30YearsWar #51: The Swedish Case For War
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Get your copy of the second edition of A Matter of Honour: Britain in the First World War!
In spring and summer 1630, Sweden's King could put it off no longer. The months of outrages, the insults, and the straight up interefernce in his business by the Emperor's proxies had gnawed away at his patience. War would have to follow, but how to present this war to the wider world? How to track the list of grievances which Sweden felt? How to persuade Germans and Frenchmen alike as to the righteousness of his cause? This was to be a campaign in itself, but Gustavus was up to the task. The war for Europe's hearts and minds was looming. The war for supremacy in Europe would come after.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello history, friends. Thanks so much for listening to When Diplomacy Fails podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Before this episode starts, I just wanted to leave you with apparently a very, very echoy message |
| 0:10.6 | because I'm recording this little bit in my kitchen. But yeah, Matter of Honor, Britain in the |
| 0:15.4 | First World War, the first book I ever had published, is now out in its second edition. After purchasing back the |
| 0:23.5 | rights from my old publisher, I now basically have all the rights to it and make all the money |
| 0:28.9 | from it. So the link in the description will be below if you want to find out how the Code of |
| 0:34.8 | Honour played a role in persuading the British government to declare war on Germany |
| 0:39.0 | on the 4th of August 1914. It's a story that's been told many, many times, but with that added |
| 0:44.5 | element of honour in there, it makes it all the more interesting. Plus, I won an award for it for my |
| 0:49.7 | dissertation in my master's, so hey, I must have been onto something, right? You may be asking, well, Zach, that's all well and good. |
| 0:56.9 | The e-book and paperback might be there, and that's really nice, but what about the audiobook? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm here for audio. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, it's funny you should ask about the audio version history friend. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm currently working on that very edition at this very moment, and I've even rigged up a very special studio |
| 1:12.4 | in my shower, don't ask, to make that happen. It seems to be going well enough, and I'm |
| 1:19.0 | fairly happy you'll appreciate it, but all this talk of audiobooks leads me to something a little |
| 1:24.2 | bit more somber and something which will probably make you feel a little bit icky as well you see when we talk about audible well what comes to your mind a storefront |
| 1:33.7 | where you can buy audiobooks and it's great if you're a customer but if you're a producer of these |
| 1:38.9 | audiobooks what you might not be aware of is that you really get shafted. I'm talking like Amazon keeping up to 87% of |
| 1:47.5 | the royalties from the audiobook that you put on that store. I know people are set in their ways |
| 1:54.2 | largely because of Amazon's monopoly, but when I found out this information, I really, it ruined my day |
| 2:00.1 | because I have all these plans |
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