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AEF Tank Corps - A Discussion with Steve Girard

Release Date: 02/15/2026

MOD War Detectives - Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre

Battles of the First World War Podcast

New Ypres League member Rosie Barron joins the podcast to discuss her work as part of the Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre, aka the MOD War Detectives. Join us for a fascinating conversation with someone whose daily work is to help identify the missing and unknown soldiers of the Great War and beyond. Note: This podcast was recorded on August 20th, 2026, the day after news broke that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Harry and Meghan) would be moving back to the UK, so that’s why the references to them are in there. Other podcasts on the New...

2027 Meuse-Argonne & Aisne-Marne WW1 Battlefield Tours

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Battles of the First World War Tours, part of the BFWWP, is excited to offer two WW1 battlefield tours for summer 2027: Meuse-Argonne July 01 - 07, 2027 A journey through the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest military operation conducted by the United States in its history. Aisne-Marne July 07 - 13, 2027 A journey through the Aisne-Marne Offensive, aka the 2nd Battle of the Marne, where the American Expeditionary Force served as part of the international force that stopped the Germans. Contact the Battles of the First World War Tours team via...

Honoring the Fallen at Flanders Field American Cemetery

Battles of the First World War Podcast

New Ypres League member Christopher Sims joins the podcast to discuss his four decades of working for the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) as the Senior Cemetery Associate for World War I Flanders Field American Cemetery, in Waregem, Belgium. During his career with the ABMC, Christopher also authored a reference work titled “The Soldiers of the American Military Cemetery Flanders Field.” Join us for a conversation on preserving the memory of the American fallen in Flanders Fields. ABMC’s web page for Find out more about the New Ypres League in this...

Ypres Day with Lady Lucy French & Roger Steward of the New Ypres League

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Lady Lucy French, great granddaughter of BEF commander Field Marshal Sir John French, Roger Steward, Chairman and co-founder of the New Ypres League, Ypres Battlefield Tours guide, and author, join the podcast to discuss the Ypres Day commemoration events scheduled for the weekend encompassing the 31st of October, 2026. Please consider joining the New Ypres League and supporting remembrance efforts: If you’re in Ypres, Belgium, contact Roger for tour details - Ypres Battlefield Tours: The BFWWP is on Patreon:...

Second Marne - The Period of Waiting

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Following the discussion of German plans for their next great offensive, we turn now to French and Allied plans to meet this next attack. Allied Supreme Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch and French Army commander GEN Philippe Pétain intended to respond to this next attack differently: as soon as the Germans overextended themselves, a swift Allied counterattack would follow. The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website,...

New Jersey’s Role in World War I - with LTC (Ret.) Richard Wasserman

Battles of the First World War Podcast

***Technical note: My apologies on the audio reverb that may be heard in this episode. A concise history revealing New Jersey’s vital industrial, military, and civilian contributions to America’s World War I effort. During World War I, New Jersey played a prominent role in the manufacturing of war-related munitions, created the infrastructure necessary to train and mobilize troops, and supplied a portion of the manpower necessary to fight overseas. Without the support of New Jersey’s industrial base, the war effort of the United States may very well have...

Matz - La Mort du Sergent Jules Héme

Battles of the First World War Podcast

The story behind an often erroneously captioned photograph of the First World War, and remembering the man in it. The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on BlueSky at @WW1podcast.bsky.social: and the BFWWP website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or concerns.

Second Marne - Friedensturm

Battles of the First World War Podcast

This episode will visit the German strategic situation in June 1918 and the resulting plans for their next offensive, which would be called “Friedensturm:” the Peace Offensive. The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast. Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on BlueSky at @WW1podcast.bsky.social: and the BFWWP website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Email me directly at verdunpodcast@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or concerns. ...

Memorial Day - "The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak"

Battles of the First World War Podcast

A short exploration of the American poet Archibald MacLeish’s connection to the First World War, and his poem "The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak.” The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them? They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts. They say, We were young. We have died. Remember us. They say, We have done what we could but until it is finished it is not done. They say, We have given our lives but until it is finished no one can know what our lives...

Citizen of the Shadows - The Lives and Lies of Lothar Witzke

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Authors Paul Friedland and Robert Hornick join us on the podcast to discuss their thoroughly researched, well-argued and thrilling biography of a now-forgotten German spy during WW1. One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, only to be later accused of responsibility for one of the most spectacular acts of sabotage in US...

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Steven Girard, US Army veteran and veteran battlefield guide, comes back on the podcast to discuss the American Expeditionary Force’s Tank Corps during the First World War.

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