Sowing anti anglophone sentiment in the German population in the US and getting Mexico to invade in order to distract the US in the war. With them out of the war they can knock the French out of the war.
42,000 British casualties + 20,000 Greek casualties + 10,000 French casualties against 2000-3000 Bulgarian casualties with fewer than 500 Bulgarians dead ! Bulgarian HEROES "Lower your flags , here comes the Winner of Doiran" - George Millne at London conference (during celebration of the allies victory in the first world war)
I never cease to be appalled at the number of casualties. 44,000 casualties is the entire population of my home town. And that was nothing when compared to Paschendale, Somme, and Verdun.
It is 2/3 of the total U.S. KIA's in Vietnam over nearly 10 years, all in one "small" four day operation in the great war... Truly staggering... Later! OL J R
luke strawwalker indeed. I always think of it In terms of large stadiums as these are the biggest places a group of people routinely meet. The US lost around 50,000 Kia in Vietnam and the same in ww1 (some sources say more than twice this but that includes illness such as influenza) Put them two numbers together and that’s more than the entire capacity of Wembley stadium in London (Britain’s biggest sports stadium) which is horrific The first day of the Somme was considered one of the worse in human history when it came to dead on one side. The British had nearly 20,000 dead that day and nearly 60,000 total casualties. So that’s like snapping your fingers and nearly a quarter of a Wembleys crowd dropped dead in a day and another half were wounded, missing or pows. Modern war:(
@@lukestrawwalker5 years late I know, but remember casualty doesn't mean death. The us had nearly 60,000 dead, but their total casualties were around 300,000 in Vietnam.
By 1918, Rawlinson listened and seriously took the advice from his junior commanders, in this the leaders of the two national armed forces in the Rawlinson's Army, Currie and Monash as to when to let it loose and when to stop. Their successes gave Haig clout now as to when to attack and when to stop offensives. The British Army had learned their lessons.
Michéal Ó hAodha The Allies would have been, should have been totally exhausted by this time, except the USA was propping them up. Saved the war for the Allies and gave us a second great war.
The British blockade was very deadly to the Germans. An estimated 150,000 people died from the blockade's effects. Then they also had to contend with Spanish flu. Nobody has any concrete numbers on how many German soldiers died from it - but in late summer and fall of 1918 on top of them being without food and having a quagmire of mud to negotiate, they were walking around with the flu too. 46,000 U.S. soldiers died from Spanish flu but they had loads of medical supplies and food to eat.
@@herbwag6456 And yet the 100 days offensive was fought and won by the British and Commonwealth armies with minimal help, and tangible blundering, from the US contingent
Here is a question for the out of trenches “ what happened to the Ottoman POWs after British retreat at Gallipoli? Did British evacuate some of them as well?” Love you Indie and the team, keep it up!
Howdy Indy and the crew, I love your show! In 1944 Claus von Stauffenburg was executed for his role in the 20th July plot that year. Were there any similar attempts made on the Kaiser's life?
The 100 days offensive, combined assault was an hustoric event, given that by Nov 11th armistace, the allies took nearly as many casualties as at Verdun. The small units attack made all the difference, but odd things happen at war, Churchill was never one too sympathetic to simplistic explanations, was he! Great job Indie.
We could really need more videos on the Belgian army during WW1 consideringen they were a major party in the (western-) European theater since a lot of fighting took place in Belgium. With myself being grately interested in the Belgian military and it's very interesting to see what they've done. (Especially their cavalry). I've seen some videos regarding the Belgian army but yet they are in far less quantity than other countries, of course this is understandable seeing that Belgium is only a smaller country which only fought in Europe & a bit in Africa. It just feels as if the country is burried under these larger worldpowers and it doesn't get as much attention as it deserves die what it contributed during the 4 long years it stood strong against the invaders. Same goes for some other small countries. Yet this comment will fade away in a black hole never to be read.
I keep trying to think of questions for out of the trenches but you guys are so comprehensive and informative all my questions get answered, I’ll keep trying :)
Thank you, Indy, for another lucid and exciting episode. Your last titbit brings home what total, world war meant to the people of the nations involved. As for the Welsh Wizard, I remember reading one quote, which went something like: David Lloyd George arouses in everyone every feeling except trust.
"It must have been seriously depressing to live in Russia this month" I mean when hasn't been hard to live in Russia I'm reminded of a line from the Chernobyl mini series "A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins, and every generation must know its own suffering" and I feel like that is the shortest summary of Russian history you could give
You are a great narrator who surely knows what is talking about, thank you for this amazing series, I learn a lot with each and every one of them. Greetings!
