Eastern Front
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Oct 1, 2026
ThomasGUEST
Um, that's basically, uh, what I got at long last for the political configuration of forces and motives that led to the Great War.
ThomasGUEST
At long last, in the next episode, we will cover the Western Front, the one subsequent, the Eastern Front.
ThomasGUEST
In the final episode, we'll do the aftermath, and, um, we'll do the aftermath/Versailles/you know, the Wilson administration intervenes, you know, and the American Expeditionary Force lands in Europe.
ThomasGUEST
But, um, yeah, that's about all I got for now.
ThomasGUEST
I mean, just owing to the parodies involved.
ThomasGUEST
And finally, the whole issue in terms of the German ability to defend in depth, to say nothing of the cultural and racial affinity for Austria, you know, even if that had been an honest dispatch, and if Moscow's only intent was to neutralize the Habsburg army, you know, and defend the integrity of Serbia territorially and politically, that wouldn't matter.
ThomasGUEST
You know, Germany's ability to defend its eastern frontier depended upon the Habsburg Empire remaining intact, you know, in terms of its territorial structure.
ThomasGUEST
You know, and that should have been obvious.
Chris KempshallPANELIST
And, uh, certainly a lot of the player base has always kind of been happy to jump from kind of front to front, theater to theater, and kind of experience, uh, different, different bits and pieces.
Chris KempshallPANELIST
And because they were working on Gallipoli before I, I arrived, I'm not entirely sure what the, kind of the process was, but it fe- it, to be honest, it feels like a, quite a, quite a logical progression to go from Verdun on the Western Front, Tannenberg on the Eastern Front, then to the Italian Front, and then on to, to, to, to Gallipoli.
Chris KempshallPANELIST
Um, and I, I, I strongly suspect that there were kind of a lot of Australian players and probably Turkish players who were kind of keen on, on having, uh, Gallipoli included at some point.
Angus WallaceHOST
So how much then from the player's perspective does the games company have to work to instruct the potential players of the history of where they're playing, 'cause they might not be sure, and then how much does that then have to feed back into the game 'cause they're not sure, so you're having to reinforce some form of historical narrative that you're trying to convey or that they're even comfortable with?
John BatchelorHOST
He's a professor of modern warfare at King's College London, the author of Some Years Past, Our Conversation on the Western Front.
John BatchelorHOST
Now the next part, The Eastern Front, A History of the Great War 1914 to 1918.
John BatchelorHOST
And this is very unknown to me, and so it was a great pleasure to learn what had often been mentioned as Russia versus Austria-Hungary.
John BatchelorHOST
Always the Austria-Hungarians were begging for German troops.
John BatchelorHOST
And in our conversation three years ago about the Western Front, there was also the attention of these men, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, would eventually show up on the Western Front and be the drivers of the closing stages of the war when America got in.
John BatchelorHOST
And their reputation, however, was built on their conduct in the Eastern Front.
John BatchelorHOST
So it was all a mystery to me.
John BatchelorHOST
This new book, enormously detailed and persuasive, introduces the Eastern Front where the Germans won.
John BatchelorHOST
This is CBS Eye on the World.
John BatchelorHOST
I'm John Batchelor, continuing with Professor Nick Lloyd of the Professor of Modern Warfare at King's College London, the author of the new book, The Eastern Front.
John BatchelorHOST
This is a companion to the professor's The Western Front.
John BatchelorHOST
thinking of the Great War, that redraws the map of the 20th century and that we live with today.
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John BatchelorHOST
And the Austro-Hungarian and the German army, with their allies, have established a front line that is secure, except for there will be breakthroughs.
John BatchelorHOST
And as Russia disintegrates, its governance disintegrates, at the same time America is gathering the war in the vote in Congress in April.
John BatchelorHOST
And it's necessary to remember all these actions happening in the Eastern Front, which is regarded as secondary to what's going on in France.
John BatchelorHOST
Here come the Americans, up to a million men, army, And the Germans are calculating all of this.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The idea was that all of them would attack the Central Powers at the same time.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The British and French were to attack on the Western Front in France, the Italians along the Isonzo River, the Allied force of French, British, Italians, and Greeks from Saloniki north into the Balkans, and the Russians with what was left of the Romanians on the Eastern Front.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Thus, with superior forces attacking them from all directions at the same time, the Central Powers would be crushed because unable to switch their troops from front to front as each was attacked, as they had been able to do in the past because of the failure of the Allies to attack together at the same time.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Having agreed upon the general idea, the chiefs had to decide upon when to start the attacks.
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Its width varied greatly depending on the sector, ranging from several hundred yards to as little as ten yards in cramped areas like Gallipoli.
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In some vast regions like the Eastern Front, the wide distances prevented the formation of continuous trench systems altogether.
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Infantry Weapons and Machine Guns At the beginning of the war, the primary tools of the infantry were the rifle and the bayonet.
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However, as the stalemate continued, the hand grenade became one of the most important weapons for trench fighting.
Daryl CooperGUEST
And so their manpower shortages were less problematic.
Daryl CooperGUEST
They had wrapped up the Eastern Front.
Daryl CooperGUEST
And so they were able to pull men from this two front war that they had been fighting, pull them from the east and dedicate everything over to the west.
Daryl CooperGUEST
They could have dragged that out a few more years and it would have been horrible for them.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The Feeding Ground.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The Eastern Front was a different sort of war from the one that most people have a picture in their mind.
Jeremy HansonHOST
In France, the armies dug in and stayed, and in the East, the line ran for hundreds of miles through marsh and birch and forest and farm country, through villages whose names changed depending on which army held them that month.
Jeremy HansonHOST
Millions, I mean millions of men moved across that ground and behind them came horses by the hundred thousand and supply wagons and herds of requisitioned cattle.
Jeremy HansonHOST
Enormous amounts of meat left lying in the open.
Jeremy HansonHOST
Renewed, new meat every time the guns fired, and the wolves cared about one thing, and that one thing was food.
Jeremy HansonHOST
And in 1916, the Eastern Front was the biggest feeding ground around those forests that they had ever seen.
Jeremy HansonHOST
You see, a pump whelped that spring in a den a half a mile behind the lines.
RenataGUEST
Now Annie arrived at the station on the 21st of November 1918 and immediately began nursing soldiers from the Medic.
RenataGUEST
The Australian transport ship had departed Sydney for the Eastern Front on November the 2nd but was recalled before completing its journey when the armistice was signed on the 11th of November.
RenataGUEST
Oh
AnneGUEST
that was lucky wasn't it?
Paul M. SutterHOST
It's for the non-rotating, uncharged, perfectly spherical black hole.
Paul M. SutterHOST
This was worked out by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, by the way, from a trench on the Eastern Front six months before he died.
Paul M. SutterHOST
But this is not the story of Karl Schwarzschild.
Paul M. SutterHOST
The Schwarzschild solution is beautiful and useful, but it does have one small problem.
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