History Of The Great War

In our final episode about food (for now) we check in with what the men are eating at the front.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We catch up with what was happening in Italy, before just discussing some random topics from the homefront.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires would both have problems with food while all countries would try to keep their citizens in support of the war.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about the struggles in Germany where food was hard to find.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While fighting was raging at the front, back at home it was no cakewalk, and there certainly was no cake.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By the second half of 1916 for both the French and Germans it was time for a change at the very top and by the end of the year both Joffre and Falkenhayn would be replaced.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special free Patreon episode on the neutrals of Europe.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A catch up episode of some random topics that missed previous episodes. Lord Kitchener dies, Britain institutes the draft, and politicians all over Europe start wondering if peace is a good idea.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lets talk about things for just a bit.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October and November would be the final months on the Somme and another force would join the fighting, weather.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September would be the month of the tank, the month of the last general offensives, and the most costly month for the Germans.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August and September were a depressing time for the British and French on the Somme as yet another effort would be launched and yet another effort would fail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate episode 100 I asked listeners for questions, and here is what they came up with.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The last two weeks of July were a fitting end to what had been a month of hell for all of the men on the Somme.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The next big British effort would be on July 14th, it would actually sort of work.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The attack was not over, but on July 3rd the British entered a lull in the fighting, a lull resulting in 25,000 more casualties.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The dreadful day of July 1st is over, so it is time to us to take a breath and look back, before looking forward.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the far south of the British line the 13th Corps goes hand-in-hand with the French, and things actually go pretty good.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is the Third and the Fifteenth Corps time in our story as they move out toward the German postions, and actually accomplish something.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 8th and 10th Corps moved forward against the German lines on July 1st, the results were less than amazing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices