The US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win. 

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Episode 156 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 2: Task Force Dick Ripple

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

Content warning: Everything.

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Sources for all related episodes:
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

On this episode Nick and Joe dive into the insane world of Holocaust Denial and why these people shouldn't be debated, they should be attacked. 

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Sources: 
Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917150/

Episode 40 - The Assholes of Holocaust Denial

On Part 2 of the Easter Rising Home Rule is put on hold while Irish Republicans remember the words of Wolfe Tone: Launch an uprising while the British Empire is distracted fighting a foreign enemy. 

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Episode 48 - Easter Rising Part 2: The Provisional Irish Republic

Joe is joined by the co host of the What a Hell of a Way to Die Podcast Francis Horton to discuss the worst training exercise in military history. 

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/d-days-deadly-dress-rehearsal
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/exercise-tiger.html
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-27185893

Episode 74 - Exercise Tiger Ft. Francis Horton

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)

Creator of Popular Front Jake Hanrahan joins Joe to talk about how he got his start in Conflict Journalism, why westerners need to stop projecting their beliefs onto the revolutions of other people, and why frozen and lesser known conflicts demand your attention.

https://www.popularfront.co

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Episode 103- Popular Front Ft. Jake Hanrahan

Blow up Mount Rushmore.

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Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/mount-rushmore-gutzon-borglum-klan-stone-mountain/
https://apnews.com/430aa7f10b344eef891ff733116cf3ae
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/monumental-racism-the-kkk-member-who-carved-mount-rushmore

Episode 111 - Mount Rushmore is a Racist Tourist Trap

Folks, it's bad.

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Sources:
 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html
https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29
https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/

Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield

Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge

sources for all 4 episodes:
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
A Cambodian odyssey
The Pol Pot Regime
When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution
Cambodia: Year Zero
Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982

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Episode 133 - The Khmer Rouge Part 1: Revolutionary Snitching

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