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Le forze anglofrancesi affrontano l'esercito imperiale tedesco nella fase più cruenta di quella che sarebbe passata alla storia come prima battaglia di Ypres. Questo scontro rappresenta un terribile preludio di ciò che sarebbe divenuta la guerra sul fronte occidentale nei successivi quattro anni.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoCon la partecipazione di Valeria IncandelaFonti dell'episodio:I. Beckett, Ypres The First Battle, Longmans, 2006 J. F. Bell, Everyman at war, Purdom, 1930 Hans Biegert, Realität und Mythos im Ersten Weltkrieg: Das Beispiel Langemarck/Ypern, Leviathan 44, 2016 Nigel Cave, Ypres 1914: Messines, Early Battles 1914, Pen and Sword, 2016 M. Columban, The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War, Smith Elder, 1915 Pierre Dupouey, Lettres, Les éditions du Cerf, 1933 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 M. Evans, Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres 1914–1918, Osprey, 1997 R. T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916, Cambridge University Press, 2007 Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013 Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, The Penguin Press, 1998 J. Rickard, Battle of Nonne Bosschen, 11 November 1914, History of war Jack Rooney, The Irish Dames: A history of Kylemore Abbey's Benedictine nuns from Ypres, Belgium, to Western Ireland, American Catholic Studies Newsletter, 2018 J. Sheldon, The German Army at Ypres 1914, Pen and Sword Military, 2010 Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001 William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, 1960 Fridolin Solleder, Vier Jahre Westfront. Geschichte des Regiments List R. J. R. 16, Verlag Max Schrift, 1932 K. Unruh, Langemarck: Legende und Wirklichkeit, Bernard & Graefe, 1986 Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War, Oxford University Press, 2010 What Happened at Bois des Nonne Bosschen During the First Battle of Ypres?, Roads to the Great War, 2022 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: fanteria germanica all'assalto, da una illustrazione del periodo

La gigantesca 4a armata tedesca di Alberto del Württemberg è pronta ad attaccare le foze belghe sul fiume Yser e quelle britanniche a Ypres. Gli Alleati dovranno tenere la linea, oppure i Tedeschi potrebbero riuscire a dilagare nel nord della Francia. Per impedire la conquista dell'ultimo fazzoletto libero di suolo belga, il re Alberto è disposto a fare una scelta dolorosa e catastrofica.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:Armand Collard, Cogge (Charles Louis), Biographie nationale publiée par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts, 1969 B. A. Cook, Belgium: A History, Lang, 2004 Julian Corbett, Naval Operations: To The Battle of the Falklands, December 1914, Longmans, 1920 Michel Dumoulin, L'Entrée dans le XXe Siècle, 1905–1918, Nouvelle Histoire de Belgique, Le Cri édition, 2010 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 J. C. Fichou, Les pompons rouges à Dixmude: l'envers d'une légende, Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains, 2010 Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013 Polder, Treccani Sophie de Schaepdrijver, La Belgique et la première guerre mondiale, Lang, 2004 J. Sheldon, The German Army at Ypres 1914, Pen and Sword Military, 2010 Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001 Ter nagedachtenis - Hendrik Geeraerts, Het Laatste nieuws,‎ 1925 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: le linee belghe durante la battaglia dell'Yser, dipinto di Gustave Neymark e Pierre Ernest Ballue.

La morsa tedesca su Anversa si stringe sempre di più, costringendo perfino i rinforzi britannici giunti via mare a ritirarsi. Nel frattempo, nella regione dell'Artois, nel nord della Francia, le forze della République e quelle imperiali si affrontano nell'ennesimo scontro della corsa al mare.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoCon la partecipazione di Valerio Bioglio e Fabio Cassanelli.Fonti dell'episodio:Antwerpen kapituliert, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2014 Arras, Lens–Douai and the Battles of Artois, Michelin, 1919 Artois, Treccani John Ashley, Transcriptions from the East Suffolk Gazette, 1916 Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, The Siege of Antwerp, 1914 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013 D. Jerrold, The Royal Naval Division, Imperial War Museum and N & M Press, 2009 Louis Maud'Huy, Dictionnaire Larousse du XXe Siècle, 1931 Jean Pelseneer, Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, Biographie nationale, Emile Bruylant, 1976 J. Sheldon, The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914–1917, Pen & Sword, 2008 Edward Spears, Liaison 1914, Heinemann, 1930 Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms. University Press, 2001 The Diary of Arthur L. Linfoot, 58th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.In copertina: Soldati tedeschi di guardia nelle prime linee sul fronte di Arras, dal Bundesarchiv.

