WDF XTRA: Jan Sobieski Biography 1

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Hello there! It's a good day to be a listener of WDF, because I've managed to convince myself to share the first episode of the EXCLUSIVE biography on Jan Sobieski, a 12 part series which will keep us fed and watered in the Xtra feed for the remainder of this year, and which will be releasing every single week until the final week of 2017! YOWZA! What can you expect from this series, and what exactly did Sobieski do when he wasn't charging to the rescue of his peers outside Vienna in 1683? Well, as you'll soon discover, there's so much more to Sobieski than merely Vienna and its siege. He is our window into the era of the turbulent 17th century. He is our weather gauge as we measure the turmoil which afflicted the portion of Europe around the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian border. As a story it sets us up well for our new Podcast on Poland in the 18th century, which is due out on in April, 2018. I hope you'll give it a listen, and remember if you want the full story, this whopper and wonderful series, as well as so many others, are only a few clicks away! Thankssss history friends, and I hope to welcome you soon to the best band of history fans this side of audio! :DGo to www.patreon.com/WhenDiplomacyFails today to begin your Xtra feed membership! For only $5 a month you could be accessing incredible content just like this, as well as so much other quality stuff! For the price of a really overpriced coffee that you didn't even enjoy the other day, you could also be helping to make history THRIVE! Thankssss guys, you're all awesome :D Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello there, history friends, patrons all, and welcome to this, our first installment and the introductory episode and the biography of
0:23.5	Jan Selbieski. This intro is coming to all listeners and patrons to give everyone a flavor of what's to
0:29.2	come. From next week onwards though, this story will be continued exclusively on the extra feed,
0:34.9	which as we all know is available to all patrons of the $5 level or higher.
0:40.2	If you'd like to avail of this wonderful expansion of When Diplomacy Fails as content, which
0:44.9	includes over an hour of extra stuff every month, as well as early add free access to a regular
0:52.0	episodic schedule, then be sure to go to the usual places.
0:55.6	Do we have podcast.com?
0:57.4	Click on the Patreon banner or patreon.com for slash when diplomacy fails.
1:02.5	For those of you just stopping by out of pure curiosity though, or for those of you that have
1:07.5	already become lovely patrons and might be just curious about what's to
1:11.0	come for the next three months. Welcome, welcome, welcome to this very exciting biography miniseries on
1:17.7	the life and times of Jan Sobieski, military badass and king of the Poles in an era when the
1:24.2	Commonwealth was unfortunately lacking in either badasses or good quality kings.
1:29.7	Since what follows Sobiesky's reign in 1698 as the Saxon House of Wetton,
1:35.5	somewhat unfavourably judged a dynasty in the Commonwealth's history, which takes it into the 1760s,
1:41.8	you can also see this series as a kind of prequel to the far larger
1:45.3	and more insanely ambitious Polish history miniseries, which yeah, a bit of a spoiler,
1:51.3	it's more of a major series rather than a mini series at this point, but it's all good.
1:56.7	So this major or mini series is going to be released, all going according to plan, on the one-year-ish anniversary of the Extra Feed going live.
2:05.8	So say March, late March, early April, 2018.
2:09.9	I'm really excited about that and I've been doing a lot of background preparation work.
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