"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. The Christmas Truce has often been portrayed as a mass act of rebellion by soldiers tired of fighting, who wilfully disobeyed the instructions of senior officers not to fraternise with the enemy. The commander of II Corps issued an order on the 5th of December 1914 forbidding any form of ceasefire or armistice with the enemy. Yet, within his Divisions, seven battalions reported fraternisation with the e...

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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

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Send us Fan Mail 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 ...

12 Maj 20241h 7min

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