An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List
597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)
September 03, 2025
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Adolf Hitler
Context:
Tom reads a passage from Mein Kampf describing Hitler's first experience in battle during autumn 1914, marching to Flanders and encountering enemy fire while singing Deutschland über alles
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Context:
Mentioned when discussing the history of Ypres as a medieval cloth town - 'It's mentioned in the Canterbury Tales, Tom'
Author: Paul Ham
Context:
Described as 'an Australian writer called Paul Ham. He wrote a brilliant book about 1914' - quoted describing the Flanders landscape of gentle hills, fields of tobacco and beetroot with hedgerows
Author: Max Hastings
Context:
Referenced multiple times as a source for WWI accounts, including quoting a soldier named Paul Hubb from Württemberg and telling the story of the German 143rd Infantry advancing down the Menin Road