The Gardeners Of Salonica Prepare A New Offensive I THE GREAT WAR Week 207

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The Macedonian Front has been quite since the recapture of Monastir except for some minor battles like at Skra. But the five nation Army of the Orient wants to change that and is readying a new offensive.
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@MarkGFL 6 жыл бұрын

Heres an army hospital joke for y'all: During World War I, a British general is visiting an Army hospital. He shakes the hand of one soldier, who is lying in bed. "What's wrong with you, son?" "Gonorrhea, Sir!" "What is the treatment for gonorrhea in the British Army?" "Scrubbing with the wire brush, Sir!" "What is your fondest desire?" "To recover and to serve the King and the country, Sir!" The general then turns to another soldier. "What's wrong with you, son?" "Hemorrhoids, Sir!" "What is the treatment for hemorrhoids in the British Army?" "Scrubbing with the wire brush, Sir!" "What is your fondest desire?" "To recover and to serve the King and the country, Sir!" The general then turns to a third soldier. "What's wrong with you, son?" "Gum disease, Sir!" "What is the treatment for that in the British Army?" "The wire brush, Sir!" "Is it true that your fondest desire is to recover and to serve the King and the country?" "Nay, Sir. It is to grab the wire brush before the others, Sir."

@asos2342 5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 4 жыл бұрын

MarkGFL that funny. I understood that.

@Julianna.Domina 2 жыл бұрын

So THAT'S why my middle school's nurse who was an Army nurse would always say, "what's wrong with you?"

@VainerCactus0 6 ай бұрын

😆🤣

@MrDoctorCrow 6 жыл бұрын

It's worth noting that due to diplomatic pressure, U.S. troops were not allowed in French brothels. This lasted all of ten minutes before young entrepreneurs in the french army started renting their coats and helmets to doughboys so they could sneak through the doors. 10 francs for the evening.

@MrDoctorCrow 6 жыл бұрын

Also on the same topic, in the 42nd (rainbow) division. Troopers from more northern and urban areas (namely men from the 166 Ohio or 165 New York) would have to pair off and babysit their southern cousins from Alabama or Georgia. Turns out the southerners had a bad habit of getting into rowdy brawls outside whorehouses after someone in line insulted the honor of the women inside.

@rubengutierrez19 6 жыл бұрын

MrDoctorCrow thats funny af 😂

@joshuaevans6295 6 жыл бұрын

Please mention this in Out of the Ether.

@LordVader1094 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrDoctorCrow I would love to have your source on this. Not because I don't believe you, but because I want to read more about it. Lol

@unsharded8503 4 жыл бұрын

@@LordVader1094 how about u not be lazy

@alssindi 6 жыл бұрын

“In the nineteen-teens, condoms are less than perfect.” I did not see that sentence coming.

@sam_uelson 6 жыл бұрын

Spartacus should probably clear his search history for this episode

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@zainmudassir2964 Жыл бұрын

why?

@jtgd Жыл бұрын

@@zainmudassir2964 it’ll look like he has an STD?

@TimCBuilders 10 ай бұрын

Excellent😂

@wach9191 6 жыл бұрын

4:49 - goes in bed with helmet. What a soldier :D

@samiam5557 6 жыл бұрын

🌭🌭🌭🌭!

@amasulem 6 жыл бұрын

How else!?

@Darkblender5 6 жыл бұрын

He slightly misunderstood what the lady meant by, "Wear protection."

@atm1947 6 жыл бұрын

Sam Iam STOP

@adancingpenguin3137 5 жыл бұрын

I want to like this comment, but as of writing this. It is currently at 69 likes. I cannot be responsible for messing that up. Consider this comment my approval. Thank you.

@11Kralle 6 жыл бұрын

"You have to USE the condoms!"I wonder how often this was uttered by the military doctors...

@fuzzydunlop7928 5 жыл бұрын

Flies spread disease, so keep yours closed.

