1916 Episode 115: Romania Pt. 4 This week we are back to Romania and when we last left the theater Falkenhayn had advanced into the mountain passes over the Carpathians and in the south Mackenson had turned back the
1916 Episode 113: Romania Pt. 3 This is the third episode on the Romanian campaign, or as I like to call it, the first part in a two part episode called Romania's No Good Very Bad Time. Last episode
1916 Episode 112: Romania Pt. 2 This is our second episode on the Romanian campaign. Last episode we looked at the run up to the war and the terms under which Romania entered on the side of the Entente.
1916 Episode 111: Romania Pt. 1 This week we begin a new series though, four episodes on the Romanian campaign of 1916. Romania would not enter the war until late in 1916, their path to this decision to enter
1916 Episode 105: Changing of the Guard Last week we discussed three random topics, and this week we will cover a few more things that I also could not find a way to fit into other episodes. Unlike last episode
1916 Episode 104: Death, Drafts, and Peace For this episode we will be starting off the year with a few random topics that are from 1916 that we did not get to before. These are items that were always on
1916 Episode 103: The Battle of the Somme Pt.14 This week we come to the end. This will be our 14th and last episode on the Battle of the Somme as we look at the last two month of fighting in October
Somme Episode 102: The Battle of the Somme Pt.13 Our story today begins in September as the Battle of the Somme enters its third month and while the fighting would continue all the way until November this would be the month of
1916 Episode 101: The Battle of the Somme Pt.12 This week we take our Somme narrative out of the fateful month of July and into August. In his book The Somme: Darkest Hour on the Western Front Peter Hart would say that
1916 Episode 99: The Battle of the Somme Pt.11 This week is our 11th chronicling the battle of the Somme and we move onto the next set of attacks during the last 8 days of July which would be launched by the
1916 Episode 98: The Battle of the Somme Pt.10 This week we move onto what was sort of the second big attack on the Somme, or the second big British effort anyway, which would take place on the 14th of July. While
1916 Episode 97: The Battle of the Somme Pt.9 After July 2nd the first attacks on the Somme were over, but there were more planned and they would happen very soon. The British did need a few days to catch there breath
1916 Episode 95: The Battle of the Somme Pt.7 This will be our last episode detailing the events of July 1st, 1916. It has been several now, this will be our 4th. In the first three episodes we discussed little but completely
1916 Episode 94: The Battle of the Somme Pt.6 Today we continue our story of the attacks during the Battle of the Somme on the first of July 1916. We continue our journey south by looking at the attacks of the third
1916 Episode 93: The Battle of the Somme Pt.5 Last week saw the beginning of the attack and we also looked at the ill-fated attack by the British 7th Corps in their diversionary role to the north of the main effort by
Somme Episode 92: The Battle of the Somme Pt.4 This episode, and the next three episodes after it will focus strictly on the events of July the 1st, making it I think the most covered day in the history of our podcast.
1916 Episode 91: The Battle of the Somme Pt.3 The battle of the Somme was proceeded by a full week of artillery fire, constantly raining down shells on the German lines. What were they hoping to do with this fire? How were
1916 Episode 90: The Battle of the Somme Pt.2 Last episode we talked a lot about the events leading up to the British and French agreeing to attack on both sides of the river Somme in the summer of 1916. We also
1916 Episode 89: The Battle of the Somme Pt. 1 This week, it begins, and by it I mean our episodes on the battle of the Somme. The Somme, without a doubt, is the most recognizable battle of the entire war for anybody
1916 Episode 88: Brusilov Offensive Pt.5 This is our fifth and final episode on the Brusilov Offensive of summer 1916. We have already covered the build up, the opening attacks, and then the second round of attack, today we
1916 Episode 87: Brusilov Offensive Pt.4 Last episode saw the launching of the Brusilov offensive on June 4th 1916. Over the next week the Russians made great advances along the front, but they hoped that it was just the
1916 Episode 86: Brusilov Offensive Pt.3 This week we continue with part 3 of our discussion of the Brusilov offensive on the Eastern front in 1916. Last episode we covered all of the run up to the launching of
1916 Episode 85: Brusilov Offensive Pt.2 This is our second episode on the Brusilov Offensive of 1916. Last week we discussed the vents of early 1916 in the Russian Army and their situation coming into the year before looking
1916 Episode 84: Brusilov Offensive Pt. 1 So far this year we have only talked about one of the massive battles that would occur in 1916, and that was of course Verdun. There were 3 other large offensives, these launched
1916 Episode 83: Easter Rising Pt.3 Last episode we discussed the planning and then the start of the Rising in Dublin on Easter Week 1916. When the Rising started less than half of the men who had been planned