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Ep. 595 | Sunday 24 August 2025 | 57m 22s

The First World War | The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)

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The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)

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What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the French launch their initial attack on the Germans? Whose army was the biggest and best of all the participants in the war? And, what unfolded at the pivotal Battle of the Ardennes in August 1914, on the frontiers of France, between the Germans and the French, and what would be the consequences of the outcome for the war as a whole?

Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss, in riveting, unsparing detail, the dramatic early engagements of the First World War, and the bloody Battle of Ardennes. 



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Producer: Theo Young-Smith

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