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Member @GreatWarGroup Battles of the First World War Podcast looks to go in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918.
Oh, I didn’t realize this version was sanitized. Or that it didn’t give credit to the translator.
01.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We will get together on Saturday, November 29th at 1400 US EST (1900 UK) to talk about it! Hope to see you there.
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"My 75" is a fairly short read, and can be found for free via the links below.
In English: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54816
In French: archive.org/details/avec...
Two photographs of Paul Lintier: on the left, as an artilleryman in the French Army during WW1, and on the right as a civilian before the war. Lintier was killed in 1916.
Lintier was an artilleryman in the French Army, and was killed in 1916. His buddies recovered his notebooks and had them published as "My 75."
Photo credit: www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l...
Cover of the original French publication of Paul Lintier's WW1 memoir, "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner."
Patreon Folks!
The next book we will read for our book club will be Paul Lintier's "My 75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a 75mm Battery in 1914."
Awesome story here! Would love to talk to Mr. Kahmann.
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Writer Craig DeSteiguer joins us to tell the story of his grandfather John Horace Merriman, who was deeply affected by his First World War-era service.
"Loaned to the Summer" - Where to buy:
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New episode out now!
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Thanks! I have so many ideas in the pipeline.
16.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
William Shemin visited the WW1 battlefields decades after he fought in them. Here he is standing at the Montfaucon Memorial in the Meuse region of France.
Photo credits: cmohs.org
15.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode link:
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US Army SGT William Shemin
During the battles for possession of the key village of Bazoches-sur-Vesle, an American son of Russian-Jewish immigrants would distinguish himself by looking out for his friends and soldiers.
15.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
US Army SGT William Shemin.
New episode is out, Folks!
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918.
The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out).
The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out). Desk is back in place.
The blank wall has now been wall papered with the ABMC maps (and one print out). Desk and everything on it are all back in place.
Done. A little off on my space measuring (there’s a reason I do history and not math), so we had to incorporate another little map in there.
But there we go. 😊
Maps going up on the background wall.
15.10.2025 00:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the blank wall under my bookshelf bridge.
Photo of the blank wall under my bookshelf bridge.
Photo of three American Battle Monuments Commission WW1 division maps that will become wallpaper on the blank wall space.
Close up of one of the ABMC maps.
Rainy day project by Mrs. BFWWP and Ms. BFWWP-ette.
Excited to see how it turns out. 😃
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And now I’m on @footstepspod.bsky.social ‘s related episode:
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What I’m listening to this week. Started with:
@oldfrontline.bsky.social
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Set in the Meuse-Argonne campaign of WW1, 5 Doughboys are ordered out to No Man's Land to dispatch a wounded comrade. What they find is someone who is not of their world...
@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.
BFWWP is BACK!
NYT-bestselling author @danielkraus.com comes on the show to discuss--and read an excerpt from!--his new novel "Angel Down."
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Words fail at this moment. Horrific.
29.09.2025 01:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Success with this hobby has not been as a result of "grand gestures," it's been getting at it every day for a little bit and seeing episodes slowly get researched, written, recorded, and released.
Also, working on it every day makes me enormously happy. 😁
Great article and great food for thought. I've been thinking along similar lines for a while.
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Me, too! 🤣
13.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three WW1 helmets together: from left to right, a German Pickelhaub, a French Casque Adrian, and a German Stahlhelm.
Side view of a German Stahlhelm.
Angle view of a German Pickelhaub helmet.
Side view of a German Pickelhaub helmet.
The universe gave me the opportunity to finally get my hands on a much-wanted German Stahlhelm. Luck was also on my side as the Stahlhelm came with a Pickelhaub.
Flanking my beloved Casque Adrian on either side, I’m quite content. 🤓😎
Let me know in the comments below what works best for you, and I'll go by the majority.
Looking forward to it!
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As we're restarting this, I want to give folks plenty of time to get the book if they haven't already and be able to read it. I will throw out some tentative dates below:
- Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 1400h EST
- Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 1400h EST
Hey Folks,
It is time to get our Patreon BFWWP Book Club going again!
Last time, we agreed our next book would be PVT Len Smith’s “Drawing Fire.” (Many thanks to Hans A. for the suggestion!)
So sorry to hear this. May he rest easy.
02.09.2025 00:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
