by Mike Cunha
The Battles of the First World War Podcast goes in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918. The goal is to really go into the details of how and why these battles unfolded and happened as they did. In telling the narrative of these clashes we can revisit some of the stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and died during the first titanic struggle of the 20th Century, for these people have stories that deserve to be told.
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April 13, 2025
<p dir="ltr">Historian Michel Gravel comes back on the podcast to discuss an incredibly interesting gentleman named John Stevenson Youngson. </p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Michel’s works can be found here:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://ysec.fr/?s=Michel+Gravel&post_type=product">https://ysec.fr/?s=Michel+Gravel&post_type=product</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Michel’s GoFundMe for “La place Joseph Kaeble, VC, MM,” in Neuville-Vitasse, France:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://gofund.me/17574db1">https://gofund.me/17574db1</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Regarding Michel’s medals: when he mentions his medal collections increase in value, it’s not monetary value. Rather their value increases in that the medal group is complete and the story behind them is available. </p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on BlueSky at @WW1podcast.bsky.social:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">https://bsky.app/profile/ww1podcast.bsky.social</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">and the BFWWP website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Email me directly at <a href= "mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> with any questions, comments, or concerns. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Please review the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes! :)</p>
March 19, 2025
<p dir="ltr">My good friend Xavier Lewis comes on the podcast to discuss his dissertation topic.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">General Edmond Buat had an idea and devised a plan to defeat the German army on the Western front in World War I. A study of his diary, the notes he wrote and his later writings on German generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg, shows how his plan and the Réserve Générale de l’Artillerie Lourde (Heavy Artillery General Reserve, “RGAL”) he created constitute an incipient form of operational art as well as the basis for the French Army’s offensives in the summer of 1918.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Xavier’s research considers how Buat’s diary, his writings, and notes reveal his role in developing the plans for the 1918 offensives and how the RGAL was conceived as an instrument specially adapted for them. It also shows how those plans represented an important conceptual shift in operational thinking to find a new way to expel the German army from French territory. It focuses on the ideas behind the creation of the RGAL, not on the political, industrial and procurement aspects and seeks to plug a gap identified by historian Sir Michael Howard who complained that: "British military historians […] found it difficult to focus on an analysis of the operations themselves.”</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Do listen for a great conversation.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on BlueSky at @WW1podcast.bsky.social:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">https://bsky.app/profile/ww1podcast.bsky.social</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">and the BFWWP website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Email me directly at <a href= "mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> with any questions, comments, or concerns. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Please review the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes! :)</p> <p> </p>
March 5, 2025
<p dir="ltr">Pete Owen, LTC USMC (Ret.) comes on the podcast to talk about his book “To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War.” </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">From Texas A&M University Press:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">“Scholars and historians offer several theories for the crippling losses suffered by the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of World War I: inexperience, poor leadership, hasty expansion of duties, and others. But until now, most of these studies have focused at the division level or higher. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Now, with To the Limit of Endurance, Peter F. Owen offers a tautly worded, historically rigorous, and intensely human survey of the agonizing burden shouldered by the Second Battalion of the Sixth Regiment of U.S. Marines from its formation in Quantico, Virginia, in 1917 until the cessation of hostilities in November of the following year. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">In places like Belleau Wood and Soissons, these young men, led by dedicated officers, died in staggering numbers—primarily because of the outmoded tactics they had learned. Owen shows how the battalion regrouped after these campaigns, however, and embarked on a period of intense retraining. By the time of the closing weeks of the war, the adjustments they had made allowed them to mold themselves into a coldly efficient military machine. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Drawing on a treasure trove of surviving first-hand accounts, Owen expertly combines these individual observations with military records and archival sources to create a mosaic that provides not only a case study of how one organization grappled with transformation but also a tightly focused, ground-level view of the lives—and deaths—of these courageous American military men. The grueling, ultimately triumphant odyssey of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines will appeal to military historians, professional soldiers, and interested general readers.”</p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Where to buy “To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War” -</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623491567/to-the-limit-of-endurance/"> https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623491567/to-the-limit-of-endurance/</a></p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on BlueSky at @WW1podcast.bsky.social:</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/ww1podcast.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/ww1podcast.bsky.social</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">and the BFWWP website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Email me directly at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or concerns. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Please review the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes! :)</p>
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