6/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 6/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
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6/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 6/8: 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 | This is CBS I In The World. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm John Bachelorette Nick Lloyd, the author of the new book The Western Front, the story |
| 0:09.1 | of the Great War, 1914 to 1918, and French Warfare. |
| 0:14.5 | We go now to September 1915. |
| 0:17.6 | The second ball of Champagne. |
| 0:19.7 | The French go on the offensive. |
| 0:22.4 | And what I learn from you, Nick, and your explanation of these events. |
| 0:27.7 | The casualty rates are very high here. |
| 0:30.2 | September 25th to October 6th, 1915. |
| 0:33.7 | Is that both sides falconine, commanding the Germans and Jaffa commanding the French. |
| 0:42.9 | Both sides have an ability to understand that you cannot break through. |
| 0:48.5 | That every time you think you're making a breakthrough to range behind the enemy in |
| 0:51.8 | turn this corner, there'll be a second and third and a fallback defense because it's |
| 0:56.2 | not siege. |
| 0:58.4 | It is not siege or combat. |
| 1:01.3 | What does that mean to them when they say this is an siege mentality? |
| 1:08.0 | I think it's a realization that they can't break through in the way that they imagined |
| 1:13.6 | that they would. |
| 1:14.6 | And I think all of the commanders on all of the sides are trying to work out how you can |
| 1:21.6 | fight, how you can win. |
| 1:23.5 | And most of them see Trent Walfair as essentially a kind of anomaly, as a strange situation that |
| 1:28.3 | will be, that will only be temporary. |
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