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Nov 13, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Iulia Joja |Nick Lloyd
On this episode of The Eastern Front, Dalibor and Iulia welcome Nick Lloyd, a historian and professor of modern warfare at King’s College London to discuss historical parallels to our current moment. What parallels can be drawn from Russia’s experience in World War I to now? How can the lessons of implementation of new technologies in WWI be compared to the roll out of drones and surveillance technology currently in the war in Ukraine?
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
barcelona-metropolitan.com | Nick Lloyd
The old city of Barcelona is home to one of the greatest collections of medieval buildings in Europe. They form an open-air classroom where one can learn about Gothic architecture and Catalunya in the Middle Ages.
But behind this real history of buildings and kings, there is another secret city of folktales and arcane traditions. A short stroll through the Gothic quarter offers up just a few.
Plaça del Pi, which is named for the pine tree growing in one corner, has a tall tale behind it.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
barcelona-metropolitan.com | Nick Lloyd
Pere Fortuny was just six years old in 1939 when he first visited the Fossar de la Pedrera in Montjuïc Cemetery. As the bereaved family entered the old quarry, a Civil Guard roughly searched his mother and siblings. The young boy came upon a rough wasteland surrounded by limestone cliffs, in the middle of which was a steep-sided pit, lined at the bottom with freshly dug earth.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Nick Lloyd
The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War is one of the most important events in recent European history. Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression and conquest against Ukraine marks a belated ‘return of history’, where major wars are no longer unthinkable, and fantasies of perpetual peace and soft power have been banished by the stark reality of blood and violence from Kyiv to Mariupol, from Lviv to the Donbas.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Nick Lloyd
With a wealth of research material, Lloyd reveals a different side to the war that would shape the 20th century. Even after a century, the bloody, mud-soaked images of World War I are deeply ingrained in the public consciousness. However, that is only one part of a larger picture, according to veteran WWI historian Lloyd, author of The Amritsar Massacre, Hundred Days, and Passchendaele. In Eastern Europe, there was a very different war.
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May 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Nick Lloyd
By 1914, the city of Lemberg had been a centre of learning and the arts for centuries. Here, in the capital of Austrian Galicia, Poles, Ruthenians, Germans and Jews talked, studied, worked and worshipped side by side. Hundreds of similar cities and towns dotted the borderlands of eastern Europe, the crumple zone where three empires met and identities were as fluid as frontiers.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
barcelona-metropolitan.com | Nick Lloyd
On August 20th, 1940, a 27-year-old Catalan drove an ice axe into the head of Leon Trotsky at his Mexican home. The blow failed to kill him, and Trotsky struggled with his assassin. His guards, hearing the commotion, burst in and set upon the assailant, but Trotsky stopped them, exclaiming, “Do not kill him! This man has a story to tell.” Trotsky died the next day, and the murderer was turned over to the police. He identified himself as Jacques Mornard, a disillusioned Belgian Trotskyist.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
thestrad.com | Nick Lloyd
By Nick Lloyd
Double bass maker based in Nicholas County, KY, US
One of the great rewards of being a double bass maker is the seemingly endless variety of bass models, sizes, outlines, f-holes, arching styles and string lengths. The other side of the coin is that some basses are extremely uncomfortable to play, either because of their bulky neck, or because the neck lacks a desired ‘D’ stop in the heel.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Nick Lloyd
Revised back in 1905 by Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, the Schlieffen Plan was a military strategy deployed by Germany in 1914 with the aim of winning the war in Europe in swift fashion. Rather than engage with France on its border, German troops would take a circuitous route through Belgium and the Low Countries in order to outflank and envelop the French army, forcing a quick surrender. With the French threat removed, Germany would then relocate its forces to nullify Russia in the east.
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May 5, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Nick Lloyd
Read more | A–Z of the First World WarThis had to be done with only limited mobility and without the communications technology that would have allowed for rapid exploitation of any success. They also had to organise military activity within a complex strategic environment in which they had to work alongside politicians, in order to find some way out of one of history’s most devastating wars.
