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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 5h

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William Shemin visited the WW1 battlefields decades after he fought in them. Here he is standing at the Montfaucon Memorial in the Meuse region of France.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 5h

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Aisne-Marne & Vesle Sector - SGT William Shemin

Podcast Episode · Battles of the First World War Podcast · 10/15/2025 · 20m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 5h

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.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 5h

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.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 14h

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. 😊

The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out).

The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out). Desk is back in place.

The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out). Desk and everything on it are all back in place.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 14h

Maps going up on the background wall.

Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 15h

Rainy day project by Mrs. BFWWP and Ms. BFWWP-ette.

Excited to see how it turns out. 😃

Photo of the blank wall under my bookshelf bridge.

Photo of three American Battle Monuments Commission WW1 division maps that will become wallpaper on the blank wall space.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 5d

And @talesbattlefields.bsky.social :

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The Story of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

Podcast Episode · Tales from the Battlefields · 08/20/2025 · 1h 1m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 8d

And now I’m on @footstepspod.bsky.social ‘s related episode:

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Bois Grenier

Podcast Episode · Footsteps of the fallen · 07/06/2025 · 1h 7m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 8d

What I’m listening to this week. Started with:

@oldfrontline.bsky.social

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Remembering the Forgotten Front

Podcast Episode · The Old Front Line · 09/27/2025 · 1h 7m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 14d

BFWWP is BACK!

NYT-bestselling author @danielkraus.com comes on the show to discuss--and read an excerpt from!--his new novel "Angel Down."

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Angel Down: A Discussion with Daniel Kraus

Podcast Episode · Battles of the First World War Podcast · 10/01/2025 · 46m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 16d

Words fail at this moment. Horrific.

Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 18d

Success with this hobby has not been as a result of "grand gestures," it's been getting at it every day for a little bit and seeing episodes slowly get researched, written, recorded, and released.

Also, working on it every day makes me enormously happy. 😁

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 18d

Great article and great food for thought. I've been thinking along similar lines for a while.

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I went on one of the biggest podcast in the world

and it didn't sell any books

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 13

Me, too! 🤣

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Sep 12

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

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. 🤓😎

Three WW1 helmets together: from left to right, a German Pickelhaub, a French Casque Adrian, and a German Stahlhelm.

Angle view of a German Pickelhaub helmet.

Side view of a German Pickelhaub helmet.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

Let me know in the comments below what works best for you, and I'll go by the majority.

Looking forward to it!

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BFWWP Book Club - Pick a Day Time! | Battles of the First World War Podcast

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

As we're restarting this, I want to give folks plenty of time to get the book if they haven't already and be able to read it. I will throw out some tentative dates below:

- Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 1400h EST

- Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 1400h EST

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

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!)

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Sep 2

So sorry to hear this. May he rest easy.

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Oh! What a Lovely Podcast @owalpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 1

What can a 1917 short story collection tell us about the British home front during the #FWW?

This month Ann-Marie Einhaus discusses War-Time in Our Street by J. E. Buckrose.

These stories capture everyday resilience and humour amid wartime hardships. 🗃️

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61 - War-Time In Our Street

What can a 1917 short story collection tell us about life on the British home front during the First World War? In this episode of Oh! What a Lovely Podcast, Angus, Chris, Jessica, and r...

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 25

This one right here. ⬆️ 😃

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

Photograph of two basalt crosses amongst the rows of headstones at the German military cemetery in Menen, Belgium. Nearly 48,000 German war dead from the First World War are buried here.

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new post up on Patreon. A short video and photo visit to the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Menen, Belgium:

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Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Menen | Battles of the First World War Podcast

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