The Last Post in Ypres with Youri Van Miegroet
Last Post Association volunteer Youri Van Miegroet joins the podcast to discuss his volunteer work with the Last Post Association in Ieper,...
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Battles of the First World War Podcast
The Battles of the First World War Podcast goes in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918. The goal is to really go into the details of how and why these battles unfolded and h...
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20 of 227 episodesSecond Marne - The Case of Sgt Darnand
From hero to zero. On the evening of July 14th, 1918, French soldiers of the 366eme Regiment d'Infanterie led a historic raid into the Germa...
Champagne - "With Remarkable Fortitude" - Dr. Urbane Bass
A recent trip to the American Civil War battlefield of Fredericksburg, VA inspired this short episode of one remarkable man who lived in tha...
WW1 Battlefield Archeology & Recovering the Fallen
New Ypres League member Kirsten Note joins the podcast to discuss her work as a battlefield archaeologist, where she has assisted the Common...
MOD War Detectives - Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre
New Ypres League member Rosie Barron joins the podcast to discuss her work as part of the Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre, aka the MOD...
2027 Meuse-Argonne & Aisne-Marne WW1 Battlefield Tours
Battles of the First World War Tours, part of the BFWWP, is excited to offer two WW1 battlefield tours for summer 2027: Meuse-Argonne July 0...
Honoring the Fallen at Flanders Field American Cemetery
New Ypres League member Christopher Sims joins the podcast to discuss his four decades of working for the American Battle Monuments Commissi...
Ypres Day with Lady Lucy French & Roger Steward of the New Ypres League
Lady Lucy French, great granddaughter of BEF commander Field Marshal Sir John French, Roger Steward, Chairman and co-founder of the New Ypre...
Second Marne - The Period of Waiting
Following the discussion of German plans for their next great offensive, we turn now to French and Allied plans to meet this next attack. Al...
New Jersey's Role in World War I - with LTC (Ret.) Richard Wasserman
***Technical note: My apologies on the audio reverb that may be heard in this episode. A concise history revealing New Jersey's vital indust...
Matz - La Mort du Sergent Jules Héme
The story behind an often erroneously captioned photograph of the First World War, and remembering the man in it. The BFWWP is on Patreon: h...
Second Marne - Friedensturm
This episode will visit the German strategic situation in June 1918 and the resulting plans for their next offensive, which would be called...
Memorial Day - "The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak"
A short exploration of the American poet Archibald MacLeish's connection to the First World War, and his poem "The Young Dead Soldiers Do No...
Citizen of the Shadows - The Lives and Lies of Lothar Witzke
Authors Paul Friedland and Robert Hornick join us on the podcast to discuss their thoroughly researched, well-argued and thrilling biography...
There Will Come Soft Rains - with Briana Gervat
In 2022, just as the world began to open after the isolation of a global pandemic, Briana Gervat set out to walk the length of the Western F...
John McCrae: Beyond Flanders Fields - with Susan Raby-Dunne
Author, historian, and battlefield guide Susan Raby-Dunne joins us to discuss her book "John McCrae: Beyond Flanders Fields." Most Canadians...
The French Army in the First World War, a Discussion: Pt 7, Pt 1
Part 7 of the ongoing discussion continues to look at the French Army in 1917. We look at the state of the French Army going into 1917, wher...
British Doctrine in the Great War with Phil Watson
British Army veteran and University of Wolverhampton PhD candidate Phil Watson joins the podcast for a fascinating discussion on British doc...
The Extraordinary Life of Henri Langie with Eric and Tom Langie
Independent historians Eric and Tom Langie, a father and son duo, come on the podcast to discuss the extraordinary life of their ancestor He...
A Penny a Shell - A Discussion with Antony Bell
Author Antony J. Bell comes on the podcast to discuss his novel "A Penny a Shell." From the author's website: "In a WWI munitions factory, t...