@manithecomiccollector6361 4 жыл бұрын

11Kralle a lot!😷😷

@MrSaywutnow 6 жыл бұрын

Indy taught us all something new (if a bit unsavory) about The Great War this week. Let's all give him a clap.

@thegrayyernaut Жыл бұрын

The whole damn war is unsavory, to be honest.

@sam_uelson 10 ай бұрын

Outstanding 😂😂😂

@trygveplaustrum4634 6 жыл бұрын

"Well, it's a quiet week for the war... Let's talk about condoms!"

@Healermain15 6 жыл бұрын

"And horticulture!"

@samiam5557 6 жыл бұрын

🌭🌭🌭hotdog

@TRUECRISTIANJESUS 6 жыл бұрын

Pear harbor 🍐

@hancock63 6 жыл бұрын

What were they made of 100 years ago? Actual rubber?

@wrongway1100 6 жыл бұрын

hancock63 Pig intestines?

@kamilszadkowski8864 6 жыл бұрын

I see Spartacus have been really busy.

@forgefathereli8354 6 жыл бұрын

Was he known for having Venereal disease? *stares blankly* Or this reference is flying miles above my head lol

@kamilszadkowski8864 6 жыл бұрын

Spartacus is the nickname of the researcher and scriptwriter of the Great War and GhostTime history channels.

@RahellOmer 6 жыл бұрын

Finally caught up! Now I know how melancholic that intro is after hearing it on normal speed for the first time. Glad to reach the front!

@gcircle 6 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the front, soldier! Here's a condom.

@worri3db3ar 6 жыл бұрын

Hope you brought plenty dry matches and cigarettes 😎

@cnlbenmc 6 жыл бұрын

I listened to the first three years of this show one after the other in about three months at work on my phone with ear buds (where the free use of my ears wasn't required). Though at normal speed.

@forgefathereli8354 6 жыл бұрын

haha i cleared more time out and watched them at normal speed but thankfully my journey into this channel started early this year so i've had 7+ months to get to "the front"

@indianajones4321 6 жыл бұрын

You really started on a positive note...

@forgefathereli8354 6 жыл бұрын

i had to watch the intro again but yea haha, its only funny because none of the people we're talking about are in any form of pain. Because their all pushin up daisies somewhere.

@emmanoueltsolo3080 6 жыл бұрын

In north side of Salonica ,near Hortiatis mountain ,were a hospital for the soldiers who where hospitalised.those who died by malaria and other diseases were buried in aspot near the hospital .An allied cemetery was build ,and until now their families come for visit this hidden cemetery ,its preserved with whole honour they deserve ,the stunning is that on the tombstones are from different corps even navy man ,carved with the signs of the battalions that served,and poems

@ultraranger1286 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine 4 years after a deadly industrial total war, all familiar civilizations were crumbling and bleeding resources and manpower to dry and fighting themselves to nonexistence, then comes the deadliest flu ever that eventually killed like 2% of the world's entire population. I can't imagine the horror of even just being a normal citizen in a belligerent European nations of that time, it's no wonder many call that era apocalypse. And imagine being a German soldiers but your country not even has rubbers to provide you condoms.

@karlkarlos3545 6 жыл бұрын

Oh, the Germans invented synthetic rubber eventually.

@UnwaryThunder9 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a Russian during that time, millions of your country's men are dead from war, you have no food, your country has collapsed and is in the middle of a civil war which will kill even more millions, then to make it worse the Spanish Flu is running rampant all over the world.

@ultraranger1286 6 жыл бұрын

So did they use them for tires or condoms?

@lechevaliermalfet1 6 жыл бұрын

well They can get 352 out one,if it a goodyear

@victorbruant389 6 жыл бұрын

@VersusARCH 6 жыл бұрын

The "gardeners" will pull off an advance similar to the German and Austro-Hungarian one against the Russians just before Brest Litovsk peace. French artillery and colonial (Senegalese) troops will do the hardest part of the actual breakthrough but the blitzkrieg-on-foot spearhead of the exploitation phase will be done by the homesick veterans of the Serbian army often with 6 years of warfare under their belt whose marching prowess and endurance will make it difficult for the French CAVALRY to keep pace over the span of days.

