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Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing  http://museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 205 - Nanking Part 1

The conclusion to the nanking series 

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Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3

Skorzeny launches the mission to rescue Benito Mussolini from a ski resort, it does not go well. 

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Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943

Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando

Episode 234 - Otto Skorzeny Part 2: Otto the Hype Man

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles.  In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! 

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Episode 244 - The Troubles Part 2

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable. 

CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim. 

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Episode 245 - The Troubles Part 3

The conclusion to The Troubles series 

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Episode 246 - The Troubles Part 4

A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history. Part 1/4

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Episode 256 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother

Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series. 

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Episode 281 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 3

Part 3/5

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The Eight Nation Alliance hits some speed bumps as the various sides seem to want to fight each other as much as they do the Boxers.

Episode 303 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 3: Old Betsy

Imaging being a North Korean conscript, thousands of miles away from home and watching your friends get gunned down by the guy from Drake and Josh.

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*UNLOCKED* Red Dawn (2012)

The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the story of how they failed and died. 

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https://ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-the-canadian-soldiers-behind-a-white-supremacist-military-surplus-store
The Nation. Volume 222. New York: The Nation Company. 1976.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/03/soldier-of-fortune-marketing-for-mercenaries/475aac8b-ddce-4878-b732-77111bb70b67/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-soldier-of-fortune-magazine-contract-killers-and-mercenaries-for-hire/
https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/soldier-of-fortune-magazine-2016-02

Episode 102 - The Crippled Eagles of Rhodesia

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