This, I believe, is the most ambitious historical reportage ever attempted. Also, if your desk goes missing it is definitely not at my house.

@wordsmithgmxch

5 жыл бұрын

On KZread, anyway, you almost certainly have a point. I've asked before, but no answer so I'll ask again: INDY, what are you and the team going to do on 11.11.18? Go out for a beer? So long, chaps? WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE GOING FORWARD ? ? ?

@wordsmithgmxch

5 жыл бұрын

E Figueroa Great! THX!

@thexalon

5 жыл бұрын

It's OK: I definitely haven't hauled off the Chair of Wisdom.

@hikerbro3870

5 жыл бұрын

thexalon First dibs on the Kukri of Korrection.

@scottski02

5 жыл бұрын

@@thexalon the Chair of Wisdom isn't at my house, I promise

Desperate Frankie and The Five Nation Army? Sounds like a 60's Folk-Rock band. And its cool.

@averageconsumer0

5 жыл бұрын

but is it better than the All Women Batallion of DEATH! ?

@Crimethoughtfull

4 жыл бұрын

It is the Punk version of Foreigner...

@Crimethoughtfull

4 жыл бұрын

@@averageconsumer0 No, it isn't, but that's a different genre...that's Metal. ;-)

@davidsigalow7349

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't they record "Frankie Goes to Belieu Wood?

My Grandfather was serving as US Army prison Guard in New Jersey at this time 100 years ago, he spoke 5 languages, they need that skill to talk to all of the prisoners.

@Dagreatdudeman

5 жыл бұрын

Which languages, if you don't mind?

@astrobot4017

5 жыл бұрын

Today it is probably hard to find a prison guard who speaks more than 2 languages

@truthbetold5339

5 жыл бұрын

@Martin Horowitz your father , was he or his parents/grandparents from the ex Austro-Hungarian Empire ?

@CrossOfBayonne

5 жыл бұрын

i live in northern nj and there are a lot of WW1 memorials in my area where in jersey did he serve i live in northern nj

@3-DtimeCosmology

5 жыл бұрын

Wow!

I have a lot of money riding on German victory in 1919. Come on Ludendorff, your boys are still in the game! For the Kaiser!

@JohnJohn-pe5kr

5 жыл бұрын

U better tell Ludendorff to hurry up because we got 6 weeks til November 11th 2018 The 100th anniversary of the end of world war 1 And Germany’s surrender.

@JohnJohn-pe5kr

5 жыл бұрын

A month and three weeks

@MattMerica76

5 жыл бұрын

More Americans keep arriving though.

@wood4058

5 жыл бұрын

you sound dumb asf. There’s literally no hope for germany anymore

@amitabhakusari2304

5 жыл бұрын

Seems like Allied propaganda...

I hope everyone had a decent week. Or at least one that’s better than the one the soldiers had.

@Cityinlead

5 жыл бұрын

Fancyfish thats isn’t too hard in these cases

@astrobot4017

5 жыл бұрын

It is all relative, I guess for a soldier back then it was a great week if he didn't die or get his legs blown off.

@3-DtimeCosmology

5 жыл бұрын

Totally imperfect. Infinitely better.

@lockdowndynasty7252

5 жыл бұрын

To the Lost...

@martinmortyry7444

5 жыл бұрын

Well, yesterday was pretty bad, but nothing comparable to trench foot or a gas attack.

Bulgaria: Hang on guys Bulgaria: I have a plan *Bulgaria has left the game*

@bandit5747

5 жыл бұрын

Germany: **Screams**

@ramal5708

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot *Bulgaria enters the game/chat* at the beginning

If you're not fleeing in your PJs, are you really fleeing?

@TheGreatWar

5 жыл бұрын

classic Jumbo Deathgrip!

It's hard to believe we're this close to the end. Soon to be 100 years since the armistice and the end of the war.

@Calum_S

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what Indy and the team have got up their sleeves for that day.

@WAMTAT

5 жыл бұрын

Spoilers!!!

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277

4 жыл бұрын

Spoilers please!

@jackdiamond5340

Жыл бұрын

SPOILERS DUDE!

The best thing about the imminent end of this war is that you'll finally be able to read some newspaper besides the Hamburger Fremdenblatt.

Bulgaria has left the server

@BulgarianFan

5 жыл бұрын

gg

@menitobussolini659

5 жыл бұрын

,,Sorry guys gtg,,-Bulgaria

@aleksk4151

5 жыл бұрын

Chef Mussolini Bulgarians mutinied they weren't beaten ! they didn't want to fight

@vojkavlacic5646

5 жыл бұрын

What server and which fame,I want to join it

@MordecaiTheAwesomeBluejay

5 жыл бұрын

You have been disconnected from the server

my great great grandpa fought in this battle. drafted in june of 1918 and was shipped out to france in september. i’ve heard from many family members that he was very proud of his service and was the most courageous man. RIP James H. Fitch, 1900-1976.

I just finished watching this episode & I can't wait for the next one next week

@JeytzonFierro

5 жыл бұрын

I've been saying that since day one! 😂

German Morale really seems to be broken. Sir. Haig might aswell grab a horse and ride to Berlin to give the Kaiser a slap.

@Deathskull0001

5 жыл бұрын

Same with Bulgaria (and probably almost everywhere else the Central Powers control. ), highly defensible positions are just suddenly being abandoned en-masse. Mutinies among the soldiers, etc. A LONG conflict like this with few to no supplies takes its' toll on men, stranded in the mud and rain, waiting to die every day...

@karlkarlos3545

5 жыл бұрын

And the situation on the home front wasn't much better. There will be a revolution any moment.

@TheCimbrianBull

5 жыл бұрын

A slap? Really?! 😱 That seems like rather ungentlemanly behavior for a British officer!

@Riddarstolphe

5 жыл бұрын

But the Kaiser isn't in Berlin. He is in Spa, Belgium.

Damn, I didn't think that movement into Serbia by the allies was ever going to end. Those lines just kept pushing further north on the map. I thought it wasn't going to stop until the Austrians and Bulgarians were pushed into Finland. I think calling the Central Powers front a "collapse" is an understatement.

@kristinanosovic258

5 жыл бұрын

Serbs was very inpatient to go back home, so they made this advance with big motivation. Even frech and british cavalry units couldn't follow serbian infantry after the breakthrough.

@paulmoskal3438

5 жыл бұрын

For real though at one point i was just sitting with my mouth open. So use to those lines not moving too much.

@ogastasii

5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact:The bulgarians were defeated by not losing a single flag to the enemy.Can't say the same about the allies.Exhaustion ,starvation ,being greatly outnumbered by arms and men and the general lack of motivation finally took their toll.They were not called "the prussians of the Balkans" by chance.Take a look at the Siege if Adrianople and how prejudism and pessimsim were debunked in just 3 days.

@sasapetrovic1084

11 ай бұрын

​@@ogastasiiNor Serbs. And we were in desparate situations.

Just 5 weeks left.....so sad:(

@spiderlime

5 жыл бұрын

there are many subjects , relevant to the war years, that can still be discussed regardless of the weekly coverage. i hope this channel would go on.

@schwarzhund2740

5 жыл бұрын

Alexa play Die Wacht am Rhein

@nerdothn892

5 жыл бұрын

@@spiderlime me too

@WAMTAT

5 жыл бұрын

Spoilers!!!

This is it. My great grandfather, Frank Bentz goes over the top with the 37th “Buckeye” Division, 100 years ago. Been waiting for this episode for a year now! Edit: I asked my mother what happened to Frank. Two days after the Armistice he came down with influenza but survived

We want Erich Ludendorf special Indy

@TheGreatWar

5 жыл бұрын

soon

@bazzatheblue

5 жыл бұрын

Waiting for his nervous breakdown I reckon.

The Australian First Division "mutiny" was seen as more of a strike against the unfairness of being sent back into the lines instead of being relieved. It involved only a few battalions of the division who had been hard hit in the previous weeks. The Australian Army was made up entirely of volunteers, there were no conscripts at all, unlike almost every other army in 1918. It still held to its civilian ethos, and other Australian battalions supported the strike. In fact, the strikers set up a negotiation committee, just as would happen in a strike in Australia. Also, at the time, most Australian battalions were seriously under strength with about 300 to 400 men rather than the 1000 they were meant to be. So much so that some battalions were combined or broken up entirely, which was part of their grievance. Had the war continued into 1919 it was likely that the Australian divisions would have been further reduced and reorganised because they had too few replacements coming in.

@wizofoz0605

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct, this was am egalitarian army, where promotion was based on merit, not name or social connection. The troops had fought for the right to have a say, and they were about to be treated unfairly. The main grievance the diggers had was the proposed breakup and reformation of the units they had bled for all these years. This was a protest, a strike, not a mutiny. Fact check: Aussies could not have been shot for desertion, it was against Australian law. Unlike the johnny-come-lately Yanks, the Aussies had been in the front lines and the tip of the British spear since April 1915.

@ramal5708

2 жыл бұрын

ANZACs were the ones to pay for the incompetence of the higher command, just like in Gallipoli

@seanlander9321

Жыл бұрын

Australia had already achieved enough, taking more ground and heavy guns than any allied army. You’d reckon that the British and French would have kept to the battle plan and put their troops in to give these blokes a break as agreed eh?

Indy are you doing a special about the Lost Battalion during the Meuse-Argonne offensive? Been watching for the past 2 1/2 years and love your show.

@baron_von_brunk

5 жыл бұрын

They recorded a video about them, but it got lost.

@earthenjadis8199

5 жыл бұрын

The Lost Battalion was just a minor incident in this whole crazy war. The Great War team's efforts over the past 4 years should give you an idea on just how vast the scale and numbers of the conflict were. It may be important to Americans, but to every other nation it's like "so what? you lost a battalion? we lost 30 divisions in the meat-grinder of Verdun!"

@kyledunn6853

5 жыл бұрын

Earthen Jadis I know about the human slaughter and I meant no offense. It's just that I wanted to know if Indy and team would cover this with additional info that I didn't know about what happened in the Argonne.

@leavemealoneyoutube1707

5 жыл бұрын

Julius von Brunk The video got destroyed by American artillery.

@DylanJo123

5 жыл бұрын

@@earthenjadis8199 chill dude, it was just a suggestion. Theres always that one guy, i swear

Franchet d'Esperey, although nicknamed "Desperate Frankie" for his drive forward in the breakthrough in the Vardar Offensive actually tried to temporarily stop the Serbs who were the spearhead of the advance, since he was worried they might be hit on the flanks. It is actually the Serbian Chief of Staff of Supreme Command, Voyvoda Zhivoyin Mishich who ignored the halt order sensing the Bulgarian wavering and concluding they should not be given a breathing space and a chance to sort themselves out with a pause in the offensive. Now every country's propaganda naturally portrays its soldiers as on the whole better than all others, but in this particular moment in history the Serbian Army had things going for it to actually merit such claims to a degree: vast majority of the Serbian soldiers had by now became seasoned veterans many of whom had been in almost uninterrupted large scale combat since 1912. Also many of them were farmers. Now they were well equipped by the French (Central powers had a crisis in this department by now) but most of all: hugely motivated to go on the offensive having in front of themselves their country, occupied for almost three years and the enemy blocking their way mostly from Bulgaria, the country that twice surprise attacked Serbia in last 5 years, the latter time from the back just as it was being invaded for the third time by the Austrians, this time reinforced and led by the Germans in late 1915. Beyond laid Austria Hungary which started the war by attacking Serbia. All these factors combined to make the Serbian units capable of more rapid marching than all other allied contigents. Also, once past the recently annexed Macedonia, they were advancing into their own country proper whose overjoyed populace often offered them whatever meager hidden food caches it had, hugely simplifying supply by enabling them to partly live off the land. Mishich understood what asset he had in hands and used it boldly to successfully hasten the Bulgarian plea for peace, the first from the Central Powers, and just weeks later the Austro-Hungarian.

@95paskal

5 жыл бұрын

"Surprise attack" yeah... Before 2 years you were in war with your neighbour and everybody is sure they will join your enemy in this war, but you call that a surprise attack?

