BONUS: Sharpe Show 6: Sharpe's Gold
Sharpe decides to turn into Indiana Jones for some reason
2023-10-12 07:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sharpe decides to turn into Indiana Jones for some reason
2023-10-12 07:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostPete Ellis was a marine who not only foresaw the pacific theater of WWII, but pretty much invented the modern US Marine Corps. He was also a drunken madman who went on one of the worst spying missions in American history.
Sources:
Dirk Ballendorf. Pete Ellis: An Amphibious ...
2023-10-06 11:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn late September 2023, Azerbaijan invaded what was left of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh after starving the population and holding them hostage since December 2022. Over 100,000 people are now in Armenia after they have been forced to flee upon fear of death or worse. The Armenian sta...
2023-10-01 13:53:36 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for supporting the show, youll find the file for download below.
*this is joe* i'd like to say i'm sorry for the pause in the audio book production for the moment. For people who are unaware, things have rapidly changed in Armenia due to an Azeri invasion and genocide of the po...
2023-10-01 05:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostPart 1/5
Sources:
David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III
Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad.
Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War.
Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.
2023-09-24 23:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostTom and Joe watch Master and Commander, otherwise known as why life in the navy sucks ass.
2023-09-23 09:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostStriking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/indu...
2023-09-18 04:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post*CONTENT WARNING: This episode speaks, at length, about suicide*
Jack Kevorkian is known in popular media as "Dr. Death" The man that championed euthanasia in the United States with the state trying desperately to find a reason to throw him in prison. However, there is much more to it than ...
2023-09-13 05:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe terror group the United Red Army was born out of the fires of the anti imperialist student movement of japan but rapidly turned into a death cult. Within a few weeks even taking a shower would be considered counter revolutionary.
Sources:
Yoshikuni Igarashi. Dead Bodies and ...
2023-09-11 06:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostA few weeks ago Tom made a patreon goal that if we hit 5500 supporters we would read horrible fan fiction starring Muammar Gaddafi, Josef Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. It's horrible and you've been warned.
2023-09-06 09:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostA badly designed submarine becomes the face of the french navy while accidently doing everything it can to convince people that the crew might be nazi agents.
Sources:
William H. Langenberg. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bizarre Surcouf
Christopher Mis...
2023-09-05 06:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe've decided to answer your questions. We chose from a list and assembled the cast of Joe, Nate, and Tom to do our best to give honest feedback... or something like it.
2023-08-17 21:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In the final episode of the series, we learn about the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Deutscher Herbst, or "German Autumn" of 1977. In two months in late 1977, the leadership of the first generation of the Red Army Faction would murder a high-profile German industrialist (and former SS officer)...
2023-08-13 21:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we cover the early- to mid-1970s bombing campaigns of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and some of the... interesting personalities of the group members.
Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the Pe...
2023-08-13 21:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.'
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... 2023-08-13 21:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostTom takes the wheel for another series. This time the Red Army Faction, a German left wing terror group funded by bank robberies and fueled by chain smoking.
Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Sch...
2023-08-06 14:45:22 +0000 UTC View Postattached below. thanks for supporting the show.
2023-08-03 07:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostJoe, Shocks, and Francis watch the 2018 film, 12 Strong.
2023-08-01 10:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostUS Marines and Soldiers invade the fortress island of Saipan and end up hating each other almost as much as the Japanese.
Sources:
http://www.battleofsaipan.com/seabee.htm
Philip Crowl, ...
2023-07-30 18:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post