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Send us Fan Mail On the 110th anniversary, we travel to France and walk around the battlefield of the first major offensive launched by the British on the Western Front at Neuve Chappelle. Initial successes were tempered by poor decision-making and poor communications between divisional commanders and the offensive ground to a halt in the face of heavy German resistance. Casualties were 11,000 killed, wounded and missing in three days, but no fewer than nine VCs were awarded for the fig...
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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our 199th podcast and the penultimate episode of Season 8! I'm in a nostalgic mood this evening, and we're looking at the Canadian masterpiece battle, the capture of Vimy Ridge, on Easter Monday, 1917. Through meticulous planning, shared intelligence and pure bloody-minded grit, the Canadians swept up Vimy Ridge and captured the strategic heights as part of the opening phase of the Battle of Arras. We look at the planning and the battle itself to find out what happ...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest podcast! It's a real pleasure to be joined by military historian, researcher and cycling battlefield guide, Jeremy Banning. In our wide-ranging discussion, we talk about meeting the many veterans Jeremy shared his time with, working on documentaries for the BBC, cycling the battlefields and the long-lasting friendship formed with the last Tommy, 111-year-old Harry Patch.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode! Today we travel to the Middle East and hear about the Battle of Megiddo, a little-known but stunning Allied success in September 1918. Meticulously planned and executed by General Allenby, the battle ended Turkish resistance in WWI and resulted in the capture of more than 75,000 Ottoman soldiers.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode. Today, we visit the battlefield at High Wood, one of the deadliest killing grounds of the Great War. Over 8000 men died in the three months of fighting here and we discover what happened during those fateful months in 1916.
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode, we visit one of the must-see locations on the Somme, the Newfoundland Park at Beaumont Hamel. We hear the story of the fighting, discover what went so wrong for the men from Newfoundland and find out about the final capture of the village in November 1916.