Here we fight and here we die!

Here we fight and here we die!

Send a text 1917 was a difficult year for the Allied high command. With the British and the French suffering from the exertions of the Somme and Verdun, the French army was in a state of mutiny on the Chemin des Dames, and the British were bogged down in the hell of Passchendaele. The Spring of 1918 saw the British on the defensive around the city of St Quentin, in a series of eight heavily defended strongpoints called Redoubts. On the 21st of March, the Germans launched Op...

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All roads lead to Ypres

All roads lead to Ypres

Send a text Why do we always do the same thing? This question was posed during a work call last week, and it got me thinking about travelling around the battlefields and why I always seem to take the ...

28 Heinä 20241h 5min

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 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 mi...

14 Heinä 20241h 6min

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Send 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 manpower ...

30 Kesä 20241h 18min

The man they couldn't kill.

The man they couldn't kill.

Send 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 abou...

16 Kesä 20241h 7min

Palestine

Palestine

Send a text In 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, the...

26 Touko 20241h 16min

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Send a text In 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 stori...

12 Touko 20241h 7min

The Devil's breath

The Devil's breath

Send 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 in...

28 Huhti 20241h 7min

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

Send 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 pod, ...

31 Maalis 20241h 14min

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