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Extracts taken from:
A Fatalist at War by Rudolf Binding - Translated by Ian F.D. Morrow (Allen & Unwin, 1929)
archive.org/details/fatalistatwar00rudo/mode/2up
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German Soldiers By Rudolf Simon sen. / Lizenzinhaber: RudolfSimon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65078595
German Soldiers By Bundesarchiv, Bild 104-0832 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5481423
Trench in Flanders By Ken Eckert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39240724
German Soldiers Lautie Daniel, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Extracts taken from:
A Fatalist at War by Rudolf Binding - Translated by Ian F.D. Morrow (Allen & Unwin, 1929)
archive.org/details/fatalistatwar00rudo/mode/2up
Music from:
Epidemic Sound
Artlist.io
Image Credits:
German Soldiers By Rudolf Simon sen. / Lizenzinhaber: RudolfSimon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65078595
German Soldiers By Bundesarchiv, Bild 104-0832 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5481423
Trench in Flanders By Ken Eckert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39240724
German Soldiers Lautie Daniel, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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![Roman Scholar Describes Ancient Africa // Pliny on Source of The Nile and Aethiopia - 1st century AD
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A land containing not only powerful imperial dynasties and massive historical armies, but also tribes of dog-headed men, hungry cannibals and looming giants...
Here we have Pliny The Elders description of the lands south of Egypt - as far south into Ancient Africa as Rome had ventured at the time. Whether searching for the source of the Nile, or in attempts to conquer the ancient Kingdom of Kush, Romes knowledge of the region was surprisingly detailed - and unsurprisingly outlandish.
Translated by John Bostock and HT Riley.
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![Three Terrifying First-Hand Accounts of Mongol Invasions // Genghis Khan, Khwarezmia, Baghdad
Here we have three chilling first-hand accounts of Mongol attacks, and the tactics they used when they had a civilization in their grasp.
Huge thanks to Jackmeister: Mongol History for their help in producing this video:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQEYhWVV3V-ItwJE-kgRd9w
Taken from:
Genghis Khan: the history of the world conqueror.
Juvaini, Ata Malik, Boyle, J.A. [translator]
A Literary History of Persia, Edward G Browne
Robert Bedrosian - Armenian Historical Sources (attalus.org)
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![Caesar on the Gauls // Roman Primary Source (58 - 49 BC)
Here we have Julius Caesars views on the peoples he crushed in his campaigns to the west through which he made his name - the Gauls. Foreign and backwards to Caesar, modern archaeological evidence has shown that they were actually a city building culture far more advanced than he gave them credit for.
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