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June 15, 2020August 23, 2020

Maritime and naval history – “Whaling Captains of Color” (Naval Institute Press, 2020) – Skip Finley interview

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Skip Finley spent many years in the radio broadcasting business. He developed a passion for the study of whaling captains and wrote a book on whaling captains of color. This is his first non-fiction book and we spoke about the book and the writing process.

1:06 – Skip talks about how he got into writing on whaling captains.

2:49 – Skip talks about whaling.

5:55 – Skip talks about whaling and the American Revolution.

8:34 – Skip talks about whaling captains impacted by the Revolution.

9:46 – Skip talks about where the British kept prisoners during the American Revolution.

12:10 – Skip talks about the US Civil War how easy it was for the South to destroy whalers.

14:22 – Skip talks about what Confederates did with black whalers they caught.

14:54 – Skip talks about an encounter between a whaler and a German submarine in WWI.

18:38 – Skip talks about whaling between the American Revolution and the US Civil War.

22:34 – Skip talks about where the whaling industry was centered.

25:04 – Skip talks about doing the research for the book.

35:33 – Skip talks about the connection between Navy duty and whaling duty.

38:12 – Skip talks about John Mashall and the types of ships he designed.

39:39 – Skip goes into more detail about the books he used for his research.

43:40 – Skip talks about how one became a whaling captain.

45:24 – Skip talks about how important Nantucket and whaling was to black freedom.

58:33- Skip can be found at skipfinley.com

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April 30, 2020August 23, 2020

World War I military history book – “Turning Points” – (Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2020) – Richard DiNardo interview

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Richard DiNardo has written extensively on the German military in WWI. He recently released a book about the eastern Front in 1915. We spoke about the book, the events of the Eastern Front, the research involved and more.

0:36 – Richard talks about how he got into researching WWI.

3:10 – Richard talks about why he wrote about the year 1915.

4:37 – Richard talks about how he breaks the book down.

5:50 – Richard talks about Russian planning in 1915 and the makeup of the Russian army.

8:46 – Richard talks about trench warfare in the Eastern front.

9:32 – Richard talks about the use of aircraft and poison gas in the Eastern front.

13:12 – Richard talks about the Russian air force.

14:05 – Richard talks about the eastern front terrain and weather.

16:55 – Richard talks about the summer weather during the fighting.

17:54 – Richard talks about supply issues in 1915.

19:22 – Richard talks about capture of rail systems.

20:26 – Richard talks about civilian labor.

22:21 – Richard talks about motor transport.

23:15 – Richard talks about movement of troops.

24:29 – Richard talks about naval issues.

25:42 – Richard talks about waterways and rivers.

27:08 – Richard talks about the archives he used. He talks about an online resource which can be found by googling “German documents in Russia.”

33:19 – Richard talks about a WWI tour company.

33:44 – Richard talks about some amusing incidents about the war.

35:30 – Richard talks about interesting changes in the Russian military in 1915.

41:00 – Richard talks about the Posen conference of July 2, 1915.

43:03 – Richard talks about Robert Kosch and odd pictures of him.

46:27 – Richard talks about the relationship between German commanders and chiefs of staff.

51:40 – Richard talks about the effects of other fronts on Eastern front.

59:40 – Richard’s work can be found at Amazon.

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Guests: Richard DiNardo

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December 23, 2019December 25, 2019

Military History Newsletter December 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the WarScholar newsletter. The Marines in Iraq and Spitfires over Europe this week. I interviewed Ed Darak about his book on the Marines fight in Anbar in 2006-2007. Listen here. I also interviewed Andrew Critchell about his history of ten Spitfires fighting the German Luftwaffe in WII. Read it here.

And in our book list below we give you everything you could ask for in military history. Tactics, war movies, logistics, ancient, WWII, Samurai clans, Crusaders, Napoleonic artillery and more. Enjoy! Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.