Episode 136: The Somme in the South - Forgotten Victory
When people think of the Somme, they think of failure: men cut down in no man's land; shattered battalions; and catastrophic losses. Yet along much of the southern part of the battlefield, this is not...
20 Jul 53min
Bonus Episode: Reichs & Republics The Turnip Winter of 1916/17
What happens when an entire nation runs out of food? This is one of our favourite episodes from our sister podcast, Reichs and Republics: The German History Podcast, and we’d like to share it with yo...
20 Jul 1h 2min
Episode 135: The Somme’s Northern Disaster
At 7.30am on the morning of 1st July 1916, whistles blew along a front stretching more than twenty miles. Tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed from their trenches and began walking towards th...
6 Jul 1h 12min
Episode 134: France's Elite Units
What turns a unit into an elite? Is it rigorous selection, a hard-earned reputation, or simply being thrown into the fiercest fighting and surviving? In today's episode, we search for the answer thr...
29 Jun 54min
Episode 133: The Gallipoli Evacuation: A Forgotten Success Story?
For eight brutal months in 1915, every Allied plan at Gallipoli had failed. However, on the final night of the campaign, the Allies finally managed to pull off one perfectly executed operation and eva...
22 Jun 1h 3min
Episode 132: Battles that Shaped the 20th Century
In this week’s episode and in a long overdue collaboration between Not So Quite on the Western Front and WW2 Both Sides of the Wire, four of us sit down to explore what we feel are the battles that, f...
15 Jun 53min
Episode 131: The August Offensive: Gallipoli’s Last Great Hope
In August, the Allies prepared for their largest offensive yet on the Gallipoli Peninsula. This was intended to be the decisive breakthrough that would break the deadlock and end the stalemate once...
8 Jun 1h 9min
Episode 130: Why the Allies Failed at Krithia — Gallipoli’s Fatal Mistake
Four miles from the beaches of Gallipoli stood a small village called Krithia. Allied commanders believed it could be captured in a single day. Instead, thousands of British, French, Australian and Ne...
1 Jun 1h 3min
