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Episode 408 - The Fenian Ram
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
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SOURCES:
Davies, R. Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the Sea
Lyons, Chuck. The Holland Submarine. Military Heritage. August 2008. Vol 10, no. 1
Devoy Tells Story of First Submarine: Holland Warship Purchased for Clan-na-Gael, The Original Owners, by Harry Cunningham”, The Gaelic American, New York, 09 July 1927
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1935/august/fenian-ram
https://www.millrivertrail.com/learn/famous-stolen-submarine
https://web.archive.org/web/20121021174106/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_19/holland2.htm
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*PREVIEW* The Battle of Fort Eben Emael
1 april 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 407 - The Battle of Ramree Island
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe Battle of Ramree Island has gone down in history for being known for one thing: a massive crocodile attack that apparently destroyed the Japanese as they attempted to retreat. But, what if we told you that that popular story was completely made up by one guy who wasn't even there at the time?
Sources:
Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War
McLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45
Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far.
Wright, B. S. (1968). The Frogmen of Burma
Platt, Steven. Man eating by Estuarine Crocodiles: the Ramree Island massacre revisited
Lyons, Chuck. The Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island. WWII History. Vol. 25. No. 1
Frazier, George. A Man's Worst Friend. The Boston Globe Archive. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/438950677/
https://the-avocado.org/2019/03/02/things-that-are-not-the-horrors-of-ramree-island/
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/crocodile-massacre-of-troops-debunked-as-wartime-myth-k6vxhdfsq
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Episode 406 - Project Habakkuk ft. Josh Boerman
23 maart 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
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Josh Boerman, of the Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived, joins Joe in the studio to talk about the time that an absolute madman attempted to build the largest aircraft carrier in the world out of ice.
sources:
Perutz, M. F. "A Description of the Iceberg Aircraft Carrier and the Bearing of the Mechanical Properties of Frozen Wood Pulp upon Some Problems of Glacier Flow". The Journal of Glaciology.
Lutz, Stephen. Project Habakkuk’s Iceberg Aircraft Carrier. WWII History. Vol 10, No. 8
Hemming, Henry. Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy.
Gold, L W. The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada. Cambridge, UK
Cross, L D. Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice.
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 25: FLCL: Part 1 ft. Lucy Valentine
18 maart 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 405 - The USS Massachusetts, America's Dumbest Battleship
16 maart 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysIn a time before US Naval dominance, the not-quite-yet imperial power decided to modernize its Navy to a level that might enable it to compete with its European counterparts.
Instead, they created the USS Massachusetts and the Indiana Class. A battleship that was not a battleship, with guns so large they were more hazardous to the ship itself than any enemy, and so impossible to control the Navy kept crashing it into rocks.
There are two battleships named the USS Massachusetts. This is the BB-2. The one that fought in WWII is the BB-59
Sources:
Gardiner, Robert; Lambert, Andrew D. (1992). Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905
https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2016/07/diving_the_worst_battleship_ev.html
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/june/race-uss-oregon
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uss-massachusetts-why-worst-us-navy-battleship-ever-210474
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-epic-journey-of-uss-oregon-during-the-spanish-american-war/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/26/117958746.pdf
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/08/24/105058393.pdf
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/16/120273752.pdf
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/12/02/104844371.pdf
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*PREVIEW* The Battle of Haçova
11 maart 2026 · 13 min
Nate emerges from a vat of paprikas boykibble to take the reins and bring us the story of The Battle of Haçova, a decisive clash between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, the implications of the Hamburger Helper Mascot, and Smurf racism. Lees meer
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Episode 404 - The Battle of Beecher Island
9 maart 2026 · 1 uur 37 min
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A band of warriors trap a small patrol of American soldiers and frontiersmen leading to a plains siege that forces soldiers to eat raw horse meat and then get violently ill because they were eating raw horse meat.
SOURCES:
Norris, David. Desperate Last Stand At Beecher Island. Military Heritage. August 2012. Volume 14, No 2.
Mort, Terry. Cheyenne Summer. The Battle of Beecher Island: A History
Yenne, Bill. The Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West
Monnett, John. The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867- 1869
Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.
Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.
https://the-past.com/feature/looking-death-in-the-face-the-battle-for-beecher-island-september-1868/
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*PREVIEW* The Anphelion Project ft. The 40k Badcast
4 maart 2026 · 11 min
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Episode 403 - The Sand Creek Massacre
2 maart 2026 · 1 uur 30 min
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*correction. Several Medals of Honor have been revoked. Specifically in 1917. This had nothing to do with conduct but rather a changing of criteria of what was considered worthy of the medal.