What an excellent job you do telling this horrible story! I'm looking forward to episodes on the Meuse Argonne Offensive, as my grandfather took part in it. He returned from the war - where he was injured - a broken man, judging by the photographs of him before and after. Thank you for creating a wonderful series.
Oh my, for the first time I pressed the "next" button and didn't get the next week, I have finally caught up to the front! It's ok, I'm american, it's tradition to show up late;)
Save the Czechs and the supplies in Vladivostok was the argument given to Wilson. He agreed and as Indie said sent US troops to Vladivostok. The units were the 27th infantry Regiment and the 31st Infantry Regiment. Under the command of General Graves who would arrive later along with elements of the 8th division.
"Does Ludendorff choose to abandon all the gains the German army made over the spring? And what about the attack on the Wookies?" I approve of your memery, Great War crew.
Hi great team of TheGreatWar. Will you do an special of Oswald Mosley? I only know that he fought in the Great War and like Mussolini, the fight put in his mind his later political positions. Thanks for your job.
Loser or winer, he was a notable figure in later WW1 politics in Britain, first in the parliament and later with his fascist party. He, like Mussolini, Hitler, Hemmingway and more fought in the great war...
Hello the great war crew i love your series and hope you continue on to world war 2, i have a question for out of the trenches, i heard a tale about a Germany operation during the war in Afghanistan, i was wondering if you could provide more information about exactly if it was true and what exactly happened, thank you all for your hard work.
Question for Out of the trenches : Did soldiers ever collect enemies weapons after a battle , this may not have been practical on the western front but surely on the eastern front where huge numbers of Russian soldiers were being killed or captured it would have been easier for the Germans to produce ammo for these weapons and use them. Are there any accounts of this occurring in the war?
A German rifle in the Imperial War Museum was captured when a British officer killed its owner during a trench raid. Don't know how common it truly was though.
We say no to pay to win are you seriously suggesting we should attack our ally in the crusade to oust the Kiser? Besides we haven’t discovered the nuclear fission chain reaction theory yet.
0:49 what happened at the franco-german border ? allied are already inside germany ? I mean i know they've been in germany near the swiss border, but i didnt know they pushed near Verdun.
It happened during the early weeks of the war. The french wanted to take back Alssace-Loraine, so they towards it, but it eventually came to a stalemate. And that part of the western front didnt move that much until near the end of the war
It’s nice to see people finally learning from their previous mistakes. Well, one guy at least (some people from the German side clearly haven’t learned), but it’s a start
Looking forward to October when SGT York does something to win The Medal of Honor and The Lost Battalion finds it "unacceptable" to surrender to the Germans!!
Indy ppints out the changes-Haig listening to subordinantes and the German general staff devolving but he misses what is probably the singles greatest change in the entire war. rewatch the section talking about the casualties for the british assault. yes they lost 40,ooo men BUT German losses, the losses of the defenders are far higher. In the past they might break even but usually the attacker suffered more. Now with mass desertions and better tactics the basic MATH of the battle field has changed.
8:34 -- How could Czechoslovakia -- which didn't even physically exist and which was inside Austria-Hungary (an ally of Germany) -- declare war on Germany?
because it was declared by people who had immigrated to "allied" countries before the war. (Not actually by people living in what became czechoslowakia.)
I would hope that you do some immediate post-war episodes as there were still quite a lot of areas where the fighting didn't end after the official end of the Great War was declared. Much like in WW2 you had a lot of debts to be settled. For example in the immediate period post WW2 France had another 40,000 people die from violence. Would be interesting to see if that sort of thing happened and also how many people returned to their homes or were permanently displaced. It's usually the shake out after a war that is historically more important than the actual war itself.
Question for Out of the Trenches: With the war in the east largely over why did the Ottoman Empire leave one of their largest forces in the Caucasus? With the British surging north from Egypt surely it'd be better to defend their homes so they had an empire left at the end of this war.
It's interesting to consider what might have happened if instead of the Spring Offensive of 1918, and the heavy losses of their best infantry that entailed, the Germans had retreated to a much shorter defensive line in eastern Belgium, then let the Allies batter against it until they were ready to negotiate.
Hey Indy and the crew :D Love the show, I'm a bit of a history buff meself, but here I found many things that I had almost no knowledge about. That said, can you tell us more about the Swiss forensic scientist Archibald Reiss, and his findings of the AH crimes? Also, is there something cooking in the Macedonia right now (I mean, hundred years ago :D )? I know that the offensive there is about to commence.
