The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict. Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
414 episodes transcribedThe American Revolution left a lot of people behind. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: Egerton, Douglas R., Dea...
Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. *correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966. Support the show...
Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/l...
The story of the deadliest woman in military history Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lady Death: The Memoir of...
The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/...
Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore...
2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsled...
Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the w...
WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945. It went on a lot longer for some people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys...
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. Su...
Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands. Sources: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlan...
Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. *clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Ba...
The famed Rough Riders were a liability Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire. Sources for all 3 episodes: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the...
A bunch of christian knights get hijacked to knee cap some people over boat debt. Sources: https://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-the-second-sieg...
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 genoc...
Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html?chrome=1 https://www.rbth.com/history/326983-5-soviet-superh...
Support the show get bonus stuff: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm https:/...
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/na...
