Episodes
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Don't be surprised if you've never heard of the HRHS Britannic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic. In this episode of Damned History, award-winning author Alma Katsu tells you everything you need to know about the second ship in her latest novel, The Deep.
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In this episode, award-winning author Alma Katsu talks about Titanic conspiracies, in celebration of her latest release, THE DEEP (coming March 5 in the UK, March 10 in the US)
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In this episode, Alma Katsu takes questions from her readers regarding THE HUNGER. We talk about cannibalism and whether the members of the Donner Party really did resort to it... And later, she talks about her methods for historical research.
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Which characters in The Hunger are from the real life tragedy of the Donner Party, and which are completely fictional? Author Alma Katsu discusses how she decided when a character needed to be created from whole cloth, and how she used historical facts to create the characters in her award-winning book.
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Welcome to the first episode of the Damned History podcast, where I'll talk about the real history behind my novels. In this episode, I talk about what it was really like traveling across the American West for the Donner Party (THE HUNGER, GP Putnam's Sons, 2018).
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Half the members of the Donner Party died on that snowy mountain pass. Tragic, but as it avoidable? Author Alma Katsu discusses the two villains who might really be to blame
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In Damned History, author Alma Katsu talks about some of the real history behind her novels. In this episode, she talks about the conditions facing settlers trying to emigrate to California and Oregon in the 1800s.
