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Tue, 6 May 2008 15:15:29 PST
Tue, 6 May 2008 - 40:48 minutes - 29.47mb

This first "Blitz Edition" of the show looks at the hidden side of history, the impact of drugs and alcohol on past events. Dan has a whole list of historical figures he wants to drug test.
Notes:
1. “Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy” by John Maxwell O'Brien.
2. “ An Unfinished life : John F. Kennedy” by Robert Dallek.
3. “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life” by Gretchen Rubin
4. “The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy” by Rick Beyer.
5. “The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler: His Illnesses, Doctors, and Drugs” by Leonard L. Heston.
6. “The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Otto Guensche and Heinze Linge, Hitler's Closest Personal Aides” by Henrik Eberle.
7. “Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World” by David T. Courtwright.
8. “One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964” by Aleksandr Fursenko.
9. “Inside the Third Reich” by Albert Speer.
10. “The Secret History of Alcoholism: The Story of Famous Alcoholics and Their Destructive Behavior”by James Graham.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:01:12 PST
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 - 01:18:23 minutes - 56.44mb

A traumatized people who traumatized their neighbors, the Native American tribe known as Apache were among the last Indians to surrender to the U.S. Government. Dan, of course, has thoughts. This is a long show!
Notes:
1. "The People Called Apache" by Thomas E. Mails. 2. "Conquest of Apacheria" by Dan L. Thrapp. 3. "In the days of Victorio;: Recollections of a Warm Springs
Apache" by Eve Ball. 4. "Indeh: An Apache Odyssey" by Eve Ball, Nora Henn, and Lynda A.
Sanchez. 5. "The Truth About Geronimo" by Robert Utley, Britton Davis.
6."Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief" by Edwin R. Sweeney.
7."Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place" by Angie Debo.
8. "Life among the Apaches" (Bison Book) by John C. Cremony.
9. "The Apache frontier: Jacob Ugarte and Spanish-Indian relations
in Northern New Spain, 1769-1791" by Max L Moorhead. 10. "Apache Wars: An Illustrated Battle History" by E. Lisle
Reedstrom. 11."Western Apache Raiding and Warfare" by Grenville Goodwin and
Keith H. Basso.
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Tue, 08 May 2007 15:54:21 PST
Tue, 08 May 2007 - 58:34 minutes - 42.20mb

Blood-sucking Scythian warriors, tattooed ice mummies, Amazons killing so they can mate, pot smoking head-hunters, scalp-taking, koumiss-drinking Mongols, Turks, Huns, and Aliens. What's not to like?
Notes:
1.“The World of the Huns” by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
2.“The Armies and Enemies of Ancient China 1027 B.C. - 1286 A.D.” by John P. Greer
3.“Nomads and Crusaders: A.D. 1000-1368” by Archibald R. Lewis
4.“Mongols” (Men-At-Arms Series, 105) by Stephen Turnbull
5.“The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe” by James Chambers
6.“The World of the Scythians” by Renate Rolle
7.“The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories” by Herodotus
8.“Scythians 700-300 B.C.” (Men at Arms Series, 137) by E.V. Cernenko
9.“Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians and Sassanid Persians (Men-at-Arms) by Peter Wilcox
10.“The Sarmatians 600 BC-AD 450” (Men-at-Arms) by Richard Brzezinski
11.“The Mongols (Peoples of Europe)" by David Morgan
12.“Attila and the Nomad Hordes” by David Nicolle
13.“The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome” by Phil Barker
14.“The Emergence of Man: The First Horsemen” by Time-Life books
15.“Barbarians of Asia: The People of the Steppes from 1600 B C”by Stuart Legg
16.“The Warriors of Eurasia” by Michael Gorelik
17.“Armies of the Ancient Near East” by Ian Heath
18.“Armies of the Middle Ages, Volumes 1 and 2” by Ian Heath
19.“Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC” by Duncan Head
20.“Armies of the Dark Ages” by Ian Heath
21.“Armies and enemies of the Crusades, 1096-1291” by Ian Heath
22.“The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War” by Ralph D. Sawyer and Mei-Chun Sawyer
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