Essex Farm: poetry, poison and poverty - a journey through a cemetery

Essex Farm: poetry, poison and poverty - a journey through a cemetery

Send us Fan Mail In our 5th episode, we have come back to Belgium and walk through Essex Farm cemetery near Ypres. It's a cemetery full of stories, including the division that withstood the first use of a terrifying new weapon of war; a Black Country man who joined the Army to escape poverty and single-handedly saved the lives of his entire company, winning a VC in the process. We hear about a disastrous excursion into No Mans Land; one of, if not the youngest soldier to die in co...

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A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war

A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war

Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we journey through Amiens and its surrounding areas, uncovering the deep connections to the Great War. We start in the village of Naours, exploring caves that hold...

8 Sep 20241h 12min

Here we fight, and here we die!

Here we fight, and here we die!

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode, we answer a couple of listener questions and then tour the battlefield near St. Quentin. We hear the story of the tragic death of two British soldiers shot fo...

25 Aug 20241h 3min

The black day of the German army

The black day of the German army

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at the Kaiserschlact, or Kaiser's Battle which was launched by the Germans in March 1918, a final roll of the dice to win the war before American superiority i...

11 Aug 20241h 4min

All roads lead to Ypres

All roads lead to Ypres

Send us Fan Mail 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...

28 Juli 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 us Fan Mail 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...

14 Juli 20241h 6min

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

Send us Fan Mail 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 manp...

30 Juni 20241h 18min

The man they couldn't kill.

The man they couldn't kill.

Send us Fan Mail 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...

16 Juni 20241h 7min

Palestine

Palestine

Send us Fan Mail 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...

26 Maj 20241h 16min

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