SOURCES:
Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.
Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.
Hatch, Thom (2004). Black Kettle: The Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War.
Hoig, Stan (1977). The Sand Creek Massacre.
Hoig, Stan (1980). The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bensing, Tom. Silas Soule: A Short Eventful Life of Moral Courage.
Report of the US Congress Joint Committee On The Conduct of the War. 1865. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABY3709.0003.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;cc=moa
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Episode 402 - Operation Barras
23 februari 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
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Sources:
Fowler, William (2004). Operation Barras: The SAS Rescue Mission: Sierra Leone 2000
Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2009). Who Dares Wins: The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980
Utas, Mats; Jörgel, Magnus (2008). "The West Side Boys: military navigation in the Sierra Leone civil war". Journal of Modern African Studies.
Reno, William (February 2003), Political Networks in a Failing State The Roots and Future of Violent Conflict in Sierra Leone
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Episode 401 - The battle of Lake Peipus
16 februari 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
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WORKS CITED
EBSCO. “Alexander Nevsky | History | Research Starters | EBSCO Research.” Accessed February 9, 2026. https://www.ebsco.com.
Fennell, John. "The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304." Longman History of Russia. Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Gore, Terry. “Lake Peipus: Battle on the Ice.” Military Heritage 7, no. 1 (2005). https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/lake-peipus-battle-on-the-ice/.
Hellie, Richard. “Alexander Nevskii's April 5, 1242 Battle on the Ice.” Russian History 33, no. 2/4 (2006): 283–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24664445.
Smith, Jerry C., and William L. Urban, eds. The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle: Transl. with an Hist. Introd., Maps and App. Indiana University Publications. Uralic and Altaic Series 128. Indiana Univ, 1977.
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*PREVIEW* The Fall of Constantinople
11 februari 2026 · 10 min
For this week's bonus, Joe, Nate and Tom hole up, safe and sound, behind sturdy city walls to tell the story of the fall of Constantinople and discuss Byzantine great replacement theory, doing nominative determinism on your fortress, and easy 5 Minute Hacks to reassign your attackers somewhere on the lahmacun-doner meat spectrum. Lees meer
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Episode 400 - The Battles of Khalkhin Gol and the Nomohan Incident
9 februari 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
In this WWII Prequel, the Empire of Japan and the Soviet Union fight over the Mongolian border, a stretch of lifeless steppe with no cover, trees, or established supply lines. In what has been dubbed a "border conflict" tens of thousands of men, thousands of trucks, and hundreds of tanks are rushed to the frontline that only barely escapes spiraling into a much larger war...at least for a few years. Lees meer
Sources:
Edward Drea. Nomohan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939.
Edward Drea. Tradition and Circumstances: The Imperial Japanese Army's Tactical Response to Khalkhin Gol.
Glenn Barnett. Russo-Japanese Clash at the Battle of Nomohan. WWII History. May 2005. 4#3
Amnon Sella. Nomohan: Khalkin Gol: The Forgotten War. Journal of Contemporary History (1983) 18#4
Anthony Beevor. The Second World War.
Alexi Shishov. Russia and Japan. The history of military conflicts
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*PREVIEW* The Air Raid on Bari
4 februari 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 399 - The Battle of Milvian Bridge
2 februari 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
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SOURCES:
Lactantius. On the Deaths of the Persecutors.
David Potter. Constantine: The Emperor.
Ross Cowan. Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith.
Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Battle of Milvian Bridge: Battle for the Western Empire. Military Heritage. Feb. 2003. Volume 4, No. 4.
http://www.classichistory.net/archives/constantine-christianity
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.xv.ix.html
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iv.vi.i.xxviii.html
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*PREVIEW* History of Armenia: The First Republic: Part 2
28 januari 2026 · 11 min
The second part oin our series about the rise and fall of the first Republic of Armenia in 1918-1920. Lees meer
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Episode 398 - The Kagera War: Part 4
26 januari 2026 · 1 uur 27 min
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*PREVIEW* The Ajax, The British Armored Vehicle That Hates You Ft. Rory Blank
21 januari 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 397 - The Kagera War: Part 3
18 januari 2026 · 1 uur 23 min
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-episode-4-148529099 Lees meerThe Ugandan military stumbles over a series of problems of their own creation while the Tanzanians are defeated by a single independent contractor and a ferry boat.
