Machines | Dying In The Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll I THE GREAT WAR - Week 10
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The autumn rain turns the battlefields into muddy landscapes. Mud in which the soldiers are hardly able to dig trenches and in which no artillery gun will stand. The first change of seasons is proving to be a big new challenge for the armies in Europe. While at the time, the longest siege of the war is starting, we can also see the first major African battles of World War 1. If you want to find out more about the early days of war in summer 1914, check out our first episode: http://bit.ly/YUF0xK » HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL? You can support us by sharing our videos with your friends and spreading the word about our work.You can also support us financially on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar Patreon is a platform for creators like us, that enables us to get monthly financial support from the community in exchange for cool perks. » MORE HISTORY? Check out our sister channel IT’S HISTORY: http://youtube.com/itshistory » WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WORLD WAR I AND WHERE ELSE CAN I FIND YOU? We’re offering background knowledge, news, a glimpse behind the scenes and much more on: reddit: http://bit.ly/TheGreatSubReddit Facebook: http://bit.ly/WW1FB Twitter: http://bit.ly/WW1Series Instagram: http://bit.ly/ZpMYPL » CAN I EMBED YOUR VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE? Of course, you can embed our videos on your website. We are happy if you show our channel to your friends, fellow students, classmates, professors, teachers or neighbours. Or just share our videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. We are also happy to get your feedback, criticism or ideas in the comments. If you have interesting historical questions, just post them and we will answer in our OUT OF THE TRENCHES videos. You can find a selection of answers to the most frequently asked questions here: http://bit.ly/OOtrenches » CAN I SHOW YOUR VIDEOS IN CLASS? Of course! Tell your teachers or professors about our channel and our videos. We’re happy if we can contribute with our videos. If you are a teacher and have questions about our show, you can get in contact with us on one of our social media presences. » WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES? Videos: British Pathé Pictures: Mostly Picture Alliance Background Map: http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=6030&lang=en 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 If you want to buy some of the books we use or recommend during our show, check out our Amazon Store: http://bit.ly/AmazonTGW NOTE: This store uses affiliate links which grant us a commission if you buy a product there. » WHAT IS “THE GREAT WAR” PROJECT? THE GREAT WAR covers the events exactly 100 years ago: The story of World War I in realtime. Featuring: The unique archive material of British Pathé. Indy Neidell takes you on a journey into the past to show you what really happened and how it all could spiral into more than four years of dire war. Subscribe to our channel and don’t miss our new episodes every Thursday. » WHO IS REPLYING TO MY COMMENTS? AND WHO IS BEHIND THIS PROJECT? Most of the comments are written by our social media manager Florian. He is posting links, facts and backstage material on our social media channels. But from time to time, Indy reads and answers comments with his personal account, too. The Team responsible for THE GREAT WAR is even bigger: - CREDITS - Presented by : Indiana Neidell Written by: Indiana Neidell Director: David Voss Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Sound Design: Marc Glücks Editing: Toni Steller & Ole-Sten Haufe Research by: Indiana Neidell Fact checking: Latoya Wild, Johanna Müssiger, Florian Wittig, David Voss A Mediakraft Networks Original Channel Based on a concept by Spartacus Olsson Author: Indiana Neidell Visual Concept: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson Executive Producer: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson and Spartacus Olsson Producer: David Voss Social Media Manager: Florian Wittig Contains licenced Material by British Pathé All rights reserved - © Mediakraft Networks GmbH, 2014
Comments
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What's that music from 2:47- 4:00?
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Siberia isn't a bad place. In Mexico there's a kind of restaurants called 'La Siberia'. You can taste Tacos, tostadas and chicken soup.
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Seems like WW1 was a big parade of mistakes and incompetence. There was no country that didn't fuck up.
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love this channel!
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I just discovered this series. Best- Thing- Ever.
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I've just found this channel, great work. Will you be doing for WW2 starting 2019? (this week 80 years ago)
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hahaha black powder?? Get it together Austria! They're like the pot smoking drop out child of the central powers.
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Just a thought here. After the race to the sea was over, why didn't the British just bombed the shit out of the Germans behind the line in northern Flanders with their dreadnoughts?
Naval guns are more powerful than field ones, right? and the Britons had naval superieroty. -
Lord Kitchener....
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Indy is the Man.
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I just want to say amazing channel, keeping track of all this events is something wonderful.
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Pause at 9:18 and you will see a dead soldier wearing a wedding ring. So sad that this man would never return home to see his wife and children ever again.
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The muddy war.
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So you're saying WWI was good for goat farmers but baaaaaaad for goats?
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I read "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman years ago. Reading this book gave me a different perspective on everything in the series up to now. I like how you mentioned Max Hastings' book "Catastrophe" at 7:05. I'll read it. I believe that hearing the same history told by at least two different narrators is both the best way to determine the most relevant facts (because they'll be repeated), and the best way to assess the historiography (was there a whole new chapter in the newest story?). An example is the French revolution, I've heard the story of the French revolution 5 times, 4 times focusing on France, once focusing on San Domingue/Haiti. 4 times I've heard about how the Gironde were reasonable businessmen with a modern worldview and the Jacobin were crazy radicals. And once I've heard about how the Jacobin could read the writing on the wall and the Gironde were greedy fools living in the past. Do you have a recommended reading list about WWI? Secondary sources please (though I was a history major I do not have the time to research primary sources).
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Mud...
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Mud...
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But Sibiria is the cleanest and the most resources rich land in the world.
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Poor Belbium. As was said in Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon: (paraphrasing) Belgium fanatically prepared for war lasts only slightly longer than a Belgium unprepared for war.
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I like when he adds "right?" like I already know this. uh yeah, of course, that one colony that is now Namibia, totally, most profitable German colony. Everybody knows that. Please continue.