2/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 2/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

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2/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 2/8: 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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0:00.0	Extraordinary, streaming, exclusive on Disney Plus this January.
0:04.2	Would you say your greatest weakness is crippling insecurity?
0:06.8	Selfish and elazy, a lack ambition.
0:08.6	Stobborn, argumentative, jealous, stunning and people of love.
0:11.4	I only wash my hands after someone else in the bathroom.
0:13.6	I don't know why I just told you that.
0:16.0	Me Jan.
0:17.0	You were such a brave little soldier.
0:19.2	Extraordinary, an original series.
0:21.2	What? You're so free.
0:22.2	Maybe I should take my brow off.
0:23.6	Streaming January 25 exclusive on Disney Plus.
0:26.6	18 plus subscription required.
0:30.6	Tasons he's applied.
0:31.6	This is CBS.
0:33.6	I am the world.
0:34.6	I'm John Baphes.
0:35.6	They're speaking to Professor Nick Lloyd, a reader in military and imperial history.
0:39.6	King's College London.
0:40.6	His new book is the Western Front.
0:42.6	The history of the Great War of Volume 1.
0:45.6	We attend immediately to the larger than legend personalities of the four powers.
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