Le forze belghe del re Alberto cercano di fare il possibile per dare filo da torcere ai Tedeschi. Tra allagamenti controllati e sabotatori in bicicletta, l'esercito belga riesce per un po' a contenere gli assalti dell'esercito imperiale. Nel frattempo, nel nord della Francia, Joffre e Von Falkenhayn si sfidano in una serie di aggiramenti reciproci.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:E. Bartholomew, Early Armoured Cars, Osprey Publishing, 1988 A. Clayton, Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–18, Cassell, 2003 Werner Conze, Beseler, Hans von, Neue Deutsche Biographie, 1955 R. A. Doughty, Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, Belknap Press, 2005 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 R. T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916, Cambridge University Press, 2007 Edward Albert Gait, Census of India, 1911 M. O. Humphries, J. Maker, Der Weltkrieg: 1914 The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne, Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013Maddison, Growth of World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita before 1820 Claude Markovits, Indian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 Online, 2018 George Morton-Jack, Warfare 1914-1918 (India), 1914-1918 Online, 2023 Indy Neidell, Welcome to the dirt – The beginning of trench warfare, The Great War, 2014 Indy Neidell, The russian war machine and the race to the sea, The Great War, 2014 Piccardia, Treccani John Riddick, The History of British India: a chronology, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 J. Sheldon, The German Army on the Somme 1914–1916, Leo Cooper, 2005 Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms. University Press, 2001 L. J. van der Essen, The Invasion and the War in Belgium From Liège to the Yser, T. F. Unwin, 1917 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: Autoblinda Minerva in azione negli scontri attorno ad Anversa, fine settembre 1914.

Galvanizzato dal successo ottenuto durante la battaglia della Marna, Joffre comanda una nuova offensiva nel settore del fiume Aisne, destinata però ad esaurirsi rapidamente a causa del logoramento degli Alleati e alla resistenza dell'esercito imperiale. Il nuovo capo di stato maggiore germanico, il generale Von Falkenhayn, si rende conto che dovendo combattere su due fronti, se vuole avere una qualche possibilità di successo, deve annientare una spina nel fianco dimenticata ad Anversa alcune settimane prima...Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:11248 Sächsisches Kriegsministerium, Nr. 8054 Christine M. Bolli, Fact and fiction: The explosion of Reims Cathedral during World War I, Smarthistory, 2020 Chemin Des Dames, Treccani Michael Duffy, Karl Von Einem, firstworlwar, 2009 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 R. T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916, Cambridge University Press, 2007 Franck Hanot, Frédéric Simien, Regard géologique sur le Chemin des Dames, Chemins de Mémoire, Ministère des Armées Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013 M. O. Humphries, J. Maker, Der Weltkrieg: 1914 The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne, Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013 Donald C. Richter, Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I, University Press of Kansas, 1992 Hew Strachan, To Arms. The First World War, Oxford University Press, 2001 Hew Strachan, Shells Crisis of 1915, 1914-1918 Online, 2016 The Alaska Daily Empire, 26/09/1914 Thilo Vogelsang, Hausen, Max Freiherr von, Neue Deutsche Biographie, 1969 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: Illustrazione di Hilary Jane Morgan da un volume illustrato del 1915. La fanteria francese attraversa il fiume Aisne in equilibrio su l'unico binario sopravvissuto all'esplosione di un ponte ferroviario demolito dai Tedeschi, 13 settembre 1914.

Il teatro namibiano del conflitto in Africa presenta tre grandi particolarità, che lo rendono del tutto avulso rispetto a quello dell'Africa Occidentale e Orientale: innanzitutto l'ambiente desertico, poi il fatto che le forze in campo fossero quasi esclusivamente bianche, e infine il ruolo dei Boeri del Sudafrica.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:J. E. M. Atwell, The battle of Sandfontein, Imperial Research, 2006 Boeri, Treccani Jurgens Johannes Britz, Genl S G (Manie) Maritz se aandeel aan die rebellie van 1914 – 1915, University of Pretoria, 1979 John Buchan, A History of the Great War, Houghton Mifflin, 1922 B. Bunting, The Rise of the South African Reich. London, Penguin, 1964 Camerun, Treccani Convenzione dell'Aia del 1899, Dichiarazione III M. Chappell, Seizing the German Empire. The British Army in World War I: The Eastern Fronts, Osprey, 2005 Fritz Damis, Auf Dem Moraberge – Erinnerungen an Die Kämpfe Der 3. Kompagnie Der Ehemaligen Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe Für Kamerun, 1929 Hennie de la Rey, Lappe Laubscher, Die ware generaal Koos de la Rey, Protea Boekhuis, 1998 Der Raubzug Gegen Unsere Kolonien, Der Täglichen Rundschau, 1915 Golf Dornseif, Kameruner Endkampf Um Die Festung Moraberg, 2010 Harry Fecitte, Lake Chad Area: 1914, The Soldier's Burden Michael Friedewaldurl, Funkentelegrafie und deutsche Kolonien. Technik als Mittel imperialistischer Politik, Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft in München, 2001 Helga Bender Henry, Cameroon on a Clear Day, William Carey Library, 1999 Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances leading up to and attending upon the deaths of Senator General the Honourable J.H. de la Rey and Dr. G. Grace: report of the commissioner, the Hon. Mr. Justice Gregorowski, 1914 D. Killingray, Companion to World War I, Blackwell, 2012 Evert Kleynhans, South African invasion of German South West Africa (Union of South Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015 Hans Lenssen, Chronik von Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1883 – 1915, Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 2002 Louis Botha, Encyclopedia Britannica Manie Maritz, My lewe en strewe, 1939 F. J. Moberly, Military Operations Togoland and the Cameroons 1914–1916, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial War Museum and Battery Press, 1995 T. Morlang, Askari und Fitafita: "farbige" Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien, Links, 2008 V. J. Ngoh, Cameroon (Kamerun): Colonial Period: German Rule, Encyclopedia of African History, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005 George Ndakwena Njung, Soldiers of their own. Honor, violence, resistance and conscription in colonial Cameroon during the First World War, University of Michigan, 2016 George Ndakwena Njung, West Africa, 1914-1918 Online, 2024 J. G. Orford, The verdict of history – Reflections on the possible influence of Siener van Rensburg's visions on General J. H. "Koos" de la Rey and some of the results, Military History Journal 2, Military History Society, 1971 Deneys Reitz, J.C. Smuts, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 Francis Reynolds, Allen Churchill, Francis Miller, The Cameroons, The Story of the Great War, 1916. P. Schreckenbach, Die deutschen Kolonien vom Anfang des Krieges bis Ende des Jahres 1917, Weber, 1920 Timothy J. Stapleton, Union of South Africa, 1914-1918 Online, 2016 Hew Strachan, The First World War in Africa, Oxford University Press, 2004 Ian Van Der Waag, Battle of Sandfontein, First World War Studies 4, 2013 André Wessels, Afrikaner (Boer) Rebellion (Union of South Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: "kamelreiter" delle schutztruppe germaniche in Namibia, fotografati prima del conflitto, probabilmente nel corso della repressione della rivolta degli Herero e dei Nama. Nel deserto del Kalahari, era essenziale poter muovere le proprie forze a cavallo o su cammello.

