Discover the key battlefields of the Western Front on a six-day journey with Not So Quiet on the Western Front Podcast Team, bringing the Great War’s pivotal campaigns to life through expert guides, powerful stories, and unforgettable sites.
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See the places that define the podcast’s stories, with added context and new details you won’t get from audio alone.
Join the voices behind Not So Quiet on the Western Front for a tour shaped by years of research.
A welcoming group where curiosity is encouraged and no one is left behind — whether you know every battalion number or you’re brand new to it all.
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Dan is proud to have worked for over a decade as both a professional military historian and battlefield guide across Europe.
Dan holds a Masters degree in the History of Britain in the First World War and has worked as a consultant in the media and on a number of national and international military history projects. Outside of history he enjoys boxing and cycling, neither with particular skill.
Spencer is an award-winning historian and author. He is a Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. He also serves as the Regimental Historian of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
He has published widely on the First World War. His latest book (co-authored with John Buckley) is The Armchair General WW1: Can You Win the Great War? (Penguin, 2023)
Our focus on Day four is exclusively on the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
Highlights include the Sunken Lane at Beaumont-Hamel, nearby Newfoundland Memorial Park and its preserved trenches, the Ulster Tower, Lochnagar Crater, Delville Wood, and time at the unmissable Thiepval Memorial.
Accommodation: Arras
Our morning is spent with free time exploring the beautiful town of Arras and the many historic sites it has to offer, before heading underground in the famous Wellington Quarries tunnel system, used with great effect in the 1917 battle.
Our afternoon visits are to the bitterly fought-over Lorette Spur, the French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette to discuss Poilu fighting in the area, and finally, the incredible preserved trenches, tunnel system and memorial to Canadian troops at Vimy Ridge.
Accommodation: Arras
Our final morning on the battlefields is well spent with a visit to the old frontlines of the German Spring Offensive in 1918, before following the westwards retreat to the outskirts of Amiens and the small town of Villers-Bretonneux where British and Australian troops, with their ‘backs to the wall’, held the German Army at bay.
Our final stop is Riqueval Bridge along the St Quentin Canal where Allied troops finally smashed the vaunted Hindenburg Line in an assault that only ended on the morning of 11th November 1918.
We then return to the UK to finish the tour.
