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Jaws of Defeat

Exploring the strategy, tactics, leadership, and luck behind history's upset victories
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Jul 24, 2017

 

In this week’s episode, Luke talks about the Battle of Tanga. Well, he mostly talks about pre-WWI colonial politics in Africa, but he gets to the battle eventually. 

 

The main source for this episode was The Battle of Tanga, German East Africa 1914 by Maj. Kenneth J. Harvey - which can be found here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a416385.pdf

 

For more information about this battle, look into Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in German East Africa by Charles Miller and The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918 by Byron Farwell

Battle (Normal)-Boxcat Games

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Mission-Boxcat Games

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Jul 11, 2017

Will explains the Siege of Malta, which pits the Ottoman Turks vs. the Knights of St. John/Hospitaller/Malta in one of history's most epic sieges. Surprise naval attacks, incendiary weapons, and underground flame thrower fights, this one has it all. 

 

There's a map this time!:  https://twitter.com/JoDPodcast/status/884618168530063360

 

Our main source was Roger Crowley's Empires of the Sea

You could also check out Earnle Bradford's The Great Siege: Malta 1565

 

Battle (Normal)-Boxcat Games

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Mission-Boxcat Games

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