Knocking Out The Hejaz Railway I THE GREAT WAR Week 195
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- While the Germans are still advancing in Flanders (Operation Georgette), the other fronts are not always quiet. In Palestine, the British forces and the Arab Revolt are taking the initiative again. T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Arab Revolt are attacking the vital Hejaz Railway, a major transport factor for the Ottoman Empire.
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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.
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(an ottoman officer looking over the sabotaged Hejaz railway, then turning to a soldier tasked to defend it)
All you had to do is defend the goddamned train CJ !
Duke of Lorraine big smoke, more like big joke alright bye.
You had one f*****g job cj!!!!!
- _"What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?"_
- _"It's clean!"_
"There's nothing in the desert..."
It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere
The desert or the muddy trenches of Passchendaele, an easy choice
Sweet lol. Sounds like is in the book.
Πεντακαθαρη η ερημος
So Germany was desperate, and Austria hungry
have all the likes my friend
Take my upvote...
Ba Dum Tsss*
Hahahahah
And this just about concludes Part 1 of 'The Dash for the Channel'. Come back in 2040 for 'Part 2'! ;) Thanks for the shout out!
Oooof 2019 you mean
Oh boy... an Austrian offensive!!! I predict Conrad will lead it, and this will win the war long before his birthday :)
Indiana Neidell He no doubt outfitted his half with his patented Hotzensocks.
I'm predicting Svetozar used the tactics that resembled Hutier tactics. We'll see in mid-june but if Conrad did adopt Stormtroop doctrine for the rumble on the Piave, I will be surprised. Hopefully Cadorna will be reappointed chief of staff in the meantime too :)
Been watching the series since 2016 so since then I have been binging through this religiously so I can finally say - I'M UP TO DATE! Thank you Indy!
I just got caught up as well, hahaha
Me too last month.
About six weeks, sort of miss all the Great War binging.
Harry's Moving Castle I have been watching since the. Wry start! I wonder what they will after the war is over?
Damn, I still need to watch about 200 videos to get there. Congratulations guys.
So the Germans occuplied Helsinki, but the real question is if they'll Finnish the job ;-)
It was actually Finnish(the whites) that was fighting Finnish(the reds), not Germans. There were a handful of Germans, yes, but hundreds of times more of (white)Finnish.
Yeah, it was a civilian war between two sides that got eventually sorted. And a large portion of those "German", they were actually sent to Germany to study war, by the whites... which actually makes them Finnish too.
Or can you tell me how an original Finnish, that became a Russian general that was on the side of the whites, later got a Presidency ? It was during the Second World War by the by, while Finland began to fight the Germans.
I guess they had to Finnish themselves ;-)
That would actually be Germans, the German expeditionary force to help the whites in the civil war were the ones that took Helsinki from the Reds. So it was Germans, just Germans backing the Finnish Whites.
Well they've been Russian around until everyone was Red in the face. Let's see if they can Czech the enemy advance and Polish them off. If you Ukraine your necks this way, you might see the Romanianing forces get Hungary for victory, and seal the deal
Rolf Hartmann wow
It’ll be over by Christmas
Ha ha ! I already got fooled 4 times, won't fall for this again !
Christmas of which year though?
1945 :D
Certainly by Veteran's Day.
So strange that so many fallen are still under our feet here , We live now on the German line . wife is from Ypres . Really wonder some days where are all the missing fallen. 48000 dead Germans in walking distance from my house . And for what ..... so sad for both sides :(
I grew up as a kid reading about T.E. Lawrence, he was one of my heroes growing up...such a life of adventure! The turn of the century was such a magical time for discovery and adventure- he was among the many who I idolized growing up.
He had a PhD in Divide and conquer
Yay! Belgian army is mentioned!
After the war ends (hopefully by this Christmas) would you make a playlist for the most notable events in the War( like Somme, Gallipoli, Verdun etc etc) so that one could get a idea about the topics without having to watch the week by week, also nice to go over the Big Events.
Kaaaaaaaarl, that kills your empire!
Char Fiarrow Yolo
Hey indy and the crew can you guys do an episode on what Charles de Gaulle did during World War One?
I recall him and Mikhail Tukhachevsky sharing a cell in a Bavarian Prison
Pretty sure he was wounded many times at the battle of Verdun as an officer?
Hasn´t he freed Paris all by himself.... with a little help of his allies?.... äh sry that was another war ;-P
The Central Powers had so many enemies... To me, it's not amazing that they lost in the end. It's amazing that they lasted this long.
I am Sure Germany can still win this.
Of course what is going to happen
I bet we’re going to be fighting until next year at this rate.
I bet the American's wont get a chance to fire a shot in anger; Germany for the win.
Here comes a TH-cam tough guy, haha.
"You're"
That intro gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME! It does such a great job of portraying the misery of WWI.
guys, I must know where you take these background music from, it will make even austro-hungary look like a power to be reckoned with
Everybody, including Ludendorf, had forgotten but yes the Belgian army was still there.
I almost forgot about the Balkan front. And I'm more and more amazed by the complete chaos that the Ottoman front was: advances in Anatolia, countless setbacks in Palestine.
Finnaly caught up!! As always great episode Indy
Just signed up on Patreon. Love the videos and trying to catch up. I have learned so much about this brutal war. Thanks on doing this documentary series and a job well done, over there.
I was looking through an old book today on the Kaiserschlacht today, stated that the Germans focused on defeating Britain because their artillery was considered weaker than the French. The French also had an effective defensive strategy and were eventually attacked to draw forces away from the North. Anyway, can't wait to hear about The Second Battle of Marne.
I started watching this series off and on in the fall of 2016, and I am finally caught up :) Great work Indy and team. I love your videos!
I started watching this at about february. This is actually my first rewatch. Thx for your great wark Team and Indy
I've finally caught up with the show and am up to date! This is the best show on TH-cam, by far!
*Listening to Sabaton*
*The Great War Uploads*
*help what do i do*
Make a YMV (TH-cam music video) of Indy and The Great War visuals on screen set to Sabaton music. Who will do this?
Watch the interview of Indy with a Sabaton band member, it's the best of both worlds ;)
Get some taste in music
Both
Megas Archon Alexandros Vlahos That's funny
Ermagerd I've finally caught up after binging for the last couple weeks. This really is a fantastic show and I'm excited to see what you guys will do for World War 2
That would suck to have been captured in battle, finally be freed and immediately told "prepare for another attack."........"and try not to get captured this time."
I understand you guys probably have alot of material to fit in your 10min video every week but...
I feel like you could've given the Belgians a little more attention for their actions this week. This was the first time the rebuild & retrained Belgian Army got into some serious action and they managed to impress both friend or foe. It was also a turning point for Belgian involvement in the war.
But hey, you can't please everyone all the time. Great series, the best!
Have some good sources about them? They are definitely not always mentioned.
I'm not a historian, I only like history. There's a series of articles written by an expert on the Belgian Army during WWI, he also works for the "In Flanders Fields Museum". (You guys probably know about this museum? If not shame on you and your grandchildren!) I'll provide all info I have in a PM.
I think that a really interesting episode, which would work well in the coming months, should be focused on the naval blockade of Germany and how the effects of the blockade drastically reduced the calorie intake of civilians at home. I remember reading a few papers on this topic while I was at university a few years ago. Keep up the great work and congratulations on everything so far.
Love this new map style!
For this who are curious, the sign at the wall on the last picture (the AH soldier writing) is actually a little poem: "Wer a Briefl nach Hause schreiben willDer ist am liebsten allein!Drum stör ihn nicht und sei still,So wird's bald fertig sein.""He, who wants to write a letter homePreferably is left alone!So leave him be und don't make a sound,Soon he'll be done and be around."(i added the "and be around" so it rhymes ;) )
I had never heard of guncotton before, interesting stuff.
It has a long a time since he talked about action in Mesopotamia...
Looking forward to the Villers Bretonneux episode! Unfortunate that it wasn't ready in time for ANZAC day. will keep an eye out!
I really want to play an XCOM style WW1 game. It would be totally amazing.
America's reaction while watching France loose land in 1914 possible giving Germany a win again the entene
America: *DECLARES NEUTRALITY*
Cwovictor
It was a joke and the joke took place in 1914
Well yea have you seen a German soldier hansom strong loved by the ladies, yea a real man to model after. The French man well he had a three shot rifle I mean come on put some lead in your pencil dude.
