UKRAINE BECOMES THE WESTERN FRONT: 5/8: 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: 5/8: 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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| 0:38.9 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:41.0 | The author, Nick Loy, who is a reader of military and imperial history at King's College |
| 0:46.2 | in London. |
| 0:47.3 | His new book is The Western Front, a history of the Great War of Volume 1. |
| 0:52.3 | There are two more to follow. |
| 0:53.6 | This one is about the battle front that we think of as Trunch Warfare, the Great War |
| 0:58.0 | at the time called War War 1 now, 1914 to 1918. |
| 1:03.0 | It begins with the German attack and we've discussed these personalities. |
| 1:07.6 | Now you can see the tension that they lived through in real time. |
| 1:12.4 | There was a plan called the Schleifen plan to take Paris and it was depending upon the |
| 1:19.1 | right wing of the German army. |
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