Battles of the First World War Podcast
@ww1podcast.bsky.social
Member @GreatWarGroup Battles of the First World War Podcast looks to go in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918.
Quick episode to make listeners aware of a fundraising drive by the New Ypres League to restore some of the post-WW1 demarcation stones in the Ypres, Belgium area.
Where to donate: www.newypresleague.com
In early December we’ll talk with the New Ypres League more about their fundraiser…
Where to donate: www.newypresleague.com
In early December we’ll talk with the New Ypres League more about their fundraiser…
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Quick episode to make listeners aware of a fundraising drive by the New Ypres League to restore some of the post-WW1 demarcation stones in the Ypres, Belgium area.
Where to donate: www.newypresleague.com
In early December we’ll talk with the New Ypres League more about their fundraiser…
Where to donate: www.newypresleague.com
In early December we’ll talk with the New Ypres League more about their fundraiser…
Hey Folks,
New episode is out!
Educator and First World War enthusiast Kristin Stelfox comes on the podcast to discuss some of the first and pathbreaking American women war correspondents who covered the first years of the war.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Links to further reading below:
New episode is out!
Educator and First World War enthusiast Kristin Stelfox comes on the podcast to discuss some of the first and pathbreaking American women war correspondents who covered the first years of the war.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Links to further reading below:
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hey Folks,
New episode is out!
Educator and First World War enthusiast Kristin Stelfox comes on the podcast to discuss some of the first and pathbreaking American women war correspondents who covered the first years of the war.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Links to further reading below:
New episode is out!
Educator and First World War enthusiast Kristin Stelfox comes on the podcast to discuss some of the first and pathbreaking American women war correspondents who covered the first years of the war.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Links to further reading below:
Lintier was an artilleryman in the French Army, and was killed in 1916. His buddies recovered his notebooks and had them published as "My 75."
Photo credit: www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l...
Photo credit: www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l...
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Lintier was an artilleryman in the French Army, and was killed in 1916. His buddies recovered his notebooks and had them published as "My 75."
Photo credit: www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l...
Photo credit: www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l...
Patreon Folks!
The next book we will read for our book club will be Paul Lintier's "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a 75mm Battery in 1914."
The next book we will read for our book club will be Paul Lintier's "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a 75mm Battery in 1914."
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Patreon Folks!
The next book we will read for our book club will be Paul Lintier's "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a 75mm Battery in 1914."
The next book we will read for our book club will be Paul Lintier's "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a 75mm Battery in 1914."
Writer Craig DeSteiguer joins us to tell the story of his grandfather John Horace Merriman, who was deeply affected by his First World War-era service.
"Loaned to the Summer" - Where to buy:
a.co/d/iHhnW5I
"Loaned to the Summer" - Where to buy:
a.co/d/iHhnW5I
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Writer Craig DeSteiguer joins us to tell the story of his grandfather John Horace Merriman, who was deeply affected by his First World War-era service.
"Loaned to the Summer" - Where to buy:
a.co/d/iHhnW5I
"Loaned to the Summer" - Where to buy:
a.co/d/iHhnW5I
During the battles for possession of the key village of Bazoches-sur-Vesle, an American son of Russian-Jewish immigrants would distinguish himself by looking out for his friends and soldiers.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
During the battles for possession of the key village of Bazoches-sur-Vesle, an American son of Russian-Jewish immigrants would distinguish himself by looking out for his friends and soldiers.
New episode is out, Folks!
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918.
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New episode is out, Folks!
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918.
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918.
Done. A little off on my space measuring (there’s a reason I do history and not math), so we had to incorporate another little map in there.
But there we go. 😊
But there we go. 😊
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Done. A little off on my space measuring (there’s a reason I do history and not math), so we had to incorporate another little map in there.
But there we go. 😊
But there we go. 😊
Maps going up on the background wall.
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Maps going up on the background wall.
Rainy day project by Mrs. BFWWP and Ms. BFWWP-ette.
Excited to see how it turns out. 😃
Excited to see how it turns out. 😃
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rainy day project by Mrs. BFWWP and Ms. BFWWP-ette.
Excited to see how it turns out. 😃
Excited to see how it turns out. 😃
Set in the Meuse-Argonne campaign of WW1, 5 Doughboys are ordered out to No Man's Land to dispatch a wounded comrade. What they find is someone who is not of their world...
@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.
@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Set in the Meuse-Argonne campaign of WW1, 5 Doughboys are ordered out to No Man's Land to dispatch a wounded comrade. What they find is someone who is not of their world...
@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.
@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.
The universe gave me the opportunity to finally get my hands on a much-wanted German Stahlhelm. Luck was also on my side as the Stahlhelm came with a Pickelhaub.
Flanking my beloved Casque Adrian on either side, I’m quite content. 🤓😎
Flanking my beloved Casque Adrian on either side, I’m quite content. 🤓😎
September 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The universe gave me the opportunity to finally get my hands on a much-wanted German Stahlhelm. Luck was also on my side as the Stahlhelm came with a Pickelhaub.
Flanking my beloved Casque Adrian on either side, I’m quite content. 🤓😎
Flanking my beloved Casque Adrian on either side, I’m quite content. 🤓😎
Hey Folks,
It is time to get our Patreon BFWWP Book Club going again!
