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Preview: Conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd regarding his first volume of the set, "The Western Front," that is dominated by personalities such as the French general Marshal Henri Pétain. More tonight.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview: Conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd regarding his first volume of the set, "The Western Front," that is dominated by personalities such as the French general Marshal Henri Pétain. More tonight.

1905 Henri Petain

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Continuing conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd for his set of books, this one the first

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the Western Front, personalities drive the decision-making. The personality that dominates the later stages of the war for the French and emerges out of the battles is Marshall Petan, the man who is much compromised in history because of the Vichy government of the Second War.

0:57.0

Marshall Henri Filippe Petan was a man who was elderly when the war began, and Nick describes why it was that he

1:09.1

emerged so successfully.

1:12.0

Big Lloyd, the tan of the first war.

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More of this later tonight.

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Now that's a really interesting point.

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I think, you know, some of them do do I think some of them have a way of

1:24.3

sort of seeing it in a more lyrical sense than perhaps you know of the generals maybe some of the

1:30.4

British journals are somewhat dry so Douglas Haig's diaries quite dry.

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But someone like Petan is quite a, obviously a deep,

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you know, an extremely intelligent individual

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and clearly feels it.

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And that is, I think think one of the outstanding qualities of

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