Podcasts about Verdun

First we travel to Verdun in 1916 where Indy is acting as a courier, a dangerous liaison crossing enemy territory. Indy is frustrated by the cavalier nature in which some superiors send men to die against impossible odds. Then we jump to later in 1916 where Indy is now stationed in German East Africa. This is definitely one of our favorite episodes as the action is intense and the stakes are high. Indy is tasked with a perilous mission crossing the Congo after being promoted for his heroic efforts in a battle. However, his defiance of orders in that battle has put him at odds with his superior. All of this made more intense by Indy having to make one of the toughest decisions of his life

Part 3 of the ongoing discussion looks at the French Army in 1914: its readiness for a potential conflict with Germany, its underlying preparation and strategy for war, and its performance in the battles that raged in the summer and autumn of that year.    Joining us for this discussion are:   Christina Holstein, author of several incredible guides to the Verdun battlefield, amongst other published works and articles, Steve Marsdin, a student and researcher of the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers and its effects, Jim Smithson, author of “A Taste of Success: The First Battle of the Scarpe. The Opening Phase of the Battle of Arras 9-14 April 1917” and two guide books on the Arras battlefields The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast.    Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter at @WW1podcast, the Battles of the First World War Podcast page on FaceBook, and on Instagram at @WW1battlecast. Not into social media? Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com. Please consider reviewing the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes.   

We're continuing the story of World War I with the year 1916. The battles of Verdun and the Somme are the most famous, and we’re giving them the space they deserve, but the Romanian campaign, the Brusilov offensive and the Battle of Jutland also get their share. To top it off, we delve into the politics of the year, which may surprise you in how consequential they were. Download the episode!Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour.TorrentOur iTunes page.Previous episodes.Podcast RSS feed.Stefan's blog.Jim's blogJim on Twitter.

Telling the history of a war that's reshaping the world. In Ep.1: How Russia's febrile history, Putin's paranoid resentment and Western complacency led to an historic crime against a peaceful nation, the destruction of the rules-based international order, the largest European land action since the Second World War… and a conflict of unprecedented brutality. In weekly episodes Arthur Snell talks to soldiers, civilians, analysts and journalists to tell the story of the war and capture the enormity of Russia's crimes. This is the first draft of history. Want to hear Ep.2 right now, without ads? Support the show on Patreon at doomsdaywatch.co.uk to get every new episode a week early. “Putin has just started an epic global conflict between democracy and authoritarianism, one whose outcome is still in doubt.” – Arthur Snell “To see these places – deep mud, wet, such cruel conditions – you'd think it's not too far from Verdun or Passchendaele.” – Paul Conroy “We don't do what we do out of hatred, we do it out of love for justice and for the people we care about. This is a battle of life and darkness.” – ‘George', Georgian National Legion Photograph courtesy Paul Conroy Incidental music in order of appearance: Gustav Mahler's Symphony Number 5, performed by Jason Weinberger and the WCF Symphony. ‘Thy Resurrection' by Dmitry Bortnyansky performed by the Music of Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery. ‘O Lord Hear My Prayer' by Dmitry Bortnyansky performed by Kyiv Chamber Choir. Gustav Mahler's Symphony Number 9 (First Movement) performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Doomsday Watch is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 00:04:17 - Vizo sport - par : Alex VIZOREK - Alex Vizorek nous parle d'un sport à mi-chemin entre le Tour de France et la bataille de Verdun.

Quand on dit de quelqu'un qu'il emploie "la grosse Bertha", cela signifie que, pour arriver à ses fins, il met tout son poids dans la balance et qu'il est prêt à utiliser un moyen qu'il juge décisif. Mais d'où vient cette expression ? Elle a été forgée pour désigner un très gros canon. Il s'agit d'une pièce d'artillerie allemande, d'une taille et d'un poids exceptionnels pour l'époque où elle conçue, c'est-à-dire peu avant la Première Guerre mondiale. Son surnom a été donné à ce canon en référence à la fille unique de Friedrich Krupp, roi allemand de l'acier et grand pourvoyeur d'armes. En effet, celle-ci se prénommait Bertha. De leur côté, d'ailleurs, les Allemands surnommèrent le canon "Bertha la travailleuse", pour souligner, sans doute, son incomparable efficacité. Il existait en fait deux modèles de ce canon. L'un d'eux, fabriqué en 12 exemplaires, faisait environ 10 mètres de long et pesait plus de 42 tonnes. Cette arme, d'un calibre de 420 mm, tirait, à plus de neuf kilomètres, des obus de 400 et 800 kilos, capables de percer le blindage des chars adverses. L'affût de ce canon géant, qui pouvait tirer 10 obus par heure, était monté sur des roues permettant un transport plus facile. Par sa portée et sa puissance hors normes, cette pièce d'artillerie donnait un avantage décisif aux Allemands, qui l'utilisent surtout pour détruire les forteresses françaises. C'est ainsi qu'au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, à la fin août 1914, la "grosse Bertha" démantèle complètement le fort de Manonviller, dans la Meurthe-et-Moselle, pourtant construit avec un béton spécial. D'autres forts, à Verdun notamment, résistent mieux à ces bombardements. Mais la célébrité de ces canons "grosse Bertha" vient surtout d'une confusion. En effet, beaucoup croient, à l'époque, que ce sont ces canons qui bombardent Paris durant six mois, en 1918, faisant plus de 250 morts dans la capitale. En fait, ce sont des canons longs d'un autre type, que les Allemands nomment des "Pariser Kanonen". La "grosse Bertha" n'a donc jamais été pointée sur Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are going to talk about the Battle of Verdun.

