The Western Front

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Western Front in the First World War is a story of aristocratic generals sending ordinary men over the top to their deaths in futile frontal attacks against entrenched positions. Or is it? In this episode, Dan interviews the brilliant historian Nick Lloyd, author of The Western Front who tells a much more nuanced account of the Western Front. They talk about the myths and legends of these campaigns, the great leaps forward in technology between 1914-1918; and how the men in command, and those on the front line, desperately tried to grapple with the complexities of this unprecedently brutal war.

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0:00.0	Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.
0:02.5	Otto?
0:03.3	Otto?
0:04.0	O-T-T-O.
0:05.2	You don't hear that name very often, I do.
0:07.3	He's a man who gets easily annoyed.
0:09.3	What are you doing?
0:10.1	Parallel parking. Parallel the water.
0:11.9	And he has had enough.
0:13.5	Are you always his unfriendly?
0:15.3	I am not unfriendly.
0:16.6	OK, you're like a warm cuddle.
0:18.2	But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.
0:21.5	I'm not sure about this.
0:23.5	He's going to be a good friend.
0:25.4	A man called Otto only in cinemas from January 6.
0:30.0	MUSIC
0:33.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dance and No's History.
0:34.7	Every softener book comes along.
0:36.2	Booklands on the old desk.
0:37.9	Old intray.
0:39.3	And it feels like this will become a canonical text.
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