"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

Send a text Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. The Christmas Truce has often been portrayed as a mass act of rebellion by soldiers tired of fighting, who wilfully disobeyed the instructions of senior officers not to fraternise with the enemy. The commander of II Corps issued an order on the 5th of December 1914 forbidding any form of ceasefire or armistice with the enemy. Yet, within his Divisions, seven battalions reported fraternisation with the enemy ...

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The Brickstacks

The Brickstacks

Send a text Welcome to the latest episode! Today, we walk the canal at Cuinchy, one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War. Cuinchy was the site of the infamous brickstacks and the scene of b...

27 Huhti 20251h 3min

Fromelles

Fromelles

Send a text Welcome to this latest episode in which we walk the battlefield of Fromelles. On the evening of the 19th July 1916, men of the newly arrived Australian 5th Division were thrown into battl...

13 Huhti 20251h 6min

We don't take umbrellas to war.

We don't take umbrellas to war.

Send a text The weather played its part in the Great War, perhaps in more ways than first imagined. The Great War lasted over 1500 days, and over 600 saw rain on the Western Front. The winter of 191...

23 Maalis 202555min

Neuve Chapelle

Neuve Chapelle

Send a text On the 110th anniversary, we travel to France and walk around the battlefield of the first major offensive launched by the British on the Western Front at Neuve Chappelle. Initial successe...

9 Maalis 20251h 8min

Hohenzollern

Hohenzollern

Send a text Welcome to this latest episode of the podcast. Today, we walk the battlefield around the area of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the formidable German strongpoint located on the battlefield at L...

23 Helmi 20251h 1min

Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland

Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland

Send a text Welcome to the first Trench Talk of Season 7! It's a real pleasure to be joined by naval historian and writer Chris Sams as we talk about the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The long-awaited s...

9 Helmi 20251h 3min

"I can't find the damned things!" -  Ploegsteert to Le Gheer

"I can't find the damned things!" - Ploegsteert to Le Gheer

Send a text Welcome to the first episode of 2025! Today, we head to Belgium and walk a less-trodden route south of Plugstreet Wood towards the hamlet of Le Gheer. From the village of Ploegsteert, we...

26 Tammi 20251h

Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches

Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches

Send a text Welcome to the final episode of 2024! One of the great misnomers of WW1 is that soldiers spent all their time in the trenches fighting. Fighting battles took up a tiny amount of soldiers'...

31 Joulu 20241h 1min

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