UKRAINE BECOMES THE WESTERN FRONT: 2/8: Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
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UKRAINE BECOMES THE WESTERN FRONT: 2/8: 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.
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| 0:33.5 | This is CBS, I'm the World, I'm John Boucher, speaking to Professor Nick Lloyd, a reader |
| 0:38.0 | in military and imperial history at King's College London. |
| 0:41.4 | His new book is The Western Front. |
| 0:43.7 | The history of the Great War, volume one, we attend immediately to the larger than legend |
| 0:49.4 | personalities of the four powers, Germany, France, Britain, and America as the final power. |
| 1:01.1 | We begin with Germany because a man named Moltke, a man who is the relative of an earlier |
| 1:07.8 | commander of German forces, is in charge of the Schleifenplan in August of 1914 in conversation |
| 1:17.0 | with the Kaiser. |
| 1:18.6 | And I learned from you, Nick, that the Kaiser favored Moltke. |
| 1:22.8 | But Moltke was a man who was dealing with the ghosts of his ancestor and also of Schleifen. |
| 1:31.6 | What do we need to know about Moltke that he took it upon himself to alter the Schleifenplan |
| 1:37.2 | in the attack on Paris? |
| 1:40.2 | Yes, you've got the pressure on someone like Helmeth von Moltke, the younger, which |
| 1:45.8 | is titled as a full day, is enormous in 1914, and he's not up for it. |
| 1:50.9 | He's a man that, as you say, bowed down by the weight of victory that his uncle achieved |
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