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1. Episode 437 - The Anglo-Manipur War

   25 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 9 min

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   Palace coups, scheming brothers, the British, and a guy faking illness to get out of exile all converge in an imperial war of conquest.

   SOURCES:

   Tarapot, Phanjoubam (2003), Bleeding Manipur

   Majumdar, R. C. (1960), "Rebellion in Manipur, 1891"

   Majumdar, R. C. (2002), British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance, Part I

   Yumkhaibam Shyam Singh. 1891 Anglo-Manipuri War And Rarely Known Manipuri Heroes. Journal of Positive School Psychology. History Department Imphal College.

2. *PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 6

   21 oktober 2026 · 10 min

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3. Episode 436 - The Battle of Perryville

   18 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 13 min

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   During the US Civil War, a group of men with some of the strangest names we've ever heard on the show accidentally fight a battle over a stagnant pond while their commanders were somewhere else.

   SOURCES:

   Breiner, Thomas L. "The Battle of Perryville: Bragg's Kentucky Invasion"

   Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War

   Hafendorfer, Kenneth A. Perryville: Battle for Kentucky.

   Harrison, Lowell Hayes. The Civil War in Kentucky.

   Sanders, Stuart W. "Carnage in Kentucky's Hills"

   Shepherd, Joshua. "The Battle of Perryville: Death on a Dry River."

4. Episode 435 - The Strange Tale of the RB2000

   11 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

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   A decades-long saga involving a failed military weapons project, carnies, stuntmen, methheads, a possible international drug smuggler, a murder, and, of course, a jet pack.

   SOURCES:

   Brown, Paul (2009). The Rocketbelt Caper: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder

   Mullins, Justin (October 2005) "The Ups and Downs of Jet Packs. New Scientist. No. 2519

   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-rocketbelt-caper-56202480/

   https://rocketbelts.americanrocketman.com/history.html

   https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-26-me-23415-story.html

   https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/where-eagles-dare-the-jetpack-mystery.html

   https://www.deseret.com/1999/7/28/19457763/rocket-belt-still-missing-but-feud-lives-on/

5. *PREVIEW* The Very Dumb Story of Jack Teixeira *LIVE IN CORK*

   7 oktober 2026 · 10 min

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   We did in fact go to Ireland and we used this special moment to talk about a guy who got so into posting on Discord that he got charged under the Espionage Act. Thank you so much to our wonderful audience! This was an absolute blast.

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6. Episode 434 - The Battle of Graignes

   5 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 24 min

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   Joe and Nate discuss the 1944 airborne insertion in Normandy, the absolute chaos on the ground, and a very strangely cobbled-together American unit that somehow wound up holding off a German division in a small town called Graignes.

   SOURCES REFERENCED:

   Morgan, Martin K.A. Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy,
   Ibid. Battle of Graignes: An HQ Company Heroic Last Stand in Normandy. WWII Quarterly. Vol 5, no 3

   O'Leary, Margaret R.; O'Leary, Dennis S. (24 February 2011). Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story

   Rabe SG. The Longest Day in Graignes. In: The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village.

   https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-graignes.html
   https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/graignes-bloody-sunday

7. Episode 433- Operation August Storm

   28 september 2026 · 1 uur 33 min

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   In 1945, after the nuclear weapons were already dropped, the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan. A front of the war the Japanese believed would hold on for years, crumbled in only a few weeks all in the middle of a cloud of confusion, various orders to surrender from the Emperor, and more than one ignored ceasefire.

   SOURCES:

   Glantz (February 1983), "August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria". Leavenworth Papers No. 7, Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth Kansas.

   Nathan N. Prefer. The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat. WWII Quarterly. Vol 9, No. 3.

   Tillman, Barrett. When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945. Bloomsbury Publishing.

   Boris Nikolaevich Slavinskiĭ, The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941–1945, Translated by Geoffrey Jukes

   Stephenson, Charles. Stalin’s War on Japan: The Red Army’s Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1945

8. *PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 5

   23 september 2026 · 10 min

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9. Episode 432 - Korea in the Vietnam War

   20 september 2026 · 1 uur 21 min

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   Nate, Joe, and Tom discuss the time where, under the auspices of "internationalizing" the Vietnam War, the US paid huge sums for South Korea to deploy troops to combat. On one hand, Park Chung-Hee secured the bag. On the other...there were some war crimes. A lot of them.

   SOURCES:
   Tae Yang Kwak (Spring–Summer 2003). "The Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin Reforms: American Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968—1973". The Journal of American-East Asian Relations

   Blackburn, Robert M. (1994). Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "more flags": the hiring of Korean, Filipino, and Thai soldiers in the Vietnam War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishing

   Shulimson, Jack (1997). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year, 1968

   Jang HG. People’s Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops during the Vietnam War. Asia-Pacific Journal

   Armstrong, Charles (2001). Critical Asian Studies: America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam.

   https://www.newmandala.org/politics-of-denial-south-korean-war-crimes-in-vietnam/

   https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/south-korea-vietnam-war-sexual-violence-women-b1806764.html

   https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1167951366/south-korea-vietnam-war-massacre-court-case

10. *PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 8

    16 september 2026 · 10 min

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