Welcome to the old front line with me military historian Paul Reed.

This is a regular podcast where we'll look at the history of the First World War and travel together across the battlefields from Eap to the Somme and Beyond.

So what's in this week's episode?

Hi, and welcome back, this week to the 10th episode of the old Frontline.

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This week we return to our forgotten battlefield series and we're on the ground at Luz.

This has always been a part of the Western Front that has interested me,

and I was lucky to get a chance to walk it once more just before the lockdown at the beginning

of this year with fellow battlefield guides Tim Therlow and Mark Allen. It's an area that'll also

feature in my forthcoming book for Pen and Sword Walking the Forgotten Front, which will look at

that sector of the

British part of the western fronts between arm and tears and this area here around looes but for

now we get ready to make our walk we strap on our boots we get our pack and we head off onto the old

front line.

This week we returned to one of the forgotten battlefields of the First World War,

the battlefields of Luz.

The Battle of Luz was fought in northern France on the 25th of September 1915 and the

fighting continued until the 13th of October with a major assault on the German positions around

the Hoans-on-Roddout, one of the key German defensive positions on the battlefield which

had been an objective since the very beginning.

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