Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood
Send us Fan Mail Along with Khe Sahn and Iwo Jima, the fighting at Belleau Wood is part of the US Marine Corps legend. In 26 days in June 1918, the US Marine Corps fought its first major engagement o...
20 Helmi 202256min
Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode of Trench Talk it's a pleasure to be joined by Mike Cunha. Mike is a military historian, researcher, podcaster, and high school teacher from Boston in the Unit...
13 Helmi 20221h 3min
Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, we look at the life and work of one of the Great War's most colourful characters, Major John Norton-Griffiths. Conservative MP, philanthropist, jingoistic, an...
6 Helmi 202252min
Cropper's Craters
Send us Fan Mail As the land of the Great War has been reclaimed for housing, industry, and agriculture in the hundred or so years since the War ended, there's very little of the battlefields left for...
30 Tammi 202257min
The fields of fire - Hooge 1915
Send us Fan Mail Our podcast today takes us back to the fields around Hooge near Ypres where once stood Zouave Wood. On the 30th July 1915, the Germans attacked men of the 8th Rifle Brigade and 7th K...
23 Tammi 202250min
Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we visit Point du Jour Cemetery near Athies, just outside Arras to walk through the cemetery and hear the stories of some of the men who lie buried within. We be...
16 Tammi 202258min
The fight in the farmyard
Send us Fan Mail In our first episode of 2022, we pay a visit to one of the lesser-known killing fields of WW1. Covering just a few acres of arable land between Cambrai and St Quentin, the strong poi...
2 Tammi 202250min
Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at Christmas in wartime, both on the home front and in the front line. We talk about a lucky purchase from a small Northamptonshire auction house that provi...
26 Joulu 20211h 1min