@mihajlo_radivojsa

5 жыл бұрын

One proverb says: "Serbs desperately love Russians, but Russians desperately love Bulgarians, moreover Bulgarians desperately adore Germans!" And you know something, that's a fact.

@VersusARCH

5 жыл бұрын

@@mihajlo_radivojsa No it doesn't work that way. The truth is that during some periods of time Russia controlled the Serbian security apparatus (certainly during 1903-1917 and 1980-2000 periods) and Germans controlled the Bulgarian one (certainly in 1913-1918, 1941-45 and 1990-now, although in the latter case Germany is just a local control hub working for the USA) and during those periods spreading the propaganda favoring the master country was rampant and rival propagandas were mostly clamped down. People's emotions towards the master country are based on that propaganda and often persist longer than propaganda itself for various reasons.

@mihajlo_radivojsa

5 жыл бұрын

That's also true what you said. But this proverb is product of Serbian buthurt after the 3 march 1878. when contract of San Stefano was signed, and Bulgaria acquire Nish and Toplica, what for Serbian army bleed to take. And I pointed on that.

@esssofia

5 жыл бұрын

Still it was a Bulgarian population that lived there.

A lot of people don't realize the Meuse-Argonne Offensive had the most KIA American servicemen of any battle America has participated in.

@suburban404

5 жыл бұрын

More than Gettysburg?

@seanc5718

5 жыл бұрын

Powerdriller Power KIA is killed in action.

@markvorobjov6185

5 жыл бұрын

Powerdriller Power In Operation Overlord, from june to august 1944, US army lost 20 000 soldiers as killed. While in Meuse-Argonne offensive US army lost 26 000 soldiers as killed.

@W1se0ldg33zer

5 жыл бұрын

Pershing's experienced troops were exhausted. Weren't used in the battle. They used fresh troops with no experience. That would help explain the heavy losses.

It all leads to the end...11th month, 11th day, 11th hour.

@twandepan

5 жыл бұрын

Nakrin27 ah I’m spoiled now.... :(

@amitabhakusari2304

5 жыл бұрын

What happens then? Hotzendorf returns to save the war for the Central Powers?

@WAMTAT

5 жыл бұрын

Spoilers!!!

@TheCimbrianBull

5 жыл бұрын

@@amitabhakusari2304 That would make for an awesome action movie! 😀

@Bareego

5 жыл бұрын

In Germany that's the start of the carnival season o.O

After four years watching this show and hearing about events happening in far-away lands from Przemyśl to Tanganyika, it was crazy this evening to see the front line pass over the very spot where I was sitting and watching this video: Haifa on the Palestine front. It brings home the scale of this war to think that it was ravaging the Meuse and Macedonia at the same time it briefly touched this city.

Oh man, this is the part of the Great War where it starts looking less like a fight, and more like a Detroit Lions football game.

5:52 "The Nazereth garrison" . That sounds way more ancient Roman. Like "The Jerusalem garrison" with their infamous centurion Naughtius Maximus.

I'M GOING TO MISS THIS CHANNEL!

@impalabeeper

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, two more months.

@fristnamelastname5549

5 жыл бұрын

Yep

Indy and crew, I've been watching this channel since the beginning, although I've occasionally had to take breaks from the carnage. I love the way you mix old footage with your reporting. It's very well done. My grandfather was gassed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. I have a picture of him in his gear before he was shipped out, and one of him taken when he was discharged eighteen months later. He went from a cocky twenty-two year old to an old man with expressionless eyes. You do an amazing job of showing how this happened. Thank you.

Thanks for posting! The information at the end about the casualties and pows that the Central Powers offered was especially insightful. It helps to give a clear perspective why the German high command quit approximately 6 weeks later.

I've been watching this channel since day one. I actually came here from Indy's invite in the British Pathé channel. It was a journey, no doubt. Even through hardship, these videos were here to give me perspective. You guys helped me cope with the toughest parts of my Law School years. I'm a very different man now than I was when I started watching. Thank you for that, and for the great historical learning I got here.

@TheGreatWar

5 жыл бұрын

glad you've been with us the whole way

Thank you Indy and crew, these videos remind me of the days when I used to talk to my grandma about WW1 and it brings me such nostalgia, please dont ever stop. Love you for the feels you give

your videos are the best! thanks for the extra study/homework help.