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING - THIS ONE GETS SWEARYThis week we are joined by the Historian of Anglo/French relations and Author, Chris Kempshall, who charges onto the rage train to argue that THE FRENCH ARE NOT CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS.We'll be talking about the horrific realities of Verdun, how the French have a truly impressive victory rate that is a contender with all the superpowers and how nobody could celebrate a victory over France if they truly lacked military might and courage.If you like this then you can follow him on Twitter @chriskempshall  and you can but any and all of his books at the History Rage Bookshop Support the showYou can follow History Rage on Twitter @HistoryRage and let us know what you wish people would just stop believing using the Hashtag #HistoryRage. You can join our 'Angry Mob' on Patreon as well. £5 per month gets you episodes 3 months early, the invite to choose questions, entry into our prize draws and the coveted History Rage mug. Subscribe at www.patreon.com/historyrage

Sejam bem-vindos ao milésimo nongentésimo sexagésimo nono Spin de Notícias, o seu giro diário de informações científicas... em escala sub-atômica. E nesse Spin de Notícias falaremos sobre...História Militar! *Este episódio, assim como tantos outros projetos vindouros, só foi possível por conta do Patronato do SciCast. Se você quiser mais episódios assim, contribua conosco!*

Tammy Leakey disappeared from Verdun, a borough of Montreal, in 1981. Tammy went on an errand to a local grocery store and never returned. Her mother reported her missing, but a local man found Tammy's body in a field along the road about an hour after the report. Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the disappearance and murder of Tammy Leakey. It's known that Tammy made it to the store, and her purchases were found in a paper bag just off the curb. A woman came forward to say she saw a man in a trench coat force a young girl into a small red car. This is thought to have been Tammy. Residents were so incensed that they called for more police action and even set up civilian patrols. You can help support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetime Visit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation information An Emash Digital production

Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., of St. Michael's Abbey, and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on Charles De Koninck's work, Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary. Bibliography Header Image: Nicholas of Verdun, The Annunciation panel, Klosterneuburg (Verduner) Altar (1181), Stift Klosterneuburg. If you have questions or comments, please send them … Continue reading "The Josias Podcast, Episode XXXIII: Ego Sapientia"

1917 was a difficult year for the Allied high command.  With the British and the French suffering from the exertions of the Somme and Verdun, the French army was in a state of mutiny on the Chemin des Dames,  and the British were bogged down in the hell of Passchendaele.The Spring of 1918 saw the British on the defensive around the city of St Quentin, in a series of eight heavily defended strongpoints called Redoubts.  On the 21st of March, the Germans launched Operation Michael, their last great offensive of the War.  Standing in the way of their advance on St Quentin were the redoubts.The fighting was brutal and casualties were high but the defence of the redoubts around St Quentin was remarkable.  The 30th Division, unwanted by the Corps Commander General Maxse, fought with distinction, nowhere more so in their heroic defence of Manchester Hill.  Led by the inspirational Lt. Col Wilfrith Elstob DSO MC,  the Manchesters held the hill to the last man, in an action that has gone down in military history as one of the great acts of defiance in the face of insurmountable odds. Support the podcast:https://www.patreon.com/footstepsofthefallenhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/footstepsblog

EPISODE 84: Raised in North Dakota's cattle country, Neal Barnard grew up studying piano and cello. Barnard started composing and recording songs in the 80s. With a penchant for the avant-garde, Neal constantly writes songs that defy any genre categorization. He chooses unconventional time meters as well, in order to “tilt the song ever so slightly and give you that little jolt between the ears,” as he puts it. Barnard launched CarbonWorks at a 2016 event at New York's Metrograph, hosted by Alec Baldwin and Maggie Q. Its line-up included singers from Italy, France, and the U.S., with rock and classical instrumentalists. While this is Barnard's fourth album, following Pop Maru, Verdun, and CarbonWorks' 2016 release, he is better known as a medical pioneer who formed the Physicians Committee in 1985 to rally for prevention, nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. In 2006, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Barnard used a low-fat vegan diet to revolutionize the treatment of type 2 diabetes and has used similar approaches to skewer weight problems, women's health issues, and other medical challenges. “In music or medicine, we have to look out of the box,” he says. Michael Friedman wrote in Psychology Today, “Neal Barnard has never been one to accept the status quo.” twitter.com/DrNealBarnard Contact us: makingsoundpodcast.comFollow on Instagram: @makingsoundpodcastFollow on Twitter: @JannKloseBandJoin our Facebook GroupPlease support the show with a donation, thank you for listening!

In December 1920 a large concrete shelter financed by an American millionaire marked the spot where French soldiers had fallen in one of the many small actions around Verdun in 1916. The story of the Trench of Bayonets was born, but what is the real story behind this episode of the Great War, and the memorial that still marks the spot? Support the show

“In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.” This is the story of the first two and a half years of the Great War, particularly, of the Western Front. These are the years leading to the United States' entry. After saving two German warships, the Ottoman Empire joins the Great War as a Central Power. Meanwhile, the work of death is moving forward on a scale unlike any other seen. Improved, or altogether new, weapons—rapid firing repeating rifles, machine guns, gas, flamethrowers, armed airplanes, and tanks—terrify and slaughter trench-dwelling soldiers. Bodies are soon counted by the millions. We'll get a sample of this as we visit three particularly deadly areas of the Western Front: Ypres, Verdun, and the Somme. ___ 4 Ways to dive deeper into History That Doesn't Suck Join our growing facebook community Get our weekly newsletter, The Revolution Become part of the HTDS Patreon family Subscribe to Greg's monthly newsletter, Connected History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of Grease the Wheels, we Tarantino it.  Uncle Jimmy begins to formulate the answer for how to lower the “Verdun-esq” attrition rates among new hires. To do this, he's going to need more time, but in the meantime we take a look at how corporate minds plan on dealing with the solution. The problem is that they are taking the position of the shop when in order to solve this problem you need to solve it from the perspective of the new hire themselves and address the root causes of this high attrition. We also have to continue to work on the overall occupational PR that we (don't) enjoy as mechanics to continue to recruit new talent. The one thing that we will give these articles is that they do address that pay is one of the main barriers to entry in this field, and that tool expenses are out of control and can set new technicians up for failure. Also Uncle Jimmy muddies the waters on the “technician” versus “mechanic debate” again, and slams EV's. This episode is distributed by The Wrenching Network. Whether you're a technician, a mechanic, or someone who just loves the car scene, The Wrenching Network is a place that you have to check out. They have all sorts of great content, gear, and snacks to keep you turning wrenches in whatever capacity you do it. Also if you see us over there, make sure you say hi and leave a comment with what you think about the episode! 

Part 2 of the ongoing discussion looks at misconceptions about the French Army, and French personalities of the war we should know about but, for reasons, do not. We wrap up with some advice on visiting the French battlefields of the Great War: guide books, how to prepare, what to expect, etc.   This was another conversation that deeply impressed me with the breadth and depth of knowledge of the participants. Like I say in the introduction, grab a notebook and a pen, because you are about to learn a lot.   Joining us for this discussion are:   Christina Holstein, author of several incredible guides to the Verdun battlefield, amongst other published works and articles, Alex Lyons, the man who spends his free time telling us the story of his Poilu great-grandfather on Twitter, Steve Marsdin, a student and researcher of the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers and its effects, Jim Smithson, author of “A Taste of Success: The First Battle of the Scarpe. The Opening Phase of the Battle of Arras 9-14 April 1917” and two guide books on the Arras battlefields, James Taub, Associate Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA, and a public historian with a specialty in French history, and its presentation to American audiences.   The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast.    Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter at @WW1podcast, the Battles of the First World War Podcast page on FaceBook, and on Instagram at @WW1battlecast. Not into social media? Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com. Please consider reviewing the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes.   

