A great listen, helpful in filling in a major gap in my 20th century and war knowledge.

I have been bingeing this podcast for the last few months and have really come to appreciate the depth of Livesay’s research, and his straightforward presentation. He provides a lot of detail without being overwhelming, and I have a much better understanding of this pivotal period of history than I did beforehand (and I am a history buff and thought I knew a lot). Highly recommended!!

I love this podcast and listen to it on my bus back from school and in class when I can. I’m a huge ww1 nerd and greatly enjoyed this podcast keep the good work up

There are some very annoying people on my bus and it is really helpful for ignoring them. Thank you!

Started from the beginning and listening straight through! Thank you for an amazing podcast!

Binged history of the 2nd world war until I caught up, and now binging history of the Great War. Awesome story telling and detail. We need more historical podcasts like this!

I love listening to this podcast while at work. Wish I would hear about tanks, but I’m in the early episodes so I’m sure they’ll come up.

I loved this show. 10/10 would listen again.

Thanks for making this podcast. Well researched and delivered.

The quantity and depth of the episodes is very impressive, especialy for a one-man passion project. The production quality isn’t the highest, but that really doesn’t matter if you’re here for the history. If you’re interested in World War I, even if you have some basic background knowledge, you should listen to this podcast.

Super good, keep at it!

Of all the podcasts I’ve listened to about war and history this is tippy”rary” top on my list!!!! In depth serious without being overly upsetting. It’s recorded well and thought through and ordered brilliantly!!! 10/10 recommend to anyone who digs history with a military bent!!!

It has improved over the years. Incredible detail and breadth, and very easy to listen to.

I’ve loved listening to this podcast, principally because you get to see the podcast grow over time. His abilities are honed over time and you can see the quality of the podcast as a whole increase. Good voice, great research, and good clear writing make this the best WW1 podcast in my opinion.

Great voice, calm demeanor, attention to details. I’m a history buff and this show is as sincere and comprehensive as it gets. Really enjoy Livesey’s work.

Highly reccomended

This was a delightful podcast find, and I’m looking forward to catching up on the most current active program! This podcast would be great for anyone interested in learning about history, but I can confidently say the content aligns with my AP history notes from high school (because I’m 34 and still have them?) and it probably would’ve been really helpful as a study review tool for the AP history exam? If you live somewhere AP courses aren’t available or you have/had a really bad history teacher, this podcast is really all you need.

Excellent telling of the history though there is some slight bias towards a pro isolationist view in regards to the US in the war.

A very well made and researched account of the Great War and its offshoots, very much worth the time to listen.

I can’t tell you how awesome Wesley is at telling these stories, I used to drive a FedEx truck and started listening while delivering, now I drive a ups truck and still listen while delivering. I think I’ve probably listened to the whole war 2-3 times over. He’s great at telling a story and going into detail while not getting too bogged down in the details. Cant wait till ww2 really gets going, everyone go check out his ww2 podcast

Loving the story telling so far, i thought i might get burned out with so many episodes but not so! Looking foreword to listening to every one. I giggled a bit at a few pronunciations early on but things have improved a lot and i can tell how much effort goes into each episode. Earned all 5 stars.

When a historian openly flaunts their political views it makes it difficult to trust their take on history as being accurate. There are better ww1 podcasts from objective historians.

I have had hours of enjoyment listening to Wesley. The podcast is thoroughly well researched and presented with a freshness that’s very welcoming. I highly recommend listening and subscribing. 5 stars!

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this podcast and still enjoying the special episodes that are being released periodically. Thank you for putting the time and effort into this.

Great podcast, well researched and great storytelling!

Really great history podcast. Well researched, well written, and well performed.

I cannot stress enough how amazing this podcast is. It has given me so much content to listen to and the amount of detail is amazing. Fantastic story teller and does a fantastic job every episode.

Very informative, thanks for releasing the Patreon episodes for free, I look forward to listening to each of them!

A+ host, format, level of detail. B- quality audio. Must have had gain set too low - this is the only podcast I subscribe to I need to set my audio above 60% for.

