meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The John Batchelor Show

UKRAINE BECOMES THE WESTERN FRONT: 1/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Photo: 1919. London. Buckingham. No known restrictions on publication.
@Batchelorshow

UKRAINE BECOMES THE WESTERN FRONT: 1/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

https://www.amazon.com/Western-Front-History-Great-1914-1918/dp/B09NS2DT8X

A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

No matter how warm it gets this summer, it will never be as hot as our boiler service

0:05.8

still.

0:06.8

Just book one in and you'll only pay 74 pounds down from 99.

0:10.8

And with your boiler sorted, you'll feel relaxed all summer long, knowing you're ready

0:14.4

for whatever winter throws you away.

0:16.9

Save in summer so you're sorted in winter.

0:19.2

We'll connect Spark boiler service today.

0:21.3

Search British Gas, boiler service.

0:23.3

Geographical restrictions, terms and exclusions apply.

0:26.3

For instance, 4th of September, 2023.

0:35.3

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:38.1

Here's John Batchler.

0:40.1

Nick Lloyd, a reader in military and imperial history, King's College London.

0:46.0

His new book The Western Front is comprehensively the story of the Great War looking at the

0:54.0

war in Belgium and France, the war that we think of as trench warfare.

0:59.1

This is the battle between allies and adversaries in Europe.

1:04.0

It started the 20th century that cursed the 20th century because it's lack of resolution

1:10.6

and the players in this battle, 1914 to 1918, become the predicate for the much more

1:17.9

damaging to the Earth War, called the Second War in the 1930s and 40s.

1:24.4

Everything here foreshadows the catastrophe of the 20th century, which we still bear.

1:31.2

Nick, a very good evening to you.

1:33.4

Thank you for this.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.