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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Great War, a phrase I've not said in quite some time.

Back in 2016 I started a Patreon campaign for the podcast and over the years I have enjoyed

the support of so many excellent people.

As part of that campaign I offered monthly episodes that were exclusive to Patreon on a number of topics around the First World War.

Some of these episodes have already been released on this podcast feed, but there were many that had not.

As my new podcast History of the Second World War

will enter its second year quite soon, I thought it would be a good idea to release almost

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