Conflicted: A History Podcast

African berserkers, graceful samurai, and deadly Soviet fighter pilots. A three-part, globe-trotting tour of remarkable female soldiers and the complicated lives that they led.SOURCES:Vinogradova, Lyuba. Defending the Motherland. 2015Alpern, Stanley B. Amazons of Black Sparta. 1998.Dash, Mike. “Dahomey’s Women Warriors”. Smithsonian.com. Sept 2011Busch, Jenna. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons, the Inspiration for the Dora Milaje”. SyFy Wire. Nov 2018.Joubeaud, Edouard. The Women Soldiers of Dahomey. UNESCO Digital Library. 2014“Three Months in Captivity in Dahomey”. The Sydney Morning Herald. Oct 1890Budnik, Ruslan. “Dahomey Amazons - The Only Elite All-Female Warrior Regiments”. War History Online. Oct 2018Okoh, Lize. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons: The All-Female Warriors of West Africa”. Culture Trip. May 2018.Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Women, 1184 -1877. 2012.Hoffman, Michael. “Women Warriors of Japan”. The Japan Times. Oct 2011.Hastings, Cristobel. “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan's Women Samurai, Were Erased From History”. VICE. Sept 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rated-R-for-Russian story of the Red Army’s horrific campaign of vengeance against Nazi Germany. SOURCES:Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945. 2003.Huggler, Justin. “Fall of Berlin: ‘Of course I was afraid. I was 17 years old.’”. The Telegraph UK. May 2015Johnson, Daniel. “Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps”. The Guardian. Jan 2002.Ash, Lucy. “The Rape of Berlin”. BBC News. May 2015.Fitzgerald, Nora. “Berliners recall Red Army atrocities”. Chicago Tribune. September 2002. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sea battles, tiger hunts, and a mountain of human noses. This is the Shakespearean saga that triggered centuries of bad blood between Korea and Japan.SOURCES:Samuel, Hawley. The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China. 2005Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Invasion of Korea. 2008.Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan, 1467-1615. 2002Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. 1982Kristof, Nicholas D. “Japan, Korea, and 1597: A Year That Lives in Infamy”. Sept 1997 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A myth-busting breakdown of history’s favorite fitness cult.SOURCES:Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other. 2005. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian WarPlutarch. Parallel LivesXenophon. HellenicaCartledge, Paul. “The Socratics’ Sparta and Rosseau’s”. Cambridge University. 1998 Penades, Antonio. “Bred for Battle - Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine”. National Geographic History. Dec 2016. Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017 Andrews, Evan. “8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan”. History.com. Sept 2018 Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick introduction to the concept behind the show and your host, Zach Cornwell.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices