Beyond the front - Epehy

Beyond the front - Epehy

Send us a text In today's podcast we visit one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War, the tiny farming village of Epehy. While small in size, it proved a formidable obstacle to be captured as the Allies advanced towards the Hindenburg Line. We look at the origins of the Hindenburg Line and the fighting for villages and copses that the British had to undertake in order to get near to this masterpiece of German military engineering. We hear about new British tactics involv...

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A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood

A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood

Send us a text Welcome to this latest episode. We find ourselves in Ypres, on a part of the salient that offers real bang for the buck regarding military history. Our journey today covers just over a...

14 Heinä 20241h 6min

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Send us a text In this latest episode, we look at colonial soldiers' experiences in the Great War. Britain and France made full use of the human capital of their global empires to provide extra manpow...

30 Kesä 20241h 18min

The man they couldn't kill.

The man they couldn't kill.

Send us a text In this episode, we travel to the Somme and begin our journey at one of the most iconic sites on the battlefield, the Basilica at Albert. We hear about its founding and discover more a...

16 Kesä 20241h 7min

Palestine

Palestine

Send us a textIn this episode, we visit one of the forgotten fronts of the Great War and look at the fighting in Palestine in 1917-1918. This was an unforgiving landscape that saw numerous battles, t...

26 Touko 20241h 16min

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Send us a textIn this episode, recorded live on the battlefields, we are at Festubert, the forgotten battle of 1915, and we visit some of the cemeteries around the battlefield to hear the personal sto...

12 Touko 20241h 7min

The Devil's breath

The Devil's breath

Send us a text Welcome to Season 7! In our first episode, we look at poison gas, its development and use on the battlefield, and how the science of chemical weapons saw the militarisation of academia...

28 Huhti 20241h 7min

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

Send us a text Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 and our 150th podcast! In this episode, we look back at the podcast since it began 3 1/2 years ago, examine some of the statistics about the po...

31 Maalis 20241h 14min

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

Send us a text In this latest podcast, historian and author Tom Isitt joins us. Tom has a passion (or, he might say, obsession) with the Italian Front in the Great War. An inhospitable battlefield wit...

17 Maalis 20241h 12min

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