Haig had no problem being subordinate to Foch, the war was in France and Foch had the greater number of divisions. Stop twisting history to suit your prejudices.
Question for Out of the Trenches- What was the role of the Indian Army outside of the Palestine front? I haven't heard of them in regular episodes since Gallipoli and the seige at Kut. How were they distributed in different theatre and in how many numbers and how were they organized? What were their differences in equipment, clothing, weapons, artillery? How were they affected by the modern war? Any notable actions and names? Where in India were they from? So far only heard about the Gurkhas and Sikhs, were there soldiers from other parts of the Dominion? Need more details, the special episode only covers this very lightly.
Can't wait to see how Germany turns the tide in 1919
Prussian Eagle your sausages and cups of beer?
Ha XD
Sowing anti anglophone sentiment in the German population in the US and getting Mexico to invade in order to distract the US in the war. With them out of the war they can knock the French out of the war.
i can't wait to see Battle of Doiran 1918 one of the best executed victories of the war
42,000 British casualties + 20,000 Greek casualties + 10,000 French casualties against 2000-3000 Bulgarian casualties with fewer than 500 Bulgarians dead !
Bulgarian HEROES "Lower your flags , here comes the Winner of Doiran" - George Millne at London conference (during celebration of the allies victory in the first world war)
"Are you commanding the British Army, or is Marshal Foch?"
Well, now we know how to convince Haig: appeal to his pride.
My money is on Foch.
Shades of Sam Wyche.
“You don’t live in Cleveland! You live in Cincinnati!”
Haig: well, Foch you!
Haig listen to people?
Ludendorff not taking strong defensive positions?
What sort 9f bizarre world have we entered?
csxfan
This is modern war
This war lost all sense of logic once Conrad von Hötzendorf Left it. :(
csxfan Its 16D Chess bro, thats what it its
Whats next? Competence in the Italian and Austrian armies?
Veeti Raussi that is just a fairytale
Germany and refusing tactical retreats, name a more iconic duo.
komn87 Luigi Cadorna and battles of the Isonzo River
Germany and godawful logistics. Or maybe Germany and being horrible at knowing your damn codes have been cracked.
Soviet Russia and Gulags
Germany and losing world wars.
America and Nuclear Weapons.
Tsaritsyn. The Stalingrad BEFORE Stalingrad
Imagine someone coming along and spreading terror in your city then naming it after himself? Russians can't catch a break.
Similar thing with Kaliningrad, to be honest.
The Battle of Stalingrad before it was cool.
I didn't realize that Volgograd was not the original name of that city.
@@blindleader42 I was born in Volgograd
I never cease to be appalled at the number of casualties. 44,000 casualties is the entire population of my home town. And that was nothing when compared to Paschendale, Somme, and Verdun.
It is 2/3 of the total U.S. KIA's in Vietnam over nearly 10 years, all in one "small" four day operation in the great war... Truly staggering...
Later! OL J R
luke strawwalker indeed. I always think of it In terms of large stadiums as these are the biggest places a group of people routinely meet.
The US lost around 50,000 Kia in Vietnam and the same in ww1 (some sources say more than twice this but that includes illness such as influenza)
Put them two numbers together and that’s more than the entire capacity of Wembley stadium in London (Britain’s biggest sports stadium) which is horrific
The first day of the Somme was considered one of the worse in human history when it came to dead on one side. The British had nearly 20,000 dead that day and nearly 60,000 total casualties. So that’s like snapping your fingers and nearly a quarter of a Wembleys crowd dropped dead in a day and another half were wounded, missing or pows.
Modern war:(
In a war where there were millions of men and millions of guns high casualties are bound to occur.
@@lukestrawwalker5 years late I know, but remember casualty doesn't mean death. The us had nearly 60,000 dead, but their total casualties were around 300,000 in Vietnam.
5:29
The moustache on backrground guy is outstanding
Masada1911 beautiful
You see, if you tried to pull that off today, you would be branded as a hipster, it can never be done again.
Yes, Quite Right.
Noah Sanders yes yes, quite so
Petar Jovanovic indeed
I hope we get like a 90 minute finale episode
They said they would continue after the armistice
Sam Staneke that way Germany could score at the last minute and win the war
Hopefully with more maps
Should of lobbied for one on the black day!!!
@@douglaslemasters9988 for how long?