Il y a 50 ans, dans la nuit du 18 au 19 février 1973, un commando de quelques hommes déterre le cercueil du maréchal Pétain. L'ancien chef du gouvernement de Vichy repose alors à l'île d'Yeu, en Vendée, où il a passé les dernières années de sa vie. Il y était emprisonné pour avoir collaboré avec l'occupant nazi, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Ces partisans de Philippe Pétain ont le projet fou de voler sa dépouille pour l'emmener à Verdun, où le maréchal avait indiqué vouloir se faire enterrer, au milieu des soldats qui sont morts durant la grande bataille en 1916.Code source retrace ce fait divers avec Alexandre Arlot, journaliste à l'édition de Seine-Saint-Denis du Parisien, et l'historien spécialiste de la Première Guerre mondiale Jean-Yves Le Naour, auteur de “On a volé le maréchal !” (Larousse, 2009).Crédits. Direction de la rédaction : Pierre Chausse - Rédacteur en chef : Jules Lavie - Reporter : Ambre Rosala - Production : Clara Garnier-Amouroux et Thibault Lambert - Réalisation et mixage : Julien Montcouquiol - Musiques : François Clos, Audio Network - Archives : INA. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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durée : 00:55:29 - Affaires sensibles - par : Fabrice Drouelle, Franck COGNARD - Le 19 février 1973, un commando de six hommes se rend à l'île d'Yeu et tente d'enlever dans la plus grande discrétion le cercueil de Philippe Pétain. Derrière ce coup d'éclat, se cache une tentative désespérée de réhabiliter celui qui fut le chef des hommes des tranchées de Verdun. - réalisé par : Stéphane COSME, Helene Bizieau, Frédéric Milano

Welcome Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/) back to the program! Is there virtue in repetition? In EDGE OF TOMORROW, there's a certain indignity to it – Tom Cruise's Bill Cage dies repeatedly and violently in an inter-species war in search of a secret that could tip the scales in humanity's favor. But in reliving a single failed decisive battle every day (thanks to a time-resetting superpower he honestly fell ass-first into), Cage's challenge is less in losing the war and more in the threat of becoming numb to the horrors of armed combat – including the seemingly unavoidable death of Sergeant Rita Vrataski, whose proficiency and drive inspire Cage's personal growth through the ‘fiery crucible' of war. Find Dan… - https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/ - https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/ - ‘s podcast, Everything We Learned, on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273 - At “Hulk Smashworth” in Final Fantasy XIV on the Diablo server - On Trylove episodes about RONIN (1981), FACE/OFF (1997), MANDY (2018) - On Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoop-kidz-a-hey-arnold-podcast/id1553292788 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters/audio excerpt from EDGE OF TOMORROW. Outro music: "Angel of Verdun" by Christophe Beck from the EDGE OF TOMORROW soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 213: EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) with Dan Nagan 3:20 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:56 - Is it dystopian if we're just watching war in the future? 16:25 - Tom Cruise as a sicko who learns to be human 26:39 - How it uses the time loop concept 35:36 - Rita 38:57 - The comedy 45:19 - How close it is to mediocrity 51:03 - As an antidote to numbing action movie shit 59:19 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:07:49 - Cody's Noteys: Tryloop 1:31:35 - Dan's Detour: Try, Love, Repeat

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 3/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 3/8: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 8/8: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 4/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 4/8: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 5/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 6/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 6/8: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 7/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 7/8: 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.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 8/8: Verdun Donbass Front: 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 8/8: 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.

durée : 00:04:03 - Vizo sport - Alex Vizorek nous parle d'un sport à mi-chemin entre le Tour de France et la bataille de Verdun.

