Hi, I'm Steve Gwera, host of Beyond the Big Screen, a podcast about the true stories behind the movies you love.

In each episode we will talk about history, philosophy, religion, art, sports, literature, and much more.

Movies and media only tell you a small part of the story.

And beyond the big screen we look into a wide variety of topics on the big screen and beyond.

Listen now at pathanonpodcast.com or search Beyond the Big Screen on your favorite podcast platform.

The history of the Popes of Rome and Christianity reaches into nearly every aspect of history.

In the history of the Papacy podcast we step over the rope. We dive into,

discover more about the people events and background that define the influence of the Popes of Rome and church not only on the West,

but the world to start listening now go to pathanonpodcast.com or search for history of the papacy on your favorite podcast platform.

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History on Plug Podcast,

where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Hello everyone, welcome to episode four in our series Key Battles of World War One.

In the previous episode we looked at our first battle, the Battle of Tannenberg,

and saw that although Germany faced unexpected resistance on the Eastern Front with Russia,

they were able to handle the threat. This is maybe the high point World War One for Germany and we're only a few months into it.

So things aren't going to be going well for them, but really anyone else as we go along.

We're going to be shifting from Eastern Front to the Western Front in this episode.

And something we're going to see here is that each of these great powers have plans.

Each of these plans unravel fairly quickly. And something I want to mention before we get too far into this is that

part of the reason why the plans unravel is that it's very hard for a military strategist not to plan for the future by using the last war.

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