Learning From Napoleon - Russia, The Underestimated Enemy I THE GREAT WAR

Learning From Napoleon - Russia, The Underestimated Enemy I THE GREAT WAR - Week 12

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After defeating the Russian Army in the early weeks of the war, the German and Austrian generals hope to push the Russians back with combined forces. But, like Napoleon 100 years earlier, they underestimate their enemy and his tactics and so the tides are turning on the Eastern Front. On the Western Front, the last frontline gaps are closed and the British army is entering a small town called Ypres, which will eventually be the symbol for the carnage in Flanders for the next four years.
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Literature (excerpt):
Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
Michalka, Wolfgang. Der Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analyse, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000
Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, C.H. Beck, 2014
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@morbid1. 8 жыл бұрын

"warsaw" probably the most accurate name for city in 20th century europe...

@nazdhillon994 7 жыл бұрын

Neurotyczny Kot In English language ONLY, not in their native language though.

@morbid1. 7 жыл бұрын

ookkk...

@swedefromtwitt 5 жыл бұрын

@@nazdhillon994 I think in polish it's Warzawa or something

@nikitakuznetsov8446 5 жыл бұрын

@@swedefromtwitt Yeah same in Russian.

@geoffrogers7590 5 жыл бұрын

@@nazdhillon994 Doesn't particularly matter. If English is your main language the joke makes perfect sense. You don't call most cities or countries on the planet the same name that the natives call it, no matter what language you speak, unless you happen to live there.

@huntersterling8623 8 жыл бұрын

"History repeats itself because nobody was listening the first time."

@huntersterling8623 8 жыл бұрын

David Schne I hope to god that is sarcasm.

@SamaritanPrime 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty much.

@huntersterling8623 8 жыл бұрын

David Schne Israel will not be fucked with and they got the arms to prove it.

@trentoncovert7889 5 жыл бұрын

Hunter Sterling history repeats itself because nobody listens in history class

@LuvBorderCollies 5 жыл бұрын

IMHO the lessons of historical events are not emphasized. You can hear and watch all the history you can digest but if the lessons of success and failure are not discussed then you've gained very little with the time spent "learning".

@maclohan1 9 жыл бұрын

I feel like the phrase "Russians were not as incompetent as people thought" could be applied many, many times throughout history.

@pizzatime8773 5 жыл бұрын

And even today

@anaghashyam9845 5 жыл бұрын

And the others never learn...

@JonatasAdoM 5 жыл бұрын

Their numbers and climate also won't help it's foes.

@JonatasAdoM 5 жыл бұрын

@S billings Numbers will help if they invade you.

@libertyordeath9936 5 жыл бұрын

They were incompetent in providing a compatible system of government during communism

@abeschreier 8 жыл бұрын

My god Austrian incompetence and hubris never ceases to amaze.

@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 5 жыл бұрын

Friendly fire must be an Austrian invention then? I guess it never happened again since then.

@LuvBorderCollies 5 жыл бұрын

@@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 There was an incident during the American Revolutionary War where a British officer ordered the cannons to shoot through his lines to take out the rebel colonists. Not the usual definition of friendly fire though.

@TheMaztercom 4 жыл бұрын

@@LuvBorderCollies /wooooosh

@russiauncensored7788 3 жыл бұрын

@@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 No, but having your own marching band playing "morale-raising" songs as you get bombarded by your own fellow soldiers and an inferior army of peasants & serfs was definitely an Austrian invention. It hasn't happened since. 😉

@luitpoldwalterstorffer2446 3 жыл бұрын

@@russiauncensored7788 Russia invented other stuff such as: * Sending forward unarmed soldiers to raid the enemy´s position telling them they should just grab a weapon by the dead comrades * Sending the own troops to dead hoping the enemy will run out of ammo. * Giving away Moscow to the enemy. These tactics have just been succesful because * Russia is huge in territory * Russia has a seemingly endless reservoir of men PS I am a friend of Russia(ns). Just saying that every nation has her flaws and is not perfect.

@SuperSilkyJohnson 9 жыл бұрын

If playing eu4 has taught me anything it's that Russian attrition can destroy entire armys.

@BoboTalkClown 9 жыл бұрын

AshyLarry if eu4 has taught me anything, it's that the french got what they deserved in this war

@Foureye15 9 жыл бұрын

Bobo The Talking Clown And the ottoman as well

@nick0875 3 жыл бұрын

You have to be more careful as Russia in Vic2, technologically you are behind the other major powers and until you get Peasants Reform you will never catch up. Also losing hundreds of thousands tends to cause uprisings to happen. You can end up with the entire countryside full of militant communists and socialists.

@seanmoran6510 2 жыл бұрын

Would love you to in a real war !

@seanmoran6510 2 жыл бұрын

@@BoboTalkClown Would love to see you in a real war !

@AmariFukui 8 жыл бұрын

I really hope teachers use this series in schools.

@TheGreatWar 8 жыл бұрын

+Barney Collington They do!

@tokwanang 8 жыл бұрын

The Great War dude plss make ww2 , and special series about france revolution arab spring , asian war , i really like u video , i need to learn about war history in world

@gameboxfreak 8 жыл бұрын

Well they started exactly 100 years after the start of the war, So maybe in 2039 they'll do a ww2 series :P

@ethandavies7627 8 жыл бұрын

+tokwan ang yea ok would you like the Cold War to? Maybe every war ever be happy with what your getting

@freddjimmy3376 7 жыл бұрын

Barney Collington same

@abc64pan 9 жыл бұрын

This series does a good job at informing the viewer that the portion of the war on the Easter Front matched and often surpassed the war on the Western Front in terms of scale, brutality, gains and loses. I'm so tired of documentaries that focus all attention on the war on the Western Front as if the war in the East was a sideshow and not much more than a prolonged skirmish. Same goes for World War ll. All attention is given to Western Europe while the war in the East was actually bigger and bloodier.

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

+abc64pan Thanks, that's what we were intending to and that's why we are also covering the other fronts too.

@misterscienceguy 8 жыл бұрын

+abc64pan Plenty of attention is given to the eastern front in the post Cold War world, if you pursue even a slight interest in history this is a very big focus. It's an equal fallacy to say the war was won purely by the Russians.

@abc64pan 8 жыл бұрын

+Mr.Science I believe that Stalin was a party to the invasion of his own country from his partnership with Hitler at the very beginning of the War in Europe. It could be said that by partitioning Poland in collaboration with Hitler and taking the Baltic States, they were well deserving of the Karma they got in 1941, and I'm referring to the leadership, not ordinary Russians who had no say in any of this. Also, it's quite possible they would have lost in their struggle with Germany without the massive amount of aid they got from the West. Nevertheless, for better or for worse, they did make a huge contribution to Germany's defeat.

@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 8 жыл бұрын

+abc64pan The war in the East was only bigger and bloodier because of how the Soviets chose to fight the Nazis. If they could throw 16 million men into a meat grinder for 3 feet worth of ground, they did it without blinking and reaped very little reward for huge loss of life. Regarding WW2 that is. Had they given the slightest bit of concern for the men they ordered to their deaths as most Allied Generals would take into account, the casualties would have been infinitesimally smaller. Not to mention alot of the deaths were because they were shot by their officers for "desertion". Of course that doesn't stop some Soviet sympathizers from implying, that since the Soviets lost more men, they contributed more. Which again, is just utter nonsense especially considering they didn't give a single damn between 41-45 about the causalities. Failing to take that into consideration while looking at which front is "more widely known, or loved" is just choosing to be blind of the facts. Of course none of this even begins to take into account the tons of material sent from the United States of Awesome to the poor Soviet bastards. I hope I'm not busting your "The Soviets Won WW2" bubble. But no one single handedly won WW2. Not even the United States which factually speaking did more work than any other nations having spent the war fighting not just the Nazis *and* Italians in Europe *and* Africa but the Japanese in the Pacific. Last I checked, the Soviets didn't do much against Japan. Hell it took everything just to get them to "maybe" promise to help the US if they had to invade mainland Japan, which thankfully we didn't because The Bomb. But most assuredly, the Soviets didn't win anything by themselves.

