The Great War Podcast

100: Backs to the Wall 01.07.2026 26:06 ↓

When your back is against the wall, you can retreat no further. 

99: Devil's Orchestra 02.06.2026 26:15 ↓

The Great German Offensive of 1918 is underway.   Captured British during Operation MICHAEL  

98: Awaiting The Storm 02.05.2026 16:29 ↓

The Allies knew something was brewing...just not where or when.

97: A Dark Curtain 04.04.2026 18:36 ↓

Ludendorff's Great Gamble of the Great War

96: The Fourteen Points 01.03.2026 14:17 ↓

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points to the world.    Full text of the Fourteen Points Source: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-woodrow-wilsons-14-points I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. II. Absolute freedom of...

95: The January Strikes 03.02.2026 11:16 ↓

1918 begins with a wave of labour unrest across Austria-Hungary and Germany    

94: The Year That Will Be 02.01.2026 16:07 ↓

A preview of what 1918 has in store for us. 

93B: The Year That Was 06.12.2025 17:08 ↓

A review of 1917, focusing mainly on Germany and Austria-Hungary. 

93A: The Year That Was 01.11.2025 20:43 ↓

A 20 minute recap of 1917, focusing on the Entente. 

92: The Otranto Straits 02.09.2025 22:50 ↓

An Austro-Hungarian raid on the Otranto Barrage turns into the Adriatic's most dramatic engagement. 

91: War in a Narrow Sea 01.08.2025 25:25 ↓

A look at the naval war in the Adriatic from 1914-1916.

90: Russia Exeunt 03.07.2025 30:16 ↓

Russia's time in the Great War comes to an end.

89: The October Uprising 05.06.2025 23:38 ↓

The Bolsheviks make their move, marking the beginning of the end of Russia's Great War.

88: Operation Albion Part 2 03.05.2025 19:49 ↓

The German invasion of the Baltic Islands goes off without a hitch.

88: Operation Albion Part 1 11.03.2025 20:44 ↓

Eager to bring down Russia, the Germans launch an amphibious invasion of three Baltic islands.

87: The Battle of Cambrai 02.02.2025 23:51 ↓

Things went well at first, but then everything came crashing down.

86: 'Tuesday Flanders' 30.12.2024 21:18 ↓

After the Flanders Campaign, the British Third Army prepares to raid Cambrai. They're going to use tanks...lots of tanks.

85: Catastrophe at Caporetto 07.12.2024 26:12 ↓

A combined Austrian and German force sends the Italians reeling.

84: The Road to Caporetto 03.11.2024 23:24 ↓

The Austrians and Germans plan a devastating strike against the Italians.

83: The Battle for Flanders: Part 5 of 4 12.10.2024 34:34 ↓

Haig, Lloyd George, historiography and an assessment of Third Ypres.

83: The Battle for Flanders Part 4 of 4 01.09.2024 32:36 ↓

The bloody fight for Passchendaele Ridge begins.

83: The Battle for Flanders: Part 3 of 4 01.08.2024 28:55 ↓

Herbert Plumer takes over at Ypres, and delivers three straight victories.  Map for reference: Right click to view in larger format.  

83: The Battle for Flanders Part 2 of 4 03.07.2024 26:40 ↓

The Battle of Third Ypres got underway...but then it rained.

83: The Battle for Flanders Part 1 of 4 04.06.2024 27:00 ↓

After a year of waiting, Haig finally gets his Flanders campaign.

82: The Kornilov Affair 01.05.2024 30:54 ↓

Kerensky's government survives a 'scare', leaving it ripe for the picking.   Kornilov arrives at the Moscow Conference, 1917