Augustin Trébuchon se serait sans doute bien passé de la célébrité posthume qui a sauvé sa mémoire de l'oubli. Il fut en effet le dernier soldat français tué pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Né en Lozère, en 1878, Augustin Trébuchon était berger de son état. Rien ne l'obligeait à s'engager dans la guerre qui, en 1914, allait devenir le premier conflit mondial. En effet, il a déjà 36 ans où moment où les hostilités commencent. Au surplus, il avait perdu ses parents et se retrouvait à la tête d'une fratrie de sept orphelins. On aurait donc pu l'exempter. Mais il préfère s'engager. Et il fait toute la guerre, survivant à ces quatre années terribles. On le retrouve sut tous les champs de bataille, du Chemin des Dames à Verdun, et sa bravoure lui vaut même la Croix de guerre. Mais, en cette fin de matinée du 11 novembre 1918, le destin attendait Augustin Trébuchon. Comme très souvent pendant la guerre, durant laquelle il est agent de liaison, on le charge, ce jour-là, de transmettre un message. Il est 10h30. Depuis le matin, l'armistice a été signé, vers 5h15. Mais son application sur le front a été fixée à 11 heures. En raison de la symbolique de ce chiffre : la onzième heure du onzième jour du onzième mois... Ignorant tout de ces événements, Augustin Trébuchon accomplit sa mission quotidienne. Et c'est alors que, vers 10h50, il est tué d'une balle dans la tête. Dix minutes plus tard, le clairon annoncera la cessation des hostilités. Mais si l'on se rend sur la tombe du dernier "poilu" tué au combat, on voit que le 10 novembre est donné pour la date de sa mort. On procédera de même pour les 17 autres soldats qui ont eu l'infortune de tomber en ce dernier jour de la guerre. Ce piteux stratagème est dû à la gêne des autorités militaires, peu fières, sans doute, de voir des soldats tués sur le front alors que l'armistice était déjà signé depuis des heures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EXPERTS ANTHONY BELLANGER Éditorialiste, spécialiste des questions internationales « France Inter » ELSA VIDAL Rédactrice en chef de la rédaction en langue russe - « RFI » ANNE NIVAT Grand reporter - « Le Point » Auteure de « Un continent derrière Poutine ? » GUILLAUME ANCEL Ancien officier de l'armée française C'est la bataille la plus sanglante depuis le début du conflit. À Soledar, petite ville de l'est de l'Ukraine, les combats sont acharnés entre les militaires ukrainiens et l'armée russe. Celle-ci tente inlassablement de conquérir cette commune complètement détruite en espérant ainsi renverser le cours de la guerre. Des milliers de soldats serviraient ainsi de chair à canon côté russe pour percer les lignes ukrainiennes. Mercredi dernier, le chef du groupe paramilitaire Wagner a même revendiqué que ses hommes contrôlaient la ville, avant d'être rapidement contredit par le ministère russe de la Défense comme par Kiev. Dans cette bataille, Vladimir Poutine y perdrait même ses nerfs. Alors qu'il vient de changer une nouvelle fois de chef militaire, une séquence inhabituelle l'a montré hier s'emportant contre son vice-Premier ministre. Celui-ci s'est vu traiter« d'imbécile » lors d'une réunion devant permettre la renégociation des contrats d'armements avec des entreprises russes. Le symptôme manifeste de sa difficulté à gérer l'enlisement du conflit, qui dure depuis bientôt un an. Pendant ce temps, à l'ouest de l'Ukraine, un hôpital de Lviv fait le maximum pour soigner soldats et civils touchés par les attaques russes. Spécialisé dans les greffes de membres, les victimes du conflit voient leur bras et leurs jambes atteints être pris en charge par une équipe d'experts. Sur le plan géopolitique, la guerre russo-ukrainienne fait aussi le jeu de Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Le président turc tente de tirer avantage de la situation avec pour l'objectif de se maintenir au pouvoir à lors de l'élection présidentielle de juin prochain. Dernier chantage en date : celui qu'il joue à l'OTAN en bloquant l'adhésion de la Suède et de la Finlande à l'Alliance. Il dénonce en effet la soit-disant mansuétude de ces deux pays vis à vis des réfugiés kurdes. Si les deux capitales ont déjà été contraintes à de nombreuses concessions, Erdogan souhaite à présent l'extradition d'une longue liste de « terroristes ». Alors, la bataille de Soledar peut-elle être un tournant dans la guerre en Ukraine ? Qui a l'avantage sur le terrain ? Comment continuer à vivre lorsque l'on a été gravement blessé par l'ennemi russe ? Erdogan peut-il continuer longtemps d'imposer ses règles au sein de l'OTAN ? DIFFUSION : du lundi au samedi à 17h45 FORMAT : 65 minutes PRÉSENTATION : Caroline Roux - Axel de Tarlé REDIFFUSION : du lundi au vendredi vers 23h40 RÉALISATION : Nicolas Ferraro, Bruno Piney, Franck Broqua, Alexandre Langeard, Corentin Son, Benoît Lemoine PRODUCTION : France Télévisions / Maximal Productions Retrouvez C DANS L'AIR sur internet & les réseaux : INTERNET : francetv.fr FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/Cdanslairf5 TWITTER : https://twitter.com/cdanslair INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/cdanslair/