@franzfanz 8 жыл бұрын

+abc64pan I was literally thinking the same thing. I come from New Zealand and there's a massive emphasis on Gallipoli and the Western Front here because it was where the NZ divisions fought. It's very interesting to see what's happening in other theatres.

@christinefougere1444 4 жыл бұрын

MY English Grandfather was KIA at Ypres in September 1918, He's buried in Belgium. Hence my mum grew up without a father.

@EntryLevelLuxury 8 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this series, because it gives equal focus to all fronts, particularly the Balkans! Thank you for your fine work!

@TheGreatWar 8 жыл бұрын

+nelson3300 Thanks.

@alvinjones6856 8 жыл бұрын

+The Great War I second that...I heard basicly nothing about the Eastern side of the war at school. Great series and its a shame its not on TV

@oldslav 8 жыл бұрын

+nelson3300 Jp, that is true, all history books about ww1 i have read in English are more or less focused on western front....

@haydenblackwood6838 8 жыл бұрын

+oldslav that's because they know more about that front because their country fought there. For example a Russian school would teach more about the Eastern front and schools in turkey would talk about the southern front (Africa and Middle East)

@AmateurSurgeonThe3rd 7 жыл бұрын

All fronts are equal, but some are more equal than others

@HunterRodrigez 7 жыл бұрын

HÖTZENDOOOOOORF

@juanaltredo2974 7 жыл бұрын

hotzenNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOrf

@cbut_1727 7 жыл бұрын

Hunter Rodrigez Von DOOOOOOOORRRRRRFFFF

@timmccarthy872 7 жыл бұрын

Hotzenderp

@dragossirghi6279 5 жыл бұрын

The Austrian Emperor shoiting after finding that Presiml is unde asiege, 1914, colourised

@bbcmotd 7 жыл бұрын

Russians never liked giving up their land, yet only after conceding some land does the Russian army become truly fierce.

@sergeantassassin3425 6 жыл бұрын

Well, keep in mind that, barring certain circumstances, land is easier to retake if you have more forces, supplies, and equipment than not. Russia, somehow, has never really had a shortage of people to throw into the meat grinder of warfare (I legitimately don't know how they manage to have so many bloody troops with such little usable soil for crop growth). Furthermore, if you can coax your opponent further into territory that YOU are more familiar with, you gain a decisive tactical advantage over them. Battles of attrition are my favorite battles, because you can really tear an enemy apart slowly and lengthily over the course of months, forcing them to commit greater and greater numbers of men, resources, supplies and equipment to a front they're simply not going to win, but can't give up now because they've already thrown so much at it. Get the hook into your foe, then bleed them for everything they're willing to give, take it all from them, then watch as they limp back to HQ broken and disillusioned.

@MrBlack74 9 жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed this channel hasn't gotten more attention. Indy and the production crew have done so well! You've made this history major very happy.

@DrVictorVasconcelos 10 ай бұрын

Hope you've grown "appointed" by now 😊

@TheBlazeofSteel 9 жыл бұрын

awesome map upgrade, who ever makes the map tell them they did a good job. :)

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

TheBlazeofSteel Thank you so much. This is actually a world map, so, in the future we will hopefully be able to show maps of the rest of the world too. Tough it's tough research to "historify" modern maps like we did here. So, slowly but steadily we will improve on this front.

@Jinxtah123 7 жыл бұрын

I really wish I had discovered this channel when it started instead of years later. The amount of content I have available to consume from this channel is both truly amazing and frighteningly much.

@TheGreatWar 7 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the show.

@Jinxtah123 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've already done a bit of advertising for you on reddit, and have got a couple of friends to watch as well. Looking forward to spending 10s upon 10s of hours watching this. Hopefully I'll have caught up in some months.

@TheGreatWar 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the agitation.

@Jinxtah123 7 жыл бұрын

As long as it's not constipation, you're fine.

@Thomasio14 9 жыл бұрын

I actually have a history test tomorrow about The Great War, I think I learned quite a bit from this. Thanks :D

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

Thomasio Good luck with the test, tell us how it went.

