
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.
Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Latest episodes

Oct 23, 2023 • 1h 21min
Episode 282 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 4
Part 4/5 of the Battle of Stalingrad!
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Pre order some merch:
https://llbdmerch.com/products/stalingrad-street-fighting-academy-t-shirt

Oct 18, 2023 • 10min
*Preview* Lions Led By Robots Episode 1
This is a preview, for the full episode become a patreon supporter here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/91202542?pr=true
The first episode of our new side series, LLBR, where Tom and Joe watch robot related media! For this first series arc we're watching G Gundam, the most insane thing ever thought up by the Gundam universe.

Oct 15, 2023 • 1h 18min
Episode 281 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 3
Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series.
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
get some merch! https://www.patreon.com/posts/pre-order-your-90833773

Oct 12, 2023 • 10min
*Preview* Sharpe's Gold
This is a preview. For the full episode go here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90824623?pr=true

Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 26min
Episode 280 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 2
The horrors beyond human comprehension continue!
Part 2/5
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III
Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad.
Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War.
Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

Oct 6, 2023 • 10min
*PREVIEW* Pete Ellis, The Drunken Madman Who Revolutionized Amphibious Warfare
*This is a preview of a bonus episode. If you want to listen to the whole thing, support the show on Patreon*
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Pete Ellis was a marine who not only foresaw the pacific theater of WWII, but pretty much invented the modern US Marine Corps. He was also a drunken madman who went on one of the worst spying missions in American history.

Oct 1, 2023 • 2min
The Legion For Armenia Fund
https://www.patreon.com/posts/90133415
In late September 2023, Azerbaijan invaded what was left of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh after starving the population and holding them hostage since December 2022. Over 100,000 people are now in Armenia after they have been forced to flee upon fear of death or worse. The Armenian state on its own cannot handle the immediate needs of this many refugees.
Our goal is to give a targeted monthly grant to the families most in need. Those with many young children, widows, the disabled, and others in the amount of 100,000AMD (253$) for 6 months per family. We can expand this program as funds allow. They can use this money any way they see fit. Mostly to cover rent in a country where rental costs have gone up over 300% in the last 2 years.
If you already support the show, you're already supporting the program. However, if you would like to donate more or make a one-time donation, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
In this show we always talk about the people caught within the grinding gears of history, those who have been allowed to fall through the cracks of blind military violence, international apathy, and the brutality of empire.
Together, today, we can choose deeds over words unlike so many other international organizations, governments, and world powers that we have tasked with doing so.

Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 9min
Episode 279 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 1
Discussion about home repairs and DIY challenges. Personal connection to the Battle of Stalingrad. Exploration of 'The Forgotten Soldier' memoir. Context of Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Background on Friedrich Paulus. Mentions of other podcasts and Patreon support.

Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 5min
Episode 278 - The Homestead Strike
Striking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships.
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike
https://battleofhomestead.org/the-battle-of-homestead/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-strike-homestead-mill/
https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-homestead
https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102447

Sep 23, 2023 • 10min
*PREVIEW* Master And Commander
This is a preview. For the entire episode go here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/89709631?pr=true
Tom and Joe watch Master and Commander, otherwise known as why life in the navy sucks.