In questo episodio seguiremo lo sviluppo di due campagne militari molto poco conosciute, condotte dagli Alleati contro le colonie germaniche del Togo e del Camerun. La prima si risolse in appena venti giorni, mentre la seconda ebbe una durata più lunga, a causa dell'inaspettata resistenza delle forze tedesche.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:J. E. M. Atwell, The battle of Sandfontein, Imperial Research, 2006 Boeri, Treccani Jurgens Johannes Britz, Genl S G (Manie) Maritz se aandeel aan die rebellie van 1914 – 1915, University of Pretoria, 1979 John Buchan, A History of the Great War, Houghton Mifflin, 1922 B. Bunting, The Rise of the South African Reich. London, Penguin, 1964 Camerun, Treccani Convenzione dell'Aia del 1899, Dichiarazione III M. Chappell, Seizing the German Empire. The British Army in World War I: The Eastern Fronts, Osprey, 2005 Fritz Damis, Auf Dem Moraberge – Erinnerungen an Die Kämpfe Der 3. Kompagnie Der Ehemaligen Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe Für Kamerun, 1929 Hennie de la Rey, Lappe Laubscher, Die ware generaal Koos de la Rey, Protea Boekhuis, 1998 Der Raubzug Gegen Unsere Kolonien, Der Täglichen Rundschau, 1915 Golf Dornseif, Kameruner Endkampf Um Die Festung Moraberg, 2010 Harry Fecitte, Lake Chad Area: 1914, The Soldier's Burden Michael Friedewaldurl, Funkentelegrafie und deutsche Kolonien. Technik als Mittel imperialistischer Politik, Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft in München, 2001 Helga Bender Henry, Cameroon on a Clear Day, William Carey Library, 1999 Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances leading up to and attending upon the deaths of Senator General the Honourable J.H. de la Rey and Dr. G. Grace: report of the commissioner, the Hon. Mr. Justice Gregorowski, 1914 D. Killingray, Companion to World War I, Blackwell, 2012 Evert Kleynhans, South African invasion of German South West Africa (Union of South Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015 Hans Lenssen, Chronik von Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1883 – 1915, Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 2002 Louis Botha, Encyclopedia Britannica Manie Maritz, My lewe en strewe, 1939 F. J. Moberly, Military Operations Togoland and the Cameroons 1914–1916, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial War Museum and Battery Press, 1995 T. Morlang, Askari und Fitafita: "farbige" Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien, Links, 2008 V. J. Ngoh, Cameroon (Kamerun): Colonial Period: German Rule, Encyclopedia of African History, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005 George Ndakwena Njung, Soldiers of their own. Honor, violence, resistance and conscription in colonial Cameroon during the First World War, University of Michigan, 2016 George Ndakwena Njung, West Africa, 1914-1918 Online, 2024 J. G. Orford, The verdict of history – Reflections on the possible influence of Siener van Rensburg's visions on General J. H. "Koos" de la Rey and some of the results, Military History Journal 2, Military History Society, 1971 Deneys Reitz, J.C. Smuts, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 Francis Reynolds, Allen Churchill, Francis Miller, The Cameroons, The Story of the Great War, 1916. P. Schreckenbach, Die deutschen Kolonien vom Anfang des Krieges bis Ende des Jahres 1917, Weber, 1920 Timothy J. Stapleton, Union of South Africa, 1914-1918 Online, 2016 Hew Strachan, The First World War in Africa, Oxford University Press, 2004 Ian Van Der Waag, Battle of Sandfontein, First World War Studies 4, 2013 André Wessels, Afrikaner (Boer) Rebellion (Union of South Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: soldati ghanesi del Reggimento della Costa d'Oro, fotografati nel corso della campagna del Togo, agosto 1914.

The scale and horror of the First World War were possible only after the Nineteenth Century's double revolution in the nature of war. Warfare -- including weaponry, strategy, and command -- had remained mostly unchanged for three centuries, from the early integration of firearms in the 1400s until the French Revolution; the campaigns of Napoleon unleashed a new era of mass mobilization and nationalistic fury, while a series of haphazard improvements massively multiplied the killing power and reach of firearms, tearing open a battlefield "killing zone" unlike anything that prior generations of soldiers could have imagined. We follow both the breakdown in the old distinctions between war and civil society and the breakneck advance in land and sea warfare that set the stage for the nightmare of World War I. Image: Japanese riflemen defending a breastwork embankment, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Margaret MacMillan on war & 19th-century society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVe0KLONJU Nicholas Murray on the emergence of trench warfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cbq7iu8FrI Suggested further reading: Nicholas Murray, "The Rocky Road to the Great War"; Margaret MacMillan, "The War That Ended Peace"; Hew Strachan, "A Clausewitz for Every Season," https://www.the-american-interest.com/2007/07/01/a-clausewitz-for-every-season/ Please sign on at any level to support this podcast and to hear the recent lectures on Germany, Bosnia, and Japan -- https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632

