Machinations In The British High Command I THE GREAT WAR Week 180
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2018
- 1918 starts with machinations in the British High Command since Prime Minister Lloyd George is holding back troops and generally would like to replace Sir Douglas Haig as commander.
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Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
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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.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
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"The American cornucopia of stuff was vomiting forth across the Atlantic" This has got one of the top ten things Indy has said in the series. You guys are the best.
"Placeless names" - Churchill had a way with words, for sure. That expression is simple but great.
Churchill was a writer and journalist before he became a politician. So he definitely had a way with words.
I'm really conflicted about this.
Should I reply "LOL" or "WTF"?
I'm not "fixated" on those abbreviations. I replied to your comment in the most appropriate manner - expressing baffled amusement but not wasting much time on it. :)
I also wasn't looking for input from anyone.
And a soldier before that and a hoddie before that.
Consider the plight of the people of the Falkland islands, not won by great men......and winston was happiest when on the trowel....get over yourself you pompous git.
"Russia was far from at peace as fighting broke out with the Ukrainians."
2022 has entered the chat.
It's amazing how much goes back to the first World War. When this video was made I don't think they could have predicted how Russia would invade Ukraine in a few short years.
Well now we're starting to go down the home stretch boys! It's hard to believe it's been almost 3 and half years, August 2014/1914 seems so long ago.
I bet he gonna cover the Russian civil war, and the Polish war too
Ya its been tough out here, don't know how we've kept it up. Surely unparalleled determination compared to any time in history. "2014-2018" a momentous time in history.
The worrying thins is that despite being in "the home stretch" there is still so much going to happen
I hope they skip the Russian Civil War and goes straight for the Second World War
Random Guy
They said that they were going to do WW2 in 2019
They’re gonna cover the interwar period between November 11, 2018 and September 1, 2019
Unimaginable events of 1917: Cadorna and Hotzendorf sacked!!!
the war wasn't the same after them. Coincidence?
Years of WW1 with Cadorna and Hotzendorf: 3
Years of WW1 without them: 1
Coincidence? I think not.
"Oh the humanity"
How will their countries survive without them
The Great War I would probably disagree; those 2 were SOME of the worst leaders of the war. I say some because we also have people like Haig.
0:34 Oh boy (rubbing hands in anticipaton)
Everyone: welcome to this tragedy's final act.
Already looking forward to the next great tragedy.
The epilogue wasn't exactly a happy dance.
theres an upcoming sequel im told....by someone who was here.
@@scottleft3672 Right after the 20 year intermission.
"All quiet on the western front" remarked Erich.
The Black Prince you saying the book end in january 1918?
I have read it, more than one time even, but I do not remember everything.
A. Ekegård no no :) I was merely making a joke with the author's name Erich Remarque. I believe the book is set sometime in 1917.
it ends on oct 1918 with the dispatch from the german high commend; "all quiet on the western front."
milcoll73 Thank you
A. Ekegård yes now I remember that final scene. Don't worry I won't spoil it for people ;) it's well worth a read.
Another world changing event happened in November 1917 whe the New Orleans Storyville red light district was closed on US Navy orders, making it´s musicians jobless and thus spreading Jazz music to the rest of the world when people like Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and later Louis Armstrong migrated north to Chicago.
liedream casinosoul Is hhh
interesting
Presumably spreading not only jazz, but venereal disease.
The same "crusade" also closed the Barbary Coast in San Francisco, the Navy Sec., Daniels, was a teetotaler and moralistic prohibitionist.
liedream casinosoul *J A Z Z M U S I C S T O P S*
We love your channel, friend
thanks!
@@TheGreatWar I also love this show!
Every time I come back for a new episode, it still shocks me just how bleak things are. That monologue about Russia at the end was powerful stuff Indy
The main reason why I fell in love with this channel is because of the unbiased accounts of the war, just pure history, without any of the right/left bullshit always involved everywhere. I´m sick of it.
patbrown911 MAKE HISTORY GREAT AGAIN!!
@@TheronBeaudreau it's really not. The first world war was a disaster for the world. A million is hundred thousand men. Now reply with the same attitude
I'm confident now that the war will end by this Christmas.
Nah, not 1918 Christmas. That's ridiculous.
For who?
Technically it didn't.
More like right before Thanksgiving or All Saints Day
Technically (and obviously) this war will end by Armistice Day 2018
Nope, it won't go that long. The spring offensives will decide it - surely just one more big push will do the job ...
I'm now up to this week 180, watching every video. Growing up as an american we were "taught about ww1". As like a thing that happened, and was now over. I never knew how horrible this war was. This war was a human calamity and seemed now one knew a way out. Dear Lord may we not do this again.
Launcelot Kiggel is actually my Great-Great-Uncle. My family had men on all levels of the military during WW1. From the rank and file soldiers, to the men making the mistakes that cost them so much.
"Only two million causalities"
I mean, with a war that ended up with 14 million soldiers dying directly from the combat, I think ""only"" two million" is the correct statement here.
Though it was indeed gastly
It sounds like Hindenburg was a type of sun spider.