By 1918, Rawlinson listened and seriously took the advice from his junior commanders, in this the leaders of the two national armed forces in the Rawlinson's Army, Currie and Monash as to when to let it loose and when to stop. Their successes gave Haig clout now as to when to attack and when to stop offensives. The British Army had learned their lessons.
The German Army must have been absolutely exhausted at this point 100 years ago.
I think every combatant bar the USA was exhausted by this point
Michéal Ó hAodha The Allies would have been, should have been totally exhausted by this time, except the USA was propping them up. Saved the war for the Allies and gave us a second great war.
Herb Wag The Second Wars a whole different can of worms
The British blockade was very deadly to the Germans. An estimated 150,000 people died from the blockade's effects. Then they also had to contend with Spanish flu. Nobody has any concrete numbers on how many German soldiers died from it - but in late summer and fall of 1918 on top of them being without food and having a quagmire of mud to negotiate, they were walking around with the flu too. 46,000 U.S. soldiers died from Spanish flu but they had loads of medical supplies and food to eat.
@@herbwag6456 And yet the 100 days offensive was fought and won by the British and Commonwealth armies with minimal help, and tangible blundering, from the US contingent
Here is a question for the out of trenches “ what happened to the Ottoman POWs after British retreat at Gallipoli? Did British evacuate some of them as well?” Love you Indie and the team, keep it up!
Poor Lenny he can’t go a single year without someone trying to kill him
same with the tsar
tsar in general, most existing tsars.
It's a shame those assassination attempts didn't succeed
@@machscga6238 but they did
Wait, so... Haig actually has character development?
Ludendorff: This is Fine.
Why all these one liners such as Ludendorff. this is fine etc.
insert Germans gonna win by Christmas joke
Howdy Indy and the crew, I love your show! In 1944 Claus von Stauffenburg was executed for his role in the 20th July plot that year. Were there any similar attempts made on the Kaiser's life?
out of the trenches question please!
ICULookin What do you mean by that?
This channel has a side series that features questions about the war left in the comments. It's called Out of the Trenches.
ICULookin Oh right, I didn't know.
Steve Kaczynski What was it like?
"It must have been seriously depressing to live in Russia this month."
Silly Indy, it's always depressing in Russia.
The 100 days offensive, combined assault was an hustoric event, given that by Nov 11th armistace, the allies took nearly as many casualties as at Verdun. The small units attack made all the difference, but odd things happen at war, Churchill was never one too sympathetic to simplistic explanations, was he! Great job Indie.
The best WW 1 presentation ever. Thanks for your channel.
"It was a viciously sharp slice of mango, wasn’t it, sir..."
We could really need more videos on the Belgian army during WW1 consideringen they were a major party in the (western-) European theater since a lot of fighting took place in Belgium. With myself being grately interested in the Belgian military and it's very interesting to see what they've done. (Especially their cavalry).
I've seen some videos regarding the Belgian army but yet they are in far less quantity than other countries, of course this is understandable seeing that Belgium is only a smaller country which only fought in Europe & a bit in Africa. It just feels as if the country is burried under these larger worldpowers and it doesn't get as much attention as it deserves die what it contributed during the 4 long years it stood strong against the invaders. Same goes for some other small countries.
Yet this comment will fade away in a black hole never to be read.
GrimTheAngel I am very interested in smaller Allied countries as well, including Portugal, Montenegro, Brazil and Greece.
I keep trying to think of questions for out of the trenches but you guys are so comprehensive and informative all my questions get answered, I’ll keep trying :)
All caught up now (or at least with the week by week episodes). Going to keep binging so I can finish the entire show before November 11th.
And then onward to WW2 in September!
In the description it says “And what about the attack on the Wookies? Find out on this week of the Great War”
finally caught up with the series!
Thank you, Indy, for another lucid and exciting episode. Your last titbit brings home what total, world war meant to the people of the nations involved.
As for the Welsh Wizard, I remember reading one quote, which went something like: David Lloyd George arouses in everyone every feeling except trust.
What about the wookies great war team was Kashyyyk apart of this week in the war
What about the German attack on the Wookies?
Thank you.
"It must have been seriously depressing to live in Russia this month" I mean when hasn't been hard to live in Russia I'm reminded of a line from the Chernobyl mini series "A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins, and every generation must know its own suffering" and I feel like that is the shortest summary of Russian history you could give
7:23
Off to a great start on his career I see
Working in a mustard gas factory back then sounds like a lot of fun.
You are a great narrator who surely knows what is talking about, thank you for this amazing series, I learn a lot with each and every one of them. Greetings!
YYYYYYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH, Finally this is the highlight of my week
What an excellent job you do telling this horrible story! I'm looking forward to episodes on the Meuse Argonne Offensive, as my grandfather took part in it. He returned from the war - where he was injured - a broken man, judging by the photographs of him before and after. Thank you for creating a wonderful series.
Your subject are always interesting , thanks for the great work
Germans surrendering in droves? And yet the French are supposedly "surrender-happy".
Did I hurt your fee fees?
Imagine my terror...
I'm 100% sure the image of "surrender-happy" French comes from WWII.
All the brave French died in this war
Yeah but the French surrendered so hard they lost their country in weeks of fighting or should I say not fighting
Another great report from the front and other places. I look at this and wonder how they all could carry on.
For those who thing that Stalin was a monster and Lenin a Saint; remember that Stalin was Lenin's henchman.
Stalin was in power years longer than Lenin. He made use of his time.
Oh my, for the first time I pressed the "next" button and didn't get the next week, I have finally caught up to the front! It's ok, I'm american, it's tradition to show up late;)
Save the Czechs and the supplies in Vladivostok was the argument given to Wilson. He agreed and as Indie said sent US troops to Vladivostok. The units were the 27th infantry Regiment and the 31st Infantry Regiment. Under the command of General Graves who would arrive later along with elements of the 8th division.
1:48 That German POW thought he was about to get shot.
Great video. Great job.
one of the more interesting episodes i must say. so much going on.
"Does Ludendorff choose to abandon all the gains the German army made over the spring? And what about the attack on the Wookies?"
I approve of your memery, Great War crew.
Hi great team of TheGreatWar.
Will you do an special of Oswald Mosley?
I only know that he fought in the Great War and like Mussolini, the fight put in his mind his later political positions.
Thanks for your job.
Loser or winer, he was a notable figure in later WW1 politics in Britain, first in the parliament and later with his fascist party.
He, like Mussolini, Hitler, Hemmingway and more fought in the great war...
7:45 It was seriously depressing living in Russia in all the months of the war.
Hello the great war crew i love your series and hope you continue on to world war 2, i have a question for out of the trenches, i heard a tale about a Germany operation during the war in Afghanistan, i was wondering if you could provide more information about exactly if it was true and what exactly happened, thank you all for your hard work.
I learn more in one episode than I do in a full six weeks in school just doing busy work
Question for Out of the trenches : Did soldiers ever collect enemies weapons after a battle , this may not have been practical on the western front but surely on the eastern front where huge numbers of Russian soldiers were being killed or captured it would have been easier for the Germans to produce ammo for these weapons and use them. Are there any accounts of this occurring in the war?
A German rifle in the Imperial War Museum was captured when a British officer killed its owner during a trench raid. Don't know how common it truly was though.
For all the people who actually read the description, how is the Attack on the Wookies?
I was late to this channel :(
I'm just arrived week 70 trying to catch up :D Great stuff Indy/Great War staff
Well seen as we are nearly at the end of WW1, how many weeks until America nukes Japan episode?
We say no to pay to win are you joking or you are serious?
Roughly 850-900 weeks
We say no to pay to win are you seriously suggesting we should attack our ally in the crusade to oust the Kiser? Besides we haven’t discovered the nuclear fission chain reaction theory yet.
Well they failed the domination victory so cultural it is!
Paul Benjamin: anything is possible when you put your heart into it
Indy and crew i have an idea for an episode. Lost treasures and money of the war. Following who funded what and who can be really really interesting.
I caught up with this series in just 3 weeks.
Who was he and what has he done with the real Haig?
0:49 what happened at the franco-german border ? allied are already inside germany ? I mean i know they've been in germany near the swiss border, but i didnt know they pushed near Verdun.
It is just an animation the Verdun salient isnt that big and is NOT in the german territory.
It happened during the early weeks of the war. The french wanted to take back Alssace-Loraine, so they towards it, but it eventually came to a stalemate. And that part of the western front didnt move that much until near the end of the war
hey! I love your work and your show. Have you ever considered consolidating these series in a book?
It’s nice to see people finally learning from their previous mistakes. Well, one guy at least (some people from the German side clearly haven’t learned), but it’s a start
Haiti listening to Currie - shows the respect the Canadians had gained.
Looking forward to October when SGT York does something to win The Medal of Honor and The Lost Battalion finds it "unacceptable" to surrender to the Germans!!
