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400 years ago, a trio of tiny kingdoms

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link slash PACs. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Great War, revisited episode one, The Anglo-German Naval Arms Race Part 1, Turpitz comes to power.

This is the first episode in what I'm calling the Revisited series.

I started History of the Great War in June 2014 and over the following six years

I released a lot of episodes that I moved on to history of the Second World War

but I've always had this pull to go back to the events of the Great

War.

This episode is the start of those efforts.

Over the next 10 episodes released roughly monthly during 2024.

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