@danielbat9887 6 жыл бұрын

It's July. There are 4 months left until the end of the war and it doesn't seem like it at all. In WW2 4 months before May 9th 1945 it was clear that Germany was going to fall, it was a matter of time. In WW1 it doesn't seem like it at all. The offensives, the hunger, the diseases, it's all just escalating.

@strangeworldsunlimited712 6 жыл бұрын

As you will see when we get to it, but this is exactly why the Germans, in particular, were so shocked at the ending of the war, and more so to learn that they had lost. There was little to no indication to them that such a thing was remotely a possibility.

@strangeworldsunlimited712 6 жыл бұрын

A rarity for the Central Powers' home front, just to clarify. The Entente allies were pretty well supplied, partially due to the US.

@Mortrag 6 жыл бұрын

As you gonna see, it doesn't take long to decide a war. And in WW1 the germans noticed the inevitable defeat in time. After all the OHL was well informed about the status of the whole war, while "the mass" mostly know propaganda. In WW2 they fought over years (!) an already lost war, hoping for a miracle at one (!) of the frontlines. And they fought even beyond the point where the uninformed realised, it was too late. So what now seems as the time where "the fall was a matter of time", is in my opinion better described as "the slaughter after the fall already happend".

@basstfestivalvlogs7684 5 жыл бұрын

I think it's pretty clear Germany only holds on due to its allies and it's allies are starving and only holding out with the belief Germany will take France and help them. If the amaricans win in France there's no one with the strangth to aid Germany and all the other powers will be push overs

@shivmalik9405 2 жыл бұрын

@@strangeworldsunlimited712 Not really. All nations were badly affected by the war-the French weren’t doing much better than the Germans, especially the north, and in Britain there were fears of social uprisings

@victorbruant389 6 жыл бұрын

"No mistakes this time, Cole!" "Stay alert. Keep your eyes open!" "Just relax now. Don't fight it. We're sending you to the third quarter of 1996. Right on the money." "This is Indy Neidell, welcome to the great war!"

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

and then he meets Wolverine

@rednovember2205 6 жыл бұрын

What sort of TGW lore am I missing out on here?

@netserivry5561 6 жыл бұрын

Where are these quotes from?

@Mr.Isquierdo 6 жыл бұрын

The Privileged Capitalist 12 Monkeys

@wrongway1100 6 жыл бұрын

Wurschtl Burschtl Annnnnd that's how STDs were spread.

@josscharpenay170 4 жыл бұрын

How timely, I am watching this episode during the COVID-19 situation.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 6 жыл бұрын

Go on give him a cla.... no on second thoughts give him a round of applause!

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 6 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaczynski better a single clap than a lone herpe.

@cosmicostrich3657 6 жыл бұрын

Finally caught up. The Great War was like the only thing I've watched in the past month

@Masada1911 6 жыл бұрын

Kool Kid22 welcome.

@thelostant 6 жыл бұрын

I discovered this channel about two months ago and have watched the weekly episodes in order. I caught up yesterday and this is my first as released episode. Still have a ton of special episodes to watch. My prediction.... the war will be over by this Christmas!

@johnkilmartin5101 6 жыл бұрын

The only front where the Canadian troops did not have the largest percentage of VD cases was Vladivostok where the American forces surpassed them due to the greater distance to the redlight district. If the number you quoted for the entire Imperial force is correct that would mean that the Canadians made up between a fifth and a quarter of the cases as from what I have read 20% of Canadians were treated for VD. I am not sure if that is based on the men who reached France or it includes the significant number who only reached Britain.

@WhitishSine8 6 жыл бұрын

Wow this was really a weird week, I hadn’t thought about venereal diseases and epidemics during the war🤔

@DarkshadowXD63 6 жыл бұрын

I've been reading a book called opening Pandora's Box. Its mainly about Germany's perspective on the war from 1900 onward. I got reminded of it because the cover is the same picture as 0:23

@RahellOmer 6 жыл бұрын

DarkshadowXD63 That photo is pretty iconic. It shows some amalgamation of the modern warfare (e.g. a gas mask) with the older ones (a cavalry officer holding a lancet)

@jeffreyfalatic4678 6 жыл бұрын

Great book so far

@varovaro1967 6 жыл бұрын

The human condition.... alas.

@LocalHeretic-ck1kd 6 жыл бұрын

I heard a story in my village. Its about local men who went to fight in the Great War. And then some returned to their lives and wives. But in a couple of years it turned out they brought syphilis with them. It was a big thing back then and some marriages ended because of that.

@gcircle 6 жыл бұрын

Almost forgot about the Spanish Flu. I can't imagine what it must've been back then. The greatest war of all time finally ends...only for the most devastating epidemic the world had ever seen to take over.

@happy-go-commie 6 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw Salonika I thought Indy would say malaria hahaha... VD -- always a surprise.

@FakeBlocks 6 жыл бұрын

Σαλλονικάρα!!!

@bazzatheblue 6 жыл бұрын

This Martin Gilbert book must be he go to tome,it's mentioned every week,mostly.

@nicholaspease4807 6 жыл бұрын

Man your channels awsome whenever there is a new video I always get exited to click on it

@82dorrin 6 жыл бұрын

"I shot... FIRST!!!" -Gavrilo Princip

@justinian-the-great 6 жыл бұрын

Onyx1916 Just like Han Solo. 😁

@strayandrongo7461 6 жыл бұрын

What happened to the film on Monash? I have been so excited, checking back every day haha. Another great clip. Love your work!

@knutdergroe9757 6 жыл бұрын

Please, please continue reading on the poem's. It adds a emotional tone...... To the dry facts of thousands of warriors.

@airraverstaz 6 жыл бұрын

Indy said 186,000 died, but 168,000 was written, not a huge mistake just kind of wondering which number is correct.

@alganhar1 6 жыл бұрын

Possibly either. WWI casualty figures are notoriously imprecise. Not unusual to see estimations tens of thousands either way. Lots of reasons for this, and most of them are nothing to do with the High Commands not caring, more to do with record keeping, and with knowing who was actually killed where, assuming they could actually find the bodies that is. A horrifying number of the war dead of WWI have no known grave, and many simply vanished.

@davidvwilliamson Жыл бұрын

my grandfather was invalided out of salonica with malaria. he was a keen gardener, also an accomplished pianist so i sometimes wonder if he knew lionel monkton (composer) who was musical director of his regiment at that time

@UncrownedLegend 6 жыл бұрын

That triangle spike on the table was one of the most disgusting weapons used during ww1.

@markusmalmstrom6038 6 жыл бұрын

That poem in the end hit hard

@marynriveraortiz2228 6 жыл бұрын

9:39 Dude on the left dancing is dope

@WildBillCox13 6 жыл бұрын

Another segment to go in under "best ever" category. Great work!.

@cnlbenmc 6 жыл бұрын

I heard that WWI might have been one if the first wars in human history where more people died from wounds on the battlefield than from disease. Also that it was one of the few wars that more soldiers than civilians died.

@LadyAnuB 5 жыл бұрын

US Civil War where wound infection was a serious issue to go along with the infectious diseases that already existed.

@irakest 6 жыл бұрын

Well, looks like it's time to dive deep in *World War I: After Dark*

@kevindoyle1884 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting episode

@caldera11 6 жыл бұрын

0:13 sub in the outtakes reel where Indy says "Bladder control"

@cs_fl5048 4 жыл бұрын

One of my father's tasks as a physician was to clean up brothels that were infecting the American Merchant marines at Galveston. So many had caught it on the home front, too.

