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Episode 437 - The Anglo-Manipur War
25 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
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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.
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*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 6
21 oktober 2026 · 10 min
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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."
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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/
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*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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Episode 434 - The Battle of Graignes
5 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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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 3O'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
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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
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*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 5
23 september 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 432 - Korea in the Vietnam War
20 september 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-cork-26th-september-tickets-1993823733459Nate, 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 RelationsBlackburn, 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
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*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 8
16 september 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 431 - The Imjin War: Part 6
14 september 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
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The conclusion to our series on The Imjin War!
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*PREVIEW* 2026 Q&A
9 september 2026 · 12 min
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Episode 430 - The Imjin War: Part 5
6 september 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 31: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Part 5
2 september 2026 · 11 min
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Tattoo pain, jacked gorillas, shaving squires, shorts on stage, and Barry The Chopper's urge to butcher his own body.
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Episode 429 - The Imjin War: Part 4
30 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
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*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 7
26 augustus 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 428 - The Imjin War: Part 3
23 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 32 min
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*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 4
19 augustus 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 427 - The Imjin War: Part 2
16 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 30: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Part 4
12 augustus 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 426 - The Imjin War: Part 1
9 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
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https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Fo%E2%80%A6ok/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/In 1592 a newly unified Japan, under the control of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, launched an invasion of the Joseon Kingdom with an army numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The war would eventually consist of two different invasions over the course of almost 6 years and suck in most of Asia, killing well over 1 million people in the process, all while Japan accomplished absolutely nothing.
SOURCES:
Hawley, Samuel (2014). The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China (2nd ed.). Conquistador Press.
Turnbull, Stephen (2012). The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592–98. Osprey Publishing.
Andrade, Tonio (2016). The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Brown, Delmer M. (May 1948). "The Impact of Firearms on Japanese Warfare, 1543–1598". The Far Eastern Quarterly
Park, Yune-hee (1978). Admiral Yi Sun-shin and His Turtleboat Armada. Hanjin Publishing Company
Rockstein, Edward D. (1993). Strategic And Operational Aspects of Japan's Invasions of Korea 1592–1598. Naval War College.
Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin (1997). Diplomacy and ideology in Japanese–Korean relations: from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Palgrave Macmillan
Lewis, James B. (2004). "The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis during the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592–1598. By Sôngnyong Yu. Translated by Choi Byonghyon. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies". The J…
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*PREVIEW* Lionel Crabb, The Alcoholic, Chain-Smoking, Rubber Suit Fetishist, MI6 Diver
5 augustus 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 425 - Peter Ortiz, The Marine Murder Cryptid
2 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
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Peter Ortiz, a rich kid from New York City, serves in the French Foreign Legion before joining the Marine Corps, becoming a spy during WWII, and fighting the Nazis alongside the French Resistance, all while dual-wielding pistols, in full dress uniform, and wearing a cape.
SOURCES:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/peter-ortiz-oss-operative-undercover-hero/
https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/11/05/us-marine-who-forced-nazi-officers-toast-fdr-gunpoint-and-became-most-decorated-oss-operative.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-spy-who-surrendered-to-the-nazis-to-save-civilians-180982003/
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-incredible-saga-of-col-peter-j-ortiz/
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/sins-of-omission/the-marine-corps-answer-to-james-bond/
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/32798/Ortiz-Pierre-Peter-Julien.htm
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Episode 424 - The Cuxhaven Raid
26 juli 2026 · 1 uur
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After zeppelins begin bombing the UK, the British order the first seaborne air raid in British military history. It involves hundreds of men, dozens of ships...all to launch a few biplanes that are barely armed with bombs, with no navigational devices, and no idea where they are going.
SOURCES:
Layman RD. The Cuxhaven Raid, The World's First Carrier Air Strike. Conway Maritime Press. 1985
https://www.avalanchepress.com/JutlandCuxhaven1.php
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1998/february/strike-warfare-1914
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/raid-on-cuxhaven-first-carrier-raid-in-history-bw-122525
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/cuxhaven-raid/
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*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 6
22 juli 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 423 - The Battle of Pork Chop Hill
19 juli 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
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During the Korean War, the People's Volunteer Army of China and the UN fought a meaningless battle over a hill shaped like a pork chop in order to leverage ongoing negotiations. Thousands died, and everyone claimed they won.
