597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)

September 03, 2025

Description

What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take...
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Books Referenced

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

Context:

The hosts read a passage from Mein Kampf describing Hitler's first experience of battle in Flanders in 1914, noting that listeners might be surprised to learn the moving passage was written by 'literally the worst man in history.'

1914

Author: Paul Ham

Context:

Described as 'a brilliant book about 1914' by an Australian writer, quoted for his description of the Flanders landscape as 'the bleak rain-drenched land of gentle hills and ridges, fields of tobacco and beetroot interspersed with hedgerows and barns.'