Two years on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a solution, military or diplomatic, seems as far away as ever. On Worldview, leading historians and commentators reflect on a conflict that has altered the state of global geopolitics. Jade McGlynn, author of Russia's War, calls in from Kyiv (00:56). Shashank Joshi, defence editor of the Economist and Hew Strachan, military historian, illuminate the battlefield picture (24:18).  The possible outcomes are considered by Sergey Radchenko, expert on Russian foreign policy, and Tim Marshall, best-selling author, whose most recent book is The Future of Geography (1:00:45). Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Worldview is produced by Alastair Benn and Marie Jessel. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones. Image: The national flag of Ukraine above the Kyiv skyline. Credit: Mykhailo Prysiazhnyi / Alamy Stock Photo 

Two years on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a solution, military or diplomatic, seems as far away as ever. On Worldview, leading historians and commentators reflect on a conflict that has altered the state of global geopolitics. Jade McGlynn, author of Russia's War, calls in from Kyiv (00:56). Shashank Joshi, defence editor of the Economist and Hew Strachan, military historian, illuminate the battlefield picture (24:18).  The possible outcomes are considered by Sergey Radchenko, expert on Russian foreign policy, and Tim Marshall, best-selling author, whose most recent book is The Future of Geography (1:00:45). Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Worldview is produced by Alastair Benn and Marie Jessel. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones. Image: The national flag of Ukraine above the Kyiv skyline. Credit: Mykhailo Prysiazhnyi / Alamy Stock Photo

Hew Strachan, Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and a contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to talk about Carl von Clausewitz. ▪️ Times      •    02:10 Introduction      •    04:31 Serious-minded     •    09:43 On War      •    11:54 Deconstruct to construct     •    15:19 Distinctions in war      •    24:07 The American embrace of Clausewitz     •    28:00 Context is everything     •    32:14 Politics by other means     •    36:24 Clausewitz the Marxist     •    40:05 Absolute and Total Follow along on Instagram

The First World War fundamentally altered our understanding of strategy — we should heed the insights of the era's leading thinkers and generals. Read by Leighton Pugh.  Image: First World War Commanders looking at a battle plan. Painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923), 1916. Army Museum, Paris. Credit: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images

Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World WarSo much of our understanding of the First World War focuses on the conflict on land and yet the nation who controlled the seas also controlled the flow of resources, so critical in such a long and attritional war. In this lecture, one of our most eminent historians Professor Sir Hew Strachan shows why naval power was so critical to the outcome. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 05 with Professor Sir HEW STRACHAN, School of International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-relations/people/shfas) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/). In this episode, HEW STRACHAN reflects on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021, why the West should have seen it coming, and the implications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan for NATO's European allies. US foreign policy is now focused mainly on China and the threat in the Asia Pacific. European allies of NATO will need to decide where their own interests lie. A decision which the simmering stand-off with Russia on Ukraine's borders has brought into sharp focus. MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html) PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.

The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and fit before their time. Read by Leighton Pugh.

In this episode of Citizen Soldier, the preeminent scholar of WWI, Sir Hew Strachan, sits down with WWII historian Sir Antony Beevor to discuss the world’s first truly global conflict.

The 'Spanish Flu' of 1918-19 remains the most devastating pandemic of modern times, possibly killing up to 100 million people world wide. The loss of life massively exceeded the numbers killed during the First World War. Yet curiously its political, military and social impact was largely unrecognised at the time and is barely considered today. In this talk, Hew Strachan discusses the challenges the flu epidemic presents for the modern historian and provides some context for our own predicament today.The British Academy's Shape the Future programme examines the societal, economic and cultural implications of the pandemicSpeaker: Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews; Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Life Fellow, Corpus Christi College, CambridgeImage: A typist wearing a flu face mask © PhotoQuest / Archive Photos / Getty ImagesTranscript: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-war-revolution-and-pandemic-1918-19/ 

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In the final podcast of the series, he looks at the imperial interests of Japan and the ways in which the First World War enabled Japan to further its imperial ambitions in mainland Asia and in the Pacific. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Toccata) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the interests of the British Empire and its dominions in Africa and the Pacific. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Rigaudon) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and its implications for Turkey and the Middle East. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Prelude) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers President Wilson's principle of national self-determination - one of Wilson's Fourteen Points for an enduring peace - and the challenges its implementaiton presented for the peacemakers in Paris. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Toccata) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers the birth of the League of Nations and its legacy. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Menuet) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers the absence of Russia from the peace negotiations, and the implications of that absence for the rest of the 20th century. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Forlane) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the entry of the United States onto the world stage, and the vision of a new world order developed by its President, Woodrow Wilson. ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Fugue) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In an earlier series, FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (https://soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), Sir Hew looked at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. In this podcast, GERMANY ON TRIAL, he considers the period from the signing of the Armistice up until 28 June 1919, when the German Republic, as it then was, signed the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Rigaudon) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme. In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In an earlier series FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (https://soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), Sir Hew looked at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. In THE ROAD TO PEACE, the first podcast in this series, Sir Hew considers the process that led Germany to seek an armistice, and the basis on which Germany thought the final peace settlement would be negotiated. MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Prelude) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=CDX2-5507 IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

‘Captain Professor’ Michael Howard FBA is a British Army veteran who was awarded the Military Cross for his service in WWII before he turned to academia, becoming one of the country’s most celebrated military historians. In this episode, Hew Strachan FBA and Sir Lawrence Freedman FBA trace Howard’s unusual journey from active participant in conflict to the leading expert on its study.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice. In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on the second day of the battlefield tour for his morning briefing to the students when he considers the evolution of the War in 1918, and why the Battle of Amiens in August was such a success for the Allied Forces. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. The following podcasts, recorded during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice. In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for the last of his morning briefings when he looks at how the Battle of Amiens triggered a series of Allied offensives that brought the war with Germany to an end just a few months later, in November 1918. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. The following podcasts, recorded during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice. In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on the first day of the battlefield tour for his morning briefing to the students before they visited the Somme battlefields to explore how lessons learned during the Battle of the Somme would influence the Battle of Amiens in 1918. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort. In this podcast, Sir HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, explains why he organised a conference on the British Home Front. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In THE BATTLE OF AMIENS AND ITS OUTCOME, SIR HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, explores the lead-up to the Battle of Amiens, how commanders Haig, Rawlinson, and Foch were able to work together to deliver success, and how the Battle of Amiens triggered a series of interlocking victories for the Allies that brought to an end Germany's war in the West. MUSIC | Summon the Cavalry (Paul Clarvis, Mike Lovatt) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Last Post - LSgt Stuart Laing on a WW1 (1915) bugle. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In THE BATTLE OF AMIENS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR, SIR HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, considers the Battle of Amiens in August 1918 in the context of the First World War as a whole, and how three commanders - Haig, Rawlinson, and Foch - all of whom had experienced failure as well as success in the earlier years of the War, were to come together at the Battle of Amiens to great effect. MUSIC | Rouse (Steve Sidwell) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Last Post - LSgt Stuart Laing on a WW1 (1915) bugle. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Since 2014, there has been an outpouring of literature on the First World War that has moved the field in exciting new directions. Over thirty books have been released by Canadian academic presses over the past almost four years, including titles on conscription, shell shock, and the memory of the war. But before these books were published, Mark Humphries wrote an intriguing 2014 article in the Canadian Historical Review about the historiography of the First World War in Canada and where he thought the field should lead next. Among several other revealing insights, he urged future scholars to adopt a transnational approach that would challenge the exceptionalist literature that characterizes Canadian First World War history-writing. But where has the field gone since? Mark has some thoughts. Mark is the director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. References Tim Cook. Clio’s Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. ------. The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2018. Patrick Dennis. Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Richard Holt. Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.  G.W.L. Nicholson. Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1962. Pierre Nora. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Representations26 (1989): 7–24. Gary Sheffield. Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities. London: Headline, 2001. Hew Strachan. The First World War: To Arms. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Award-winning author, historian and military strategist Hew Strachan is the recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Award-winning author, historian and military strategist Hew Strachan is the recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Patrick O’Meara speaks with Sir Hew Strachan, one of the world’s leading authorities on World War I.