Back when we minded our own damn business. Most of the USA has German ancestry and it was a big concern to Wilson as he maneuvered to ally with Britain and France.
what a sage remark- how was it any of America's business? or Spain's, or Sweden's, or the Netherlands or any sane country's?
@@tachy1801 Germany in both wars couldn't dream of invading the British home island nor could they ever touch the US.
Hey Indy and crew, love the channel, i was wondering if you guys could publish all your work. It would make incredible posters and would love to use some as my background on my phone and computer. Thank you for all the amazing work
Great background music for this episode
Nice job with this video.
Been waiting to see action in the Middle East
Me too. El Alamein battles will be interesting
We are getting closer towards animation history and WWI, The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor McCay soon to be released (100 years ago) in England in May!
Just found this channel about a month ago. All I gotta say is: DAN CARLIN brought me here. Great series, but the big question is this: what am I gonna do with my life after November?
I actually live next to an old Hejazi train station (in Israel), we turned it into a little museum about our village in the late Ottoman and British eras. (the village is Kfar Yehoshu'a)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley_railway#/media/File:Rakevethaemek_map_eng.png
Thank you for the content ! What movie do you think best represents a realistic take on The Great War ?
Please clap Regeneration 1997
What a coincidence! I started watching this at 19:18.
2:20 I have not seen photos of soldiers of the British Empire at barricades before. It is reminiscent of Belgian soldiers in 1914.
Was that Clemenceau in a trench? Did government officials ever visit the frontline? To boost morale, for publicity, or to understand the nature of the front?
le Beast Yes, it’s Clémenceau ( with his moustache). Generally officials visited second lines or quiet sectors of the front, for the reasons you mentioned.
the portuguese president visit the front, but only the headquarters of the 2º Division of the CEP in the front!
But is it's Clemenceau!
Yes, yes and yes.
Clemenceau visited the trenches many times. One of the stories tells that during one of those visits, he climbed upon the trench, shook his fist toward the German trench while shouting "We'll get you !" then casually came back down the trench under every soldiers' dumbfounded watch.
There are multiples newspapers, videos and statues reporting those events.
Thank you very much for the responses everyone
Giloup92 The Kaiser went a few times.
Will your ever publish books about the great war
Hi crew and indy, im in Nz now and went to the ww1 museum, nice lots of stuff i have. A photo of a machine gun something Mark 2 but i dont know how to send it, also if you need something of that placer ill be pleased to to help, there is a lots of info by
The British retreating from Passchendaele is such a depressing thing that happened.
As a Canadian. Yes...it really was
The Edwardian As an American, I thank your nation for the sacrifices they made during this shitshow of a war. No doubt, you guys had some of the best troops out of any nation during the entire war.
another one of Lord Haig's brilliant offensives! This one was going to be different- there were going to be amphibious landings etc...... (sigh)
I was thinking about it. What will happen when it becomes November 11 2018? Will the channel cover after the Great war. Will there be new channel on the period between WW1 and WW2 followed by another channel to cover WW2? So many questions
Gary Daniel I mean I think this channel is already super busy
They already set a channel on the period between wars: th-cam.com/video/X8Aj9mXivv8/w-d-xo.html
The WW2 videos will start from the September this year. They already announced it well in advance.
Well he'll start a mine craft series... Well maby.
So, one of the maps indicates the Central Powers now control Crimea, but the map that zoomed in to the Caucasus doesn't... I don't recall hearing that the Crimea was occupied in the narrative either.... Can someone clarify this?
occupied by German forces. talked about it recently.
Brian White There some videos in TH-cam about when Ukraine and Germany attacked the socialists republic there.
Oh, isn’t the first tank battle going to happen on the next week? Can’t wait for that!
50 views 50 likes
Nice
Stop jinxing it.
lets get this on a tray
Hey Indy, when are we gonna get that video about the German Asian Corp.?
by now I have no idea why you haven't done a special on Erwin Rommel's accomplishments as per the battles he fought in and commanded. I know you have a special on him but such a figure deserves so much more.
Into the fourth year and still such huge human carnage. 250,000 dead for land they took and lost. As in The Bridge On The River Kwai . Madness simply Madness.
Madness?
THIS! IS! SPARTA!!!!!!
Totally missed Crimea being occuped, when did that hapen? :O :-D
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That I did not miss, but was it the Turks or the Germans this time too?
Ayy lmao, another Great War upload!!