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14 januari 2026 · 10 min
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Episode 396 - The Kagera War: Part 2
12 januari 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
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PART 2/4
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*PREVIEW* Gary Brooks Faulkner and the One Man Mission to Hunt Osama Bin Laden
7 januari 2026 · 9 min
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Episode 395 - The Kagera War: Part 1
5 januari 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerIdi Amin comes to power in Uganda, a military strongman, he lets his military run wild across the nation in a nearly decade long reign of terror. Amin, however, is a drunken, paranoid, monster. He purges his military, worried that someone would depose him. He imagines invasions of the British, Americans, Tanzanians, and the Israelis massing on his border. Finally, he invades Tanzania, sparking the Kagera War.
This is the story of the fall of Idi Amin.
Part 1/4
SOURCES:
Tony Avrigan, Martha Honey. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin.
Ogenga Otunnu. Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890-1979.
Ogenga Otunnu. Politics and the Military in Uganda, 1890-1985.
Yehudit Ronen. Libya's Intervention in Amin's Uganda: A Broken Spearhead.
Tom Cooper. War and Insurgencies of Uganda. 1971-1994
George Roberts. The Uganda-Tanzania War, The Fall of Idi Amin, and the Failure of African Diplomacy.
Alicia Decker. In Idi Amin's Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
Mark Leopold. Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil
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Episode 394 - Lord Byron: Part 2
29 december 2025 · 1 uur 24 min
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Special thanks to Joel Butler for additional research in this episode.
New sources in this episode:
C.W. Crawley, The Question of Greek Independence: A Study of British Policy in the Near East, 1821-1833 (Cambridge, 1930),
Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream (London, 2006), 425-428.
W.H. Humphreys, W.H. Humphreys’ First “Journal of the Greek War of Independence” (July 1821-February 1822), Acta Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 11, ed. Sture Linnér (Stockholm, 1967), 23-24.
H. Şükrü Ilıcak (ed.), “Those Infidel Greeks”: The Greek War of Independence Through Ottoman Archival Documents, 1 (Leiden, 2021), 1.
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Episode 393 - Lord Byron: Part 1
22 december 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerIn this week's episode, we begin part one of a 2-part series describing the life and times of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous Romantic poet of the early 19th century who went to Greece in hopes of fighting for independence against the Ottomans, and immediately died. But, who was this man? And is describing something as "Byronic" a good thing? Spoiler: uh-oh.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bostridge, Mark. “On the Trail of the Real Lord Byron.” The Independent, November 4, 2002. https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/on-the-trail-of-the-real-lord-byron-126324.html.
Brand, Emily. The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England. Paperback edition. John Murray, 2021.
Brewer, David. The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation. Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2001. http://archive.org/details/greekwarofindepe0000brew.
Burton, Danielle. “Lord Byron and His Pet Bear.” Derbyshire Record Office, October 22, 2024. https://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/lord-byron-and-his-pet-bear/.
Byron, George Gordon, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle. The Words of Lord Byron. London : J. Murray; New York, C. Scribner’s sons, 1898. http://archive.org/details/worksoflordbyron11byro.
Byron, William Byron. The trial of William Lord Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale, for the murder of William Chaworth, Esq; before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, ... On Tuesday the 16th, and Wednesday the 17th of April, 1765: on the last of which days the said William Lord Byron was acquitted of murder, but found guilty of manslaughter. ... 1765. 1765. http://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-trial-of-william-lor_byron-william-byron-ba_1765.
“Edward Blaquiere, British Officer, Founding Member of the Philhellenic Committee of London.” Εταιρεία Για Τον Ελλη…
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*PREVIEW* The Battle of Checkpoint Pasta
17 december 2025 · 12 min
The Italian military suffers its first combat casualties since WWII while engaged in a stupid, quixotic, and self-sabotaging "peacekeeping mission" in Somalia c. 1993. And the battle took place in an abandoned Barilla pasta factory. Yes. Lees meer
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Biddle, Stephen "The Somali National Alliance in Somalia, 1992–94". Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militia
Tripodi, Paolo (2 August 1999). The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope.
