Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox. If you remember over the last few episodes, we've been in the

16th century with that long series I did about Magellan and then that one off about Sir Walter

Riley. So I thought we'd do a complete change. We'll move on from the 16th century for a while.

And so this time, I thought we could talk about

something in World War I now I'm almost surprised at myself that I haven't done

more World War I and World War II and just 20th century content in general on

epochs because I am absolutely fascinated like any history nerd with World War

1 and World War II particularly World War II, particularly World War I. My great loves in history are the ancient world, of course,

some parts of the medieval world, and World War I think, for me anyway, World War I is such a pivotal thing. Our modern world now in the 21st century, in 2025,

is still living in the echoes and the ripples of World War I. I'm one of those historians

that thinks makes the argument that World War II was simply a continuation of World

War I. The interwar years, the 20s and 30s, were just a hiatus, just an interruption in

between one long, that one long conflict. And you can also make the argument, can't you?

I do. The Cold War is another extension of World War II. So in other words, I think

World War I is absolutely pivotal. But on top of that, just me personally, I find it fascinating,

always have, ever since I was old enough to sort of start really learning about it properly,

you know, really properly reading adult books about it.

And I was, I don't know, 15, 16, maybe even a little older.

I'm genuinely, genuinely interested in it, can actually learn about it and deal with it

with something approaching an adult mind.

And in adulthood, I've just kept reading about it and

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