Last time, we agreed our next book would be PVT Len Smith’s “Drawing Fire.” (Many thanks to Hans A. for the suggestion!)
It is time to get our Patreon BFWWP Book Club going again!
Last time, we agreed our next book would be PVT Len Smith’s “Drawing Fire.” (Many thanks to Hans A. for the suggestion!)
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Hey Folks,
It is time to get our Patreon BFWWP Book Club going again!
Last time, we agreed our next book would be PVT Len Smith’s “Drawing Fire.” (Many thanks to Hans A. for the suggestion!)
It is time to get our Patreon BFWWP Book Club going again!
Last time, we agreed our next book would be PVT Len Smith’s “Drawing Fire.” (Many thanks to Hans A. for the suggestion!)
Of the First World War cemeteries I find the German ones the most...appropriate. German cemeteries of the First World War, the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhöfe, are always somber affairs that envelop the soul in a shroud of sad contemplation upon entering them...
August 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Of the First World War cemeteries I find the German ones the most...appropriate. German cemeteries of the First World War, the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhöfe, are always somber affairs that envelop the soul in a shroud of sad contemplation upon entering them...
Floofball: I acknowledge the fruits of your research. Firepower-centric combined arms is better than infantry-centered open warfare. Now let me sleep.
Me: 😏
Me: 😏
August 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Floofball: I acknowledge the fruits of your research. Firepower-centric combined arms is better than infantry-centered open warfare. Now let me sleep.
Me: 😏
Me: 😏
Me: I thought it was you and me all the way through this thesis? You said you’d be by my side the whole time.
Floofball: Bro, just WRITE the damn thing…
Floofball: Bro, just WRITE the damn thing…
August 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Me: I thought it was you and me all the way through this thesis? You said you’d be by my side the whole time.
Floofball: Bro, just WRITE the damn thing…
Floofball: Bro, just WRITE the damn thing…
Oh, this so sad. I was in high school when I read his Spandau Phoenix, and I remember it as a good one.
August 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oh, this so sad. I was in high school when I read his Spandau Phoenix, and I remember it as a good one.
A demarcation stone at the Dodengang, signaling this was as far as the invaders made it before being stopped.
In the background, my incredibly knowledgeable good friend @bartdebeer.bsky.social
The second marker is a memorial to the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
In the background, my incredibly knowledgeable good friend @bartdebeer.bsky.social
The second marker is a memorial to the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
August 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A demarcation stone at the Dodengang, signaling this was as far as the invaders made it before being stopped.
In the background, my incredibly knowledgeable good friend @bartdebeer.bsky.social
The second marker is a memorial to the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
In the background, my incredibly knowledgeable good friend @bartdebeer.bsky.social
The second marker is a memorial to the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
A closer view of the German bunker near the Dodengang.
Even though well over a century has passed, it is clear this place took a lot of hits from the Belgians.
W/ my bud @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
Even though well over a century has passed, it is clear this place took a lot of hits from the Belgians.
W/ my bud @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A closer view of the German bunker near the Dodengang.
Even though well over a century has passed, it is clear this place took a lot of hits from the Belgians.
W/ my bud @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
Even though well over a century has passed, it is clear this place took a lot of hits from the Belgians.
W/ my bud @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
The ball of floof on my desk: “Fire superiority insures success. Fire superiority insures success. Fire superiority…”
Me: OH MY GOD THAT IS ENOUGH.
It’s like Pershing was reincarnated as my cat 😳
Me: OH MY GOD THAT IS ENOUGH.
It’s like Pershing was reincarnated as my cat 😳
August 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The ball of floof on my desk: “Fire superiority insures success. Fire superiority insures success. Fire superiority…”
Me: OH MY GOD THAT IS ENOUGH.
It’s like Pershing was reincarnated as my cat 😳
Me: OH MY GOD THAT IS ENOUGH.
It’s like Pershing was reincarnated as my cat 😳
Looking from Belgian bunker across the former No Man’s Land to the German bunker just a few dozen meters away.
During the Great War the area where the two men were walking was a giant crater, blown by the Belgians to stop German raids.
W/ @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
During the Great War the area where the two men were walking was a giant crater, blown by the Belgians to stop German raids.
W/ @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
August 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looking from Belgian bunker across the former No Man’s Land to the German bunker just a few dozen meters away.
During the Great War the area where the two men were walking was a giant crater, blown by the Belgians to stop German raids.
W/ @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
During the Great War the area where the two men were walking was a giant crater, blown by the Belgians to stop German raids.
W/ @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
An area that could serve as a kill zone for Belgian troops if the Germans seized the structure in this photo.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
With @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
With @bartdebeer.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
An area that could serve as a kill zone for Belgian troops if the Germans seized the structure in this photo.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
With @bartdebeer.bsky.social
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
With @bartdebeer.bsky.social
A—hole here is trying to make up for ruining my nap by looking really cute and telling me he knows all about the US Army’s pre-WW1 infatuation with rifle marksmanship and small arms fire superiority in combat operations.
August 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A—hole here is trying to make up for ruining my nap by looking really cute and telling me he knows all about the US Army’s pre-WW1 infatuation with rifle marksmanship and small arms fire superiority in combat operations.
Crude plaques left by Belgian units who served in the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
August 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crude plaques left by Belgian units who served in the Trench of Death.
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪
- Dodengang / Trenches of Death
Diksmuide, Belgium 🇧🇪