@tommcdonald1873 6 жыл бұрын

Indy, I have a question for Spartacus off subject if he has read any of the work done by Thomas Lowry, MD on the venereal disease in the U.S. Civil War.

@mikequinn6206 7 ай бұрын

I was reliably informed (by the son of a military doctor) that some 4000 Australian troops were quarantined in Egypt after the war, before they were let loose. I've often wondered whether a certain grandfather, of a certain woman extremely close to myself, was one of that number!

@terraincognita3749 Жыл бұрын

Do check out the happy guy on the left in the photo on 9:38, he is doing some sort of zombie walk for the photographer!

@silvioevan11 6 жыл бұрын

Great book about Salonica during the War: archive.org/details/insalonicawithou00lakerich

@ChristopherM720 5 жыл бұрын

Venereal Disease...the self-inflicted wound that didn't require you to shoot your own foot. Great stats Indy and...yeah.

@Groveish 6 жыл бұрын

What happened to the Western Front frontlines after the end of the World War I? How long did the “cleanup” take? We’re talking about complex systems of trenches, fortifications and positions spanning hundreds of kilometers, with thousands of big siege guns placed throughout. Did the Entente military powers do any cleanup after the war? Or was it left to the locals? Were things like big guns and fortifications deemed too costly to bring back home(especially by the US and UK) and left there(maybe donated to the French)? Were any small arms/machine guns or anything that could be used by individual civilian looters left behind? What would I see if I visited Somme/Loos/Ypres etc. in 1920? 1925? 1930?

@OldFellaDave 6 жыл бұрын

Look up: Zone Rouge. There are still areas of France that are off limits to people

@x999uuu1 6 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming the guns would be brought back as they were fairly mobile in comparison and expensive. Forts though? Cant say for sure

@Robbini0 5 жыл бұрын

@@OldFellaDave Zone Rouge is mostly due to the unexploded ordnance I believe.

@MrDoctorCrow 6 жыл бұрын

The Mademoiselle was dressed in blue, parlez-vous? The Mademoiselle was dressed in blue, parlez-vous? The Mademoiselle was dressed in blue, the souvenir came in blue too Hinky dinky parlez-vous

@pavelbarykin9018 6 жыл бұрын

Hey guys! Love the show. Where do you get the picture you use from? I especially liked the ones in this episode.

@spirosf1280 6 жыл бұрын

I have finally caught up after 2 months of watching

@therickson100 6 жыл бұрын

You should to a "Who Did What in World War One" on Ernest Hemingway.

@OldFellaDave 6 жыл бұрын

Welcome to our Great War Special on Ernest Hemingway in WW1. He got a medal for delivering chocolates to the Italians. If you'd like to know more about 7th Battle of the Isonzo click here (point left). Our Patreon supporter of the week is SomeBloke27. See you next week!

@kostaskossivakis1947 6 жыл бұрын

May I ask where can we submit our questions for out of the trenches?

@koloffsfs 6 жыл бұрын

@The Great War You could make an episode about epidemics on the Home front. I saw a lot of documents about denied leave because of Cholera outbreaks in some regions in austria hungary.

@koloffsfs 6 жыл бұрын

I was not talking about cholera at the front. I was talking about Soldiers being denied leave because of epidemics in their home towns and districts.

@sevensixtwo5001 6 жыл бұрын

1:36 Is the graphic or Indy correct?

@pitdigger 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@robertdevito5001 6 жыл бұрын

Jillian Smith lmao

@mmd-zz9go 4 жыл бұрын

Well on the subtitles its 186,000 also so i guess thats the correct number

@unrelatedpopcornfire7277 6 жыл бұрын

Finally, all caught up.

@pontan8084 6 жыл бұрын

Question for out of the trenches: I dont know if you have actually talked about this, but what did the Germans actually DO with BeutePanzers, what were their tactics with them? Did they use them the same ways the British did and were they successfull?