SOURCES:
Marshall, S.L.A. (1956). Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring 1953.
Hermes, Walter G (1966). "Truce Tent and Fighting Front". The United States Army in the Korean War. Vol. 2. Center of Military History.
The Korean War. The Battle on Pork Chop Hill. https://historynet.com/korean-war-battle-on-pork-chop-hill/
https://warhistory.org/article/july-6-11-1953-the-battle-of-pork-chop-hill-hill-255
https://web.archive.org/web/20061109043603/http://www.historynet.com/magazines/military_history/3034286.html
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Episode 422 - The Battle of Galveston
12 juli 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
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The Union takes over the island of Galveston, Texas, and the Confederates aim to take it back with quite possibly some of the dumbest armored ships the world has ever seen.
SOURCES:
R. Thomas Campbell. Fire Over Texas: Galveston in the Civil War. April 2006. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no. 5
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1983/january/battle-galveston
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magruder-john-bankhead
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/great-hanging-at-gainesville
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-battle-of
https://web.archive.org/web/20011115111011/http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/bayou-ct.htm
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Part 3
8 juli 2026 · 10 min
Joe and Tom sit down to talk about the next 4 episodes of FMAB. It includes a heartbreaking funeral scene, a hypothetical Slovenian basketball player, getting abandoned on an island for a month, and the intricacies of dog medicine. Lees meer
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Episode 421 - The Battle of Dorylaeum Ft. Failure to Launch
6 juli 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
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Joe is joined by Chris and Quinn of Failure to Launch to talk about the first major battle of the First Crusades and how the Crusaders stumbled over their own feet to victory
sources:
Runciman, Steven (2005). The First Crusade. New York: Cambridge University Press
Historia Hierosolymitana
John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996
Richardson, Scott. Dorylaeum: The First Christian-Muslim Clash of the Crusades. military Heritage. December 2007. Vol 9. No 3.
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1 juli 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 420 - The Sicilian Expedition
29 juni 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
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Hoping to get one over on their Spartan enemies, Athens is tricked by some fancy furniture and sweet chains and invades Sicily. Before the operation can even start, one commander who is trying to stop the invasion frames another for the crime of sacrilege, leading him to defect to the Spartans and convince them to join the war to stop Athens. Somehow, that isn't even the strangest thing that happens over the next two years.
SOURCES:
Ellis, Walter M. Alcibiades. New York: Routledge, 1989
Kagan, Donald. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Translated by Richard Crawley.
Strauss, Barry S., and Josiah Ober. The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990
Porter, Barry. Misplaced Aggression: The Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. Military Heritage. Vol. 9 No. 2.
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*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 2
24 juni 2026 · 10 min
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Joe, Nate, and Tom get the Guise together in Part II of our new series on the French Wars of Religion as tensions rise, and discuss medieval Laura Loomer, it being about ethics in troubadour journalism, and physical ailments that don't improve for being lanced.
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Episode 419 - The Battle of Castillon
22 juni 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
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During the closing of the Hundred Years' War the English decide to launch a cavalry charge against in an entrenched French army, directly into the barrels of hundreds of cannons. It does not end well.
SOURCES:
Welsh, William. Castilion: The Last Battle of the Hundred Years' War. Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9, No. 5.
Curry, Anne. (1993). The Hundred Years War. New York. St. Martin's Press.
Grummitt, David (2010). "Castillon, Siege and Battle of". In Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.
Nolan, Cathal J., ed. (2006). "Castillon, Battle of (July 17, 1453)". The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051028021944/http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/castilon.htm
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Episode 418 - Operation Aphrodite
15 juni 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
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Joe and Tom are once again joined by Gregk Foley of Blood Work to talk about the US Army's Operation Aphrodite during WWII. When a bunch of engineers attempted to create the world's first suicide attack drone. It resulted in a series of dead pilots, nearly blowing up several British villages, and one dead Kennedy.
SOURCES:
Freeman, Roger. The Mighty Eighth.
Spark, Nick. Television Goes to War. https://web.archive.org/web/20080417214556/http://www.mugualumni.org/secretarsenal/page9.html
Gary, Edwin. Operation Aphrodite's B-17 "Smart Bomb."
Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olse
Webb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1
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Episode 417 - The Time the US Army Tried to Train Racist Attack Dogs Ft. Gregk Foley
8 juni 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
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During WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently.
