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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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NOV 19, 2024

Part Three: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

Robert tells Margaret how to scientifically shatter a bridge the T.E. Lawrence way, and how Lawrence crippled the transportation infrastructure of a mighty empire using some guys with camels and sacks of flour.

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57 MIN

NOV 14, 2024

Part Two: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy to continue our series on Lawrence of Arabia.

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67 MIN

NOV 12, 2024

Part One: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

Robert tells Margaret Killjoy the whole story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British imperialist, hopeless romantic and asexual icon who invented the concept of modern insurgent war. Through it all we ask: was he a bastard?

(4 Part Series)

https://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/lawrence/youth

https://www.investigativeproject.org/4256/guest-column-the-final-death-of-lawrence-of-arabia

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/02/young-lawrence-a-portrait-of-the-legend-as-a-young-man-review

https://www.salon.com/2015/03/01/i%C2%A0realize_now_that_he_was_sexless/

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/t-e-lawrence-art-war-twenty-first-century/

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2016/2/16/what-would-t-e-lawrence-do

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-lawrence-arabia-180951857/

https://www.tracesofevil.com/p/blog-page_24.html

https://www.firstworldwar.com/features/telawrence.htm

https://baklol.com/baks/Misc/Great-people-who-were-also-per-_1492/T--E--Lawrence-_18491

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html

https://stljewishlight.org/top-story/lawrence-of-arabia-or-lawrence-of-zion/

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

https://israelforever.org/programs/balfourinitiative/Implementing_Balfour_Declaration/

https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Implementing-the-Balfour-Declaration

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/manuscript-reveals-dark-side-of-lawrence-of-arabia-s-sex-life-76363.html

https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Desert-Fire-T-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B006072QSG

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/22/archives/the-naked-truth-nothing-withheld-revealed-at-last-the-secret-lives.html

https://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/players/dahoum.html

Schneider, James. Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt (p. 52). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Sattin, Anthony. The Young T. E. Lawrence (pp. 34-35). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

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79 MIN

NOV 9, 2024

It Could Happen Here Weekly 155

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

Trump's Constitutional Sheriffs
Remember, Remember, the (Other) 5th of November
An Election Episode feat. Robert
Still Don't Panic: An Election Response
Trump's Deportation Plans

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