History of the Great War is a weekly podcast that will cover the First World War that occurred from 1914 and 1918. Every week we will be discussing the events that occurred exactly 100 years ago. We will journey from the borders of France in the blistering heat of 1914, to the shores of Gallipoli, to the banks of Somme, to the final knockout attempt by the German army in the spring of 1918.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 23 hours 50 minutes
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Verdun Pt. 7
Into this situation there would be one man who was given command over Verdun and would forever be associated with the rest of the battle, than man was General Henri Phillipe Petain. Soon he would become the savior of Verdun, then the Savior of France,...
Verdun Pt. 6
Today we will look at the third and fourth days of fighting before looking at one incident that happened on the fifth day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Verdun Pt. 5
Today the action finally begins at Verdun. Today we will look at the opening German attacks on the first and second days of fighting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Verdun Pt. 4
Up to this point in these episodes we have been discussing Falkenhayn, The Germans, and their plans for the attack almost exclusively. It is finally time to take a look at the French, what they had been up to, and how they prepared for the defense...
Verdun Pt. 3
This week we move one step closer to the start of the battle in February by looking at the German preparations for their attack. First we will talk about one of the most important features of the fighting, which was the masses of German artillery that...
Verdun Pt. 2
This week we are going to dive much deeper into the German plans for their attack at Verdun. The attack would be planned for two phases, the first phase the attack at Verdun and then the second phase was the counter attack to a British or French...
Verdun Pt. 1
In many ways Verdun became the First World War, and it distills down all of the problems that the armies had been facing since 1914, all of the lessons they had thought they had learned, and showcased so many of the problems that they still had to...
Shell Shock
100 years later and soldiers still come back from serving their country irrevocably changed. The fact that service men and women still suffer from problems not dissimilar from those experienced by men in the trenches gives this topic a type of...
Year of Years
By January 1st 1916 the war, which was supposed to be over by Christmas was now 522 days old. And 1916 would be the year of the war, it would be the year that everybody remembers, it would be the year of Jutland, the year Verdun, the year of the...
Fall of Serbia
As 1915 drew to a close so to did the defiance of the little Balkan nation that started it all.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices