The Churchills Episode Two: The March to War

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@andrewcole4843 Жыл бұрын

Hitler ignoring Winston as insignificant - I love that.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Жыл бұрын

There was one good thing about Hitler: He killed Hitler!

@rationalconservative386 Жыл бұрын

Mussolini did the same to Hitler nearly a decade earlier.

@nyckolaus Жыл бұрын

Utterly Fascinating! Thank you, David Starkey.

@tomtom21194 Жыл бұрын

I think this is Starkey's best series. Its brilliant

@sadwingsraging3044 Жыл бұрын

Churchill writing about Marlborough while thinking about Germany as told to us by David Starkey.🤯

@ellencook1658 Ай бұрын

Win win win

@danielrichwine2268 Жыл бұрын

David, in case you read this, I want to credit you for inspiring me to read churchills biography of the Duke of Marlborough. So far it is just as good as I was hoping it would be. Better actually. I'm beginning to understand why Churchill was considered to be a literary genius.

@rolandnelson6722 Жыл бұрын

Worth reading Winston’s book on his young life too.

@mikegalvin9801 Жыл бұрын

@@rolandnelson6722 The River War is wonderful. I inherited my dad's library and after Gibbons I intend to start on Marlborough.

@jumblestiltskin1365 Жыл бұрын

What an incredible series this is turning out to be, far better than anything the legacy media has been able to do these past couple of decades.

@entropy5431 Жыл бұрын

I think was made for TV originally and has been uploaded.

@tatata1543 Жыл бұрын

It was on a “legacy media” channel a decade ago. So you’re completely wrong.

@bohenriksson2330 Жыл бұрын

Starkey’s presentation leaves you speechless!

@duncananderson6588 Жыл бұрын

We here in New Zealand 🇳🇿 have a town in the South Island called Blenheim in a small provincial area called Marlborough. This battle must have been of no little significance to have inspired recognition at such a distance.

@allangibson8494 Жыл бұрын

And Wellington turns up in quite a few places too. (Victoria has a Wellington Rd that intersects with a Napoleon Rd…).

@kiwifruit27 Жыл бұрын

@@allangibson8494here in Sydney we have a Napoleon St and at the end is a park called Bona Park, someone loved history

@allangibson8494 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifruit27 And painful puns…

@lennoxhonychurch3733 11 ай бұрын

And here in the small Caribbean island of Dominica there is also a Blenheim named in the 1770s

@DS9TREK Жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading these. It's wonderful to see them again.

@enovasia Жыл бұрын

Bravo. Fascinating. Fabulous. Masterful -- this may well be "peak Starkey".

@barnham9388 Жыл бұрын

This is really outstanding - proper insightful, thought provoking history - I had a two hour car journey with my father in law at the weekend - we started talking about my son’s upcoming exams and about “source analysis” in the context of history and ended up mashing together an overview of how interesting this series was, with how interesting the early chapters of Laurence Rees’ book “The Holocaust” are which perhaps cover some overlapping themes around the rise of Nazism. Much better than any recent history related output on mainstream TV.

@denz8261 Жыл бұрын

Erudite and superb presentation. Thank you.

@ChrisW-cn7pb Жыл бұрын

This is excellently presented !

@Eyyoh755 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Germany! A very interesting documentary, indeed! As a german admirer of Sir Winston and british history, it was a real pleasure to watch this series.😊

@jeffhreid Жыл бұрын

This is brilliantly done. Just splendid

@DanThomas1161 Жыл бұрын

These 2 series are proof yet again that English are best historians and story tellers. Bar none.

@brianswelding Жыл бұрын

This is so good, what a pleasant surprise, Thank you! 🙏 Looking forward to watching the other episodes.

@markanderson3376 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thanks for uploading these Churchill videos. I just looked into buying Churchill's biography of Marlborough but it seems surprisingly hard to find in a print edition these days.

@user-pt1ow8hx5l Жыл бұрын

Time's ripe for republication. With a foreword of sorts....

@2frogland Жыл бұрын

thank god we have you david

@sandraroutledge6453 Жыл бұрын

So informative. It reveals Churchill the man as well as the great politician and leader he was to become

@jeffhreid Жыл бұрын

The genetics of the Churchill line is remarkable. The likeness of the Duke of Marlborough, through to Sir Winston, down to his son Randolph is striking.

@JennyRoses1975 Жыл бұрын

plus a pinch of American aristocracy..

