History Of The Great War

After months of planning, and a week of artillery fire, the day had come, and July the 1st dawned.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A critical piece of the preparations for the Somme was the artillery, this episode looks at it in detail.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In early 1916 the British and French were gearing up for their next great offensive astride the banks of a little river called the Somme.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In early 1916 the British and French were gearing up for their next great offensive astride the banks of a little river called the Somme.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All three armies take a breather in the East, as all prepare for what is to come.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All three armies take a breather in the East, as all prepare for what is to come.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the East, the great battle of 1916 is about to begin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the East, the great battle of 1916 is about to begin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the East, the great battle of 1916 is about to begin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rising, that so quickly came to be, will now quickly come to an end.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we leave the battlefield and instead move to the streets of Dublin, which are about to erupt in rebellion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we leave the battlefield and instead move to the streets of Dublin, which are about to erupt in rebellion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the fifth and final episode on the battle of Jutland.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now it is time for the largest naval battle of the war, and I think the largest one in history up to 1916, so let's get to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we pick up at that point with the battlecruisers of the two Admirals fully engaged with each other. There was however another group about the enter the battle and that was the 5th Battle Squadron and its 4 Queen Elizabeth class superdreadnoughts under the command of Evan-Thomas.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So it beginsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We start today on our story of the greatest naval battle of the war, it was an action that took place on the North sea on May the 30th and into the next morning. It involved 150 British ships and 100 German vessels. It would be both the biggest and the last purely surface encounter of primary fleets in naval history. Its result would be somewhat ambiguous with discussions even to this day on who was in fact the winner. The battle would be called Jutland by the British and Skaggerak by the Germans.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Verdun, is over.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a long hard fought offensive the Germans were finally stopped by the end of July and now it was time for the French to start pushing them back, it is these actions that we will discuss today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode represents our third to last episode on the events of the battle of Verdun. In the months of June and July the Germans would launch another set of attacks, this time aiming for Fort Souville. This goal could have represented the final goal of the campaign, but we will never know. The effort of these attacks, coupled with the Brusilov Offensive in June and the British attack on the Somme in July, meant that this would also be the end of the German attacks at Verdun. Finally, we will discuss a bit about a change in the German high command where Falkenhayn is forced to resign in favor of Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices