So no, I didn't die or anything. And better yet, I'm back! First, a bit of catchup.Support the show

Happy (late...) Halloween!Sources:Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Herwig, Holger H. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury,

The climactic showdown of the First Battle of the Marne now comes to a decisive, bloody end.Please feel free to visit our sponsor, the WYLD Gallery!IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODESources:Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis: Vol. I. New York: Charles Scr

Now, as the battle is joined on which the safety of the country depends, everyone must be reminded that this is no longer the time for looking back. Every effort must be made to attack and throw back the enemy. A unit which finds it impossible to advance

We return to the narrative on the Western Front, to see how the French and British will plan their last desperate attempt to halt the German advance on Paris at the beginning of September, 1914.IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODESources: Hart, Peter. The Grea

This episode concludes our two week digression from the narrative. In it, we discuss some basic, fundamental military concepts and theories that have existed and been refined for millennia.NEW PAGE ON THE WEBSITESourcesClausewitz, Carl von. On War (Third

Instead of plowing ahead with the narrative, for the next couple weeks we're going to pull back and examine some fundamental concepts of military organization and practice. In this episode, we examine the unit structure and rank hierarchy of the Armi

In the course of less than a week, the Russians went from looking like they could take Berlin at their leisure to having half their invasion wiped out, with the other half falling back in panic. Now Hindenburg and Ludendorff turn their army against the Ru

Today we discuss one of the most pivotal battles of the First World War: the Battle of Tannenberg, as well as explore the personalities of and relationship between the rising team of Hindenburg and Ludendorff.IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODESources:Hart, P

Today, we watch as the Russian and German Armies on the Eastern Front begin to dance around one another in 1914, upon a land that had seen wars between these two peoples for centuries, in anticipation for the great climactic showdown that may very well de