I saw clerks when it came out. you are not alone. ✊

A new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena. 

** corrections**

Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to say was "Bosnian Serb" and our brain melted mid sentence. 

sources for both episodes:
A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Collision Course: Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf, Serbia, and the Politics of Preventive War
https://www.historynet.com/carpathian-catastrophe.htm
http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2019/11/forgotten-campaign-carpathian-winter.html

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Episode 152 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 1: Load Bearing Franz

The 2nd and last part of our series on the Namibian Genocide

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Episode 166 - The Namibian Genocide Part 2: Shark Island

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Sources for both episodes:

Titley, B. (1997). Dark Age: the political odyssey of Emperor Bokassa

O'Toole, T. (1982). "Made in France: the Second Central African Republic"

Kalck, P. (1971). Central African Republic: a failure in de-colonisation

Episode 167: The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 1

The conclusion of the reign of Bokassa I

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Episode 168 - The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 2

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Sources:
https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/aleutian-islands-attack-1942
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/today-in-history/forgotten-campaign-wwii-aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-aleutian-islands-recapturing-attu/

Episode 170 - The Aleutian Islands Campaign

Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html?chrome=1
https://www.rbth.com/history/326983-5-soviet-superheroes-in-ww-2
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/russian-rambo-of-wwii.html?chrome=1

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Episode 171 - The Soviet Axe Berserkers of World War II

The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide. 

sources: 
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60960/wwi-centennial-turkish-debacle-sarikamish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/armenian.htm
https://www.armenian-genocide.org/1915-1.html
https://fx.substack.com/p/today-in-caucasian-history-the-battle-4ab

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Episode 172 - The Battle of Sarikamish

Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. 

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https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/
https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html
https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml

Episode 179 - The Battle of Bamber Bridge

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.

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Episode 180 - Jesse James and the Old Man in the Cave

2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. 

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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

Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade

The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. 

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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

Episode 183 - Digby Tatham-Warter

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