Real Time History Podcast

Damien Accoulon is a PhD student at the University Paris Nanterre and Technische Universität Braunschweig and will talk with us about Flying Aces in World War 1. Besides background knowledge and deeper insights into the airwar he will serve us interesting facts about the actions of famous Aces like Manfred von Richthofen and french René Fonck. You can find a review of Accoulons book about the life...

Wesley Livesay produces history podcasts about the First and Second World War. Similar to us he covers the war in "real time" through weekly episodes. Flo and Wesley talk about the experience of covering war in real time by comparing audio to video formats. They also share their opinions on the end of World War 1. You can find his podcasts here:  https://www.historyofthegreatwar.com/ http://w...

Support Rhineland 45: https://realtimehistory.net/rhineland45  Dermot Rooney is military psychologist who also does operational research. He is working on his PhD on the tactics that that made the German soldiers run, hide and surrender during Operation Veritable. In this episode of the podcast, Flo is interviewing Dermot about the intersection between psychology and history and how it applie...

Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattnovosad In this extensive interview we talk about submarine warfare in the first world war, particularly the Allied submarines which are lesser known compared to the German Uboats and the notorious unrestricted submarine warfare.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...

Sam Amenn is an amateur historian with a masters in international relations and the host of The Art of Asymmetrical Warfare , a podcast about, yes, asymmetrical warfare. Sam helped us put together a Great War episode on the Russian Civil War in Central Asia which will air in October. As a little teaser for this fascinating topic, Jesse and Sam talk about it on this episode of the podcast.  Yo...

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at the University College Dublin and Director of the Centre for War Studies.  His works on the post-armistice world ("The Vanquished - Why The First World War Failed To End") have been a huge influence for us. In his newest book, Robert Gerwarth examines the German revolution 1918 and its aftermath till 1923 - and argues that it should be conside...

This episode is the audio version of the announcement video published today.  Jesse and Flo outline what the future holds for The Great War project.  We need your support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/thegreatwar See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Vivian Reed is an independent historian who edited and commented excerpts of the writings of Hugh Gibson, an American diplomat who had a first hand look at the making of a new order in Europe during and after the First World War. You can get "An American in Warsaw" by following this link*: https://geni.us/Vivian-Hux-Reed *this is an affiliate link that will send you to your local amazon branch. Bu...

Laura Engelstein is one of the world leading historians of modern Russia as Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University and Professor Emerita at Princeton. Her book "Russia in Flames" is a frequent source on our show.  Russia in Flames was published by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/russia-in-flames-9780199794218?cc=us&lang=en&...

In this episode we talk to French historian Gwendal Piégais ( https://twitter.com/gpiegais ) about the often forgotten Macedonian Front and how the Allied operation there came to be. We also talk about the Russian Expeditionary Force which served in France and on the Balkans.  Cover Art: Russian soldiers with a Hotchkiss machine gun in France.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

Get Haig's Enemy Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front on Amazon: https://realtimehistory.net/haig * *This is an affiliate link that directs you to Amazon US, UK, CA, DE or NL and purchasing the book via this link directly supports The Great War. Dr. Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham and has written multiple books...

Hi everyone, a few weeks ago we had the pleasure to interview Dr. Tamara Scheer  Twitter She is researching how the different languages of the Austro-Hungarian influenced the army. You can read more about her work in Von Friedensfurien und dalmatinischen Küstenrehen: Vergessene Wörter  aus der Habsburgermonarchie: Here Amazon: Here Her YouTube channel See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

The new podcast episode is live. Jesse talked to Stephan Lehnstaedt who wrote the book "Der vergessene Sieg" about the Polish-Soviet War which is soon available in its 3rd edition. Thanks for the Patreon supporters who sent in their questions, hope you enjoy the interview. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

It took us a bit of time but we have a working recording setup for doing podcasts from home now. In this episode we talk a bit about our most recent Great War episode about the Middle East and we answer your questions about French Armor in WW1. The answers are from the lovely Camille Vargas Harlé who you should follow on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/c_vargasharle And another great historian on Tw...

In this special COVID edition of the Great War Podcast we are talking to James from The Irish Nation Lives to talk more about the Irish War of Independence. I hope you are as fascinated by the answers here as I was and for the next episode I can hopefully improve my home studio setup. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...

We are happy to bring you this month's expert interview with Jochen Böhler, a German historian who has written a very important book for our coverage of Eastern Europe in the post-armistice era: Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland (The Greater War) takes a step back and finds a different perspective to look at the paramilitary violence in the region in those years:...

Steve R Dunn is a naval historian and his new book about the Royal Navy in the Baltics 1918-1920 is coming out today: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Battle-in-the-Baltic-Hardback/p/16904 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jesse and Flo went to see 1917 yesterday and in our first podcast episode of the year discuss the movie in great detail. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

To end the year (and the decade) Flo and Jesse took the time to answer some more Patreon questions and they also talk a bit about the past year and the future of The Great War. Thank you for your support this year and let's bring on 1920! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It's almost Christmas and Jesse and Flo sat down to talk about the very festive topic that is German politics in 1919. We also answer a Patreon question about the status of Armenia. There will be another episode soon where we take more time to answer Patreon questions and reflect on this year of The Great War. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:/...

Despite Flo's flu, we powered through another podcast episode for you. We talk about the upcoming episodes that will air in November and Jesse interviews Dr. Roger R. Reese about his research on the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A brand new episode of The Great War supporter podcast is upon us! In this episode we are talking about some topics that are hard to cover for us because they are not well documented in photographs and/or the archive situation involves pretty byzantine bureaucracy. If you want to jump into the coverage of the Greco-Turkish War with our expert Konstantin Travlos, you can find his YouTube channel ri...

In this new episode of the podcast, Jesse and Flo (briefly) talk about our new crowdfunded documentary 16 Days in Berlin. You can find out more about https://realtimehistory.net/indiegogo Of course, we also talk about the recent TGW episodes, and we have an expert interview on Japan in 1919. Thanks Flo See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...

Dear, editing the two podcasts for July took a bit longer than expected but now we are back on track with this longer than usual episode that covers our episodes from July, answers some Patreon questions and features an interview with Dr Sandra Barkhof from the University of Plymouth. We have more questions on Patreon that we will answer in an upcoming episode. Thanks Flo & Jesse See Privacy P...

Hi guys, this episode of our Podcast was supposed to be out in early July already as a bonus episode about the Baltics. Due to a lot of travelling and moving this didn't turn out that way, but we hope you enjoy the episode regardless. The next episode will be out next week already. Cheers Flo See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...