogens in the form of a virus, bacteria or God forbid, fungus.  Throughout our history these miniscule machines of death have destroyed huge numbers of people across the planet.  And we, humans, seem to positively encourage their many successes with our move to urbanisation, our migrations, our wars.  Pestilence and plague seem to follow our every geopolitical convulsion.  These crafty pathogens find any convenient vector to invade our fragile bodies – they are in the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breath.From the distant past to the present day ‘Plagues’ have been sawing at the trunk of human progress:  in this episode we take a tour through their greatest hits.  Pity the poor Pangolin.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. Introduction   2.The Plague ...  to be continuedMankind has defeated all comers in the struggles we have had with the animal kingdom – no sabre-tooth tiger, crocodile or shark has been able to stall the Ascent of man … except perhaps our microscopic competitors; pathogens in the form of a virus, bacteria or God forbid, fungus.  Throughout our history these miniscule machines of death have destroyed huge numbers of people across the planet.  And we, humans, seem to positively encourage their many successes with our move to urbanisation, our migrations, our wars.  Pestilence and plague seem to follow our every geopolitical convulsion.  These crafty pathogens find any convenient vector to invade our fragile bodies – they are in the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breath.From the distant past to the present day ‘Plagues’ have been sawing at the trunk of human progress:  in this episode we take a tour through their greatest hits.  Pity the poor Pangolin.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reading by David Hartley - The Black Death, 1348, Henry Knighton See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Chapters cont... 4. Anglo Norman period  5. Medieval  6. Early Modern  7. C20 &21  ps The Queen MotherThe concluding section to 'Royals in War', continuing from th previous episode.  But before we go any further, please SHARE this podcast with a friend – do it nowhttps://www.bloodyviolenthistory.com/episodesTo be King, Queen, Pharaoh, Tsar or Emperor a person had to gain power over people, a person had to hold power over people and lastly that person had to pass that power onto their successor of choice.  ‘War should be the only study of a Prince.  He should consider peace only as breathing time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans’.  Yes Machiavelli; despite being tortured by a prince, was still clear headed enough to understand what a prince, a king, had to do to stay on top.  In peacetime a king can maintain his power with spectacles, tournaments and Royal progression across him realm – bread and circuses.  But when a challenge looms, war is not far behind.  The ruler must don his amour and lead his men to victory.  Or death.Even as young democracies emerged, kings, with their conviction upheld by Divine Right, would only reluctantly surrender the levers of power when a sharp blade is held to their throat.  How can monarchs gain, hold and pass on absolute power – have a listen to find out.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Setting the Scene  2. Classical World  3. Dark Ages.  Chapters 4 to 8 in the next episodeToday’s episode is Bloody and Violent, but before we go any further, please SHARE this podcast with a friend – do it now https://www.bloodyviolenthistory.com/episodesThank you.  Many of you will recognise the opening quote from the fictional TV series A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin.  It may be fiction but it doesn’t mean the sentiment isn’t true.  What Cersei said.  Before democracy, sovereigns ruled – often with absolute power over their court, their military, their subjects.  To be King, Queen, Pharaoh, Tsar or Emperor a person had to gain power over people, a person had to hold power over people and lastly that person had to pass that power onto their successor of choice.  ‘War should be the only study of a Prince.  He should consider peace only as breathing time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans’.  Yes Machiavelli; despite being tortured by a prince, was still clear headed enough to understand what a prince, a king, had to do to stay on top.  In peacetime a king can maintain his power with spectacles, tournaments and Royal progression across him realm – bread and circuses.  But when a challenge looms, war is not far behind.  The ruler must don his amour and lead his men to victory.  Or death.Even as young democracies emerged, kings, with their conviction upheld by Divine Right, would only reluctantly surrender the levers of power when a sharp blade is held to their throat.  How can monarchs gain, hold and pass on absolute power – have a listen to find out.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Intro  2. British Crown Jewels  3. European Crown Jewels  4. Beyond Europe  5. ps  Bling for TodayJamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. Fight or Flight  2. Deliverance  3. Embarrassing Retreats  4. Arduous  5. Catastrophic  6. ps TrafalgarToday we are going to discuss the contentious issue of going backwards in war.  And no, we are not just talking about certain nations driving their tanks with 10 reverse gears.  We are talking about retreat, generally seen as a bad thing and withdrawal, sometimes seen as not such a bad thing. As Demosthenes put it ‘Sometimes you need to live to fight another day’.  And we’ve seen leaders turn disaster into triumph – Rourke’s Drift, the evacuation at Dunkirk comes to mind.  The US General Smith coined perhaps the best phrase for it when describing his military reverse ferret, at the Chosin Reservoir retreat by UN forces in the early stages of the Korean War in 1950.  