Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War. So let's begin. I've been following

the pathways of the old front line quite a loss in the last month and since I last recorded an episode of these questions and answers.

And doing trips like that often makes me reflect on some of the things that we've spoken about here,

because each of these episodes is different to the normal ones in that we kind of cover four

different subjects in small bites, and while that hopefully interests you and the questions

are answered for those of you've posed them in the way that you hoped, it also makes me think

about some of the wider aspects of the First World War, but also some of the micro detail as well.

And just last week, I was staying on the outskirts of Albaer doing a recid not of the Somme

battlefields, but of the Hindenburg line, which is because it's not that far away.

And I'm staying right close to the Tara Usner Hills and that made me think about

some of the questions and feedback I had relating to the Albaer Bapom Road episode of the podcast

that I did quite recently and this is one of the things I really love about doing this podcast

is that I find myself being drawn into so many different

aspects of the First World War. And when I combine that with visiting the ground as it is today,

I find myself following my own advice, something that I'm sure not many of us really do,

in that I begin to see those

different layers of the First World War and how they all fit together. But it's some new questions

and answers that we've got for this week. And as usual, keep sending them in. I'm finding

them more and more fascinating. And I'm amazed at some of the things

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