Nikolaj Ifversen, Egon Clausen og Jens Raahauge anbefaler bøger, de har læst. Egon Clausen taler om: "Moderskab og mødrehjælp" skrevet af Pia Fris Laneth. Otte portrætter og 100 års historie, udkommet på Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag. Nikolaj Ifversen har valgt: ”Første Verdenskrig”af Hew Strachan, udkommet på Informations Forlag, og Jens Raahauge omtaler: "Dannelse, en samtidskritisk og idéhistorisk...

Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and Co-Editor of War in History, and Edward Madigan, Resident Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Guest Editor of volume 20, issue 1 of War in History, discuss the themes of courage and cowardice throughout history. This issue marks the beginning of War in History’s 20th year. Posted January 2013.

In the ancient and medieval worlds men fought for booty and in doing so aligned their personal motivation with that of the monarch or the state they served – given that the latter’s aim was conquest. After 1789 the motivations of citizen soldiers were seen as political and patriotic, and, however much the strains of combat called personal patriotism into question, the latter legitimated the military profession. Since 1945 patriotism has gone out of fashion. American studies of combat motivation have stressed factors internal to the military, such as small group loyalties: the arguments have become circular and inwardly focused – professional soldiers fight well because they are professional soldiers. This logic creates a division between the motivation to fight and the political legitimacy of fighting which is potentially unsustainable over the long term, at least in western democracies.

Napoleonic imagery suggests that decisive battlefield success leads to victory in war, but Napoleon lost his war. The relationship between what happens within a war and its eventual outcome is not one to which military historians have devoted much attention; their scholarship has focused on the making of war not on the making of peace. Diplomatic historians have not been of much help, tending only to pick up the story once hostilities are over, so ignoring the contacts between the two parties within a war or the modification of their objectives by one or both sides in order to make an agreement possible. The problems are not just collective, but also personal, beginning with the decision of an individual soldier to surrender. In the ancient world surrender would probably lead to slavery or summary execution. Although the granting of rights to prisoners of war increased the incentive to surrender, there is little evidence that it has caused wars to end sooner.

Strategy has attracted much recent attention in UK public policy debates, principally because of its absence from the direction of current conflicts. Before 1945 strategic thought used history as its core discipline but since then history has either dropped out of the equation or been misapplied. There was admittedly an apparent contradiction in strategic theory’s attention to the past; the principal policy function of strategy is predictive and its application in real time pragmatic. Here the challenges are to reconcile not just the perspectives of strategic theory and strategy in practice, but also the differences between civilians and the military. Finding satisfactory institutional frameworks for strategy-making is as important as thinking strategically.

Nancy Sherman, University of Glasgow, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series, in this, she talks about the philosophical concept of guilt in war. Introduced by Hew Strachan.

To take successful military action, you do not only need soldiers, aircraft or warships. The support of the society and political leadership is crucial in sustaining armed action. Yet public involvement in current debates about the future of the military has been very limited, as old ideas of 'leaving it to the professionals' prevail. So what happens when society becomes divorced from the business of defending itself? In liberal Britain, some sections of society seem more and more alienated from military action. Using force clashes with modern concerns about human rights and risk-avoidance. New forms of media have cut through the more sanitised portrayal of war in the mainstream media, adding to public concern. And politicians, scarred by the unpopularity of recent military actions, noting the grief which every single casualty prompts, are likely to be ever more wary of future warfare. Within the military too there is change, and friction. New technology is taking armed action further away from old ideas of heroism and codes of conduct. These days lawyers sit in army headquarters challenging military decisions. Many in the military appear frustrated by what they see a lack of popular and political understanding of their role. In this programme Dr Kenneth Payne, military specialist at King's College London, explores how deep these tensions run, and what they mean for Britain's military future. He asks too whether Britain's experience is different from that of other countries, such as the US. Contributors include distinguished military historian and commentator Hew Strachan, and former soldier and senior politician Lord Ashdown. Producer: Chris Bowlby.

In this episode of Citizen Soldier, the preeminent scholar of WWI, Sir Hew Strachan, sits down with WWII historian Sir Antony Beevor to discuss the world’s first truly global conflict.

Award-winning author, historian and military strategist Hew Strachan is the recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.