Plot Twisted History

De: David Nix
  • Resumen

  • History is most compelling when it twists and turns like an Agatha Christie novel. A writer of historical fiction dives down rabbit holes of history in search of plot twisted stories and tells them to you in service of the surprise.
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  • 005: Fair Weather Enemies
    Aug 27 2024

    In the dying hours of World War II in the west, the United States fought one of the strangest battles in its military history. In a scenario too bizarre to be invented, American soldiers teamed up with sworn enemies to hold a medieval castle against Hitler fanatics to save some of the most famous Frenchmen alive - all against terrifying odds.

    Buckle up, friends, for the rollicking tale of the Battle for Castle Itter!

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    47 m
  • 004: Stravinsky's Very Bad Day
    Aug 13 2024

    What happens when real history becomes fake history that in turn influences real history? When the ballet The Rite of Spring debuted in Paris in 1913, the result was horrifyingly unexpected, and the event influenced a century of brain science. Or did it? This episode tells the story of what happens when the truth can’t get in the way of a good story.

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    34 m
  • 003: Those Who Open Doors
    Jul 30 2024

    Sir Isaac Newton identified a scientific door to the future, but left it mostly locked and bolted. It took a nearly forgotten French noblewoman to kick it open that the world might enter. This episode tells the astonishing story of the mostly forgotten polymath Emilie du Chatelet.

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    46 m

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