-Orens, not this! Go round! Damascus, Orens! Damascus! - No prisoners! - No prisoners!!! No prisoners!!!

@aarongoodall5870

5 жыл бұрын

An excert from Lawrence of Arabia?

@VladTevez

5 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Goodall Yes!

@gi6022

5 жыл бұрын

@@VladTevez "Never saw a man killed with a sword before. " - Why don't you take a picture?

@kaczynskis5721

5 жыл бұрын

In a way, they are still trying to get to Damascus.

Before I watched this channel I really didn't know anything about the fighting in the Middle East during the Great War. It really gives a perspective to history and right now. 100 years later people are still fighting over the same lands.

@brettcoster4781

2 жыл бұрын

The Palestine photos show soldiers in slouch hats, basically in the lowered form. These soldiers are almost certainly Australian soldiers of the Australian Light Horse, which made up a large part of the British forces in the Middle East. The ALH were essentially a sixth Division of the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) based in the Middle East sector, in addition to the 5 AIF Divisions in France and Belgium.

"Sixty two thousand Serbian soldiers have determined the outcome of this war. For shame!" German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II in a telegram to the Bulgarian Supreme Command at the end of September 1918 .

@PifchoBG

4 жыл бұрын

serbians never did anything alone.

@BokaInter95

4 жыл бұрын

@@PifchoBG and still we rekted you every single time :D

@PifchoBG

4 жыл бұрын

@@BokaInter95 check your facts, illiteral

@PifchoBG

4 жыл бұрын

@@BokaInter95 damn yt censored me cuz i talked about your mommy, but you know...

@BokaInter95

4 жыл бұрын

PifchoBG backstabber, wanna lose another warr? Hahahaha

After this week I can honestly say... Ohhh how the tide has turned!

@fristnamelastname5549

5 жыл бұрын

AS THE TURN OF THE TIDE! ITS OUR TURN TO RISE! NO ARMY CAN STOP OUR APPROACH! FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE! MANY NATIONS UNITE! IN THE SHADOW OF THE HINDENBURG LINE!

Just want to point out as a photographer how cool that photo at 3:58 is...it's a long exposure and the men on the gun appear spectral due to them being illuminated suddenly by the gun's muzzle flash!

Don't feel so bad about losing Bulgaria. Look, you've still got, uh, what's his name -- that other 'garia -- uh, Hungaria! Yeah, whatever.

@luxembourgishempire2826

5 жыл бұрын

Julius von Brunk Austria

@Duke_of_Lorraine

5 жыл бұрын

Hungary ? No thanks I just ate.

@neilwilson5785

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Donald! How was the holiday in Nambia?

@TheCimbrianBull

5 жыл бұрын

@@Duke_of_Lorraine In case you feel Hungary later on there is some leftover Turkey! 😜😋

@snakeysnake758

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheCimbrianBull hahahaha

4:20 for the western front especially compared to the Somme this is a incredible feat.

Love this channel btw I will miss this show after the war ends. I hope some special episodes will still come out and some out of the trenches too.

@TheGreatWar

5 жыл бұрын

currently working on a few scenarios exactly for that

Love this channel keep up the great work!

Well in Bulgaria ... Long war we fought against foreign enemies, this week the civil war begins. It takes 40 years to conclude but this week was the start of it. GG

My great grandfather was apart of the push to break the Hindenburg line with the British at St Quentin and Second Battle of the Somme. Old Hickory Division!

@colinkelly5420

5 жыл бұрын

Its a bit of a shame the involvement of the 2 US divisions that served under British command get overlooked by both the Brits and the Americans. The Brits forget them because in the grand scheme of things, they were two divisions while over 40 British Divisions were in action during this time. The US forgets them because it wasn't part of the Meuse Argonne offensive, which was the big US push of WWI (Itself not well remembered in US history).

Epic episode. So much stuff happening this week. I can definitely smell the end of the war...and of the channel as well, unfortunately. I'm gonna miss this show so much. Indy and the crew have done an outstanding job!

