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The Old Front Line

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 2

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In our latest Old Front Line Podcast Questions & Answers Episode we answer four questions from listeners covering subjects like the 'Learning Curve' on the Western Front to how to visit battlefields beyond the Somme. The Naval Flank of the Western Front project I mentioned was this one: Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast. Send us a text Support the show

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Old Frontline podcast question and answers section.

0:08.0

In this bonus episode, we'll answer your questions that come out of the episodes of the podcast each week.

0:15.8

Do make sure you subscribe to the podcast of your favourite platform,

0:19.8

and please give us a like there or even a review.

0:28.0

So we had our first question and answer podcast where you can submit questions and I do my best

0:35.9

to answer them and it was well well received. I got a lot of

0:39.8

really nice comments about it. When I look back on it, probably I kind of spoke a little bit

0:44.8

too long with some of the answers and I'm going to try and on and do that this time and probably

0:49.9

I try to answer too many questions in one go. So it's a learning curve.

0:55.0

We've just started with this feature of the podcast,

0:58.2

so we'll see how it goes.

1:00.9

So let's get down to some questions now that have come in from listeners over the course

1:06.0

to the last few weeks.

1:07.0

And I've got quite a few, and they've built up,

1:08.7

and there will be some more episodes soon where we'll answer some of the other ones that you've sent in but question number one for this

1:15.2

episode is from linda michelini i've heard many times that the great war was a learning curve for

1:22.2

the bf i recently read nick lloydashendale, and he touches on this,

1:33.2

how both the B.E.F and the Germans adjusted their tactics in response to the actions of the other side.

1:37.4

I realise the answer to my question could take up an entire book,

1:44.0

but would it be possible for you to give an overview of the subject some way to make a huge and complex topic comprehensible for those of us

1:46.2

without expert knowledge of the history of the war. Well Linda, thanks for this one. It certainly is

1:53.2

a question that we could turn into an entire book and lots of podcasts. But essentially if we look

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