1/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 8/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
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1/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 8/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
https://www.amazon.com/Western-Front-History-Great-1914-1918/dp/B09NS2DT8X
A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare.
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| 0:40.4 | Nick Loy, a reader in military and imperial history, |
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| 0:46.4 | His new book The Western Front is comprehensively |
| 0:51.2 | the story of the Great War looking at the war in Belgium and France, |
| 0:56.4 | the war that we think of as trench warfare. |
| 0:59.5 | This is the battle between allies and adversaries in Europe. |
| 1:04.5 | It started the 20th century that cursed the 20th century |
| 1:08.8 | because it's lack of resolution and the players in this battle, |
| 1:13.6 | 1914 to 1918, become the predicate for the much more damaging |
| 1:19.7 | to the Earth War, called the Second War, |
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