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The Hey, folks, welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast.

My apologies in advance for bringing up that master's program with Birmingham University again, but here we are.

When I started it last September, I hastily finished the combat side of the Mzargon campaign and had to put the podcast on the back burner. The podcast will continue to have to remain there, but I'd like to share a few things I have learned in the past few months.

As I write this in March, 2024, I have to say it's been an incredible learning experience thus far.

The Masters and Military History Program is incredibly challenging.

Every free moment I have is now spent feverishly reading because I am a slow but absorbent reader.

But I'm reading really fascinating material in the history of warfare and I'm being forced to

analyze and be much more critical of what I'm taking in. All of this work has actually had a positive effect on my day job

as I feel much more confident in doing deep dive research and analytical projects there.

I wonder what it will bring to the podcast when I'm able to put my attention back on it.

Which to the podcast when I'm able to put my attention back on it. Which brings me to another thing I've learned. As I said, I wrote the last combat narrative

episode for the Merzargon and went right into my schoolwork. At the time, I thought, well,

no big deal. The podcast is done for now,

and a part of you has always seen it as a springboard for bigger opportunities, and it indeed

has been. But as the weeks and now months have gone by, I've also come to learn that.

Well, frankly, man, I miss podcasting.

Seriously, folks, I do.

I suppose that's normal, as you can't just walk away from a hobby you've been doing for a decade at this point.

So in a new side project, I've been lucky to begin reviewing books for H-Net.

Naturally, I'm going after the World War I titles.

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