WW1: Not So Quiet On The Western Front!

In this episode, with the aid of regular guest and French Army expert James Taub, we delve your questions on France in WW1. What exactly is a French Colonial unit? What did the French think of the cha...

23 Jun 202558min

In this episode, we unravel the story of the assassination that changed the world. On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage revolutionary fired two shots on a Sarajevo street - and set the world on fire...

16 Jun 202553min

In this episode of Not So Quiet on the Western Front, we explore the rise and tragic fall of the Pals Battalions - units of friends, neighbours, and co-workers who marched to war together in 1914. The...

9 Jun 202559min

When we think of the Western Front, we think of the trenches  of mud, gunfire, and death. But there was another side to the war - the quieter spaces just behind the lines. In this episode, we explore ...

2 Jun 20251h 4min

In this episode we take our study of the French Army into the final, decisive Allied offensive of 1918. How did the French army finally weather the storm of the German spring offensives, and how did i...

26 Mai 20251h 2min

In this week’s episode we follow the French Army as they emerge from the extremely trying year of 1917 into a year that would ultimately lead to Victory on the Western Front, but, before that could ha...

19 Mai 202548min

In this week’s episode we explore the vital period following the French ‘mutinies’ of 1917 and look at how the Army recovered in the face of intense fighting all along the Western Front.  Join Our ...

9 Mai 202556min

This week we continue our study of the French Army in the First World War as we examined one of France's most controversial commanders, Robert Nivelle, and the April 1917 offensive that bears his name...

2 Mai 20251h 5min