Korean War #48: Something of an Ending
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It's time to say good bye!
Episode 48: Something Of An Ending gathers together everything we’ve learned over the last 47 episodes and returns to those key questions, theories and goals which opened our series all those months ago. It is a typically intensive episode, since we have a good deal of stuff to talk about, several things to reiterate and not a small amount of final goodbyes to wave at our key figures. By now you have seen our narrative underline and hopefully vindicate my conclusions, which I presented to you guys all the way back in the introduction episodes. It’s been quite a journey, to put it mildly, and I have sincerely enjoyed taking it with you, as we learned, laughed and were shocked together.
I hope you’ll continue to seek out new information on the Korean War, and that you now have seen for yourself that this conflict is so much more than just a few sentences in a textbook. Instead, it was the vital ingredient in the Cold War, the terrible tragedy which cost millions of lives, and the start point for countless diplomatic and military initiatives, with varying degrees of success. The Korean War was many things to many people, but now it’s time for us to say goodbye, and to prepare for our next series – the Versailles Anniversary Project. Of course, this wouldn’t be WDF if we didn’t have an Epilogue and Conclusion to round our narrative off, so make sure you place the cherry on top of our experience here, by tracking those episodes down in the next few days. Other than that my lovely history friends and patrons – it is time to say thanksss, and I’ll be seeing you all soon!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello and welcome history friends patrons all to the final episode of the Korean War episode 48. |
| 0:37.3 | Remember all those episodes ago in the introduction |
| 0:39.9 | when I said there was 48 episodes? You all thought I was crazy, but here we are. Forty-eight |
| 0:45.5 | episodes later, this is the final proper episode of the Korean War. You and I have been on |
| 0:52.2 | quite a journey over the last few months. In nearly a year's |
| 0:55.9 | run time about 30 hours by my estimation, we have recorded a whole wealth of details and |
| 1:01.7 | brought you guys some of the most incredible fascinating stories. I bet that now, looking back to |
| 1:07.0 | where our story began, you never imagined so much could come out of a conflict, which |
| 1:11.7 | is normally relegated to a few sentences in a history textbook. It's safe to say that I really |
| 1:16.8 | enjoyed researching this era, but what I've especially enjoyed was bringing it to you guys |
| 1:21.7 | and seeing your feedback. And of course, watching this podcast grow even further as we stepped |
| 1:26.6 | out into territory somewhat more |
| 1:28.8 | familiar than our normal subject matter, as familiar as the Korean War can be at least. |
| 1:34.6 | We're not at all finished for the year, though, you might be excited to know, and even though |
| 1:39.8 | we've given you a lot to get through already, I do hope you'll join me in the weeks to come |
| 1:43.9 | for our Versailles Anniversary Project as we investigate |
| 1:47.2 | yet another understudied era of history, what an era that is so important for history, |
| 1:53.0 | the Treaty of Versailles. |
| 1:55.6 | Before we go there though, slow down a minute, we do of course have to give this series |
| 2:00.4 | its proper send-off. |
| 2:02.7 | Make sure you guys check out the conclusion episode, which will place a nice cherry on top of this |
| 2:07.0 | Korean cake. I could have done a conclusion and an epilogue episode, but I decided to just combine |
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