Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 4 hours 40 minutes
Historian Pat Gang comes on the podcast to discuss the AEF 2nd Corps, the 27th (New York National Guard) and 30th (Tennessee National Guard) Divisions. Pat’s musings on football and history can be found here: The BFWWP is on...
A short review of Ann Hood’s “The Stolen Child,” a new book to be released in May 2024.
The German 8th Army receives two new leaders: Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
Ypres Battlefield Tours guide and author Roger Steward joins Professor Mark Connelly of the University of Kent, Canterbury, to discuss a new remembrance project: the New Ypres League.
A review of Lawrence Kaplan’s new book, “Pershing’s Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I,” and a couple of excerpts from men of the AEF 301st Tank Battalion.
The Germans and Russians are ready to fight, and each gives battle.
The beginning of World War I in the summer of 1914 saw Germany faced with fighting a two-front war.
Author and historian Dr. Allison Finkelstein comes on the podcast to discuss her book, Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.
Part 4 of the ongoing discussion looks at the French Army in 1915: an often overlooked year, it was a year of “carnage, optimism, and learning,” as Alex says in the talk.
New year, new opportunity to see the AEF battlefields of France!