General McArthur ordered him to retreat and his reply, ‘Retreat, hell we’re not retreating we’re just advancing in the wrong direction’.  It’s a known feature in war that the time of highest danger for men in battle is if they run, and the retreat turns into a rout.  Many of the great massacres in battle begin with a disordered group of soldiers running from the battlefield, as happened in 1416 at the battle of Towton the greatest slaughter of men on English soil.  Today we’ll look at four categories of retreat, Deliverance, the Embarrassing retreat, the Arduous and the Catastrophic.  We should remember Churchill’s line in his great Dunkirk speech, ‘Wars are not won by evacuations’.  However, a successful withdrawal can allow those men to live, to fight another day.  Jamie and Tom discuss.So It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Intro  2. Antiquity  3. Crusaders  4. Middle Ages  5. C18  6. C19  7. C20  8. postscript Jamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. The Violence of Civil War  2. England  3. Ireland  4. America  5. Russia  6. Europe  7. Africa  8. China  9.  Democracy or Bread and OrderThere is nothing more brutal than when a country goes to war with itself.  The scale of horrors almost always descends from the battlefield to ragged lines of refugees, violent insurgency, mass starvation, and long term schismatic destruction.  Towns are divided, the country sunders into ragged parts.  Throw in a giant dollop of religion or ideology and very quickly the people will be consumed by all manner of violence.In this episode we are going to look at some examples - there are no good wars (although there can be just wars) but civil war,  brother against brother, is probably the worst.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reference:Extracts from The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Ancient spies to the 19th century  2. WW1 & WW2  3. Cold War  4. ps Drones and planesJamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Intro  2. Spy Ships  3. Merchant Raider WW 1 & 2   4. Cold War Spy Trawlers  5. Middle East  6. ps Future RolesJamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. Genesis  2. The People  3. The Plan - Operation Chastise  4.  AftermathOn the night of 16th May 1943, 133 men of the Royal Air Force, in 19 Lancaster Bombers, flew a daring mission to destroy the Dams in Germany’s Ruhr valley.  Flying at night, at low level, these intrepid men destroyed 2 out of 3 of the dams.  1,300 where killed on the ground. 8 out of the 19 bombers didn’t return.  3 airmen were taken prisoner.  Of the 133 men who took part in the Dam Buster’s Raid, 53 were killed.This is perhaps the most famous story of a bombing mission in WW2.I first heard today’s guest give a terrific description Op Chastise at the Turf Club a couple of years ago, and I’m very pleased he is with us today in person.  Welcome back to the podcast, Hugh Macdonald-Buchanan.and so it goes,Tom Assheton & James Jackson Reference & Readings:Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy GibsonBomber Harris by Henry ProbartHugh Macdonald-Buchanan  http://www.hmbtourguide.co.uk See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. Reality Bites   2. Cannibals   3. Desert & Jungle   4. Mountain  5. Sea  6. The Odd Triumph  7. Aviation  8. Outer Space  9.  postscriptI hope you have calibrated your compass and zeroed your altimeter - for we are about to set off on a journey of exploration.  Anyone who has led any sort of life will have embarked on an expedition or two: some more hair raising than others, but things can still go awry at Centre Parks as they do paddling up the Limpopo or straddling Crib Goch wearing your grand father's tweed suit and a pair of wellies.  But in the field of human endeavour there are some expeditions which end in a truly disastrous manner.  Humans love to explore and set records: on land, at the Poles, at sea, in the air and in outer space.  And some of these are undertaken by the amateur, who may be ill prepared or subject to bad luck.  So let's get in amongst the bodies dangling from mountain tops, frozen in the ice or bobbing amongst the waves awaiting a call from Bruce.  Jamie and Tom summon the ghost of Phileas Fogg and describe how often, on expeditions, reality bites.So it goes,Tom Assheton & James Jacksontalk@bloodyviolenthistory.comRef.Cannibal Song, Flanders & SwamMichel Montaigne Essays, Of CannibalsRonald Reagan broadcast, Space Shuttle Challenger - disaster See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Today we talk about a subject close to our hearts on this show – what happens when the Brits get in touch with their inner pirate.  To help me I am joined by Colonel Tim Spicer OBE.  Tim had an illustrious career in the army, including commanding his Regiment, the 1st Battalion Scots Guards.  He then had 20 years running Private Military Security businesses; founding both Sandline International and Aegis Defence Services. He has published ‘A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea'.  It is a  brilliant example of a few brave men, at great odds to themselves, making an important and vital difference to the prosecution of the war against Nazi Germany. so it goes,Tom Assheton & James Jackson A Dangerous Enterprise, Secret War at Sea by Col. Tim Spicer OBEhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447683/a-dangerous-enterprise-by-spicer-tim/9781999589134 See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Intro  2. Evolution  3. WW2,  all grown up  4. The Funnies  5. C20 & C21 - Battles  6. Ukraine  7. ps In ExtremisJamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  talk@bloodyviolenthistory.comSo It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information