The biggest single engineering projects on the Western Front during the Great War,

the Hindembourg Line witnessed some of the great battles of 1917.

What was the Hindenberg Line?

Often when we talk about the Great War, it's easy to assume that everything that we're discussing

is familiar to the audience that's listening. And I've been especially aware of this in the production

of the podcast to try and make it as accessible to as wider audience as many people as possible.

But I had a friend who's been catching up on the podcast,

having worked out how to play it in their car, as I'm sure, and I know many of you do. They'd

been listening to some of the episodes about the battles of 1917 and asked, politely, what is the Hindenberg line and this made me think really maybe

it's a good idea to do some podcasts on some of these things that we kind of take for granted

so this episode will hopefully answer that question.

What is and what was and what remains of the Hindenberg line?

That's what we're going to set out to do in this episode.

And if you have such a question yourself but you felt unable to ask,

then that's what emails for.

That's what a comment on the podcast website is for, and that's what tweets are for or messages on Twitter. So don't be shy if there's something

that you'd like to be answered that has always been quizzing you or you've always been

curious about, and it's Great War great war related i don't know the

answer to everything believe it or not then feel free to ping that across and who knows it could

result in an episode of the podcast so in this episode we'll look at the hindenberg line the background

to it the construction of the hindenberg line we'll look at some of the battles of the Hindenberg line. We'll look at some of the

battles on the Hindenberg line, including what was called the withdrawal to the Hindenberg line by the

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