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Ps 65: 4 All the earth shall bow down before you, O God, and shall sing to you, shall sing to your name, O Most High! Responsorial Psalm 39(40):2,4,7-10 Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry. He put a new song into my mouth, praise of our God. Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings, but an open ear. You do not ask for holocaust and victim. Instead, here am I. Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. In the scroll of the book it stands written that I should do your will. My God, I delight in your law in the depth of my heart. Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. Your justice I have proclaimed in the great assembly. My lips I have not sealed; you know it, O Lord. Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. The English translation of Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. The music for the psalm is an original OLOR composition. Sing Psalms to the Lord podcast can be found at all your quality podcast providers. Sing Psalms to the Lord YouTube channel can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELS1iG5t0qjs20JFugwdeQ Music by the Choir of Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church, Verdun, St. John, Barbados. Music (c) 2022 Michelle A. Sambrano. All rights reserved. Please feel free to each out to us at singpsalmstothelord@gmail.com

Cf. Mt 3: 16-17 After the Lord was baptized, the heavens were opened, and the Spirit descended upon Him like a dove, and the voice of the Father thundered: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Responsorial Psalm 28(29):1-4,9-10 The Lord will bless His people with peace. O give the Lord, you sons of God, give the Lord glory and power; give the Lord the glory of His name. Adore the Lord in His holy court. The Lord will bless His people with peace. The Lord’s voice resounding on the waters, the Lord on the immensity of waters; the voice of the Lord, full of power, the voice of the Lord, full of splendour. The Lord will bless His people with peace. The God of glory thunders. In His temple they all cry: ‘Glory!’ The Lord sat enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits as king for ever. The Lord will bless His people with peace. The English translation of Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. The music for the psalm is an original OLOR composition. Sing Psalms to the Lord podcast can be found at all your quality podcast providers. Sing Psalms to the Lord YouTube channel can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELS1iG5t0qjs20JFugwdeQ Music by the Choir of Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church, Verdun, St. John, Barbados. Music (c) 2022 Michelle A. Sambrano. All rights reserved. Please feel free to each out to us at singpsalmstothelord@gmail.com

Cf. Mal 3: 1; 1 Chr 29: 12 Behold, the Lord, the Mighty One, has come; and kingship is in his grasp, and power and dominion. Responsorial Psalm 71(72):1-2,7-8,10-13 All nations shall fall prostrate before You, O Lord. O God, give Your judgement to the king, to a king’s son Your justice, that he may judge Your people in justice and Your poor in right judgement. All nations shall fall prostrate before You, O Lord. In His days justice shall flourish and peace till the moon fails. He shall rule from sea to sea, from the Great River to earth’s bounds. All nations shall fall prostrate before You, O Lord. The kings of Tarshish and the sea coasts shall pay Him tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring Him gifts. Before Him all kings shall fall prostrate, all nations shall serve Him. All nations shall fall prostrate before You, O Lord. For He shall save the poor when they cry and the needy who are helpless. He will have pity on the weak and save the lives of the poor. All nations shall fall prostrate before You, O Lord. The English translation of Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. The music for the psalm is an original QOP composition. Sing Psalms to the Lord podcast can be found at all your quality podcast providers. Sing Psalms to the Lord YouTube channel can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELS1iG5t0qjs20JFugwdeQ Musical performance by the Choir of Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church, Verdun, St. John, Barbados. Music (c) 2008 Evelyn Lee. All rights reserved. Please feel free to each out to us at singpsalmstothelord@gmail.com

Cf. Is 9: 1, 5; Lk 1: 33 Today a light will shine upon us, for the Lord is born for us; and He will be called Wondrous God, Prince of peace, Father of future ages: and His reign will be without end. Responsorial Psalm 66(67):2-3,5,6,8 O God, be gracious and bless us. O God, be gracious and bless us and let Your face shed its light upon us. So will Your ways be known upon earth and all nations learn Your saving help. O God, be gracious and bless us. Let the nations be glad and exult for You rule the world with justice. With fairness You rule the peoples, You guide the nations on earth. O God, be gracious and bless us. Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You. May God still give us His blessing till the ends of the earth revere Him. O God, be gracious and bless us. The English translation of Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. The music for the psalm is an original OLOR composition. Sing Psalms to the Lord podcast can be found at all your quality podcast providers. Sing Psalms to the Lord YouTube channel can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELS1iG5t0qjs20JFugwdeQ Music by the Choir of Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church, Verdun, St. John, Barbados. Music (c) 2021 Michelle A. Sambrano. All rights reserved. Please feel free to each out to us at singpsalmstothelord@gmail.com

