Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front
Description
Nick Lloyd, Professor of Modern Warfare in the Defence Studies at King’s College London and author of The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, joins the show to discuss the critical role of the eastern front in World War I.
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Times
• 01:43 Introduction
• 02:09 “The soul of the war”
• 04:00 Before the fighting
• 05:59 War aims
• 10:51 Tannenberg
• 15:54 Hindenburg and Ludendorff
• 19:57 Scale
• 22:40 Combat
• 27:14 Munitions scarcity
• 32:10 Russian collapse
• 36:45 Lenin returns
• 40:42 Brest-Litovsk
• 44:16 Proto-lebensraum
• 47:20 The West
• 52:30 War as a way out
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