ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
Barbed wire never fired a shot. It didn't need to.
This episode traces how a cheap farm fencing technology became one of the deadliest features of the First World War, from the first Somme bombardment that couldn't cut it, to Vimy's careful planning around it, to the tanks that finally crushed it in 1918.
Along the way: Piper James Cleland Richardson's Victoria Cross, a doomed wire-cutting officer named Garton, and five archival veteran voices describing, in their own words, what it meant to build it, cross it, and sometimes die in it.
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WEITERE EPISODEN IN DIESEM PODCAST
On July 1st, 1916, the First Battalion of the Newfoundland Regiment went forward at Beaumont-Hamel. Of 801 men, there were 710 casualties in thirty minutes. Every officer down.
In this 110th anniversary episode, we follow two brothers — Harry and Alfred Hynes of F Company — from a railway town on …
A thousand men in eight days. A parade square turned into a suburb with four little lakes. A bronze general on a horse that nobody who lives there can name.
His name was Griesbach. Edmonton's youngest-ever mayor, son of Canada's first Mountie, and the officer who raised the 49th Battalion in a sing…
Twelve days past his 21st birthday, a Winnipeg pilot named Harry V. Smith was shot down over occupied Siam with four secret agents aboard, on the last mission of his tour in May 1945.
What followed involves a jungle crash-landing borrowed from bush pilots, a resistance movement run by an entire gov…
Four hundred and fifty rounds a minute. Seven and a half rounds every second. One London inventor built the Maxim machine gun in 1884 after a friend joked he should help Europeans "cut each other's throats with greater facility."
Thirty years later, that joke had built the Western Front.…
In 1916, a German soldier watched the first tank loom out of the fog and ran for his life, screaming that a crocodile was crawling into the trenches.
This is the story of the tank on the Western Front, and it's a Canadian story from beginning to end. Canadians were there at the machine's terrifying…
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