EXPERTS ANTHONY BELLANGER Editorialiste, spécialiste des questions internationales « France Inter » ANNE NIVAT Envoyée spéciale en Russie – « Le Point » Auteure de "Un continent derrière Poutine ?" BRUNO TERTRAIS Politologue spécialiste de l'analyse géopolitique et stratégique Directeur adjoint de la FRS NICOLE BACHARAN Historienne et politologue spécialiste des États-Unis Zelensky à Washington, surenchère à Moscou Une visite historique. Ce mercredi, Volodymyr Zelensky s'est rendu aux États-Unis, pour ce qui était son premier voyage en dehors des frontières ukrainiennes depuis l'invasion de son pays par les forces russes le 24 février dernier. Un déplacement à Washington, tenu secret jusqu'au dernier moment, au cours duquel le président ukrainien s'est exprimé devant le Congrès américain après une standing ovation. S'exprimant en anglais devant les parlementaires américains, Volodymyr Zelensky a tenu à rappeler que « contrairement aux prédictions les plus funestes, l'Ukraine n'est pas tombée. L'Ukraine est vivante et combative. Elle tient ses positions et ne se rendra jamais ». Il a également remercié les Etats-Unis « pour l'aide financière déjà fournie » et s'est efforcé de convaincre le Congrès, qui va basculer partiellement du côté des républicains en janvier, de poursuivre dans ce sens. « Votre argent n'est pas de la charité, c'est un investissement dans la sécurité mondiale et la démocratie » a déclaré le président ukrainien acclamé à plusieurs reprises lors de son discours d'une vingtaine de minutes. Peu de temps avant il avait rencontré à la Maison-Blanche Joe Biden qui lui a promis son aide « aussi longtemps qu'il le faudra ». « Vous ne serez jamais seuls » a affirmé le président américain lors d'une conférence de presse commune, quelques jours après avoir décidé de fournir à Kiev le système de défense antiaérienne le plus sophistiqué des Etats-Unis, les missiles Patriot. Le deux dirigeants ont également discuté d'un plan de paix en 10 points et d'un éventuel sommet. Dans le même temps, en Russie, Vladimir Poutine s'est exprimé en visioconférence devant 15 000 responsables de son armée à qui il a promis une aide illimitée et a fixé les objectifs pour l'année à venir. Ainsi il a annoncé la mise en service « début janvier » des nouveaux missiles hypersoniques Zircon, à capacité nucléaire, l'ouverture de bases navales dans les deux villes côtières capturées en Ukraine, Marioupol et Berdiansk, ou l'accroissement de la production de drones. Surtout, le ministre de la Défense Sergueï Choïgou a proposé de faire passer les effectifs de l'armée russe à 1,5 million de soldats, soit 350 000 de plus que l'objectif fixé par Vladimir Poutine en août, déjà en hausse. Le Kremlin a, par ailleurs, estimé ce jeudi que la visite du président ukrainien aux Etats-Unis n'a illustré aucune « volonté d'écouter la Russie » et que Washington menait en Ukraine « de facto une guerre indirecte » contre Moscou. Sur le terrain, les troupes russes continuent de mener une guerre du froid, ciblant systématiquement les infrastructures énergétiques et privant des millions d'Ukrainiens d'électricité mais aussi parfois d'accès à l'eau courante. Une stratégie menée depuis octobre qui vise à faire plier le moral de la population, alors que les températures peuvent descendre jusqu'à -15 degrés en hiver. Parallèlement, c'est à Bakhmut, sur la ligne de front du Donbass, que les combats, depuis quelques semaines, se concentrent. Dans un décor qui n'est pas sans rappeler les images de Verdun – des tranchées, la boue, le froid - les troupes de Kiev résistent aux assauts des forces russes, pour beaucoup issues des rangs du groupe Wagner, qui ont fait de la prise de la ville, pourtant sans grand intérêt stratégique et désormais en grande partie détruite, un objectif vital. Alors que retenir du déplacement de Volodymyr Zelensky aux Etats-Unis ? Quels sont les objectifs militaires fixés par Vladimir Poutine pour 2023 ? Pourquoi les Russes s'acharnent-ils autour de Bakhmut ? Enfin quel est l'impact de la guerre du froid, menée par la Russie, sur la population ukrainienne ? DIFFUSION : du lundi au samedi à 17h45FORMAT : 65 minutes PRÉSENTATION : Caroline Roux - Axel de Tarlé REDIFFUSION : du lundi au vendredi vers 23h40 RÉALISATION : Nicolas Ferraro, Bruno Piney, Franck Broqua, Alexandre Langeard, Corentin Son, Benoît Lemoine PRODUCTION : France Télévisions / Maximal Productions Retrouvez C DANS L'AIR sur internet & les réseaux : INTERNET : francetv.fr FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/Cdanslairf5 TWITTER : https://twitter.com/cdanslair INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/cdanslair/

