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.

It's been a busy few weeks at the old front line headquarters as next month I head out to Italy for a couple of

weeks to take a battlefield tour, a battle group to the battlefields of Anzio and Monty Casino and the

Sangro and Ortona and for me it is a kind of criss-cross pathway between those two great conflicts

because there are so many shadows from the Great War

that seem to linger over some of those sites from the Second Great War,

particularly in that Italian campaign.

My own father, Ford and Anzio,

and that was probably the nearest that British soldiers in Europe got to the experience of the First World War, dug in the trenches and the waddies

of that static front. So I've been busy getting all the episodes ready, so there's no

interruption in the podcast that are released over the course of the next few weeks.

And as always, every day, emails come in from you, the listeners with all kinds of queries and questions.

And I really, really enjoy that.

And also people send in supplementary information.

So we just had a recent episode on the Menin Road,

that journey along the Menin Road and across that landscape of Flanders.

And the Menin Road is something that I'd always assumed to be a Roman road

because of its design and the route that it followed

on that kind of edge of that part of the Roman world.

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