E01 - The Great Emu War: How Australia Lost a War to Birds
November 1932, the Australian outback. Soldiers with machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammo dig in to face an invading army: about a thousand six-foot emus eating their way through the wheat fields. What could go wrong? Pretty much everything. This is the true, ridiculous story of the Great Emu War, and of how the birds won.
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