C'est presque aussi bien qu'une visite surprise de l'Inspection du travail. Bilal Hassani et SML font un voyage dans le temps, à l'époque des sorties scolaires. Pour le premier, c'était les Yamakasi, pour la deuxième, Verdun. On n'est pas tous·tes égaux·les dans la vie, mais on mérite tous·tes d'exprimer nos émotions façon procès-verbal une fois par mois et de porter des talons en pensant à Beyoncé. On mérite aussi des vraies questions comme : exagérer un tout petit peu revient-il à mentir ? Faut-il être né·e en 1999 pour vivre comme dans Un Dos Tres à l'école ? Travailler en famille, comment ça marche ? Combien de temps peut-on porter un t-shirt Okaïdi ? Que penser des gens qui refusent d'aller voir un psy ? Le titre terroir d'or : « J'ai presque vécu Giscard d'Estaing »Le point poésie : « Il aboie sur les octaves de Mariah Carey » La vérité puisqu'on ment : « Michael Jackson, qu'on a reçu dans À Bientôt de te revoir. Ah non, c'est Lorie » La citation à méditer : « Je suis ascendant housewife, en réalité »Le podcast À bientôt de te revoir est désormais également disponible en vidéo sur France.tv et sur la chaîne YouTube de France·tv Slash.CRÉDITSÀ bientôt de te revoir est un podcast de Sophie-Marie Larrouy produit par Binge Audio, enregistré le 10 octobre 2022 à la Scala Paris. Générique : Josselin Bordat. Prise de son et réalisation : Quentin Bresson. Production : Anaïs Daïkha et Naomi Titti. Édition : Sirine Azouaoui. Marketing : Jeanne Longhini. Communication : Lise Niederkorn & Justine Taverne. Identité sonore Binge Audio : Jean-Benoît Dunckel (musique) et Bonnie El Bokeili (voix). Identité graphique : Karolina Mikos (Upian). Direction des programmes : Joël Ronez. Direction de la rédaction : David Carzon. Direction générale : Gabrielle Boeri-Charles. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Russia's offensive in Ukraine is entering a more brutal phase as it grinds through its 10th month. The latest evidence can be seen in the city of Bakhmut, where the devastation it is wreaking is drawing comparisons with the World War I battle of Verdun. Germany is buying American F-35 fighter jets, a significant increase in its air capability, including the power to deliver nuclear bombs. Russia has been using Iranian ballistic missiles against Ukraine, part of greater cooperation between these nations deliberately aimed at skirting international efforts to prevent this. We also talk about the latest “Twitter Files” revelations, a major corruption scandal in the European Union, still greater unity between the dictators of Russia and China, European leaders calling for escalating punishments against Iran, and a military official threatening a mom for privately complaining about sexualization in her 7-year-old daughter's school. Links [00:38] Russia's War on Ukraine Intensifies (9 minutes) “Has Putin Found His General Sherman?” The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia' [09:42] Germany Buys F-35s (5 minutes) “Bible Prophecy Comes Alive in Ukraine” “America's Naive Trust in Germany” [15:15] Russian-Iranian Cooperation (5 minutes) The King of the South [20:39] Latest 'Twitter Files' Revelations (11 minutes) “TwitterGate: Barack Obama Controls Silicon Valley” America Under Attack [31:19] EU Corruption Scandal (8 minutes) “Europe vs. Democracy, Round 14” [39:03] Russia-China Unity (5 minutes) “Xi and Putin Closer Than Ever” Russia and China in Prophecy [43:43] Europe vs. Iran (4 minutes) Germany's Secret Strategy to Destroy Iran [48:09] American Authoritarianism (6 minutes) Redefining Family

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 4/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 4/8: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 5/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 6/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 6/8: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 7/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 7/8: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 8/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 8/8: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 3/8: The Beginnings of the Hundred Years War: 3/8: 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. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps

University of Oklahoma PhD candidate James Gregory joins us on the podcast to discuss a forgotten front of the First World War: the US Marines' time in the trenches of the Toulon sector in early 1918.    Marine Corps History Journal:   https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/798   Through the Eyes of a Marine: The World War I Photographs of Sgt. Clarence H. Douglass By James Gregory:   https://www.lulu.com/shop/james-p-gregory-jr/through-the-eyes-of-a-marine/hardcover/product-enek7p.html?page=1&pageSize=4   The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast.    Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter at @WW1podcast, the Battles of the First World War Podcast page on FaceBook, and on Instagram at @WW1battlecast. Not into social media? Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com. Please consider reviewing the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes.   

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