When a Soldier’s Bravery is So Great His Comrades Fear Him: The Story of Band of Brothers’ Ronald “Killer “ Spiers
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Our air drums, they let us sense when things are a bit off. |
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| 1:07.0 | History isn't just a bunch of names and dates and facts. |
| 1:10.0 | It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
| 1:27.0 | There's a certain kind of soldier that's so fearless in the face of death that his comrades are encouraged by him. |
| 1:45.0 | They're not inspired by his bravery, but they're actually afraid of him. |
| 1:49.0 | They might wonder if he has a death wish or he's protected by something supernatural, maybe even a source of evil. |
| 1:55.0 | In this episode, we're going to be looking at one such soldier, and that's Ronald Spears, who fought in World War II, and he's depicted in the HBO miniseries band of brothers. |
| 2:04.0 | In preparation for this episode, I was thinking about other types of soldiers like this in history, real or fictional. |
| 2:10.0 | There's Achilles in the Iliad, maybe Alexander the Great, or Colleague, even Al Waleed. |
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