There Will Come Soft Rains - with Briana Gervat
Battles of the First World War Podcast
Mike Cunha
4.8 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In 2022, just as the world began to open after the isolation of a global pandemic, Briana Gervat set out to walk the length of the Western Front. Beginning at the border that France shares with Switzerland she went into the wild in search of hope and in search of peace. For 500 miles, she climbed over the mountains of the Vosges, through the battle-scarred landscapes of Verdun, the Marne, and the Somme, all the way to the North Sea in Belgium. It was not only a journey of thirty-six days, but a journey through a history that we have learned nothing from, only how better to repeat it.
Join us for a discussion of travel, France, WW1 history, and the feeling of connection and renewal that travel brings.
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| 0:00.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | Joining us today is Ms. Brianna Gervat, here to discuss her Western Front travelogue titled |
| 0:59.4 | There Will Come Soft Rains. |
| 1:02.3 | So from Brianna's website, here is a description of her latest book. |
| 1:07.0 | In 1914, a war began that destroyed nearly everything in its path, lives, countries, empires, |
| 1:14.2 | and the world as it was known until that moment. |
| 1:17.7 | And while destruction could be found almost everywhere around the world in its aftermath, |
| 1:22.2 | nowhere was more marred than that of the Western Front, |
| 1:25.4 | the scars of which still haunt us to this day. |
| 1:30.2 | In 2022, one woman set out to walk across the ruined landscape of the Western Front in search |
| 1:37.5 | of peace, finding it in the mountains of Alsace, in the forests of Verdun, in Gothic cathedrals, |
| 1:46.8 | and nights spent sleeping under the very same stars that the soldiers slept in want of the very same thing. Peace. This is not just a story |
| 1:56.1 | about the Great War. It is the story about what it means to walk through the remnants of history to feel |
| 2:02.3 | its reverberations, to listen to its echoes, and with hope to learn something along the way. |
| 2:09.4 | The way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Right. Absolutely, like, |
| 2:16.2 | very spot on. Incredible book. From her website, the peregrinepilgram.com, we have a short bio of Brianna. Okay, so quote, Brianna Gravatt received her BA in Art History at the University of Mary Washington and Master of Arts and Art History at the Savannah |
| 2:35.7 | College of Art and Design. |
| 2:38.3 | After completing graduate school, she traveled to Rwanda to continue her studies on the |
| 2:44.4 | Rwandan genocide and the art of East Africa. |
| 2:48.3 | Her prose, poetry, and photography have been published in anthologies, |
| 2:52.8 | magazines, and online publications. She has self-published three travel memoirs, Mosaic, |
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