Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys
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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/
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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
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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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys 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
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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/
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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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys 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
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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: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys 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
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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: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys 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
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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

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