There's the theory that Ender's Game was written by somone else given how bad the other works Card put out were, which is a literary conspiracy theory I'm willing to believe.

Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series. 

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Episode 281 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 3

Part 4/5 of the Battle of Stalingrad!

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Episode 282 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 4

The conclusion to our Battle of Stalingrad series! 

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Episode 283 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 5

Once upon a time Irish-Americans thought it would be a good idea to invade Canada from the US. It did not go well.

CORRECTION: Andrew Johnson*

EDIT: I meant David Fincher

Sources:

https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774fenian_e.html

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2019/03/15/civil-war-vets-wanted-invade-canada-liberate-ireland.html

https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/index.aspx

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24778340

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Century19th/FenianRaids

https://www.historynet.com/fenian-raids-invasions-of-british-ruled-canada/

Episode 284 - The Fenian Raids

Before Benedict Arnold became the world's most famous traitor, he tried to invade Canada, it went about as well as you'd expect. 

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https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/quebec-assault
https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/1775-invasion-quebec
https://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-canada-during-the-american-revolutionary-war/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/arnolds-flawed-invasion-of-quebec/

Episode 285 - The American Invasion of Quebec

Captain Cook shows up in the Hawaiian Islands and pisses off the entire population ending in the funniest possible outcome.

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Richard Tregaskis. Hawaii's Warrior King: King Kamehamaha The Great

Glyn Williams. The Death of Captain Hook: A Hero Made and Unmade

Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints 1787, 1788,1789

Val Wake. Who Killed Captain Cook?

Episode 286 - The Death of Captain James Cook

This is the story of how Chechen Terrorists and the Russian state joined forces to create the worst school attack of all time.

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Timothy Phillips. Beslan: Tragedy at school number 1

John Giduck. Terror at Beslan

HBO. Children of Beslan

Episode 287 - The Beslan School Siege: Part 1

Circus performer, champion boxer, first ever African American combat pilot, club owner, Jazz artist, and spy. Eugene Bullard was one of the coolest men to ever live.

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https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20231112-eugene-ballard-pioneering-african-american-aviator-who-flew-for-france-in-wwi

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bullard-eugene-jacques-1894-1961/

https://www.historynet.com/eugene-bullard-americas-first-black-fighter-pilot/

Episode 289 - Eugene Bullard. The Coolest Man to Ever Live

Chinese soldiers defended the Great Wall of China armed with swords, axes, and martial arts....in the 1930s

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https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/the-forgotten-story-of-japans-attack-on-the-great-wall-of-china-5b7f75e326b8

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-imperial-japan-seized-great-wall-china-91386

https://www.republicanchina.org/war.shtml

Episode 292 - The Defense of the Great Wall

Joe and Nate talk about the time South Vietnam attempted to invade Laos. It did not go well.

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https://www.comanchero.org/LamSon719.html

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/invasion-02172021125804.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27016309

Robert Sander. The Invasion of Laos, 1971

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024288

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/mauled-in-laos/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-nightmare-mission-into-laos-operation-lam-son-719/

Episode 293 - Operation Lam Son 719

Once upon a time the King of Portugal started a war that went so badly it collapsed his dynasty and killed three different kings all at once. 

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https://www.historynet.com/three-dead-kings-war-in-morocco/#:~:text=By%20midafternoon%20on%20Aug,and%20North%20Africa%20for%20decades.

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Medieval/BattleOfTheThreeKings

Episode 296- The Battle Of The Three Kings

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