The War to End All Wars - Part III - Entrenched - Shells

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"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields." - Lt-Col John McRae

1915 was meant to be a brief detour on the road to victory. Instead, it became the year the war showed its teeth.

On this episode, The Hungry Historian takes listeners deep into the second full year of the First World War. It was the year when early optimism rotted away in the trenches and the conflict hardened into something far more brutal, far more modern, and far more unforgiving.

What began as a war of movement stalled into a grinding contest of endurance, where nations learned just how much blood and steel industrial society could produce. 1915 was the year trenches became permanent, civilians became targets, and new weapons reshaped the battlefield in terrifying ways.

It was a year of catastrophic offensives, desperate gambles, and political decisions made far from the front lines. Across Europe and beyond, the war widened, dragging empires, colonies, and entire populations deeper into the abyss.

Join The Hungry Historian as the war becomes a machine, and the world learns the cost of feeding it.

As for feeding you, Chef Money is cooking up a Featured Recipe based on one of the larger talking points of 1915, the Shell Shortage. Hope you're ready to make some Shells of your own!

Cheers!

Shells

Ingredients

•18 to 20 jumbo pasta shells
•2 cups of your favourite Marinara Sauce
•5 to 6 fresh spinach
• 2 cups ricotta cheese
•(At least) ¼ cup grated parmesan, plus for garnish
•(At least) 2 garlic cloves, grated
•1 teaspoon dried oregano
•1 teaspoon lemon zest
•1 teaspoon chili pepper flakes
•Sea salt
•Fresh ground black pepper
•Chopped fresh parsley, for serving