Episodes Episode 144: Passchendaele: Mud and Misery The Third Battle of Ypres, or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is sometimes called, has become synonymous with one thing, mud. Most of the battle would be fought in situations that seem
1917 Episode 143: 1917 French Mutinies After the attacks on the Chemin des Dames in the middle of April 1917 the French army would go through what they would at the time term acts of collective indiscipline, they are known to history as the 1917 French Mutinies.
1917 Episode 142: 1917 Offensives Pt. 4 This is our fourth and final episode on the Nivelle Offensive of 1917 and will also be quite a bit shorter than the previous two episodes. Today we will cover what happened after
1917 Episode 141: 1917 Offensives Pt. 3 This week is our third episode covering the Entente Spring offensives of 1917, and in this episode the attacks will begin. We are going to break down the attack into two areas, the
Episodes Episode 140: 1917 Offensives Pt. 2 This week we continue our story of the French and British 1917 offensives. Last episode we focused mainly on the planning that occurred in late 1916 and early 1917 that would setup the
1917 Episode 139: 1917 Offensives Pt. 1 Today we begin a long series of episodes to finish out the year, all focusing on Western Front during 1917. I will be honest and say that I have held these until the
1917 Episode 138: The War in the Air Pt. 3 This episode is our third and last detailing the air war of 1916 and 1917 with our focus today being on the events of 1917. This penultimate year of the war would be
1917 Episode 137: The War in the Air Pt. 2 This is our second episode on the Air War over the front in 1916 and this week we will be focused solely on the air battle over the Somme. For the British, 1916
1917 Episode 136: The War in the Air Pt. 1 This episode sees us once again going back in time to 1916, and while we are there we are going to talk about the air war over the Western Front. The last time
1917 Episode 135: The Great Neutral Pt. 4 This is our fourth and final episode on how America entered the war in 1917 and what happened for the rest of that year. During this episode we are going to touch on
Episodes Episode 134: The Great Neutral Pt. 3 This is our third episode on America's path into the war. Last episode we discussed America's road from neutrality in February 1917 to the declaration of war in April 1917 and this week
United States Episode 133: The Great Neutral Pt. 2 This is our second episode on the path of America entering the war and last episode we covered some of the actions of the American government before 1917 and then discussed the Zimmermann
Episodes Episode 132: The Great Neutral Pt. 1 This is the first of our four part series on how America entered the war. Before 1917 the United States was the capital G Great Neutral. The industrial and manpower base that the
1917 Episode 131: War Beneath the Waves Pt. 3 Last week saw the beginning of unrestricted submarine warfare for the Germans and throughout the first few months the campaign went quite well, with April 1917 being the best month of the entire
1917 Episode 130: War Beneath the Waves Pt. 2 Last episode we discussed the German submarine actions of 1916 and some of the technological changes that occurred during the war as it related to the U-Boats and the British attempts to get
1917 Episode 129: War Beneath the Waves Pt. 1 This week we begin a three episode series on the underwater war at sea, and that means a lot of discussion about U-boats. It has been a long time since we talked about
Russian Revolution Episode 128: Revolution: Russia Pt. 6 This week we come to the end of our episode on the Russian Revolutions, and in general the state of Russia during 1917. This will also probably be our last episode focusing on
1917 Episode 127: Revolution: Russia Pt. 5 We come now, finally, to the most famous event in 1917, at least as far as Russia is concerned, the October Revolution. Even though the February Revolution had ended hundreds of years of
Russian Revolution Episode 126: Revolution: Russia Pt. 4 This week we bring our attention out of Russian politics and back to the war. Once things had begun to settle down in Petrograd and the rest of Russia, with the Provisional Government
1917 Episode 125: Revolution: Russia Pt. 3 Last episode saw the February Revolution sweep through Petrograd and the abdication of the Tsar. This week we are going to look at the fallout. With the overthrow of the Tsar and his
1917 Episode 124: Revolution: Russia Pt. 2 This week is our second on the turmoil in Russia during 1917. the first revolution of 1917 was a textbook case of a spontaneous and unplanned action by a massive number of people
1917 Episode 123: Revolution: Russia Pt. 1 We start today at the beginning of 1917 at which point at least the Russian military leadership was somewhat positive about what they thought they could accomplish in 1917. In reality if the
Italian Front Episode 122: Italian Front Pt. 7 Last episode saw the Germans join into the fray on the Italian front. They joined the Austrians to launch an attack that would be named the Battle of Caporetto. After firing their artillery,
Episodes Episode 121: Italian Front Pt. 6 This week we come now, at last, to something that I have been referring to during all of these episodes on the action on the Italian front, the Battle of Caporetto. Caporetto was
1917 Episode 120: Italian Front Pt. 5 Welcome to 1917 as we have finally arrived and we are going to jump right into the action. Today we will be discussions the 10th and the 11th, and last, battles of the