Oh well...we tried. There's a saying in Bulgaria : We have never lost a battle and at the same time never won a war

@grigorov1914

5 жыл бұрын

И двете неща са абсолютни глупости

@grigorov1914

5 жыл бұрын

@@indiananeidell9186 is it tho? We've lost battles and we've won wars, so unless you see some other meaning of it, i think it's wrong

@NazarovVv

5 жыл бұрын

Георги Григоров Well isn’t there another meaning? I’m surprised you’ve never heard it. And of course it’s a generalization it’s a “saying” after all. It’s supposed to convey an idea not historical facts - there are other ways of obtaining those.

@narutomgm

5 жыл бұрын

Георги Григоров Well for example we won the battle of Dojran but ended up forfeiting the position the next day without fighting. In the words of general Stefan Toshev "Defeated without being beaten."

@VersusARCH

5 жыл бұрын

You won wars in 1878, 1885, 1912. Technically also 1945. thanks to Zveno officers that made the country switch sides.

Man Indy, ive watched since January 1915.. er 2015 and I cant believe its almost over. I remember thinking when i first started how long this show was going to be but here we are a little over a month from the end of the war... man how time fly's.....

Hey Indy another solid episode. Tell Flo and the gang that we appreciate the show and I am pushing for it to be something shown in history class. Who knows, maybe you will get an extra job editing with the more advanced graphics for history class. One can only hope. You guys rock, and I hope to see you again 'on the road'. All the best to 'the great war' team.

An interesting topic for 'out of the trenches'. In the military logistics are covered in classes. What some people might want to know about is class 6 (alcohol) and how it was brought to, and distributed to the men (if that was even done in WW1). Might be a light topic to discuss with all the heavy ones you cover. To Indy Flo and the rest of the team, you guys are awesome!

My father was at Argonne in the 33rd. RIP father miss you everyday

"Tell us, how does it feel to have broken the Bulgarian front?" "wait wut"

@aleksk4151

5 жыл бұрын

lol exactly

Finally caught up with the present (-100 years) after starting a few months ago, such an amazing series!

This has been a great binge watch over the past several weeks. I'm left wondering when are finals and we do get credit for this :). When I see reports and pictures from the factories and fields I am left with the impression that there are very few men of working age that aren't in the military. Very few men in the factories and no one to harvest the crops. This gives me the impression that as horrific as the death toll is, the actual death toll is significantly higher, especially for Austria-Hungary.

I have been following your videos for 4 years. I will miss them badly :( I think as much as i missed a decent PC game when i finished Witcher 3 :)

@ellsworth1956

5 жыл бұрын

there is always World War Two, type it in your KZread search Bar.

Been here since beginning of the war and i cant fathom that its coming to an end

@larrywave

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcusbierman5310 yes i know 😁👍

Very great show

Don't know if this has been done, but could potentially be a mini series. Explaining the countries/empires and countries within them. The UK for example explaining what was the national feelings and differences between Wales Scotland and England (I know Ireland has been covered), also in the british empire with all the colonies and the differences in feeling between NZ, aus, india and south africa or the Ottoman empire and all their different nations, You guys are doing a great job and your special episodes on Poland and the Czech legion etc have been awesome. Please keep going after the end of the war!

Thanks again for another great episode Indy. I thought I would drop you this line because I am typing this on a cloudy lunch time in Bourlon France and am about to go out to look at some of the sites of the Battle of Cambrai. OK so I know I am almost a year late but I have travelled from Australia and yesterday visited the spot where my great grandfather, Harry Hill MM and four mates were surrounded and the 3 survivors forced to surrender when they ran out of ammunition in April 1917 at the battle of Lagnicourt. I have often thought that he may have been one of the 'lucky ones' as he missed a year and a half of hard fighting the AIF did in the next year and a half. The BnB I am staying in is a modern house being renovated by a French soldier, but the surrounding red brick wall shows the damage from the war, including large holes. On the wall near the front gate there is a sign, showing the photo of a young German soldier, Private Himmelreich, whose body was found 'on the other side of the wall' (ie in the front yard) in 2007. The local people gave him a proper send off in the village church before he was reburied in a German war cemetery. Well, have reviewed your episode on Cambrai so am about to head out to see what I can see. Off to Fromelles tomorrow, stopping at Vimy Ridge on the way. I already paid homage to our Canadian brothers in arms in Bourlon wood yesterday but Vimy is a must see. You did a top episode on the Fromelles disaster in July 1916, the worst single day in Australian history. I will look at it again tonight. Thanks again for all the great work by you and the crew. .