By listening to this podcast I learned how little I knew about WWI.

As a historian I swim in the almost endless and evergreen study of men’s effort to kill, wound, and destroy other men. Stories of war require a deft touch to not become simple voyeurism. The narrator of this podcast does an extraordinary service in his preparation & presentation. He keeps it real enough that we don’t forget the waste and stupidity of war without collapsing into bathos. Detailed but not oppressively so. Hopeful but grounded. I recommend without reservations.

Via my recent genealogy research, I discovered that my great-uncle Leo Victor Curley (1897-1917), a member of The Canadian Army, was killed on Oct. 30, 2017 during the 3rd Battle of Ypres (2nd Battle for Passchendaele), in Belgium, and he is buried at the nearby Tyne Cot Cemetery. Thank you for enlightening me about the history of this battle and helping me better understand his sacrifice, the difficulty his Divison faced, and the terrible loss of so many lives for the cost of freedom.

This one of the best history podcasts I have ever listened to and the host certainly does his research and is pleasant to listen to! This is my favorite podcast so far on WWI and it starts out giving context prior to the original traditionally accepted 1914 start and with the July Crisis and works its way to and beyond the year 1918. It also talks about some of the Civil Wars and residual effects of conclusion of Great war and Versailles Treaty as well! There are hundreds of episodes of fantastic content for you to listen to!

One of the best podcasts by far, as informative and interesting as Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.

There’s a short list of truly excellent podcasts that consistently deliver quality like this. Mike Duncan’s History of Rome comes to mind as one of the few others. This guy covers just about every single global facet of the war and keeps it interesting. His breadth of knowledge is staggering and his enthusiasm for sharing the story of the war comes through in every episode. I’m looking forward to the Second World War podcast he is preparing.

Great podcast, well researched and to the point.

One of the best historical podcasts going. Thorough yet digestible examination of every aspect of WW1. Don’t miss it.

First off, this ww1 podcast is my go to favorite on ww1 analytics and I’ll say it now who would have known how much content is in this podcast unless you hear every single episode. Wesley, you have a friend in me. If you read this please let us all know you are okay through these unsettling times. P.s your awesome episodes on 1918 influenza pandemic has eerily been on my mind through these times.

I came upon this podcast in late 2019 and wish I had started it earlier, but I have really enjoyed it. I would have given it five stars if not for the “best fiends “ app ad that is embedded halfway through some of the episodes. It makes me want to drive my car into the ditch

Good podcast, but the episodes play backwards, so they play from the newest to the oldest podcast. That is the opposite direction of the timeline. No other podcast that I have listened to does this. So to play them in chronological order, you need to manually go in and select the next episode to play each time, or it will automatically start playing the previous episode that you already listened to. That is very very very annoying.

Just a first-rate show. Well-researched, well-told and flat entertaining. great job.

It’s like Dan Carlin’s blueprint to Armageddon but 200 episodes it’s awesome

Very accessible, entertaining series. I've burned through about half in just two months, despite not having all that much time. It's a great listen.

There’s no better podcast covering a war and everything going on around the theatre of war. Keep on!

Wesley has created a go to podcast for me. Copious research combined with insightful analysis has produced a podcast that both informs and entertains. This is a foundational podcast, providing the military and political context for the economic and social disruption that WWI inflicts upon the early 20th century. Glad to hear that the saga will continue. Looking forward to following the threads that extends through the interwar years to WWII!!

The detail of this podcast is incredible. I have walked large parts of the battlefields in France and visited dozens of cemetery and battle markers Jeff Lanum

When Battlefield 1 was released by EA, I developed a fascination with the Great War. I quickly found this podcast and began listening. I’m now 120 episodes in, and will likely continue on long drives and walks/runs. Great content.

Like the Great War, This is a context heavy and detail oriented channel for history buffs !

Enjoy this podcast. Started with first cast and working my way through them.

This is a very clear account of the complex issues of this period. I strongly suggest any history buff to try it.