The Great Emu War: The War Australia Lost to Birds

In 1932, the Australian army sent two soldiers, two machine guns and ten thousand rounds of ammunition against twenty thousand emus in the wheat fields of Western Australia. It did not go to plan. The true story of the Great Emu War, the struggling veteran farmers who asked for help, and the birds that simply refused to stand still.

Created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host's voice, and checked against the historical record.