@mrperson0140 6 жыл бұрын

Im sad the last episode is on Nov 11th :'(

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 4 жыл бұрын

Spoilers please

@martinaustin6230 4 жыл бұрын

@@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 It's ok. It ends with you leading a heroic calvary charge into Paris. Forcing the surrender of the allies.

@TheCimbrianBull 6 жыл бұрын

Nowadays we have DJ Ötzi but back in the day they had DJ Hötzi!

@austinlong2698 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting thought. Was massive insane lighting and sound directed towards the enemy ever implemented? I can see as a scout or front line defender a constant barrage of light and noise preventing the inability to sleep being a horrible (yet effective) method of warfare during the time , when no restrictions we're followed

@sashimanu 2 жыл бұрын

Soldiers at the front quickly learn to sleep at any time, in all poses and all circumstances - including under constant artillery and small arms fire; to the point that the lack of the said sounds make them feel uneasy and hard to fall asleep.

@randomlyentertaining8287 4 жыл бұрын

So, I have finally watch far enough that I get to hear about a flu pandemic while dealing with a pandemic myself. *Nice*

@brokenbridge6316 4 жыл бұрын

Why was there never a video on "Desperate Franky." He sounds pretty interesting. Great job.

@AshishGupta-ql9lq 6 жыл бұрын

3:35 i don't have words

@MikhaelAhava 6 жыл бұрын

Intriguing, I’ve never heard of this before, although sounds gross, War is always gross. It’s past midnight, im half asleep.

@argosharru 3 жыл бұрын

Even POWs got some action. In the chronicles of my ancestral village (1.5k~ pop, in bohemia near the borders with germany) groups of russian and serbian POWs were conscripted to harvest hops, and the chronicle mentions them fathering many children with local girls:-)

@Marinealver 6 жыл бұрын

8:15 sounds like how news is broadcasted today.

@alganhar1 6 жыл бұрын

The Czech Legion, their story could fill a bookcase of books... and so many people these days would disbelieve their exploits....

@Budisa35 6 жыл бұрын

Will you ever make a special episode about Serbia?

@PetarJovanovic993 6 жыл бұрын

Imaju dosta epizoda o nama, omiljena mi je o Milunki Savić.

@Budisa35 6 жыл бұрын

Petar Jovanovic Da al nemaju ono kao o našoj državi, čak su i o Hrvatskoj napravili a ona bila deo Austrougarske...

@periodicpenguin9767 6 жыл бұрын

I hope everyone is having a better week than those in the trenches.

@nickmoore6381 6 жыл бұрын

at 7:22 the word "Empire" identifying the Japanese Empire is, is squished. ;) Nice Eastern map btw! Is this preparation for WW2 Asian front battles? Or did you always have that part of the map?

@Pavlos_Charalambous 6 жыл бұрын

And don't forget venerial diseases was almost like a death sentence back then especially sifilis at the final stages could cause a sort of paranoia not to mention the social stigma attached to those diseases..as a matter of fact one of the most famous Greek poets of that period( kariotakis) suicide to avoid that last terrible stages of Sifilis..he shoot himself because as he said " if you know how to swim you can't drawn your self in the sea , I was floating for hours.."

@Pavlos_Charalambous 6 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaczynski kariotakis killed himself at 1928 I don't know how much known it was that there was any effective treatment for that disease or for any at all

@DrVictorVasconcelos 9 ай бұрын

Who's this "Spartacus Olssen" guy? He picked a great topic, one of the ways in which modern wars really are wars against humanity. You two should do something together. Well, I guess the war is ending, so there's no use...

@enzobuso5933 Ай бұрын

Lol

@colmheathcote3831 6 жыл бұрын

Hi would you do a book recommendation video?

@tonyv2373 6 жыл бұрын

Neat

@ultraranger1286 6 жыл бұрын

BTW crew I'm assuming that there would be a special episode about Spanish Flu and its impact on the war at some point soon?

