Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. When you think of the First World War, what springs to mind? Is it trench warfare, the myth that troops would be home by Christmas, or perhaps the idea that the whole thing began because of the assassination of an Austro-Hungarian Archduke? Well, in this episode, Rachel Dinning is joined by historian Alex Churchill, the co-author of a new book, Ring of Fire, to consider new perspectives on the conflict, highlighting the voices of ordinary people caught up in the war, as well as examining how it unfolded across the globe. Alex is also the presenter of a new History Extra Academy series.
World War II myths and misconceptions. That's out now and available to watch on the History Extra app. Check out the link in the episode description of this podcast to download the app now. Or visit historyextra.com forward slash academy for more information. You've just published a new book, Ring of Fire, a new global history of the outbreak of the First World War.
And we should mention your co-author, Nikolai Eberholst, a historian based in Copenhagen. Shout out to Nikolai, who can't be with us today. But my opening question to you, Alex, is with so much literature and histories of the First World War out there, is it possible to write something completely new about this area of history more than 110 years later? So this was why we started looking at doing it in the first place, because another book came out. And it wasn't that we were like, oh, this is a terrible book, but what we did say was, oh my God, this is the same format that we've seen for a hundred years.
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