Episode 2: Allied Strategy

1915 saw none of the major offensives that rocked the rest of the Western Front, but it was not a quiet sector of the line. Despite the French and Germans having a “live-and-let-live” policy that didn’t keep them from killing each other with exploding underground mines and regular infantry battles.

 

Towards the end of 1915 GEN Joseph Joffre of the French Army worked on coordinating a strategy among the Allies that would see them attacking the Germans and Austro-Hungarians at the same time in order to wear them out. From this, the idea of the Battle of the Somme was born.

 

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Episode 1: War Comes to the Somme

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In the opening months of World War One war came to the Somme departement of France as the Allies and the Germans sought to outflank each other during the “Race to the Sea.” The hasty trench lines scratched out in autumn 1914 would largely be the same front line that would be assaulted on July 1st, 1916.
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Welcome to the New Podcast!

Hey folks, welcome to the new podcasting project!

The Battles of the First World War Podcast is a new podcast that looks to go in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918. The goal is to really go into the details of how and why these battles unfolded and happened as they did. In telling the narrative of these clashes we can revisit some of the stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and died during the first titanic struggle of the 20th Century, for these people have stories that deserve to be told.

Like the already completed Battle of Verdun Podcast, come join us to go into the trenches at Vimy Ridge, at Ypres, in the churning seas of the Skagerrak, in the forests of Eastern Prussia, Poland and the steppes of Russia, the heat of Eastern Africa, the snow-swept mountains of northern Italy, and the blazing sands of Mesopotamia.