The road to war

German infantry on the battlefield, August 7, 1914

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The road to war — II

Brett Holman / 12 August 2014

My second contribution for ABC New England to the increasingly inaccurately named series ‘The road to war’ was broadcast today, and is online here. Increasingly inaccurate because my topic today was the outbreak of war in August 1914 between Germany on the one hand and France and especially poor little Belgium on the other, including […]

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The road to war — I

Brett Holman / 22 July 2014

Today I had my very first radio appearance, on ABC New England North West, talking to Kelly Fuller on the Mornings show. I was talking about what was happening in Europe 100 years ago, during the July Crisis of 1914. More specifically, I spoke about the Royal Navy’s test mobilisation at Spithead (above) and the

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