My great granddad was a Maj. in the 353 89th US Army. I am lucky to be here today. He was severely wounded in M-A. Was prior in St. Mihiel as well.

just made my day, thanks TGW team

We're starting a WWI project in my history class. I could hear so many people watching this series. It was beautiful

Hey! I was wondering what’s the total length of all of your episodes combined? I’m planning on binge watching everything again once the war ends! Btw thank you so much indy for this amazing channel , i truly think you’ve made history with this project!

guys if you decide to do a 100 years war week by week i would still watch it :)

Looks like the war might be nearly over. Hope there's time for one more push up the Isonzo!

My great great uncle Leo J. Lavoie was an American who served during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was killed by the Germans October 9, 1918. In looking forward to you videos in the coming weeks as this day draws near.

I was reading "The White War" about the Italian front as a deeper examination of Italy and Austria-Hungary and it's fascinating. Under Cadorna, they actually tried to block Italian prisoners from receiving packages through the Red Cross. Pretty tragic.

September 28th ... well, Happy Birthday, Indy! Many greetings from Fritz-Land

I love this chanel on the 11 of november im of to france for the 100 years since the war ended

@fredrik83

5 жыл бұрын

To an event or memorial of some kind?

@xx-tripmine-xx2400

5 жыл бұрын

For a memorial as my great great grandfather fourght on the western front as the leeds pals in 1916 on the somme battlefields i would just like to pay my repects of the war

My great grandfather fought in the Argonne we wrote to his mom and sister that he didn’t think he was gonna make it (thankfully he lived due to the war ending before he was going to attack ) My dad still has his letters pictures and his helmet and trench knife RIP Henry Brockmann He was in the 115th infantry division

Happy birthday Indy!

Thank you sir

ohhhhhhhhhhhh make it end...……...following this with you...makes me ill...……...day after day....endless death and misery...…...I can`t help but feel sorry for us,,,,,,,,,,pow! zoom! to the moon,,,,you`re the greatest instructor I`ve ere had...….happy trails

Top tips for Argonne forest map: Make sure to flank on the right of the bridge to push into obj D. Sniper teams on E ruins and in the bushes, will at least slow the attackers down.

the air attack on the retreating Turkish columns I see as a war crime. as an Aussie, I know how instrumental the RAAF was in this offensive. at least they were themselves horrified.

@merdiolu

5 жыл бұрын

I am Turkish and I apreciate it still I understand that this was a Total War and at this point air attacks on tactical targets were least breach of rules. 20 years later it will become the new norm. Air power was a new brand format and it was utilised. Nothing personal no more no less.

From this point of view, if Bulgaria gave support to Serbia from the beginning that would have been extremely beneficial for the both sides.

As i have said it before: navy superiority and blockage started to paid dividends to Entente already in 1916. And when civilians started to mourn and lost hope every army will collapse. Most of German soldiers saw in early summer 2018 war totally meaningless and lost.

1:07 nets with leaves on them over artillery pieces. Is that to make cannons harder to detect for observation planes ?

@javierandreszunigagarcia8791

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@TheGreatWar

5 жыл бұрын

yes, they also painted them

My great uncle was killed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He served in US 4th Infantry Co F as a private. My great-grandmother never believed he was dead and always said "One day Willy will come home." His name is on a memorial statue in my hometown of Wausau, WI.

My Great Grandfather fought at St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne. He's was later hospitalized by mustard gas. Im incredibly proud to be his great grandson.

I see some other channel uploading about the second world war. But this war is not over? I cannot watch yet for this war will never over for me. Thank you so much Indy and Flo and everyone involved, you are undeniably brilliant remembering this forgotten war and the heroes who fought in it.

Next week is the 100th anniversary of the lost battalion

Brutal War. .shy all of em are. .Reading about the tough conditions. .General MacArthur mentioned in his address to West Point early 1950's. .

The same offensive that caused the most American casualties in the Great war

I`m Indy Neidell and I'm a time traveler from 1939. Welcome to the Great War.

@fristnamelastname5549

5 жыл бұрын

🤔What happens in 1939? THERES ANOTHER WORLD WAR? 😱

@Pirusiandres

5 жыл бұрын

Frist Name Last Name There’s a new KZread Chanel. Check it out. He travels back and forth in time.

I love you show Indy keep it up

I remember the Argonne, 1918 The sounds of that battle still haunt me to this day Machine gun fire from enemy lines The sickening sound of a bayonet tearing through human flesh The soldier next to me firing his sidearm in desperation All these sounds still echo in my mind, And as conducted by Death himself it all comes together as music A rhythm of death A symphony of war Intro plays......

Those POWs looked terrible. Many would call them cowards but if I were them and fought for 4 years, I'd have surrendered to. R.I.P to all of them.

@LeHappiste

5 жыл бұрын

Cowardice can't even be a discussion given that surrendering wasn't an individual decision. Men surrendered by thousands when they were in strategically indefensible positions. When your entire division surrendered because it had been surrounded and cut off, you had to follow no matter how brave or determined you were

@mrperson0140

5 жыл бұрын

@@LeHappiste Exactly. No point in fighting without a chance.

Hi Indy, Flo and team, love the show. At 4:38 of this episode there is an interesting picture of German soldiers mostly wearing Stahlhelms but also there are a couple of soldiers wearing Brodie helmets. It is a very intriguing photo. I know the Germans used captured allied tanks during the war, but were things so bad towards the end of the war that they also had to go as far as to commander Allied helmets? Or is it that the Brodie helmets were simply preferred over the Stahlhelms? If so were there other items/gear that the Germans sought to obtain from the Allies and vice versa, were there items of interest that Allied soldiers attempted to obtain from German soldiers? Keep up the great work!

@brettcoster4781

2 жыл бұрын

The soldiers wearing the Brodie helmets were probably the guards for the German prisoners. There are plenty of photos from 1918 showing German prisoners.

What a brutal war 😓

My grandfather fought in the Argonne offensive. He was gassed and faced a long recovery after the armistice.

Since it's the anniversary of the Argonne I would love to hear about the participation of Siam during WW1 in a special as they were in involved on the Meuse Argonne offensive

Great video. Great job.

Considering how important Stambolyiski becomes after the war, I was hoping he would get at least a bit more than a single name drop. Even mentioning that he was imprisoned for anti-war propaganda and released to (in theory) convince the regiments to stop the mutiny would've given a ton of extra context.

"They held some high ground." *shows picture of hot air balloon* I mean... you're not wrong.

Like ir hour favorite Battlefield 1 is Argonne Forest! I was waiting for this week!

Great Episode indeed! You forgot the Greek Flag along side the Serbian Flag on your Map as the Allies advanced from Northern Greece into Bulgaria!

It's just hit me. The war will be over in two months

@thexalon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've heard that one before. I'm sure as heck not going to believe it!

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277

4 жыл бұрын

That's just Allies propaganda

The Muese Argonne offensive has started. The final act of the war begins

the beginning of the end

@monsieurlaguillotine3481

5 жыл бұрын

The beginning of the end isn't until mid to late October.

@fristnamelastname5549

5 жыл бұрын

Or the End of the Beginning.

@heavypupper1219

5 жыл бұрын

@@fristnamelastname5549 The end of the begining was late 1915 early 1916

Please give us some special episode about Liberty Division in the Argonne forest. I think this is one of the greatest episodes of american warfare, and deserves it as much as Harlem Hellfighters.

After the last few weeks would you consider going over the Treaty of Versailles and the new countries?

@briansmith9439

5 жыл бұрын

He's already started a "Between 2 Wars" series

@phiphedude7684

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Smith Ik but theres sooo many episodes, a 10m summary would be nice :D

Got a question, not OOTT, but a shop-related one: Can you send samples of the studiosmell? especially of the chair of wisdom. This is not a creep related question, but my girlfriend has been wondering if all the old stuff and furniture smells as it looks. Been forced to write this, love the show!