@perezmig577 6 жыл бұрын

Those were answers to those questions.

@kerblo 6 жыл бұрын

What were some great war nicknames for the VD they suffered?

@0Fingolfin0 6 жыл бұрын

what is the name of the background song at the end?

@cisco3111 6 жыл бұрын

Southern Rhodesia in WW1?

@borispapic9510 6 жыл бұрын

LETS GOOOO

@Cgriff512 6 жыл бұрын

That picture of two people with the masks about to kiss is pretty hawt

@MrTimebomb12 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing like military issued condoms

@the_Kutonarch 6 жыл бұрын

If you are in a position of responsibility, and cannot stop ppl you are responsible for from doing something "wrong", then it is your *moral and ethical responsibility* to *reduce the harm* that their actions cause. Notions of "encouraging bad/harmful behavior" are *absolutely irrelevant* if you cannot physically put a stop to said actions, *duty of care trumps propriety.*

@robertdevito5001 6 жыл бұрын

Remember, your condoms were made by the lowest bidder...

@EnigmaEnginseer 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertdevito5001 better than nothing I suppose

@jackbrooks1252 3 жыл бұрын

Spartacus drew the short straw on this episode. 😂😂😂

@PsilocybinCocktail 6 жыл бұрын

Indy, what Martin Gilbert mentions is a "Gas beam attack" and they had been carried out by the Special Brigade since May 1918. They were not common, due to the preparation needed - light railways extended or reinforced, cylinders to be transported, infantry carrying parties requested, electrical wiring put in place, and so on - and due to their nature a lot of their effect took place well behind German lines, not visible to the British. They were also deliberately launched at night, because this gave less indication that a gas attack was underway. The idea was to create a very, very dense cloud of gas that would travel for miles before dispersing and becoming ineffective. Some idea of what they achieved is present in the "History of the 51st Highland DIvision" (Page 325), where a reconnaissance flight the morning after a gas beam attack describes a swathe of dead grasses that reached 5,000 yards behind the German front lines. The German gunline appeared to have been reached, as their artillery on this sector was completely silent for days afterwards.

@Masada1911 6 жыл бұрын

10:51 Which one of them is Spartacus?

@Tresson 6 жыл бұрын

I'm Spartacus!

@SOL_INVICTVS_123 6 жыл бұрын

I Broke the damn.

@MrRenegadeshinobi 6 жыл бұрын

#MakeHistoryGreatAgain

@bocajuniorslomejor9152 6 жыл бұрын

One thing should be mentioned here is that early on it the war after trench warfare took over the British copied the French method of having army regulated brothels behind the frontline which had not been officially done before and was strictly censored given the prevailing victorian norms in Britain at the time.

@AshishGupta-ql9lq 6 жыл бұрын

i don't think indy mentioned anything about japanese forces in the special about czechoslovak legion blowing up a train filled with poison gas is the pinnacle of cruelty and stupidity

@majormononoke8958 6 жыл бұрын

Its only me or is Indy tired of the war ??

@MrRenegadeshinobi 6 жыл бұрын

Major Mononoke after four years, who wouldn't be?

@chrisgay4786 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sparticus! Did you have a personal interest in this one?

@joshuaevans6295 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, since you and Extra History are both covering the Spanish Flu right now, are you going to do another crossover?

@abdullahalsheikh3922 6 жыл бұрын

"The insane rising of the so-called Left SRs has been suppressed" , well Joseph you could phrased to something more interesting but fine you do you.

@ognjenpetrovic5843 6 жыл бұрын

Look closely on the Salonica front it will in the end solve the entire war!

@frankbr5991 6 жыл бұрын

In one of your former Episodes you mentioned that UK and Germany treated ZEISS Equipment vs. Rubber.Now you mentioned that all soldiers (without USA) using condoms. Wasn't the rubber to valuable for condoms, or do they produce condoms out of animal gut? Where the condoms afterwards cleaned and used again?