Historian · Author · Podcast Host
The past was never clean.
I'm Cory Hughes. I research the JFK assassination and the Second World War, and I host Bloody History — a podcast that follows the documents into the parts of the record most people would rather leave buried.
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Over 400 episodes on the assassinations, the cover-ups, and the wars of the twentieth century. New shows most weeks.
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Critical analyses of the Second World War and its origins, published with the primary sources attached.
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Two volumes of A Warning From History and the first volume of Lee Harvey Oswald In Black and White.
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Rommel Gets A Choice
A critical analysis of the Desert Fox at the moment the war turned against him.
Hitler’s Löwenbräukeller Speech, 9 November 1941
The annual address read against what the German public was actually being told that winter.
What Happened In The Afternoon
Reconstructing the hours after the shooting, from the people who were in the room.
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