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Mentioned in 2 episodes

War game

Book • 1976

In the rural peace of modern England, a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. However, when the battle ends, a real corpse is left in the Swine Brook, and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of 'Cromwell's gold'.

The story unfolds as David Audley is called in, and 17th-century secrets and the deadly game of modern espionage clash in a complex thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.

Mentioned by

Janessa Goldbeck

Mentioned in 2 episodes

Mentioned by Tom Nichols to illustrate the idea of a clear chain of command in the military.

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Mentioned by

Tom Holland

as an author of historical thrillers, specifically mentioning "War Game."

40. History as Entertainment

Mentioned by

Stephen Witt

in the context of the first person to win a backgammon game.

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Mentioned by

Deborah Haynes

as a podcast simulating a Russian armed attack on the UK.

Spectacular explosion 'wipes out' Russian ammo dump & on patrol with Ukraine's Black Sea fleet

Mentioned by

Chuck Todd

in reference to a documentary

Janessa Goldbeck

was a part of.

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