More info about the Greek taking over some viliges near the Struma river from Bulgaria?
Not a general offensive, just a slow push forward to reclaim territory that was taken during the Struma Offensive... the Greek offensive started in late May
Make a special episode about the countries occupied by the Central Powers, how the occupiers managed the administration and economy, and how they treated the general population. Countries like Romania, for example.
Episode on submarine aviation please!
Oh great storyteller, prophet Indy, what say you next?
What about the Red Baron? He died this week 100 years ago
Indiana Neidell Uhh nice I'm hyped for the next video then
Do you have anything on the battle of Seicheprey, France?
Whoa, new map
Can you please do a video on Simpson and his donkey from Gallipoli
Can you make a video about altirery trucks plzz
plz do a special about southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe duriung ww1
Ma'an, that Station...
I'm early. Have the Germans broken through yet?
SirVolkerStein not yet but any day now I swear.
We will win the war.
Summer coming. Dry weather ahead. Finally the march forward shall not be delayed. The great breakthrough is as inevitable as the victory that rides with it.
SirVolkerStein nein
Can you make videos about the desintagration of Austria-Empire for every nation??
WILL THIS WAR NEVER END!!
Number 2! Wait . . .
6:55 is that Mussolini sitting at the bottom right corner?
Finally something from peter o't... I mean lawrence
Try explaining losing half your squad capturing paschendeale only to give it up 8 months later to the soldiers
For those interested in following these details, the West Point website has some relevant maps to help you follow along with all the placenames:
www.westpoint.edu/history/SitePages/WWI.aspx
www.westpoint.edu/history/SiteAssets/SitePages/World%20War%20I/WWOne18.jpg
THE PREDICTION OF THE WAR BEING OVER BY CHRISTMAS DID COME TRUE .DEC. 25 1918 .
Funky Cold Medina?
I’m gonna be honest I didn’t know the ottomans were still about at this point in the war. I’d just kind of assumed they’d curled up and died like two years ago.
909 likes 0 dislikes. damn!
Poor Karl, he gets thrust into power in the middle of a World War, desperately (some might say naively) tries to make peace, and now has to commit to yet another offensive just to try to keep the Empire from utter collapse.
*Insert "Germany is going to win" joke here*
"Food is on its way boy now storm their trench!"
plumbherhub "Food is over there. Storm faster!"
Commands "Storm Faster", subordinate gives Hurricane
I was just watching out of the trenches, when this pop up.
I guess you could say that the Hejaz railway got a taste of some democracy that the Brits borrowed from America.
The Astro Gamer America learned from the brits
Walter Ayala Thats completely false. USA is only a Democracy because they did not want to become a Kingdom or Dictatorship. Think before you speak.
Britain has been a Constitutional Monarchy since the end of the English Civil War, in other words the elected parliament was the true power in England from 1651. So in fact he was indeed correct, England HAS in fact been a Democracy since BEFORE the USA existed.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and-mentor/magna-carta-and-the-us-constitution.html The Founders wanted the same rights and freedoms as Englishmen if they had the same King.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Englishmen
Your reports on trans Caucasian battles have been very helpful helping me understand current events in Syria and Northern Iraq and the plight of the Kurds. Thank you.
6:44 ; Double agent Neville Chamberlain!
Can you please do a special on Lawrence of Arabia?
They have
Ok thanks
The old and infirm serve in war
is there a special episode about the african american troops that fought in this war or is it coming in the upcoming weeks?
There will be one this summer.
I'm curious how many men over 40 were conscripted, and what they did with them. I can't imagine many 40-somethings had the physical constitution to endure trench warfare.
Where the next week
spoilers for next week: RIP the Red Baron
What about Romania? Ever since January, Bessarabia declared independence, Ukraine tried to invade Bessarabia, Sfatul Tarii of Bessarabia asked Romania for help, Romania came in and Ukraine retreated, Bessarabia declared union with Romania, the Central Powers started pushing through Romania, they reached a stalemate at the Battle of Focsani, then signed the Armistice of Focsani. After the armistice, Romania wanted to delay peace as much as possible in case the war will be won on the western front.
Habsburg became the Austria Hungry Empire
do you think that if the ottomans didnt focus so much of their manpower on the Caucasus they would have been able to defend against the British in Palestine?
Kewl