@jeffhreid Жыл бұрын

@@JennyRoses1975 yes, if I recall Sir Winston is the only ever honorary American citizen. Of course I like to think he had a bit of the American spirit built in as it were, due to his Mother’s influence.

@laurarivera5875 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for yet another fantastic episode! Keep them coming!!!

@FergalByrne Жыл бұрын

Marvellous, thank you

@barefootonasandybeach638 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful presentation..

@okanv Жыл бұрын

16:30 😆😆Thanks for this great comment of Charles II of Spain.

@druharper Жыл бұрын

Superb

@daviddoyle5291 Жыл бұрын

I have always said that I have no Heroes, but David Starkey comes damn close.

@annehumphreys271 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! It’s the second time I’ve watched this and it was every bit as good second time around.

@louisgiokas2206 Жыл бұрын

Masterful. I have purchased the four volumes for my Kindle. I am almost embarrassed to say they cost me under $20 altogether. While I would love to get hardcover volumes, I am running out of room (in a large house).

@wm5113 10 ай бұрын

Hello from Scotland, superb!! Cheers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

@kiwifruit27 Жыл бұрын

What a truly fascinating series, excellent in every way

@prama064 Жыл бұрын

New perspective from an insider Churchill

@ckwind1971 Жыл бұрын

I am riveted. Can't wait for the next one.

@josephking3654 Жыл бұрын

Mr Starkey this is an excellent docuseries , thank you for your haed work and dedication , I eagerly look forward to part 3 if there is one .

@elizabethblackwell6242 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic. Thank you so much, Professor.

@dorothyramser7805 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent.

@harrietlovejoy3424 Жыл бұрын

Appreciate Starke’s docuseries.

@frankbrennan1619 Жыл бұрын

Sir Doctor David Starkey. Historian.

@jonathanwaterhouse1 Жыл бұрын

Marvellous thank you

@matthewbell4200 7 ай бұрын

Excellent David

@rationalconservative386 Жыл бұрын

This was fantastic!

@TC-cd5fh 8 ай бұрын

Superb stuff. Great teacher.

@geoffw8565 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant !

@archiecollins3714 10 ай бұрын

This is a very good documentary... I also really like the green overcoat!

@sj-ll6wc 9 ай бұрын

A good leader understands necessary destruction to hurt the enemy for the greater good ..but a really good leader does not enjoy having to do it. And has the strength of character to admit it..sadly lacking in our leaders today

@ashthebash66 Жыл бұрын

Super documentary

@Boric78 Жыл бұрын

This is rarther good.

@1990pommie Жыл бұрын

250.000 pounds reward plus incredible realeastate in era,when 4 pounds a year wage was common.

@JohnAsmith-rw6uo Жыл бұрын

Anyone who claims you can trust them by now . Don't trust them at all.

@norcatch Жыл бұрын

It is, though, descriptive, that the photo of Churchill and Baldwin is from the mid 20s.

@Grenadier311 Жыл бұрын

Marlborough would delivery victory after unbroken victory, only for the diplomat to squander the lives lost time and again at the negotiating table, but in the end, after gratuitous bloodshed, Louis IV's iron grip on Europe was broken - if some years later than necessary. The War of Spanish Succession was unmatched by measure of bloodiness until Napolean's rise a century later.

@robertewing3114 2 күн бұрын

What evidence Government modernised RAF because Churchill advised it? He wasnt Marlborough talking to his monarch, it was Chamberlain and the Treasury that wanted security and value for money, and all was planned for war in a few years time, no imperative to delay modernization.

@thomasriedel7583 Жыл бұрын

History as theology.

@anoshya Жыл бұрын

I can’t understand if he was not present at any of these events he must have read loads of books on the subject and then talked about what occurred ..it’s the only way he knows so much

@user-th5nb3ox1w 11 ай бұрын

We should study and learn from history.

@magneticqubzian6902 Жыл бұрын

Where is monarcy?

@rabburns1382 Жыл бұрын

"Anne.........QUEEN OF ENGLAND....? england......eNGLAND ?." SCOTLAND ?..

@geomac650 Жыл бұрын

Plopper !

@paulklee5790 Жыл бұрын

‘Adolph Hitler… in this bed, dictating…’

@70galaxie 7 ай бұрын

plug and ring bayonet were downright stupid. a retractable bayonet was logical. loading and firing were paramount.

@edwardolson8996 Жыл бұрын

Both Churchills deserve Starkey's great praise, but it is a real stretch to equate Louis XlV with Hitler. Louis was no vicious, bloodthirsty, tyrant. He did wage war, and sought to expand his empire, but there was nothing unusual about this. England sought, and achieved, global hegemony, for centuries before, and centuries after, Louis. Wales and Ireland were the first victims of its aggression. Louis practiced realpolitik, as England has always done. Louis was, actually, by the standards of his time, generous to those who opposed him. He took no delight in the torture and execution of innocent, or even guilty, people. He was no Henry Vlll. His revocation of the Edict of Nantes was tyrannical. He was, alas, no saint. Nothing he ever did was as contemptible as the U.K.'s Opium Wars against China. Queen Victoria, through her ministers, was the biggest drug dealer in history. I'd like to hear Starkey on this subject. It is facile to seek symmetry in his subject matter, but it's a cheap choice, and it should be above a serious historian.

@kellyowens1868 Жыл бұрын

So what you're really saying is . . . a useful historical COMPARISON, is the same as "EQUATING" 2 national leaders, 2 historical periods, 2 international conflicts ... even if the author NEVER claims they are identical ... because that would be clearly untrue, ridiculous, & a mission impossible. Clearly both Churchills fought against tryranical, national leaders, bent on European conquest. The absolute monarchy of Louis XIV, & Hitler's NAZI regime were undemocratic, authoritarian, & arbitrary, unlike the constitutional monarchy, it's elected parliament & Prime Ministers who actually directed military affairs abroad. As for Wales, & Ireland being conquered by the English, the historical truth is French Norman lords subjugated those lands through force of arms, after first conquering the English kingdom in 1066, as you should know. No where in this 3 hour trilogy does Dr. Starkey "equate" the two military despots bent on European conquest, but suely you've heard the good professor say, History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," & no truer example exists than the medoldic comparison he has composed here. Your critique it seems is untrue on it's face, unfair in the extreme, &, I dare say, intellectually dishonest, but I invite any detailed defense of your unreasonable accusation, but leave any personal attacks, or emotionally driven replies outside this conversation please. KOut

@edwardolson8996 Жыл бұрын

@@kellyowens1868 I'll leave any personal attacks, or emotionally driven replies outside this conversation. You have provided enough for both of us. But "melodic comparison" is inventive. Thanks for that.

@barbararice6650 Жыл бұрын

North British horse regiments harried Munich, oh dear 😑

@lebedev63 Жыл бұрын

This is good but the music gets in the way. Always distraction. Do you read the comments? Please contact KP and offer private history tuition to the Wales' children before it's too late for them to learn from you. EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY AND THANK YOU. MORE PLEASE.

@williampowhida572 Жыл бұрын

Nonsense!!

@rm-mb4vj Жыл бұрын

It’s hard to imagine a less compelling analogy than the one between Nazi Germany and the France of Louis XIV. And however appealing it might have seemed to Churchill to employ a little bit of double entendre in the 1930s, it does strike one as rather stupid to reiterate it now, in hindsight, as a serious hypothesis.

@peterkavanagh64 Жыл бұрын

Perparation for less is not esr but if ut be fsrxawsy is liss a clise friebd is v

@raycarter4030 Жыл бұрын

I dare you to tell the truth.

@tatata1543 Жыл бұрын

Now there’s a guy that likes the sound of his own voice. Pity he is reduced to making KZfaq videos that hardly anyone watches because no mainstream company will touch him.

@dovetonsturdee7033 Жыл бұрын

It must be traumatic for you, for once coming across someone who knows his topic, marshals his arguments logically, and doesn't feel cowed by the 'Agenda.'

@tatata1543 Жыл бұрын

@@dovetonsturdee7033 It’s the racism thing that bothers me to be honest, I’m funny like that.

@thechampion1671 Жыл бұрын

No one who speaks the truth is allowed on the MSM.

@rogerwoodhouse7945 Жыл бұрын

@@tatata1543 Not funny just poorly educated.

@tatata1543 Жыл бұрын

@@rogerwoodhouse7945 Are you saying he’s not a racist? Seriously?

@nevada531 Жыл бұрын

Dr Starkey, I was following your descriptions of W.C's literary influence from his ancestor with interest until you made an utterly false statement.. You said the Left was part of Appeasement to Hitler when you know that is false. ' The Left",as you disparengingly refer to it, was always opposed to fascism- be it from Italy, Spain or Nazi Germany. It was your gang, the Conservatives, Baldwin, Chamberlain etc., that sought appeasement. An appalling abuse of your status as a historian to mislead and betray your profession. I have inscribed from your page and doubt will ever be posted because I love history and you are now a cringing propagandist.