1918 Episode 174: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 8 - The Last Offensive We now enter the last two episodes of our series on the 100 days, the final Allied offensives of the war. Today we will be looking at the allied offensive effort which began
1918 Episode 173: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 7 - Attack, Attack, Attack This will be our third and final episode about the American led Meuse-Argonne offensive. We will cover the entire month of October and then the beginning of November, right up to the armistice.
1918 Episode 172: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 6 - The Lost Battalion This week the American attacks in the Meuse-Argonne offensive continue, but we also take a bit of a break from the larger story to focus on a much smaller one. When the attacks
1918 Episode 171: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 5 - War is Hell Last episode we discussed the American attack at St. Mihiel, this week we will focus on their attack during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. It was here that Foch had tasked the Americans with attacking
1918 Episode 170: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 4 - Americans This is our fourth episode covering the Allied offensives that ended the war, and this episode will be the first of I think 3 that will focus almost solely on the American Expeditionary
1918 Episode 169: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 3 - Onward from Amiens The Allies would have to determine how best to carry forward their attack and how best to capitalize on their previous success. We will cover the continuation of the attack at Amiens all
1918 Episode 168: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 2 - The Black Day Last episode we discussed the end of the German offensives and the beginning of the Allied counter attacks beginning with the Second Battle of the Marne. This episodes those attacks continue, this time
1918 Episode 167: The Hundred Days Offensive Pt. 1 - Second Battle of the Marne This is it, the start of the last big series of episodes before we arrive at the armistice on November 11th 1918. Over the next 9 or so episodes we will see the
1918 Episode 166: Listener Questions Pt. 2 Question Time! In which we answer some questions from some listeners. Be sure to send in your questions to get them answered. iTunes RSS The History of the Great war is also available
1918 Episode 165: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 9 This episode represents our last on the German Spring offensives. We are going to spend the first half of the episode focusing on some of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Forces,
Episodes Episode 164: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 8 This episode continues our series on the German Spring offensives of 1918 and after the first two attacks, Michael and Georgette, targetted the British for thei third effort the Germans would move south.
1918 Episode 163: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 7 Last episode we wrapped up our story of Operation Michael, the first of what would eventually be 5 German offensives in spring and summer 1918. This episode we continue past Operation Michael and
1918 Episode 162: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 6 This is our sixth episode on the German spring offensives of 1918, last episode we discussed the events of Operation Michael after the first day of the attacks, we discussed the decisions made
Episodes Premium Episode 30: Czech Legion Pt. 1 This is a story that I knew absolutely nothing about until about two years ago when I stumbled upon it while researching for the Russian Revolution episodes last year. It is the story
Episodes Episode 161: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 5 This is our fifth episode covering the events of the German Spring offensives, and last episode the first major German attack on the Western Front, Operation Michael began. Throughout the day on March
1918 Episode 160: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 4 For almost 4 years the western front had been mostly static, but all of that was about to change. For almost 4 years both sides had been throwing themselves at the other without
1918 Episode 159: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 3 After our first two episodes discussing the general state of the three armies on the Western Front in early 1918, in this episode we get down to details. First we will look at
1918 Episode 158: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 2 Last episode we discussed a lot about the German plans for 1918, this episode we shift our focus over to the situation of the Allies at the beginning of the year. Before I
1918 Episode 157: Kaiserschlacht Pt. 1 This episode begins a two month series of episodes on the German spring offensives of 1918. Between March and July 1918 the German army would launch five major operations on the Western Front.
1918 Episode 156: Air War 1918 In this episode we will once again be discussing the war in the air. I would describe this as something of a random topics episode. We will of course be discussing the role
Episodes Episode 155: Listener Questions Pt. 1 This is the first of at least 3 episode dedicated to listener questions for this year. Thank you to Patrick, Mike, Andy, and Owen for the questions this time. iTunes RSS The History
1918 Episode 154: The Italian Front: The End Over the last two episodes we have discussed the events on the Italian front during 1918. In this episode we will conclude our story of the Italian front by looking at the last
Episodes Episode 153: The Italian Front: Last Gasps on the Piave Last episode we set the stage, on both sides of the line, for the actions of 1918. The Italians had just experienced a disaster at Caporetto, but they were recovering, the Austrians had
Episodes Episode 152: The Italian Front: The Walking Wounded We last visited the Italian front with the Austro-German attack named the Battle of Caporetto. In this attack the combined forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary had broken, at least temporarily, the stalemate that
Episodes Episode 151: Middle East: The End This week we take a look at the post-war Middle East both at Versailles and after. I want to start off by saying that this is not the only time we will discuss