Paul Reed
@sommecourt
Military Historian, Author, Battlefield Guide: specialising in the First World War & #WW2. On your TV sometimes. Host of the #WW1 podcast @OldFrontLinePod. š«š·
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http://www.oldfrontline.co.uk 29-03-2009 15:39:05
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 2: In our latest Old Front Line Podcast Questions & Answers Episode we answer four questions from listeners covering subjects like the 'Learning Curve' on the Western Front to how to visit battlefields beyond the Somme.
oldfrontline.co.uk/2024/04/24/podā¦
Tomorrow on Old Front Line Podcast Episode 2 of the Podcast Questions and Answers is out!
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Today is the anniversary of the first use of poison gas on the Western Front at Ypres in 1915. Discover more on the Old Front Line Podcast:
oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/06/10/gasā¦
Despatches: Somme - Redan Ridge oldfrontline.co.uk/2024/04/20/desā¦ via Old Front Line Podcast Thanks for the podcast. I visited those cemeteries last year. Thanks to Rick Smithšŗš¦ and Terry Berry for poiting me towards the ridge and the cemeteries.
Aftermath: The Myth of the Red Zone. In this latest Old Front Line Podcast we look at what the Red Zone was, where it was and ask was it possible it still existed a century on from the Great War?
oldfrontline.co.uk/2024/04/13/theā¦
As we depart Dover for the #WW1 battlefields with a group from Royal British Legion, I asked everyone to look behind at the white cliffs and consider how the soldiers felt as they looked back at Blighty. So many did not see the cliffs again. Leger Battlefield Tours
Tomorrow on the Old Front Line Podcast we visit the Somme and the battlefields at Redan Ridge.
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Back out along the Old Front Line today starting in the coastal region visiting Montreuil (including the Haig statue below) and recording some material for Old Front Line Podcast.
Over the coming weeks you will more than likely just see one place being mentioned and pushed in Normandy on our news channels. The D-Day beaches and battlefields are bigger than just one place.
The Commonwealth War Graves have always remembered those who never came back. They have cared for and
Today is publication day for my first book and a package arrived LSE International History from Cambridge University Press containing my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War.
There is a spare one.
So, in true Twitter style, I will send it to someone who likes + RTs this in the next seven days.
And this amazing discovery inspired my novel, #NotTheWorkOfAnOrdinaryBoy published by Stairwell Books. If you want to know more about #WW2 #pigeonspies , #espionage & #MI5 , do give it a read!
Below, a photo of the actual bones courtesy of the finder!
stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/not-thā¦
War Graves Commission warns of āturning pointā for legacy of commemoration independent.co.uk/news/uk/normanā¦
The Independent #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80
Simon Lemieux from the Portsmouth Grammar School (The Portsmouth Grammar School) talks about the impact of the museum's new educational day programme on his pupils.
Full video and more information on The Salient Illustrated: inflandersfields.be/en/bezoek-e/scā¦
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