SOURCES:
https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-island
https://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/
https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.html
https://www.uswardogs.org/WWII
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-ii
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-day
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/uncle-sam-needs-to-borrow-your-dog.htm
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3 juni 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 416 - The Raid On Deerfield
1 juni 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
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French and English colonies in North America go to war as a part of the larger War of Spanish Succession. Soon an allied force of French soldiers, militia, and Native Warriors are snowshoeing their way from New France to Massachusetts in order to destroy the town of Deerfield.
SOURCES:
Calloway, Colin Gordon. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England
P.G. Smith. "This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a Small Town in Massachusetts." P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/
https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacre
https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-america
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/
https://deerfieldraid1704.org/
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27 mei 2026 · 11 min
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Episode 415 - The Tsar Tank
25 mei 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
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SOURCES:
Zaloga, Steven. Grandsen, James. Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two.
Milsom, John. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-tsar-tank-is-possibly-the-strangest-tank-ever-devised
https://www.rbth.com/defence/2014/09/29/the_first_russian_tanks_a_long_and_difficult_road_to_the_battlefield_40199.html
https://www.thearmorylife.com/tsar-tank-russias-secret-wwi-weapon/
http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles/Lebedenko.html
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20 mei 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 414 - The Battle of Iwo Jima: Part 3
18 mei 2026 · 1 uur 25 min
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The conclusion to our series on the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Episode 413 - The Battle of Iwo Jima: Part 2
11 mei 2026 · 1 uur 25 min
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The episode with the flag raising in it.
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10 mei 2026 · 3 min
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4 mei 2026 · 1 uur 27 min
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A tiny speck of inhospitable black sand turns into hell on earth as tens of thousands of men slaughter one another over caves, bunkers, and mountains. Armed with explosives, flame throwers, napalm, and more naval gunfire than the Japanese had ever seen, US Marines struggle through one of the most horrific battles of the Pacific Campaign of WWII.
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SOURCES:
Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
Allen, Robert E. The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-Day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls.
Burrell, Robert S. "Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment"
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
Leckie, Robert. The Battle for Iwo Jima
Kakehashi, Kumiko. So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima
Wheeler, Richard. Iwo Jima.
Tatum, Chuck. Red Blood, Black Sand: With John Basilone on Iwo Jima
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Episode 411 - The Battle of Rocroi
27 april 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
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The Spanish see the crowning of a French child king as an opportunity to invade. They deploy the Army of Flanders. Once mighty, but now reduced to being commanded by idiots and one man who was so old and sick that he had to be dragged around the battlefield in a chair.
SOURCES:
Ribas, Alberto Raúl Esteban. The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers.
Sanchez, Juan. "Paul Bernard de Fontaine (1576 – 1643), señor de Fougerolles, Conde del S.R.I."
Stephane Thion. Rocroi 1643: The Victory of Youth.
Welsh, William. Spanish Disaster at Rocroi. Late Winter 2012. Vol 13, No. 4
Jeremy Black, European Warfare, 1494-1660
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Episode 410 - The Death of PQ-17
20 april 2026 · 1 uur 27 min
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Once upon a time there was a supply convoy called PQ-17, loaded down with tons of supplies and heading to the Soviet Union. Over the course of several days the convoy was destroyed by a combination of terrible intelligence, fear of confrontation with the German Surface Fleet, and a commander with a brain tumor.
SOURCES:
Beesly, Patrick. Convoy PQ 17: A Study of Intelligence and Decision-Making
Bunker, John. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of WWII
Hague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation.
Milton, Keith. Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster. Military Heritage. June 2001. Volume 2, no. 6
Lippman, David. 'Convoy is to Scatter.' : Arctic Convoy Disaster. WWII History. Winter 2012. Volume 11, No. 1
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15 april 2026 · 10 min
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13 april 2026 · 1 uur 37 min
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Joe is joined by AJ, Brian, and Josh from the Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time a British trader got murdered by Samurai for being an asshole and sparked a war between the British and the Satsuma Domain.
SOURCES:
De Lange, William. The Namamugi Incident: The Murder that Sparked a War
Totman, Conrad. The collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868
Satow, Ernest. A Diplomat in Japan
Rennie, David Field. The British Arms in North China and Japan
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 26: FLCL: Part 2 ft. Lucy Valentine
8 april 2026 · 10 min
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