Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

The horrible conclusion to King Philip’s War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War

The war finally starts and the colonial authorities immediately make everything much worse. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy Joe's books: https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Corps-Military-Sci-Fi-Forlorn-ebook/dp/B0B5YJD7J2/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=0F9hR&content-id=amzn1.sym.e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_p=e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_r=BJFJ8DMEE9M0Y60XFEVE&pd_rd_wg=HG18o&pd_rd_r=03aa9132-cb25-484a-a41e-dd419379f0a4&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m Sources: Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War

The little known story of the most apocalyptic war in American History. Part 1/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War

the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Die https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.html https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257

Once upon a time New Zealand made their own tank. It did not go well. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/NewZealand/Bob_Semple_Tank.php The Semple Tank, J.Plowman, Classic Military Vehicle Magazine National Library of New Zealand

Things get weird in the conclusion to the Otto Skorzeny story. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The pretender to the Albanian throne and Rhodesia fan boy declares himself king, gets arrested for smuggling guns, and gets in a high speed private plane chase while armed with a rocket launcher. Joe is joined by KD, writer and runner of the War Takes blog. https://wartakes.com/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys @war_takes Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/01/leka-zogu https://www.ft.com/content/6f2f39aa-21ab-11e1-a1d8-00144feabdc0 https://web.archive.org/web/20210613055654/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8926722/Leka-I-Zogu.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010122090100/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/1127/balkankings.html

Skorzeny launches the mission to rescue Benito Mussolini from a ski resort, it does not go well. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943 Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando

Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite Commando during WWII, he was also a total loser. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943 Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando

An order of knights turned protection racket defend a chunk of rock from an Ottoman force several times their size using the military equivalent of Home Alone tactics. and then people began firing heads out of cannons. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.historynet.com/no-mercy-malta/ Crowley, Roger (2008). Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

The US Marines feed thousands of marines into a Japanese meat grinder for no tactical reason before trying to ignore help from the Army to save their pride. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Sledge, Eugene B. (1990). With the Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My Pillow Anderson, Charles R. Western Pacific. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/unnecessary-hell-the-battle-of-peleliu/

Joe is joined by the hosts of Ukraine without Hype to talk about the time the Russian Empire fell for a con artist and invaded a khanate to try to steal gold that didn't exist. Check out Ukraine without Hype: https://twitter.com/HypeUkraine Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Morrison, Alexander, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia" "A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva under General Perofski", Translated from the Russian for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Calcutta, 1867 ‘Pray for the Camels’: The Winter Invasion of Khiva, 1839–41

The conclusion to the story of Witold Pilecki Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Get Joe's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Corps-Military-Sci-Fi-Forlorn-ebook/dp/B0B5YJD7J2/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3KIOPIRCXJ4D1&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1665384891&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjI4IiwicXNhIjoiMi44MiIsInFzcCI6IjIuODYifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-3 Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer

Pilecki plots his escape when it becomes clear that the allies will do nothing about the crimes being committed within Auschwitz. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer

Witold Pilecki was a Polish Freedom Fighter who volunteered to get thrown into Auschwitz in order to let the world know what was happening there. The world didn't listen. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer

Rome kills 80,000 of their own soldiers because of a personal beef. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Theodor Mommsen. The History of Rome IV "The Revolution" Plutarch. Life of Marius. Richard Evans. Rome's Cimbric Wars Peter Tsouras. The Cimbrian War, 113-101 BC Mike Duncan. The Storm before the Storm

During WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/ https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132240/http://www.montauklife.com/history/history_night_of_the_nazis.html https://www.spiegel.de/politik/erschiessen-oder-erhaengen-a-77234129-0002-0001-0000-000007859070?context=issue https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942/

Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese military set their eyes on a tiny speck of a rock staffed with a handful of Marines and civilian contractors. Trapped and with no hope of relief, the strange adhoc garrison made the invaders bleed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-of-wake-island-1941 https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wake-island/ https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003119-00/sec1.htm https://www.historynet.com/hard-luck-island-battle-of-wake-island/

America scrapes together the US Navy to go fight pirates on the other side of the world. They accomplish almost nothing and then go home. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Wheelan, Joseph (2003), Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805 Zacks, Richard (2005), The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/barbary-wars/first-barbary-war/ https://www.historynet.com/tripoli-pirates-foiled/

Once upon a time the US Navy went on a scientific expedition based upon the theory of a hollow earth. They murdered swaths of innocent people and the commander went insane, beating and kidnapping most of his own crew. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/ https://archive.org/details/seaofgloryameric00phil https://www.chimuadventures.com/blog/2016/08/charles-wilkes/

Spicer Simson rides into some of the dumbest combat of all time, somehow wins. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

During WWI the british navy thought of one of the most pointless battle plans of the entire war. They had to find someone equally worthless to command it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

Part 3/3 Custer leads his command to their deaths. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876" Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle. He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories. The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876 Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won. Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

Part 2/3 The American invasion of native land gets off to a bad start. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876" Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle. He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories. The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876 Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won. Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains. Part 1/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for the entire series: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876" Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle. He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories. The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876 Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won. Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Fowler, Will. Allies at Dieppe. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942 https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-dieppe https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/dieppe-a-colossal-blunder

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up. sources: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/ https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/ https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/ Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press. *corrections* FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.

The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Part 4/5 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Part 3/5 Suicide canoes, it turned out, would not be the wonder weapon Solano Lopez thought they would be. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70. warhistorymilitarypodcast

Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent. Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1

What if your local sports fans attempted a coup Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532 JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1

The conclusion to the nanking series Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-10/tokyo-trials Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14 Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre. Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/ Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

CW: Everything Part 2/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14 Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre. Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/ Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Content warning: Everything. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14 Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre. Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing http://museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/ Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Joe, Francis, and Shocks talk about the weirdest military unit of all time. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html?safari=1 https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/07/28/potsdam-giants-by-name/ Darwin, Charles (1871). The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. John Murray. p. 112. https://knoji.com/article/the-potsdam-guards-prussias-giant-soldiers/ https://random-times.com/2018/07/14/king-frederick-william-i-of-prussia-and-his-obsession/

Joe and Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast continue the story of Herman Perry, the Jungle King hero of WWII. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Koerner, Brendan. "Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII" https://www.cbi-theater.com/ledoroad/Ledo_Main.html https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-soldiers-and-ledo-road-1942-1945/

Joe is joined by Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast to talk about one of the coolest soldiers to ever serve in the US Army. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Koerner, Brendan. 'Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/african-americans-world-war-ii https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/

The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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Part 2/4 The Detroit's own finally make it to Russia, which has been transformed into the disease realm by the Spanish Flu Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Part 1/4 Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Company+A+339th+Infantry&ei=TWg1S_T4KYLEMbmezcIE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/ http://pbma.grobbel.org/

The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk. Correction: Panzer V - Panther Panzer VI - Tiger Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II. Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer! Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943. https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,

Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/ A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED