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Preview: Professor Nick Lloyd remarks on why he chose to write a new comprehensive three-volume set on "The Great War 1914-1918," and his fresh understanding of the tragedy: It was a "coalition war." More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Preview: Professor Nick Lloyd remarks on why he chose to write a new comprehensive three-volume set on "The Great War 1914-1918," and his fresh understanding of the tragedy: It was a "coalition war." More later.

May 1914 Belgium

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This is John Bachelor, conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd of King's College University of London.

0:36.0

His book, The Western Front, published two years before the Eastern Front, just issued. I've spoken with Nick on both books, looking again

0:47.4

at the Western Front, the first volume in what will be a three volumes set, a history of

0:52.1

the Great War, 1914 to 1918.

0:55.0

Nick here, the professor here describes why it was that he wanted to do the first

1:01.3

war again looking at it from those three fronts, the Western

1:06.9

Front, the Eastern Front, and Special Operations, meaning Gallipoli and the

1:11.8

periphery of the Great War. In this instance Nick describes

1:16.6

something that I've not seen anywhere else yet which is that this Western

1:22.4

Front was a coalition war, something we're becoming accustomed to

1:26.8

under here in the 21st century, coalition war, much more so than even the second war where the Allies were quite clearly the US and

1:37.3

Britain and its Canadian and Australian contributions, But a coalition more involved, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Americans, the

1:49.2

Canadians, the Australians, all directions, the Italians, coalition, not necessarily working in the same direction.

1:59.8

Here Nick describes how it is that he approached this.

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