In the troglodyte world of the war on the Western Front, what weapons came to define

how that war developed and how it was fought? In this episode, we look at five weapons of

trench warfare.

Trench warfare is not just an essential part of our understanding of the First World War.

It's very much at the heart of what that war, particularly on the Western Front, was all about.

And we've discussed various aspects of trench warfare in previous episodes of the podcast,

but I thought it was time to look at some of the specific weapons

connected to it,

from existing ones found in the British Army in 1914, through to those

developed because of trench warfare, and at the end, perhaps look at a surprising weapon of the First

World War connected to trench warfare too.

And what we're going to do is we're going to take five examples.

There are many types of weapons that we could look at in this,

but to make this an easily understandable and digestible podcast,

we'll use five examples.

And what we'll also do is focus on the British and Commonwealth experience of trench warfare

because each different nation, the French, the Germans, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Russians on the Eastern Front,

they all had different approaches to how they adapted to the

arrival and then development of trench warfare. And perhaps it will be a good reason to go back

to this subject and look at it from the perspective of some of those nations as well. But of course we won't fail to

talk about some of those nations as we discuss this from that British perspective. We can't

see the British and Commonwealth, the Empire forces in isolation. But before we begin,

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