There's a comment to baffle those who haven't watched the video yet.
Keep up the great work guys. Gained a passion for war history because of this channel.
Indy I like the way you say sterile ridges
Oh to be a soldier on the Western Front with all of 1918 ahead of you... It's like if you could see whats to come, you could only think: "I'm toast. There is no way I am going to see this through."
re...the best poet ever....Wilfred Owen...rip.
It's been over a hear since this series ended. I've gone back and watched all the back episodes I missed since learning of this channel when it was laying down content. Now that I've caught up, I'm re-watching shows and learning more about the Russian Revolution and the Bolsheviks than I caught the first time. I've been wonder how such a relatively small group of rag tag revolutionaries managed to hang on and conquer all of the old Russian empire. Watching your content on how Russia fits into the larger mosaic of the Great War has gone a long way towards giving me perspective on that era. Glad this content is still available for other to experience and educate themselves.
I can't wait to see "The Lost Battalion" episode in the future. Happy New Year Indiana Jones, sorry Neidell, and his motley crue. :D
I thought the title said "Microtransactions In The British High Command"
Very different thing...
Devil Doggo Prime Minister George secretly an EA employee?
10 American divisions for $10, what a deal!
"You can either unlock victory via four years of bloody fighting, your people will starve, your monarchy will fall and millions will die... OR you can pay £20 and get access to victory instantly!"
Great Jamie the intent is to fill the British with a sense of pride for unlocking new generals
Tanks were pretty pay-to-win tbh
In leading up to events mid 1918, please tell me you've read Monash; Australian Victories in France in 1918. He wrote this account in 1920 and did so because he felt there was a lack of awareness of what the Australians did, even at the time, and that his soldiers deserved the recognition of their bravery (whilst not discounting the bravery of soldiers of other Allied countries). Whilst obviously not the only account of the time, it is worthy of investigation considering he was regarded as one of the most influential Generals of the war.
_"The one thing they did have was Stuff"_ 6:30
Amazing delivery, almost obscene. Bravo!
Great episode. The ending really paints how calamitous and cataclysmic life must have felt for the unfortunate people of that time
I bet the war will be over by Christmas this year
Fourth time's the charm.
Man we already said that 3 times... At this point, i see no end before 1920.
Finally that's going to be true. 🎅🍷
SteveMHN um spoilers?
Its continuing now.. And everywhere
been with the show since 1916. I'd say to here's to another year of war, but part of me wishes I could not.
Gonna miss this show come November.
i love this show so much its a shame its going to end this year. you guys do a amazing job keep it up
Great video. You guys go the extra mile. Almost felt like I was back in the trenches but, in this episode, glad I wasn't. Love the narrative and delivery thereof... Indy really gets fired up.
Wow, that was a really staggering video :-) . Gripping script!! Thank you Indy & Team , we learn A LOT with you, day after day :-)
hi Indy can you make a video on the British machine gun corps I don't no much knowledge on them, but I think they were considered an elite unite, you have talked a lot about elite units from other countries but not so much the British, I think it would be cool and I'd like to learn a little bit more about them.
I love the way how much data you put in your videos, keep up the good work!
Superb Job Indy..!
"Only two million casualties"
The Intro music is soo good! Really makes you feel about that time in the world. Kudos.
Hey I absolutely love your work! Happy New year! What were the greatest moustaches of WWI!! :)
Happy New Year Indy and team, loving the Von Hotsensocks
Lenin actually recognized The indepedence of Finland in last day of 1917 just before The year changed
Thanks, Guys! Great insights, Indy!
What a DAMNED FINE SHOW!!!
Thanks for another great video.
Indy you're only getting better at articulating yourself. I look forward to this year as well as other projects you undertake!
Happy new year guys!!
Indy's truly covered this war for start to Finnish Independence ;)
... Indeed, happy new year!
Great episode!
happy new year Indy and company, hope the war will be over by Christmas 2018
powerful....thanks
Great episode
Miss you Indie! Come back and do 1922!
Come on boys. We will be home next Christmas. I can feel it
I finally caught up to this series
Wow, what a powerful speech to end this with... ahhhhhh happy new year?
Great job.
Last year of the war. I'm going to miss this show!
Happy new Year!
The first episode i see as it comes out, finally! after 6 months.
And thus our great journey enters the last year.
my italian students made me write that...love the show!
I am always taken aback by the quality of your youtube channel, which I follow since the beginning. Will you, perhaps, make something similar with the second war? Perhaps begining next year?
darn, If only we had kept Cadorna, the war would be over by now!!
Andrei Skobtsov the fastest way to end a war is to lose it.
"occasional capture of placeless names" ... true and deep words
It's coming boys it's coming and we will all be sad that day just wanted to say Indie it was a great trip learned so much.
nice job!
Are we going to see anything on the greek front this or the next week?Also keep up the great work and educate us 🙌😊😊.also 6:17 I agree cool name
I totally dig your show !. Is there any surviving U boots from WWI that can be toured ?.
