Frightened Genuine Reactions To Seeing Unprecedented Weapons For The First Time
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The episode discusses historical reactions to unprecedented weapons throughout history.
Use my link https://www.displate.com/voicesofthepast or my discount code VOICESOFTHEPAST to access my special promo on all designs: Get 1-2 displates for 27% OFF and 3+ displates for 33% OFF. automatically at check out when using my link. Valid for 1 week only. ------------------- Extracts taken from: Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. Anna Comnena (Komnene). The Alexiad. Edited and translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes. London: Routledge, Kegan, Paul, 1928. (https://origin.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad-intro.asp) The Memoirs Of The Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo Translated From The Original Spanish By John Ingram Lockhart https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm Letters by Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/the-sinking-of-the-uss-housatonic-by-the-submarine-css-h-l-hunley.html Bert Chaney's account appears in Moynihan, Michael (ed.) People at War 1914-1918 (1973); Liddell Hart, Basil, The Tanks vol. 1 (1959) "The Battlefield Debut of…
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