5/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 5/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-19186
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
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5/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 5/8: 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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| 0:34.9 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:39.9 | The author Nick Loy, who is a reader of military and imperial history at King's College in London. |
| 0:46.5 | His new book is The Western Front, a history of the Great War of Volume 1. There are two |
| 0:51.8 | more to follow. This one is about the battlefront that we think of as Trunch Warfare, the |
| 0:56.7 | Great War at the time called World War One Now, 1914 to 1918. It begins with the German |
| 1:03.5 | attack and we've discussed these personalities. Now you can see the tension that they lived |
| 1:09.5 | through in real time. There was a plan called the Schleifenplan to take Paris and it was |
| 1:17.4 | depending upon the right wing of the German army, the right wing. The left wing, the Germans |
| 1:24.6 | have armies enough to deploy from Alsace, Lorraine to Verdun into the Maarn Valley, the |
| 1:34.0 | Maarn River Valley all the way to Paris, where they're going to punch through and swing |
| 1:38.8 | around Paris and then the war. And then Nick, we go to the crisis at the Maarn as you |
| 1:45.3 | explicate and I want to focus very carefully here, Malka's decision to ask, look, commanding |
| 1:52.5 | the right wing of the army, the first army. There are seven German armies and Kluck |
| 1:59.3 | commands the first and he seems a very thorough commander, very well chosen. But Malka decides |
| 2:06.2 | in the course of the events of August into September that Kluck should not envelop |
| 2:13.5 | Paris and the French were preparing to defend Paris to the last man, including letting |
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