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Flers-Courcelette: The Somme's Tactical Turning Point?
Episode 140
In this episode we continue our exploration of the 1916 Battle of the Somme with a focus on a key crucial stage famed for the global debut of a new w…
11 hours ago
Pozières: Australia's Bloodiest Battle of the Somme
Episode 139
The struggle for Pozieres would become one of the most infamous campaigns of the Battle of the Somme: some 23000 Australians would become casualties …
1 week, 1 day ago
Somme's Woodland: Mametz, Trônes, Delville & High Wood
Episode 138
There was no terrain on the Somme that soldiers feared more than woodland - a maze of broken stumps, fallen branches, and hidden barbed wire. In this…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Night Attack on the Somme: Bazentin Ridge 1916
Episode 137
Just two weeks after the catastrophe of 1 July 1916, the British Army launched another major assault on the Somme - this time with dramatically diffe…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Somme in the South - Forgotten Victory
Episode 136
When people think of the Somme, they think of failure: men cut down in no man's land; shattered battalions; and catastrophic losses. Yet along much o…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Reichs & Republics The Turnip Winter of 1916/17
What happens when an entire nation runs out of food? This is one of our favourite episodes from our sister podcast, Reichs and Republics: The German …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Somme’s Northern Disaster
Episode 132
At 7.30am on the morning of 1st July 1916, whistles blew along a front stretching more than twenty miles. Tens of thousands of British soldiers climb…
1 month, 1 week ago
France's Elite Units
Episode 134
What turns a unit into an elite?
Is it rigorous selection, a hard-earned reputation, or simply being thrown into the fiercest fighting and surviving?…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Gallipoli Evacuation: A Forgotten Success Story?
Episode 134
For eight brutal months in 1915, every Allied plan at Gallipoli had failed. However, on the final night of the campaign, the Allies finally managed t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Battles that Shaped the 20th Century
Episode 132
In this week’s episode and in a long overdue collaboration between Not So Quite on the Western Front and WW2 Both Sides of the Wire, four of us sit d…
2 months ago