The wars almost over
Indy ppints out the changes-Haig listening to subordinantes and the German general staff devolving but he misses what is probably the singles greatest change in the entire war.
rewatch the section talking about the casualties for the british assault. yes they lost 40,ooo men BUT German losses, the losses of the defenders are far higher. In the past they might break even but usually the attacker suffered more. Now with mass desertions and better tactics the basic MATH of the battle field has changed.
This was indeed a strange week
8:34 -- How could Czechoslovakia -- which didn't even physically exist and which was inside Austria-Hungary (an ally of Germany) -- declare war on Germany?
because it was declared by people who had immigrated to "allied" countries before the war. (Not actually by people living in what became czechoslowakia.)
Did not exist physically but had a governent sort of
Huh, Stalingrad, I have a feeling that city could be a bit important in the future.
will TGW do a bio on Erich Ludendorff? he was the top leader only behind Paul von Hindenburg!
“And with that I’ll end the week.”
🤯
In other words: British commanders learning from past mistakes, German ones not quite.
Happy 600th Episode
"...Ludendorff...must remain cool..." like 'the Fonz'
sure would suck if Ludendorf were to have a COMPLETE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
I would hope that you do some immediate post-war episodes as there were still quite a lot of areas where the fighting didn't end after the official end of the Great War was declared. Much like in WW2 you had a lot of debts to be settled. For example in the immediate period post WW2 France had another 40,000 people die from violence. Would be interesting to see if that sort of thing happened and also how many people returned to their homes or were permanently displaced. It's usually the shake out after a war that is historically more important than the actual war itself.
Czechoslovakia declaring war on Germany and A-H before the declaration of Czechoslovakia:-D
Still waiting for 1920 offensive...
Anyway to the English transcription (not the automatically generated ones) uploaded, as well? They are very helpful as I review these videos.
Question for Out of the Trenches: With the war in the east largely over why did the Ottoman Empire leave one of their largest forces in the Caucasus? With the British surging north from Egypt surely it'd be better to defend their homes so they had an empire left at the end of this war.
Do you guys needs some Aussie ascents for those TROOPS taking the prisoners??😀😀😀
It would be interesting to read or to study the German High Commabd decisions from an organizational communication POV.
I thought you would mention the flight of D’Annunzio over Vienna
Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. It’s hard to believe it’s been 212 weeks.
Finally the war will be over by Christmas.
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter: Shut the f@ck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
1:50 that’s weird but that allied soldier on the bottom right is holding a k98az
Nearly every new strategy in this war has worked
Whats happening on the Italian front all these months? Are the Italians and Austrians duking it out on the Piave, or is it all quiet?
You mention a burn rate at German factories exceeding 100% of the staff every 3 months. How is this possible?!
It's interesting to consider what might have happened if instead of the Spring Offensive of 1918, and the heavy losses of their best infantry that entailed, the Germans had retreated to a much shorter defensive line in eastern Belgium, then let the Allies batter against it until they were ready to negotiate.
Well, well, well, how the turntables.
Hey Indy and the crew :D Love the show, I'm a bit of a history buff meself, but here I found many things that I had almost no knowledge about. That said, can you tell us more about the Swiss forensic scientist Archibald Reiss, and his findings of the AH crimes? Also, is there something cooking in the Macedonia right now (I mean, hundred years ago :D )? I know that the offensive there is about to commence.
Haig shows that even the stubbornest and dullest donkey can learn a new trick now and then.
Rawlinson figured out how to play on Haig's fear of not being in charge. Suggesting to him that Foch would be seen as commanding the British army
Haig had no problem being subordinate to Foch, the war was in France and Foch had the greater number of divisions. Stop twisting history to suit your prejudices.
Man this make me to Play some Kaiserreich
Also on 16th battle of lake Baikal took place.
Could TGW do a special on Southern Rhodesia in WW1?
One thing you left out:
On 10th of August 1918,German ace Erich Loewenhardt was killed in a mid air collision
Not a victory but a loss
Question for Out of the Trenches- What was the role of the Indian Army outside of the Palestine front? I haven't heard of them in regular episodes since Gallipoli and the seige at Kut. How were they distributed in different theatre and in how many numbers and how were they organized? What were their differences in equipment, clothing, weapons, artillery? How were they affected by the modern war? Any notable actions and names? Where in India were they from? So far only heard about the Gurkhas and Sikhs, were there soldiers from other parts of the Dominion?
Need more details, the special episode only covers this very lightly.
7:16 Mission failed!
No...we CANNOT lose!!!!!!
Could you talk about Boris Savinkov's role in the war?