As a gentleman of the large persuasion, I too would prefer to not sack Jerusalem. Its fucking hot outside and my tits will get sweaty and chafe. You know how hard it is to swing a broadsword with chafed sweaty tits?

'Thank you for my service' was RIGHT THERE

I guess the real Crusade was the nuns we raped along the way.

The Habsburgs weren't really a thing yet at that point (they were around, but only as a pretty minor house with none of their later prominence and...interesting genetics. The regional power in what would become the Habsburg heartlands were House Babenberg...the guy who got into that little scuffle with Richard in the previous crusade was one of 'em. Note that while the Babenberger were all about the crusading (which played a part in their extinction), the Habsburgs who took over after they were all dead decided they wanted absolutely fuck all to do with any holy wars...until they got visited by one, but that's a whole different story :P.

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https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-super-scary-legend-nazi-germanys-me-163-rocket-fighters-18494

https://books.google.com/books?id=xiADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124&dq=popular+science+%22A+two-room+wing%22&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q&f=true

"Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet". Wings of the Luftwaffe

Volmar, Joe (1999). I Learned to Fly for Hitler

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/10/the-german-rocket-fighter-that-dissolved-its-pilots-alive/

Episode 169 - The Nazi Rocket Plane That Melted its Pilots

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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

A bunch of christian knights get hijacked to knee cap some people over boat debt. 

Sources:
https://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-the-second-siege-of-constantinople/
https://www.thecollector.com/fourth-crusade-siege-constantinople-fall-of-byzantine-empire/
Hindley, Geoffrey (2003). The Crusades: A History of Armed Pilgrimage and Holy War

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Episode 173 - The 4th Crusade

Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. 

*clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense.

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The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300

Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution


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Episode 177 - The Bloody White Baron Part 1: Wolf Rehab

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

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

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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

Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. 

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https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail

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. 

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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

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

What if your local sports fans attempted a coup

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Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532

JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1

Episode 208 - The Nika Riots

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