@Thomasio14 9 жыл бұрын

The Great War hey guys, I have my test results. I have an 6 out of 10. I would have liked more, but the test was a badly made test and the ''dutch history'' part didn't go well. :D

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

Congrats. For us you're definitively the winner of the hearts.

@Thomasio14 9 жыл бұрын

The Great War Thanks lads :P

@theinfinity2988 6 ай бұрын

@@Thomasio14lol yeah how are you doing now

@sleong 9 жыл бұрын

this series is great! Fine details finally about world war 1, instead of just sweeping generalizations like "trench warfare", "pointless slaughter", and "Battle of the Somme"

@SiCGaming123 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome episode. WAY better than the "History Channel" or other television programs.

@lusitanimendes641 9 жыл бұрын

Well at least i know what i will be watching for the next 4 years ;) great series! cant wait till next week!

@PikarinePlays 8 жыл бұрын

I've been to Ypres and the Menin Gate truly is astonishing with the amount of names on it. It's insane...

@MomentsInTrading 2 жыл бұрын

I started this series 3 days ago and am going through video by video. Really enjoying it so far! Thanks

@wollsmoth9292 7 жыл бұрын

I recently did a presentation on chemical weapons and while talking about the German gas attacks, I pronounced Ypres "why press"

@TheGreatWar 7 жыл бұрын

I think it's eepr but we are also not entirely sure.

@wollsmoth9292 7 жыл бұрын

The Great War glad to know I may not of been entirely wrong

@eliotschroder3974 7 жыл бұрын

I'm belgian and I can tell you that the "eepr" is pretty close to the native pronunciation. One little thing: not only the small part you higlighted is called Flanders but the whole northern part of Belgium.

@johngeo5737 7 жыл бұрын

i think epic history tv pronounces it correctly, not sure but it sounds better and more belgian i think the way he does

@generalmcwaffles8172 7 жыл бұрын

+The Great War That is correct

@hh8575 7 жыл бұрын

And just to add,Serbia is still clear of enemy forces.:)

@julianrodriguez703 8 жыл бұрын

A channel like this would be great for the Napoleonic Wars, or for any war for that matter, this is awesome.

@marcosfcpereira 9 жыл бұрын

I am writing to congratulate you on what is really an outstanding example of instructive multimedia. Thank you for your effort in making history fun and alive.

@GenestealerUK 9 жыл бұрын

The new graphics are a massive improvement. Along with your commentary it really brings the conflict alive, Good Job

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

GenestealerUK Thank you so much. This is actually a world map, so, in the future we will hopefully be able to show maps of the rest of the world too. Tough it's tough research to "historify" modern maps like we did here. So, slowly but steadily we will improve on this front.

@jojodehoho 9 жыл бұрын

this has become my absolute favorite channel on YT. You guys do an amazing job learning a history noob like me about the war that raged on my very doorstep. Thank you!

@DaurosKrolm 8 жыл бұрын

Here's something that might explain the differences between Western European countries and Russia when it came to giving up land. Western Europeans had highly developed and more densely populated provinces, so when one of them came under occupation by an enemy force the economic effects were significantly bigger. You also had the problem of larger amounts of people living under occupation by a foreign country giving way to more demoralization and unrest in the country. Given that western Russia wasn't the focal point of their economy or population they could afford to let the enemy occupy it giving way to overextension and attrition in the enemy lines with a considerably smaller impact on their own troops and population.

@iliakorvigo7341 5 жыл бұрын

That has always been the main reason for westward expansion for Russia since the XVIII century. The country lacks any natural barriers in the West, which is why having a large enough buffer zone is important in case of a European war.

@horminmangfi5653 3 жыл бұрын

It is terrible

@cxpKSip 2 жыл бұрын

@@iliakorvigo7341 Given how Russia denied Napoleon and the Wehrmacht any way to get Moscow (which is quite close to Europe if not in it), I don't think so...

@helrem Жыл бұрын

@@cxpKSip Actually Napoleon did get to enter Moscow, the russians set it on fire to prevent the french from resupplying and in fact... was achieved

@uristits 9 жыл бұрын

A video where the youtube comments are decent and relevant wow

@JACKSON298 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I found this channel, now I have something to binge watch

@bruhman2089 Жыл бұрын

Amazing to see that the eastern front was just as large.

@ryanc3443 9 жыл бұрын

These episodes are so well done, you really bring the history to life. The only thing bad I've noticed is that I need to stop watching them as soon as they come out, otherwise Iam just looking forward to the next weeks episodes.

@Rex1987 9 жыл бұрын

its incredible how many horrible things happend to the jews already in WWI - and most of them we never hear about. Glad to be enligtenhed - again! :)

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

Rex1987 And the atrocities towards the jews were far from the first ones at the time.

@Rex1987 9 жыл бұрын

yeah i know that but it just supports the idea of how WWII was a continuation of the first one.

@MrGuyJacks 9 жыл бұрын

The Great War In WW1 it was because they were supposedly sympathetic to the Germans, in WW2 it was because they were supposedly sympathetic to the Russians... Scapegoating knows how to change its colours.

@Rex1987 9 жыл бұрын

***** yeah its strange and scary how we have the need to Scapegoat people - its unfortunatly something very human to do.

@horminmangfi5653 3 жыл бұрын

@@Rex1987 it is scary and stupid

@GeneralissimusStalin17 3 жыл бұрын

5:32 Prelude for Austrian box mustache boi when he himself begins his own adventure into Russia 20 years later

@tcabill 9 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say "Great job" on this series. I am really enjoying it and anxiously wait each week for my new episode. Thanks, keep it up!

@sirbaconshake 9 жыл бұрын

Love this! Always look forward to the next one.

@MrJoergenfoged 7 жыл бұрын

Hej Indiana Neidell - very great History as told - I was born in 1941, and was tough about WW1 - not to any extend - and when I entered School in 1949 - not much more was told me about WW2 - it was long after - in the age of the IT and PC I've learned what had happened - but thanks Neidell for this - would you consider a series of WW2 like the one on WW1?

@rabihrac 9 жыл бұрын

Captivating story! Indy you're gifted, that's for sure

@SCUExeCutoR 9 жыл бұрын

I love this show so much. Keep up the outstanding work!

@tomnorris8759 9 жыл бұрын

Just want to say thanks. I thoroughly enjoy the series and appreciate the time and effort you folks put into it.

@matinee1992 2 жыл бұрын

as an Austrian I can relate to the incompetence =)

@pinkpearl1967 9 жыл бұрын

What does everyone think of having Great War meetups? Seeing as we've got 4 more years, there is time to plan something, even a few events in different locations.

@dasmitch161 4 ай бұрын

Been to Ypres since originally watching this episode (nearly 10 years ago!). I love the place, and all the men who are still there are cared for beautifully. We Will Remember Them

@jacksonmclean3131 4 жыл бұрын

Hearing about Flanders Fields again brings back strong memories about learning of the World Wars around November 11th in school

@Bill-Sama-Gates-Laden 9 жыл бұрын

awesome episode!! just gets better and better

@jacket8393 7 жыл бұрын

Man I really love this series, such a cool idea doing it in this format. Also great job at making this really interesting, its really great to see more people interested in WW1 because of this, being someone who's always really enjoyed history from WW1/2 myself, all too often I see people bored to death learning about WW1 and just waiting for WW2 to start never knowing how interesting the first is because of how much more dryly teachers usually present it.

@AkshatJha 8 жыл бұрын

At the start of every video when you say "Welcome to The Great War", it feels like we have really come to a war. Amazing videos, so much to learn, Thank you!

@wolfpackvisual 9 жыл бұрын

These are so good. Thank god I discovered them now, I can't imagine binge-watching these at the END of the series!!

@thescrewfly 7 жыл бұрын

Here I am in early 2017 doing more or less that, having only found this channel today.

@wattsnottaken1 4 жыл бұрын

Indy is such an awesome host. His enthusiasm is awesome too

@SuperJuvexxx 9 жыл бұрын

in italy the italian tv is doing a show like this day after day. congratulations for these videos and thank you. :)

@juanaltredo2974 7 жыл бұрын

arrggg, someone stop me! I can't stop watching this series but I have to do some work! damn you, fantastically informative and entertaining Indy and his team! :D

@494949david 9 жыл бұрын

Great videos , thank you for making them!

@theordinaryguyyeit8966 7 жыл бұрын

It was truly , a scene from a madhouse !!!!!

@raykehr1832 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time and effort on your videos. Loving the way you teach this.

@rohits6121 3 жыл бұрын

These amazing videos and great storytelling deserves 10x the views per episode.

@virtualrock 7 жыл бұрын

This series is amazing. I learned more from this than I ever did when I read about the war on my own.

@TheGreatWar 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad we can help!

@Bradford621 9 жыл бұрын

thanks for this series! just got introduced from reddits front page yesterday and im loving it. keep up the good work!

@overnightgrowth 8 жыл бұрын

It's difficult to imagine the destruction that happened in flanders, and I've been to Ypres totally surreal

@Klongo0815 8 жыл бұрын

such a "beautiful" series.... i will watch them all! and thumbs up for every one!

@hawksboy Жыл бұрын

Enjoying immensely!

@mostlypolitics3957 8 жыл бұрын

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the croses, row on row, That mark are places; and in the sky Marks still braveley singing, fly Scares heard amid the guns below. We are the dead.Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and wher loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up the the quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye breaks faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders fields. this coment took an hour to do that meens that I set aside 1 hours of my life that I will never get back plz if you want more info serch up in Flanders fields and you'll find any thing a bout this poem

@Timasaurus007 9 жыл бұрын

Another great episode, keep 'em coming! :)

@VoxHumbug 9 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this episode! Now I have to wait for the next one :(

@iain349 4 жыл бұрын

Ah the awesome rome total war music..... amazing series, far out i miss it. Well done team.

@federicovalsecchi8531 9 жыл бұрын

you've done a great job with the new maps! the old one were probably one of the only thing about this podcast that was not great. keep going, awesome work

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

Federico Valsecchi Thank you so much. This is actually a world map, so, in the future we will hopefully be able to show maps of the rest of the world too. Tough it's tough research to "historify" modern maps like we did here. So, slowly but steadily we will improve on this front.

@Corbytown75 9 жыл бұрын

im actually doing an open university course online about the great war (so I can become an accredited historian) and this series is excellent learning material. Great work Indy!

@leogiberson5046 5 жыл бұрын

3:34 It was truly a scene from a mad house.

@chsims7032 9 жыл бұрын

I've just started this series today, so trying to catch up. I love it. Very in depth and with the week-to-week episodes, you hear of a whole lot more that gets missed in 3-4 hour documentaries or even mini-series documentaries. Last year I bought a 100th anniversary dvd box set, and this series puts it to shame. So far so good, but man, Austria-Hungary comes off as the Gomer Pyle of the warring nations. I wouldn't want them on my side at this point.

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

1stFallschirmjagerRgt Welcome to the family!

@jonathanhogan240 8 жыл бұрын

this is the most in depth anything about ww1, thank you so much!

@QED_ 8 жыл бұрын

+Jonathan Hogan: Yes. If you figure 10 minutes per day . . . 365 days per year . . . for 4 years . . . it'll be some 243 hours of stuff. Sheesh . . .

@stevebarrett9357 5 жыл бұрын

A friend on FB linked me to your Between 2 Wars and I found out about this series from that. I am thoroughly enjoying the presentation. You briefly noted the ethnic diversity of the Austro-Hungarian empire which, I understand, was quite extensive. When you consider that other nations, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and Italy, were dealing with (essentially) one language in the army which would simplify command and control on one level, I believe the Austro-Hungarians had a mostly Germanic officer corps, with rank and file of the common army being Poles, Croats, Ruthenes, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Serbs, Italians and Rumanians, which probably spoke different dialects if not languages making command and control very challenging and does not mention, as you pointed out, that some of these 'minorities' were disaffected. Add to this the presence of three religions (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox and Islam) among the troops with all the accompanying religious prejudices, and you've got a mess. It is small wonder that the Austro-Hungarian army did not fare well during the Great War.

@garden2011city 7 жыл бұрын

03:41 I lived in that city of Lodz for most of my life .I can even recognize the place where picture was taken .It is about 1,5 km from my mother's flat

@verysilentmouse 9 жыл бұрын

love this series its something to look forward to every Friday morning my time

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

It seems to me you are from the future then. Or at least from somewhere in Oceania?

@verysilentmouse 9 жыл бұрын

The Great War Both Im on Western Australia time +8 GMT

@TheGreatWar 9 жыл бұрын

verysilentmouse Greetings from Berlin and all hail to our lords from the future. Everybody Loves Hypnotoad

@GrizleTheStick 7 жыл бұрын

Great work!!

@smartiepancake 8 жыл бұрын

Great all round perspective, I never got much beyond the Western Front before, apart from Solzhenitsyn's August 1914

@matthiasvanhecke1283 8 жыл бұрын

oh and one thing that you might want to say for the remaining 3 years is not flanders because its a lot bigger then that, we say westhoek or western corner in belgium

@TheGreatWar 8 жыл бұрын

+Matthias Van Hecke Yeah, but internationally it is known as Flanders. Just think of In Flanders Fields.

@matthiasvanhecke1283 8 жыл бұрын

The Great War okay but that part is solely the western part of western flanders

@CandidateKev 8 жыл бұрын

this channel will only be here for 3 more years?

@buckyryan2804 8 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video

@Fribourg-bb3sn 8 жыл бұрын

great series ty guys

@Fribourg-bb3sn 8 жыл бұрын

+Fribourg2012 ah with subtitles ty yes

@iaingammie1799 5 жыл бұрын

Great series. I`m five years late to the party but in full on binge watch mode.

@wavylahti5054 4 жыл бұрын

5 years late but im still learning more than I've ever have

@GraafBerengeur 8 жыл бұрын

Flanders as a historical region (not the current political Flanders) is a lot bigger than it is portrayed at 6:44. And the current political Flanders is even larger than that.

@spanishforjames 5 жыл бұрын

Great videos. Thank you!

@6412mars 4 жыл бұрын

Indy is the best narrator ever!

@or10nsharkfin 2 жыл бұрын

> British forces enter Ypres > A nice, idyllic country town > They start calling it "Wipers." Sounds about right.

@yeensbeans9484 7 жыл бұрын

3:18 to 3:33 is legit the mount and blade napoleonic wars experience. god I have so many hours in that damn game.

@duckncover3567 7 жыл бұрын

wow ..............best history classes ive EVER ATTENTED>>>>>>>> keep up the fine work

@TheGreatWar 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@cosmiccollision6374 8 жыл бұрын

btw very nice series... i'm enjoying every episode from the start :)

@TheGreatWar 8 жыл бұрын

+Cosmic Collision Welcome to the family!

@ivan1992100 9 жыл бұрын

for the next four years? Hope so!!!

@MotivationSideQuest 9 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for this channel!

@JohanStendal 8 жыл бұрын

this is sooo good

@lalibertedan 9 жыл бұрын

Ill watch all the time :)

@raider762 9 жыл бұрын

Damn those mosin bayonets were even bigger back then.

@groundwork1962 5 жыл бұрын

Trying to poke those aircraft's wings

@joeluckmann3423 8 жыл бұрын

I've been to Ypres, it's a very nice town

@wileblock5168 7 жыл бұрын

Hey man love the series keep up the good work. Also question, will you ever talk about the Canadian's or the Newfoundland regiment in this series?

@TheStapleGunKid 8 жыл бұрын

It is interesting that Russia was the only nation willing to give up ground when necessary. All the other nations seemed to think any violation of their territory was simply not allowable. That's why Belgium refused to allow Germany to march through their nation even though they had practically no hope of winning a war against them

@TheGreatWar 8 жыл бұрын

+TheStapleGunKid It's also apparent when you see how Moltke freaked out when the Russians entered East Prussia and how parts of the German military built up their legend after the armistice by repeating that the enemy never invaded German soil in the West.