# James Crossland
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Merchant of Death: Basil Zaharoff and the Origins of the First World War
Who was Basil Zaharoff and how did he lay Europe's path to the First World War?
This week, James Crossland is joined by military historian and Not So Quiet on the Western Front co-host Spencer Jones to examine the extraordinary life of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the mysterious international arms dealer wh…
The "Father" of Drones: Archibald Low and the Future of War
James Crossland is joined by aerospace historian and author Mark Piesing – author of N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia – to explore the extraordinary life and legacy of British inventor and “father of drones” Archibald Low (1888–1956), from his early experiments with television to hi…
Claus von Stauffenberg and the Plot to Kill Hitler: The German Resistance Reconsidered
On this week’s episode of History’s Devils, we’re asking a difficult question – how do you find the devil in a hero? We’re talking about Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who on 20 July 1944, tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Sounds like a good guy, right? But, 80 years on from the end of the Second…
Calculating Crusader or Bloody-Minded Bandit? Reynald de Châtillon and the Fall of Jerusalem
This week, James Crossland is joined by Nicholas Morton (Author of The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East) to discuss the life and times of the most notorious crusader of his age, Reynald de Châtillon. From his arrival in the Crusader States in the 1150s through to his…
The British Agent Who Tried to Kill Lenin
Robert Bruce Lockhart was one of the most extraordinary and unconventional agents of the 20th century. A British diplomat, spy, and propagandist, his life was one of scandal and deception - from the jungles of Malaysia to the streets of Moscow, he bore witness to some of history's most pivotal mome…
Modern Terrorism
At the end of the 19th century, the world came to fear terrorism. In an era that simmered with political rage and social inequalities, anarchists and nationalists took to bombing cities and attacking lawmakers and leaders. With an outrage-hungry press peddling hysteria, conspiracy theories and fake…
Selling digital transformation in Lego bricks instead of one big project | James Crossland
FormusPro is a leading UK Microsoft solutions partner helping organizations connect the systems, data, and people behind their work, built around Dynamics 365, the Power Platform, and Microsoft's data and AI stack.
In a recent episode of Marketers of Technology, we sat down with James Crossland, H…
Jim Bakker Part 1: The Rise of America's Most Shameless TV Evangelist
In part one of this week’s episode, James Crossland and Jayne Friend examine the foremost religious grifter of his age – Jim Bakker, and his marriage to the charismatic Tammy Faye Messner, who together created a TV partnership that would make them enormously wealthy, famous and corrupt.
The episod…
The USS Indianapolis Disaster, Pt.1 - A Secret Mission, A Submarine and the Worst Shark Attack in History
In the final weeks of the Second World War, the USS Indianapolis secretly transported components for the "Little Boy" atomic bomb from San Francisco to Tinian Island, for assembly ahead of it being dropped over Hiroshima. After completing its mission, the unescorted heavy cruiser was torpedoed by t…
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