Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front

School of War · Oct 29, 2024 · 55m

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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