Questions and Answers Episode 53
From The Old Front Line by Paul Reed
May 16, 2026 · 45 min · Season 9 · Episode 34
About this episode
This episode features a listener Q&A exploring the complexities surrounding the fate of missing soldiers during the Great War.
In this wide-ranging listener Q&A episode of Old Front Line, we dive into some intriguing and human questions thrown up by the Great War. We begin with the fate of the missing. With hundreds of thousands of men listed as “missing” across the Western Front, is there any real evidence that some chose to disappear, seizing the chaos of war to start new lives elsewhere? We explore the realities of desertion, the systems used to record the dead, and whether the idea of men slipping away into a...
People in this episode
Host: Paul Reed
Topics covered
- listener Q&A
- Great War
- desertion
- missing soldiers
- Western Front
Keywords
- missing soldiers
- desertion
- Western Front
- Great War
- listener questions
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