The Seminal Catastrophe Podcast
This is a narrative history podcast that will cover the entire history of the First World War, from the geopolitical and cultural setup to the war in 19th century, all the way to the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended the war in 1919.
The Seminal Catastrophe Podcast
14. The Battle of the Frontiers
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Dylan Kornberg
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Season 3
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Episode 2
As the war breaks out in earnest along the Western Front, French generals will be taught a bitter lesson about modern combat, paid for with the lives of thousands of their men.
IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODE.
Sources:
Doughty, Robert. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.