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2013/07/05/news/somalia_anniversario_battaglia_check-point_pasta-62413996/
https://brigatafolgore.net/en/2-july-1993-the-battle-of-the-check-point-pasta/
https://www.ilfaroonline.it/2018/07/02/2-luglio-1993-attacco-mogadiscio-ceckpoint-pasta/228435/
https://www.military.com/history/battle-of-checkpoint-pasta-italys-black-hawk-down-moment-somalia.html
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Episode 392 - L'Escalade
15 december 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
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www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerIn 1602, Savoy launched an invasion of Geneva, forcing the city-state's residents to rush to the walls and arm themselves with whatever they could get their hands on, including, in one infamous case, a pot of boiling soup.
sources:
Abplanalp, Andrej. “L’Escalade.” Blog: Schweizerisches National Museum. 11 Dec 2020. Online: https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/fr/2020/12/l-escalade-de-geneve/, consulté le 01.12.2025.
Aeschlimann, Jacques. “Tabazan, ou Le bourreau de Genève.” Geneva: La Sirène, 1961. pp. 97
Bonivard, François. Chroniques de Genève: Tome 2. Revilliod, Gustave, ed. Geneva, J.G. Fick: 1887. Online: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65402785/f154.item, consulté le 01.12.2025.
Dufour, Alfred. “Histoire de Genève.” Collection “Que sais-je ?” Paris, Presse Universitaires de France: 2001.
Fazy, Henri. “Genève, le parti huguenot, et le traité de Soleure (1574 à 1579).” Geneva, H. Georg: 1883.
Monnet, Vincent. “Ce fut en mille six cent et deux…” Campus, v.61. December 2002-January 2003. Geneva, Université de Genève, 2002. Online: https://www.unige.ch/presse/campus/pdf/c61/rtheologie.pdf, consulté le 01.12.2025.
Santschi, Catherine. “L’Escalade: Expositions des archives de l’état.” 2002. Online: https://archives-etat-ge.ch/page_de_base/lescalade, consulté le 02.12.2025.
- "Blondel, Philibert", in: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS), version du 13.11.2002. Online: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/025640/2002-11-13/, consulté le 02.12.2025.
Schaetti, Nicolas. “La nuit de l’Escalade.” Bibliothèque de Genève: Expositions. 2023. Online: https://expos.bge-geneve.ch/escalade/, consulté le 30.11.2025.
Schaff, Phillip. “History of the Christian Church. Volume 8: The Reformation in Switzerland. Chapter 8. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. Logos Research Systems, Inc digitized version. Online: https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc8/…
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10 december 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 391 - The US Navy's Flying Aircraft Carriers ft. Dr. Patrick Wyman
8 december 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerJoe and Tom are joined by Dr. Patrick Wyman, host of Past Lives and Tides of History to talk about the time the US Navy attempted to deploy flying aircraft carriers, which failed at a rate of 100%
Sources:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-airship-became-flying-aircraft-carrier
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-u-s-navys-flying-aircraft-carrier-mistake-still-stings/
https://www.military.com/history/navys-short-lived-plan-dominate-skies-flying-aircraft-carriers.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-cursed-uss-akron-class.html
https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppelin-disaster
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1934/july/loss-akron
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-uss-macon/
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3 december 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 390 - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt
30 november 2025 · 1 uur 34 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerA group of people, forced into one of the worst jobs in human history, decide to launch a suicidal revolt to destroy the tools of the Holocaust.
Sources:
Lawerence Langer. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit
Primo Levi. The Drowned and the Saved.
Nathan Cohen. Diaries of the Sonderkommando - Confronting Fate and Reality.
Tzipora Hager Halivni. Preparation for Revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Heroes and Martyrs.
Filip Muller. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
Henryk Tauber. Deposition made on May 24, 1945. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau
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*PREVIEW* Charles Aznavour, French Resistance Hero
26 november 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 389 - The Istanbul Snowball Fight
24 november 2025 · 1 uur 20 min
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In the early days of English ambassadorships to the Ottoman Empire, an increasingly petty collection of grievances among European envoys and Ottoman dignitaries set the conditions for a single errant snowball to incite an anti-English riot. Witness the story of the snowball that got a bunch of English guys' beaten with oblong objects.
Research: Dr Joel Butler
Reources:
Public Records Office, The National Archives, Kew, London: SP 97/3; SP 97/4.‘Bu bir nefret cinayetidir: Gazeteci Nuh Köklü, 'kartopu oynarken' öldürüldü.’ Radikal (2 February 2015).
‘Gazeteci Nuh Köklü kar topu oynarken öldürüldü’, BBC News Türkçe (18 February 2015).
‘Journalist Nuh Köklü murdered for playing snowball’, Agos (18 February 2015).
‘Life in prison for man who stabbed Turkish journalist over snowball fight’, Hürriyet Daily News (5 June 2015).Atran, S. ‘The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures’, Current Anthropology, 57/S13 (2016), S192-S203.
Brotton, J. The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam (New York, 2017)
Brown, H.F. Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 9, 1592-1603 (London, 1897).
Burian, O. The Report of Lello, Third English Ambassador to the Sublime Porte / Babıâli Nezdinde Üçüncü İngiliz Elçisi Lello’nun Muhtırası (Ankara, 1952).
Butler, J.D. ‘Between Company and State: Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy and Ottoman Political Culture, 1565-1607’, unpubd. DPhil thesis, University of Oxford (2022).
_________. ‘Lello, Henry’, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2023).
Coulter, L.J.F. ‘The involvement of the English crown and its embassy in Constantinople with pretenders to the throne of the principality of Moldavia between the years 1583 and 1620, with particular reference to the pretender Stefan Bogdan between 1590 and 1612’,…
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A Holiday Season Message for Our Dear Listeners
23 november 2025 · 8 min
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 21: Angel Slop
19 november 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 388 - The Siege of Kars
17 november 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerTowards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungarian, and one American catholic.
Sources:
Winifred Baumgart. The Crimean War: 1853-1856
Raugh Harold. The Victorians at War: 1815-1914
Humphrey Sandwith. The Siege of Kars 1856
William Edward David Allen, Paul Muratoff. Caucasian Battlefields: The History of the Wars of the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921
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*PREVIEW* The English Pirates of the Mediterranean
12 november 2025 · 10 min
It's the late 16th century and the Ottoman Empire is continuing to advance across the eastern Mediterranean. In Istanbul, the Ottomans have begun ratifying ambassadorships and trade deals with the English crown. And in the middle of this comes a crew of the most sunburned Barbary Pirates you've ever met, hell-bent on plundering any ship they can find before they high-tail it back to...England? Lees meer
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Episode 387 - The Battle of Ap Bac
10 november 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerEarly during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and every ARVN commander on the ground has to ask for permission to do any command position in a game of telephone that goes all of the way up to the President of South Vietnam.
Sources:
David Elliot. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975
David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire: American and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era.
Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/educational-services/staff-rides/VSR/Ap-Bac-Vietnam/Material/Ap-Bac%20Preliminary%20Study%20Guide%20V1.0.pdf
https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/
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*PREVIEW* The Insane Story of Jonathan Idema
5 november 2025 · 9 min
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Episode 386 - The Siege of Przemyśl
3 november 2025 · 1 uur 32 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerIn the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attempt to hold off the Russian Imperial Army in what became known as "Austria-Hungary's Stalingrad"
Sources:
Graydon Tunstall. Written in Blood: The Battles For Fortress Przemysl in WWI.
Dr. Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemsysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands.
Christopher Miskimon. The Siege of Przemysl. Military Heritage. Jan 2016. Volume 17, No 4.
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Episode 385 - The Texas Revolution: Part 4
27 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
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22 oktober 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 384 - The Texas Revolution: Part 3
19 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 5 min
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*PREVIEW* The History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 2
15 oktober 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 384 - The Texas Revolution: Part 2
13 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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*PREVIEW* Soochow, The Drunk, Racist, Marine Corps Dog *LIVE IN GLASGOW*
8 oktober 2025 · 10 min
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Episode 383 - The Texas Revolution: Part 1
6 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 20 min
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https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Lees meerThe first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.
Sources:
Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Randolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865
Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad.
Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850
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*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 20: Multiple Dilemmas
2 oktober 2025 · 10 min
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Joe and Tom continue their exploration of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Episode 382 - The Gordon Relief Expedition
29 september 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
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Once upon a time, the British Empire sent a very badly planned rescue mission halfway around the world to save a man who didn't need to be saved. It ended in hilarious failure.
Sources:
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nile-expedition
Michael Asher. Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
Charles Trench. The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon
Mike Snook. Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum
Simon Craig. Breaking the Square: Britain Takes on Mahdi at the Battle of Abu Klea. Military Heritage Magazine. Vol. 3 No. 3.