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Battles of the First World War Podcast

Dec 25, 2022

The first of a two-episode look at the Commander-in-Chief of the AEF, GEN John J. Pershing, from the personal to the professional.

 

Link to Roger Steward’s upcoming book: 

 


Dec 25, 2022

This episode doesn’t have too much to do with the First World War, but it was really fun to do. My great friend Jake has been asking me to do this for a while, saying that the BFWWP community doesn’t know enough about me personally. So, we got together and made it happen. 

 

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Dec 11, 2022

Great War historian and writer Alex Lyons joined me on an evening in the UK to let us into a very personal and ground-level account of a French soldier in the First World War: through the letters of his great-grandfather, Jules André Destrigneville.

 

Alex has been composing tweets of Jules’ letters, cross-referenced...


Dec 2, 2022

Robert J. Laplander and I collaborated on creating an audiobook version of his book “Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America's Famous WW1 Epic” and here it finally is. 

 

The audio version of “Finding the Lost Battalion” comes to you in podcast form, ready to download and...


Dec 1, 2022

After a day of mixed success, the 42d “Rainbow” Division fixes its sights on taking the Côte de Chátillon. The hill is yet another link in the German defensive line that must be broken in order to advance.



Villages of note:

 

Sommerance

 

St. Georges

 

Landres-et-St. Georges



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