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Untangling history’s greatest controversies. Every month, we take a hard look at the historical conflicts that raise difficult questions, stoke controversy, and send our moral compasses spinning.

Conflicted: A History Podcast

On December 3rd, 1971, India and Pakistan go to war on two fronts, battling for the future of Bangladesh. In the East, the Indian army races against time, hoping to capture Dacca and force a Pakistani surrender before the United Nations can demand a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger unleash a fusillade of diplomatic pressure to frighten a defiant Indira Gandhi into compliance. After months of imprisonment, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman learns what has happened to his country. The war ends, and a new era begins. 

SOURCES:
Bass, Gary K. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. 2013.
Bennet-Jones, Own. The Bhutto Dynasty. 2020.
Carney, Scott. Miklian, Jason. The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an 
Unspeakable War, and Liberation. 2022.
Chang, Jung. Halliday, Jon. Mao: The Unknown Story. 2005.
Frank, Katherine. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. 2001.
Gewen, Barry. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and his World. 2020.
Hiro, Dilip. The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan. 2015.
Hitchens, Christopher. The Trial of Henry Kissinger. 2001.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez. Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future. 2023.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Struggle for Pakistan. 2014.
James, Lawrence. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997.
Jayakar, Pupul. Indira Gandhi: A Biography. 1975.
Khosa, Faisal. The Making of Martyrs in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh. 2021.
K.S. Nair. December In Dacca. 2022.
Keay, John. India: A History. 2000.
Mookherjee, Nayanika. The Spectral Wound. 2015.
Raghavan, Srinath. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh. 2013.
Rose, Leo. Sisson, Richard. War and Secession. Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh. 1990.
Saikia, Yasmin. Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh. 2011.
Schanberg, Sydney.”He Tells Full Story of Arrest and Detention.” New York Times Jan 1972
Schendel, Willem van. A History of Bangladesh. 2009.
Schwartz, Thomas Alan. Henry Kissinger and American Power. 2020.
Sengupta, Nitish. Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal. 2011.
Siddiqi, A. R. Yahya Khan: The Rise and Fall of a Soldier. 2020. 
Tudda, Chris. A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972. 2012.
Walsh, Declan. The Nine Lives of Pakistan. 2020.
Zakaria, Anam. 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India. 2019.
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The 1971 Bangladesh War – Part 5: Thank God, They’ve Attacked Us

A quick introduction to the concept behind the show and your host, Zach Cornwell. 
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Conflicted - Welcome

A myth-busting breakdown of history’s favorite fitness cult.

SOURCES:
Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other. 2005.
 Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
Plutarch. Parallel Lives
Xenophon. Hellenica
Cartledge, Paul. “The Socratics’ Sparta and Rosseau’s”. Cambridge University. 1998
 Penades, Antonio. “Bred for Battle - Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine”. National Geographic History. Dec 2016.
 Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017
 Andrews, Evan. “8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan”. History.com. Sept 2018 
Grant, R.G. “Battle of Leuctra”. Encyclopedia Britannica. March, 2017
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This Is Sparta?

Sea battles, tiger hunts, and a mountain of human noses. This is the Shakespearean saga that triggered centuries of bad blood between Korea and Japan.

SOURCES:
Samuel, Hawley. The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China. 2005
Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Invasion of Korea. 2008.
Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan, 1467-1615. 2002
Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. 1982
Kristof, Nicholas D. “Japan, Korea, and 1597: A Year That Lives in Infamy”. Sept 1997

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The Tiger and the Turtle: Samurai Invasion of Korea

The Rated-R-for-Russian story of the Red Army’s horrific campaign of vengeance against Nazi Germany.

 SOURCES:
Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945. 2003.
Huggler, Justin. “Fall of Berlin: ‘Of course I was afraid. I was 17 years old.’”. The Telegraph UK. May 2015
Johnson, Daniel. “Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps”. The Guardian. Jan 2002.
Ash, Lucy. “The Rape of Berlin”. BBC News. May 2015.
Fitzgerald, Nora. “Berliners recall Red Army atrocities”. Chicago Tribune. September 2002.
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They Saw Red

African berserkers, graceful samurai, and deadly Soviet fighter pilots. A three-part, globe-trotting tour of remarkable female soldiers and the complicated lives that they led.

SOURCES:
Vinogradova, Lyuba. Defending the Motherland. 2015
Alpern, Stanley B. Amazons of Black Sparta. 1998.
Dash, Mike. “Dahomey’s Women Warriors”. Smithsonian.com. Sept 2011
Busch, Jenna. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons, the Inspiration for the Dora Milaje”. SyFy Wire. Nov 2018.
Joubeaud, Edouard. The Women Soldiers of Dahomey. UNESCO Digital Library. 2014
“Three Months in Captivity in Dahomey”. The Sydney Morning Herald. Oct 1890
Budnik, Ruslan. “Dahomey Amazons - The Only Elite All-Female Warrior Regiments”. War History Online. Oct 2018
Okoh, Lize. “Meet the Dahomey Amazons: The All-Female Warriors of West Africa”. Culture Trip. May 2018.
Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Women, 1184 -1877. 2012.
Hoffman, Michael. “Women Warriors of Japan”. The Japan Times. Oct 2011.
Hastings, Cristobel. “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan's Women Samurai, Were Erased From History”. VICE. Sept 2018.
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Wonder Women

How a single week in 1967 changed the Middle East, and the world, forever. This is the action-packed, heartbreaking origin story of Israel and the Six-Day War. 

SOURCES:
Oren, Michael B. Six Days Of War. 2002.
Pressfield, Steven. The Lion’s Gate. 2014.
Churchill, Randolph S. The Six Day War. 1967
Dana, Seif. “The 1967 Naksa: The Making of the New Middle East”. Al Jazeera. June 2016.
Samuel, Sigal. “How the Six Day War Transformed Religion”. The Atlantic. Jun 5 2017
Land, Graham. “Was the Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome a Preventable Tragedy?” HistoryHit. July 2018
Josephus. The Works of Josephus. The Wars of the Jews, Book 7
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Six Days: The 1967 Six Day War

The story of China’s infamous One-Child Policy, the most ambitious (and catastrophic) social engineering project the modern world has ever seen.

SOURCES:
Fong, Mei. One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment. 2016
Evans, Karin. The Lost Daughters of China. 2008
Johnson, Kay Ann. China’s Hidden Children. 2016
Xinran, Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love. 2012
Greenhalgh, Susan. Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. 2008. 
Ren, Yuan. “How China's one-child policy overhauled the status and prospects of girls like me”. The Telegraph. Dec 2013. 
Clarke, Aileen. “See How The One-Child Policy Changed China”. National Geographic. Nov 2015. 
Chen, Shanshan. “Lost lives: the battle of China's invisible children to recover missed years”. Reuters. Dec 2016.

 
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Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy

How a handful of mercenaries, explorers, and pirates destroyed the Aztec Empire and burnt its capital city to the ground. Two cultures collide in the first of a two-part series on the Conquest of Mexico. 
SOURCES:
Levy, Buddy. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs. 
Sheppard, Si. Tenochtitlan 1519-1521. 2018.
Thomas, Hugh. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. 1993.
Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico. 1843
Cortes, Hernan. Five Letters. 1519-1526.
Restall, Matthew. When Montezuma Met Cortez: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History. 2018.
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The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1

Wonder and warmth quickly turn to slaughter and horror as Hernan Cortes meets Emperor Moctezuma in the explosive conclusion of this two-part series.

SOURCES:
Levy, Buddy. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs. 
Sheppard, Si. Tenochtitlan 1519-1521. 2018.
Thomas, Hugh. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. 1993.
Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico. 1843
Cortes, Hernan. Five Letters. 1519-1526.
Restall, Matthew. When Montezuma Met Cortez: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History. 2018.
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The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 2

How the US government deliberately sent thousands of mentally-disabled men into combat during the Vietnam War. A bonus episode and companion to Episode 12: "The Good Guys".

SOURCES:
Gregory, Hamilton. McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War. 2015. 
Hsiao, Lisa. “Project 100,000: The Great Society’s Answer to Military Manpower Needs in Vietnam”. 1989.
Hastings, Sir Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (1945-1975). 2018. 
Turse, Nick. Kill Anything That Moves. 2013.
Charles Rivers Editors. The My Lai Massacre. 2015. 
Jones, Howard. My Lai. 2015. 
Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire In The Lake. 1972.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. 1990.
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McNamara's Boys: Lost Innocence in Vietnam

McNamara's Boys: Lost Innocence in Vietnam

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