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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 · 4d

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

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Bois Grenier

Remembering the Forgotten Front

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 4d

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

@oldfrontline.bsky.social

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

Angel Down: A Discussion with Daniel Kraus

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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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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 · 12d

Words fail at this moment. Horrific.

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

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. 😁

I went on one of the biggest podcast in the world

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

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

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and it didn't sell any books

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 27d

Me, too! 🤣

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28d

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

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.

61 - War-Time In Our Street

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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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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. ⬆️ 😃

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.

Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Menen | Battles of the First World War Podcast

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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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 24

Interesting article on where podcasting is right now, what’s missing, and what’s likely to come. 🤔

If you don’t know the word “enshittification,” you should familiarize yourself with it.

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The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector

This week, Left of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars. (Disclosure: I was invited to...

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love that he sits here while I type. 😊

A lire. Le voyage au bout de la nuit d'Alphonse Touchet

Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · Aug 21

Floofball: I acknowledge the fruits of your research. Firepower-centric combined arms is better than infantry-centered open warfare. Now let me sleep.

Me: 😏

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Indre Grandeguerre @jcharraud.bsky.social · Aug 21

#1GM #Indre1418 Une surprise de pré-rentrée. Un nouveau témoignage d'un classe 1912 de l'Indre au 95e (entre autres): Alphonse Touchet. Bonne nouvelle, l'auteur dit qu'il s'est contenté de transcrire au mieux le journal d'origine A vérifier, lecture à venir.
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Philippe Morand publie les souvenirs de la Première Guerre mondiale et son grand-oncle Alphonse Touchet.

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

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…

a man with dreadlocks is standing in front of a crowd in a dark room

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

Same. What an epic film.

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

Awwwww Yeeeeaaahhhh!!! Congratulations!

ALT: a man with dreadlocks is standing in front of a crowd in a dark room

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