Beat2battlefield - battle sites and travel

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By: Martin lambert

Visiting those sites of centuries of warfare which has shaped the world we live in today. Looking at the places, dark tourism, stories and sites .

Brookwood cemetery Surrey the largest war grave cemetery in the uk
Last Monday at 4:00 AM

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Wonder around the different nations who served in both world wars . The heroes the villians and old heroes all remembered together 


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World war crime- the broad-stare burglar
Last Friday at 4:00 AM

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Staying in a gypsy caravan on battlefield of the Somme
04/20/2026

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A great place to stay on your battlefield tour 


Paul Reeds - old front line 


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The caravan on the Ancre 

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Poperinge 3/3 - lijessenhoek cemetery
04/20/2026

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We go to one of the largest cemeteries on the western front and hear 10 stories of those buried there amongst 10 thousands.


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World war crime a thief on a battlefield
04/17/2026

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The case of a soldier who stole eye glasses and a compass from a officer int he battlefield

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Poperinge 2/3 - around the town ww1 and 2
04/13/2026

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Poperinge would see two wars in 20 years and today there are many sites to see in this little town in Belgium 


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World war crime - Anzac soldier executed during the Great War
04/10/2026

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A shorter podcast then others looking at cases of crime from ww1

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World war crime - new series - Forest Gate murder
04/08/2026

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A new series of crimes involving soldiers of the First World War 

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Poperinge 1/3 - a tour around the town little paris
04/06/2026

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Poperinge was a rest stop for soldiers during the Great War we wonder around and see the sites 

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Amsterdam short tour of Anne Frank and Resistance
03/30/2026

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The tales of a death man’s penny in Berlin - bonus episode
03/23/2026

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Whilst visiting Berlin a I found a ww1 item in a Berlin flea market which left me down a ww1 soldiers path 

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Nuremberg- the rise and fall of nazism in a weekend nd
03/23/2026

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Thiepval memorial Somme and walk across the battle to take it
03/17/2026

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73000 names of the missing of the Somme 

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Bergen Belsen Anne frank and the British liberation
03/09/2026

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How to visit Bergen Belsen 

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World war walk through Tonbridge kent
03/02/2026

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Wormhout massacre 1940
02/23/2026

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During the enact from Dunkirk there would be several massacres in the French part of Flanders’s we visit the cow shed 


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Ravensbruck concentration camp Germany
02/16/2026

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A walking tour around a female

Concentration camp 90miles north of Berlin 


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Teaching history on TikTok
02/13/2026

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Something a little bit different please follow me on TikTok @beat2battlfield to see some short sharp content 

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TikTok tommies researching soldiers of ww1 ww2
02/11/2026

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A short walk around Tyne cot
02/09/2026

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A short walk around the largest commonwealth cemetery in the world 

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Bonus - a young girls school project on Anne Frank’s interview
02/06/2026

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Bonus episode 

A young high school girl is currently doing a project on Anne Frank’s. She has given me some questions to answer and I will do my best to do so

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Antwerp ww1 ww2 and holocaust a little known side of Belgium
02/02/2026

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A tour around some of the sites of Antwerp of loss and liberation 

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Paradise in hell Talbot House Belgium hotel and museum
01/26/2026

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Travel to a unique hotel on the western front . A place where the soldiers stayed , laughed and tried to forget the war . 

Talbot house was taken over by the British army in 1915 . It was a merchants house and stood in the town of poperinge for 300 years it is now a museum . 

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A walking tour of Auschwitz one and travel tips
01/20/2026

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Walk through the site of Auschwitz one and learn how not to get scammed and get the best of your tour

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Belgium coastal tram battlefield tour
01/19/2026

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Travel along the Belgium coast from nearly border to border and see the sites of ww1 and ww2 



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Bonus - the use of social media and helping history
01/14/2026

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Buchenwald and mita bau Dora
01/12/2026

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Join me on a journey to two concentration camps one of the earliest and one of the last to be created journey deep underground and where two new Germany’s were formed 

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Bonus episode - what does it take to be a battlefield tour guide
01/07/2026

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A listener question on what it becomes a guide

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The city of Arras walking and touring ww1 and ww2
01/05/2026

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For any travellers around France an opportunity to stop off in an ass will give you a rich history over the centuries. We’re doing a little walking tour today however you could do it by aFor any 
 
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Shoreham kent - the cross on the hill
01/01/2026

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Travel krakow ghetto , holocaust and British graves
12/30/2025

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Join me on a short trip to krakow. To see the sites of a centuries were a warfare as a place to relax we can also take in the local history so please.

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Visiting Auschwitz under your own steam
12/23/2025

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Many people will want to visit Auschwitz and it can cost you quite a lot if you book late but with some handy travel tips you can make the most and gain more from your experience from visiting Auschwitz

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Visiting Auschwitz and how not to be scammed
12/16/2025

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Many people were visiting krakow in Poland will visit Auschwitz however to book the trip to Auschwitz you must be careful when doing so in this podcast we cover how to book it and what to expect about your trip to the Auschwitz camp

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Saint-Nazaire submarine base And the greatest raid of all operation chariot
11/14/2025

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Join me in Brittany on my bucket list tour to walk in the footsteps of the commandos on there raid to take out the Normandy dry dock and the impressive submarines pens

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Visiting the natzweiler-struthof and Strasbourg by train and walking
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11/07/2025

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Travel to the German part of France a walk to the walk that many members of the French resistance did to their death . 

part of learning the different strands of the holocaust and how far and wide it went 

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Essex Farm cemetery Ypres Belgium
11/03/2025

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A bonus episode walking around the cemetery close to Ypres of Essex farm 

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Visiting stalag luft 3 the site of the great escape Zagan Poland
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10/31/2025

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Take the walk of western Poland and see the site of the famous great escape on a boys own tour . The great escape museum and the memorial of the men killed by the nazis in the spring of 1944 

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Sunday afternoon walk bonus - East Grinstead Sussex ww1 ww2 walk
10/18/2025

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Little bit of a bonus episode 


spending a afternoon in east grinstead we go through the heroes and disaster in the town in two world wars 

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Staying in a ww2 ghetto terezin Czech Republic
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10/17/2025

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The Terezin ghetto was started in 1941 will be a show ghetto to show the international Red Cross that the Jews of Europe were being looked after by the Nazis today you can stay there and it includes several museums little Fortress you
 hear the stories the Gestapo prison Linked to the first world 
 
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 also a history that is deep and dark

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Bonus episode- Berlin in 10 sites
10/13/2025

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This week we’ve got a bonus episode we’re visiting the city of Berlin and I’ve been asked comprised 10 sites to go and visit this isn’t an exhaustive list however we will learn the rise and form of narcissism parts of the holocaust and also places to visit British soldiers German soldiers and just general sites that you may want to do is part of a tour and a visit to the city this is by no means at all that you could do on the weekend but if you like me...