Episode 54 of the History of the Germans drops tomorrow 05:00 GMT. Here is a bit of a teaser. This week we will see Barbarossa using his freshly minted army to take down the city of Milan, a city of 150,000 and the one commune that he needs to defeat if he really wants to establish imperial rule in Italy. The excerpt talks about how the imperial army managed to cross the river Adda, the first line of defence of the Milanese. Expect heroism and utter stupidity (often one and the same). To listen