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Battles of the First World War Podcast

Apr 28, 2024

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 remembrance project aimed at preserving the memory of soldiers from all nations who fell in the Ypres Salient during the Great War,...


Apr 14, 2024

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.

 

Book link here:

 

https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Pershing%27s+Tankers

 

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Apr 1, 2024

This is a release of a former Patreon-only episode. 

 

The Germans and Russians are ready to fight, and each gives battle. The Russian 1st Army invades East Prussia from the east, and meets German 8th Army forces at Stallupönen. Both sides clash again at Gumbinnen, where the Germans suffer a stinging defeat that sets...