Recorded November 17, 2020...except for the last 30 minutes, which took place on January 8, 2021. Basically this is one broad, breathless look at the mindset of an era, focusing on all the following (plus other tidbits): personalities from WWI * Tolkien in the trenches * the mindset of the WWI Era * standing armies * underage enlistments and the draft * Schlieffen Plan * visiting the trenches * strategy on the fly * gentleman's rules of combat * the Ladies from Hell * the warrior mindset * Why men as the warriors? * Zimmerman telegram * Woodrow Wilson * The Lusitania * the Bolsheviks give Russia a personality change * the Yanks jump in