The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (TRIH ep 595, part 2)
1914 · Resource
This episode examines the early weeks of the First World War on the Western Front, focusing on British and French actions in August 1914. The hosts trace the decision to send the small British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to France, profiles key commanders (Field Marshal Sir John French, Joseph Césaire Joffre, Ferdinand Foch) and contrasts British professionalism with French tactical bravado under Plan XVII.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1914
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)