Semper Fi
The British finally resorted to the default war strategy: Hide in their island and keep a strong navy to prevent any landings to avoid having to fight directly, then beg the United States, Britain's historic boyfriend to please come save them. But hey, at least the British never stopped fighting like the French do whenever they have to fight the Germans.
At 5:00....the photograph is of the infamous training centre at Etaples known as The Bullring, wher men keen to fight had the spirit knocked out of them, it was here that the british mutiny was born....you mentioned "The Monocld Mutineer" in the execution vid, i recomend you find the 4 part series by yorkshire television, i think....it was THE best series ever made about WW1 by far, the film depiction of the books description of the execution of the soldier in shock, is gut wrenching.
Feliz año nuevo, compañeros!
Erich Ludendorff plans for a spring push in march 1918
Happy 1918 from Portugal!
I hope than the war finished before the year!
Me: huh, I wonder who will win between the red army and the dom cossacks.
*sees that they all died in 1918*
Oh well
at least they tried
Hi Indy and team, love the channel.
This is my question for out of the trenches:
You have talked about cavalry and how they were usless in general, but why didn't they try to change it by using their speed in smallest squads (of 5 for example) and using more guns and grenades and evoiding charges with swords?
Was hoping for a quick review of the front lines like last year
All those Russian officers dying in 1918! Hmmmmmm I wonder why
COMMUNISM!!!!!
I call these dates „the death year spoiler“
Alekseyev died of natural causes
Finally made it to the front. Reporting for duty sah!
I've fallen for the 'war will be over by Christmas' thing one too many times lads.
The war will be over by 1920 at the earliest.
yup 1914 to 1920 i'm sure...
That's optimistic, I'd try 1921 personally ;P
would u be interesting in covering polish -soviet war or polish - Lithuania war?
jayjeet kataria I am sure he will
No pls the end is near for the War Week series 😢 all the hard work will be done for creating this series
Can't wait for 21st of March for 100yrs since Kaiserschlacht. But being an Australian, July 4th and August 8th will be the episodes I look forward too the most.
Awesome episode from start to finish! Two (of many) thoughts on it´s content: Did Lloyd George withhold almost half a million of troops only to spite Haig, or to be able to quell any public unrest within the UK? And secondly; will there be a Special Episode on the United Baltic Duchy, or is that too much of a "what if"..?
liedream casinosoul 😳 Prime Minister Lloyd George kept troops at home following the slaughter of Passchendaele. He blamed Field Marshal Haig for prolonging the battle beyond any hope of success. The only serious possibility of domestic unrest at the time was in Ireland, where for some time Imperial Germany was giving material assistance to the Irish republicans.
Sort of a retoric question to get attention, he he. Of course he could do it, just as Churchill could call them "nameless places and sterile ridges" as the war was fought on French soil. A very costly war for the Entente powers, but the major carnage did happen outside of the British Isles...
He didn't call them "nameless places". He wrote "placeless names", and that is pure genius.
The places - villages, and hills, and valleys - that those names had once referred to, had long been shelled into a uniform brown mud.
My bad, thanks. But still...
Ford Madox Ford wrote that the government was saving troops to advance the Empire's cause elsewhere in the world.
This week during the WW1 stuff!
"The people had no stability, no security and no future... Happy New Year"
Made it to 1918! Now I'm only 7 months behind!
the Americans provided stuff, not much staff until Aug 1918
It never really occurred to me before today that if I were alive 100 years ago I would likely be preparing to be sent off to Europe.
It's a feeling that I can't quite describe but it makes me happy for the time I live in.
I just heard the most cynical "happy new year" of my life.... Love this show!
"A deadly civil war was about to begin.
Well, that was a bit overdramatic, and not entirely true:
It had already begun."
7:38 we used to do the same thing in 29 Palms with tarantulas and scorpions haha. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I even have a recipe for a turnip carrot and cabbage soup from my great-grandmother from the German side of my family. They manage to survive quite well by utilising steep mountainous parts in the Hartz region to firstly hide their own food by planting it on unusual places and secondly make stealing it as difficult as possible. They even had a few kg of potatoes. Not much. But it helped. The soup is plain and easy to make, but it was a delicious treat for me, my siblings and friends when we went camping. And if we wanted to be all fancy, we would either throw a chicken in their or even roast a rabbit. It's kinda like Ikameshi, Soljanka or Chilli con Carne... Actually a meal of hardship and despair, can mean something totally different to a future generation. Anyhow. Is anyone fond about the recipe?
That is a fantastic mustache.
Dying Civilization. Great Line Indy! BTW, I'm still waiting for my Astro Tattoo Shot.
Although it's probably an extremely dull part of the war, would you consider covering the swedish neutrality during ww1 in one of your video? Love the channel by the way!
Can’t believe this is the last year of the war :,(
i love The Great War
Hi thanks for the viedeo its brilliant and intéressant 😉 But dont forget to say that in the battle of the marne 1914 some french from the fith army with the british went into the gap... not only the british. Youre videos are the best
Take care
Remember when they said the war would be over by Christmas (1914)? Yeahhhh, about that
CheddarBacon no no no they were right... if you add 4 years
Will you do an overview of the fronts at the beginning of 1918 like you did the previous years ?