90. The Western Front

“The opening of Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen, a famous war poet who died in action on the 4th of November, one week before the armistice, brought peace at last to the Western Front.”

“The book you asked me to mention before we started this podcast was Forgotten Victory, the First World War, Myths and Realities.”

“Mike Nyberg argues that there wasn't a great deal of hatred which propelled the peoples of Europe into war in August 1914, but that hatred piled up after the war broke out due to vast losses.”

“Professor Gary Sheffield, author of Forgotten Victory, expert on the Western Front.”

“a book by Cyril Falls, who is a combat veteran of the First World War, an official historian, appears, which has a very balanced, very modern view of the First World War.”

“Nick Lloyd's book on Passchendaele, published three or four years ago, is actually very good on this.”