OpenTube

The Battle of Loos 1915 | WW1 Podcast Episode: 3

WW1: Not So Quiet On The Western Front | Podcast

4,988 views

In this week's episode Dan and Spencer explore the September 1915 Battle of Loos. Fought over notoriously 'unfavourable ground' it saw new technology and manpower pitted against stubborn German defences across extremely difficult terrain, with predicatbly tragic results.

Join Our Community: ⁠https://not-so-quiet.com/⁠
Use our code: Dugout and get one month free as a Captain.
Support via Paypal:⁠ https://battleguide.co.uk/nsq-paypal⁠

Do you like our podcast?
Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!

E-Mail: ⁠nsq@battleguide.co.uk⁠
Battle Guide YouTube Channel:⁠ @battleguidevt

Our WW2 Podcast:⁠ https://battleguide.co.uk/bsow⁠

If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter:⁠ ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter⁠

Twitter:
@historian1914
@DanHillHistory
@BattleguideVT

Credits:
Host: Dr. Spencer Jones & Dan Hill
Production: Linus Klaßen

13 Comments

@nathangreig5884 9 months ago (edited)

Im an amateur ww1 historian, I appreciate hearing the details of this battle which are so often forgotten, combinedwith the art. you can almost feel terror looking at those charging troops throwing grenades as fast as they can. It was get in or die, then after that.....

@danielhansen9203 1 year ago

Fantastic video. The depth of feeling and detail really got to me...most definitely a forgotten battle I was not aware of. Just horrible what happened.

@Robert-vo3ik 1 year ago

I love this podcast thank you for taking your depth of knowledge and sharing it with us you've taken all your years of research and confined it into a very gripping podcast I plan on listening to every episode i’m glad I found this thank you

@adamcarriere4465 8 months ago

Great Pod Cast found you guys via Sal. It seems to me that Allied leaders were always thinking "one more good push" was all it would take.

@1915curley 1 year ago

Was surprised no graphics. However stuck with it and gained lots of knowledge on the Battle. Will follow-up on book recommendations. My great uncle died on first day of battle. 9th cameronians. It makes things more personal when it is family, which reaped the consequences of the mis steps which were made. Thanks for the insight.

@Jacquelineheronwray 4 months ago

Thank you. Field of corpses indeed. I studied history to higher level at school in Ayrshire, and did not hear one word about Loos. I have just written a book, not history, historical fiction, but I had to include Loos with as much accuracy as possible.

@BingoFrogstrangler 8 months ago

I’m sure I read some where that Haigh at 1st Ypres , on 1 day at of the time of toughest fighting that after multiple attacks by the Germans ,that if they’d had attacked one more time it would have defeated the BEF. I wonder if that clouded his judgment for the rest of the war.

@emmanuellengagne6188 4 days ago

Great video.
I m new on your channel, and i m already learning a lot, and i really like the way you are telling the story.
Just a side and minor note : 'Loos' is to be pronounced with a long and flat O. [o:] (not like the double OO in english).Many places in north of France have flemish history, origins and we are still using the flemish pronunciation.

@emmanuellengagne6188 4 days ago

I have a question : As you mentioned, 1915 was a serie of defeats for the allies, with huge casualties and no strategic gain.
Although, what was the impact of these failed attacks on the german army ? Was it affected ? Had this blunt the offensive capacity of the germans, preventive further attacks and push toward Paris ?
What was the german strategy in 1915 ? Just sit and wait ? ...

@davidjackson563 1 month ago

Sorry Spence German M24 grenades do not have pins......

@DavidSmith-bd8dd 8 months ago

I hear how great the french R.But what did the french archive in any of their offensives apart from millions dead and wounded.

@rhysnichols8608 4 months ago

Horrific planning and execution by British high command, I think the ‘lions led by donkeys’ narrative does get a bit overplayed, especially in the later war years, but at loos I struggle to give much sympathy for the decisions made, especially the repeated attacks on the Hohenzollen redoubt.