

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
Lions Led By Donkeys
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
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
Episodes
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Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 8min
Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa
Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *
*your experience may vary
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
With the Marines At Tarawa
One Square Mile of Hell
https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/

Dec 27, 2021 • 1h 12min
Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup
What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa? One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time.
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand
https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 187 - Colonel Tye and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution
The American Revolution left a lot of people behind.
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
sources:
Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

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Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 3min
Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete
Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper.
*correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966.
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Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail
Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains.
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Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/
https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Nov 29, 2021 • 56min
Episode 184 - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
The story of the deadliest woman in military history
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/

Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 12min
Episode 183 - Digby Tatham-Warter
The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat.
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sources:
https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html
https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1

Nov 15, 2021 • 59min
Episode 182 - The War of the Stray Dog
Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government.
support the show:
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sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/desires-of-a-modern-indian/war-of-the-stray-dog-a-war-sparked-by-ridiculous-reasons/?source=app&frmapp=yes
http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2017/03/war-of-stray-dog.html

Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade
2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history.
Support the show:
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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Nov 1, 2021 • 1h 18min
Episode 180 - Jesse James and the Old Man in the Cave
Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave.
*Corrections*
Francis mixed up the Pottawatomie massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry. The massacre occured in 1856 and the raid in 1859 which ended in Brown's uprising being put down by famed asshole Robert E Lee and Brown's death.
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys