The Crippling Long Term Effects Of The First World War | The Long Shadow Full Series | Timeline
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David Reynolds examines the legacy of the Great War, across 100 years and 10 different countries, explaining how the war haunted a generation and helped build the peace that followed.
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I remember doing a report in high school for history on WW1.....so i asked my grampa about it and he told me a cpl things he thought were ok for me to hear. At the end i said "grampa you were one of the lucky ones that made it home" His reply(stone faced) was "you wouldnt think that if you dreamt my dreams"
My Pops fought in Belleau Wood, God bless your Grampa.
Very powerful. Respect to your grampa, and others like him.
Powerful words.
Two of my mother's uncles served with the NZ forces at Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele. One was wounded at Passchendaele ending his war. The other went on and served on the western front, the Somme again, and then after November 1918, as a member of the army of occupation in Cologne. Both brothers returned their bodies intact, but their minds permanently and tragically damaged. In 1935 when NZ extended the war pension to those wounded in the mind, both brothers immediately went on it and remained on it to the end of their days. The brother who had served as a rifleman in the NZ infantry suffered the worse. But his younger brother, who went through the entire conflict first as a mounted rifleman at Gallipoli and then as an artilleryman for the rest of the war, suffered less. But what point in measuring the mental torture suffered by each of the brothers? Neither recovered. Both suffered for the rest of their lives. A son of the rifleman later said 'they don't raise memorials to those wrecks they shipped home.' In a letter to the editor during the second world war, a Gallipoli veteran wrote decrying some writers who had never served yet bayed for blood. He informed these people of the torture of war and the torture of returning from war, a torture that never ended. He signed his letter 'another martyr of Anzac.' Historians can dance all they like. For our family war is just destruction and the ruination of good men's minds and good men's lives. As the Romans said 'dulce bellum inexpertis.' War is only sweet to those who have never tasted it. What was it for? My two great uncles had no idea, and cared less. No war is worth the damage inflicted on our family by the trenches of Gallipoli and the western front.
What waste of futures. The leaders of Germany and UK were cousins, did it have to end like this? These lads were heroes before they ever set foot on a battlefield. Mothers who had given birth to the flowers of our future were heroic to let their country take away their hopes for their future, did these women vote for war? Well we know the answer to that.
Many young men romanticized war and were eager to go off to battle. It has happened throughout history, after Pearl Harbor, after 9/11.
That's nothing, I did 4 tours.
My friend war is young men who do not know or hate each other , killing each other at the behest of old men who know each other , hate each other but do not have the guts to kill each other !
@@stefansyiemiong5881 Beautifully said. Thank you.
As a young historian (born early 90s), I must say I really appreciate this documentary. It make me feel uncomfortable, and it challenged my point of view. With WW1 being my focus, it has been years since my POV was challenged like this. And I appreciate that - it makes me see things through a different lens, and realize how much more there is to history, regardless of resource, simply because of the passage of time. Thank you!
Heya @da, well said ,eh . I was born in 1952 and have been studying this stuff all of my life and , your right, this critical analysis of our history is so overdue… the program presents a pov that was positively Treachery when I was a young student and soldier. The hints and clues have been there all along I just didn’t have the maturity, experience or balls to criticise my tutors , mentors , family views and the media. Your turn now….be courageous and reference everything ( footnotes) .Good luck on this journey ❤️☮️
9/11??? BUT Einstein's Equivalence Principle says gravity is not a force? The War to end all wars will be the one that makes all people extinct.
Qeen Victoria married off all her children to all of European aristocracy and nobility ....after her death they became a European family torn by divide for greed and power for world wide domination for world resources and land in my eyes it was a European family tribal war were greed and supremacy was the main dividing dominating force..@@joeclay5511
It's good to do this, because we only really focus on the Christmas truce, the underage soldiers, the Somme and Passchendaele, and we forget the early and late battles and the aftermath and long term effects, and the build up to the war
@@invisibleman4827not if you read books and have the urge to want to explore the subject more. I have that urge. When I was a child I read up the more obscure parts of WW1, for eg: the East Africa and Mesopotamia campaigns. Then there’s things like the shipping raiders in the pacific, the Japanese involvement, the Portuguese involvement etc etc etc
I'm 62 and was brought up believing that no one in either side of my family had fought in the First World War. When I retired last year I decided to take a DNA test and begin researching my family tree. it has been one of the most incredible humbling and emotional projects I've ever undertaken. I wasn't prepared for the roller coaster of emotions. I discovered that my dad had an uncle he knew nothing about. He was my grans older brother and was killed in Russia 2 weeks after his 20th birthday and 2 weeks before the Armistice, this young coal miner was fighting with the Allies against Trotsky's Red Army. There were never any pictures on display and he was never spoken of. Another branch lost 3 sons- an entire generation. A cousin of my paternal grandfather was a 2nd Lieutenant at the Somme where he won a Military Cross before being killed in the final 100 days offensive in 1918. All together I've discovered almost 50 young men from across the British Empire who fought and mostly died fighting in every theatre between 1914-1918 and in every major battle. One young man stands head and shoulders above the others- a young Scot who emigrated to Canada in 1913 only to return and fight on the Western Front. He was a Piper who in a heroic act during the Battle of the Somme when his unit was pinned down during an assault on a German trench sought permission to play his bagpipes. This act rallied the troops and they succeeded in taking the trench. He was killed a few hours later when returning to retrieve his pipes. There are also reports of others who were subjected to Field Punishment No1, who deserted, who were severely injured in battle or in carrying out their duties such as the boy kicked in the head by a vicious horse. All of these stories have stirred a myriad of emotions- anger sadness and great pride among them. For the first time I truly appreciate the terrible toll the Great War had on a generation cutting a swathe right across the world.
Killed 2 weeks before the Armistice (which was the 11th of November 1918) IN RUSSIA ? But Russia had already given up WW1 signing a peace treaty with Germany in MARCH 1918. So, your comment doesn’t ring true. Sorry.
@@sydmccreath4554 Oh dear, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Maybe you're not quite as smart as you think. He was sent to Russia to fight with other allied troops on the side of the White Russian Army against the Red Army during the RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. He was killed near Archangel on the 27th October at Topsa- one of 27 men who died that day. Do a bit more research before you attempt to insult my integrity and besmirch the memory of my great uncle. I don't expect you'll have the decency to apologise...
@@sydmccreath4554britain, america and others sent soldiers to russia in 1918 to fight in the civil war there.
A guy I know did a DNA test, and his closest relative having a DNA test done was his mother's brother's wife's sister.
Could you imagine how many emotionally unavailable men this war has caused? Not many people talk about the families affected after their husbands,Dads,Uncles and brothers come home completely changed.
I met a woman whose dad had fought. She said he’d get drunk and her mum would tell her to run, and by 4 she knew to run and hide his bullets. He had terrible flashbacks, nearly killing his wife and 2 daughters in a bid to save them. If I saw him start cleaning his gun, I knew he’d been drinking, she told me. One night he got savage drunk and she had run and hidden all the bullets, not realizing he had already loaded the gun. She was 9 years old by this time, but she heard her mum trying to calm him down, but it wasn’t like the other times. He reared back and fired at her mother, killing her instantly. She said he snapped out of it, and called out, Jess…Jessie…are you okay my love? What’s happened to you? He noticed the gun in his hand and when he realized he had killed his wife, he turned the gun on himself. She watched both her parents die. As she is telling me this, all I can do is quietly weep. She said, Dad adored my mother, and he adored us. There was nothing he would not do to protect us and give us the best life. It’s not that he ever stopped, but the war changed him. He never raised a hand to us when he was drunk, but he went back to that place and I think a part of him stayed in those trenches. Daddy came home, but only part of him. To know that this was PTSD related and to think how poorly we treated these men for desertion, for cowardice…for being boys trying to be men when they were just boys. So quick to sacrifice our youth to un winnable wars. Who really wins? Nobody, on either side. Not in the end. I wish we had some of the WWI eterans left to tell us what it did to them. Would it have changed things for later wars? Of course not, America loves war. It loves policing the world when it benefits them financially, but not those sent out to fight. 4 servicemen and women die by their own hand every day in the US. I’m sure those numbers are the same worldwide. And we still refuse to help those who sacrificed everything for LIES. For OIL. And here we are again, once more on the brink of destruction, the only upside is we won’t be alive to see what horrors we caused. Mutually assured destruction means no one wins. Except the elites. Got to save them.
@@tonguepetalsWW1 ruined an entire generation of bright young men. It’s true, war is just bitter old men sending boys to die ,and they’re the ones who get to live. The story about the father realizing he had killed his wife is unbelievably tragic.
So utterly, horribly, very sadly, true
@@DanielAiello-sv1bmGermany made the war very necessary when they invaded Belgium.
65 years old now and grade 9 schooling I learn so much from documentaries like this in KZhead. Thank you 🙏
I love documentaries!
You learn more and more truthful information than from school in these, my kids watch some of these with me and we talk about them and they will always say I had no idea these things happened and for that reason and I always ask didn't you talk about that in history class? And they always say that they mentioned it but they don't delve into the topics and I am always horrified by the stuff "history class" leaves out.
School is better.
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@@wyndorphstormcrow8372 - That’s awesome; I’m sure it will not only enlighten your kids, but also bring them fond memories of doing so with you in the future. I don’t have any children, but if I ever do, this sounds like a wonderful idea. 🙂
I will come back to documentaries with this man for years. What a teacher and speaker.
Oh yes, HUNTING is a valid critique from the vegan curry breathed ‘men’ of Britain from 80+ years in the future. If he had said “Fox Hunting”, or “harrying and then killing defenseless foxes”; YES. Aren’t all animals ‘defenseless’ when faced with a tool bearing male human? Vapid over-enunciating of moralized self aggrandizement by a tiny island that tells each other THEY defeated Germany, when they just barely survived a near fatal beating, like Putin’s Russia. Clearly, all of the real men were sent from the isle to die, now leaving this.
I know really theatrical pulls u in and appreciate the past.
My grandad fought at Gallipoli and survived but his experiences haunted him all his life he lived to 80..
He was let down by planners who's blood would never be shed.
@@robertdore9592 as is the nature of all wars
That’s not possible. Maybe your grandad fought in WW2, but not WW1. WW1 was over 100 years ago
My grandpa served in France during the Great War. He was born in 1895.
@@macysondheimmy Grandma was born in 1886, so she was 14 in 1900 & 28 with a daughter in 1914, other grandparents were also born in the 19th century! And I do still have all my 'marbles'!
My great great grandfather was a medic in the US Army during WW1. He witnessed the horrors of the trenches up close and dealt with the injuries. After the war, he returned to Texas and opened up a pharmacy which he ran all the way until his passing. We used to have his medic uniform but it disappeared a long time ago. Wish I could have seen it.
My Grandfather’s both fought in WWI …one in the Artillery….the other in 3 different Regiments.The Suffolk’s ,The Rifles ,and the Tank corp …he won the Military medal for bravery in the field…the war effected him for the rest of his life 🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧
Your great grandfather maybe😂
@@caseyphilips3007 ….no !..my Grandfather Bob Cowell …my mothers dad …I’m 70
@@caseyphilips3007this comment sums up social media perfectly. Not knowing who the other person even is, people try to discredit their comments and even find it funny. Ah, social media!🤦🏻♀️
A death to wounded ratio of 1 to 2 is unbelievable. In Vietnam is was 1 to 8 or 9. I am a Vietnam Vet and saw things I still try to forget, but that experience I cannot phantom. The courage of those men, on all sides, walking, without cover, into that inferno and dying is almost without understanding. I salute them.
May you find peace in this lifetime.
@@torressr3 Thank you. May we all find peace, understanding, love and fulfillment. I hope you have found yours.
God bless you too, sir.
But I am so angry at those that made them do it 🙏🏾
courage or a death wish.
My great-great grandfather was a professional soldier and WW1 veteran who'd served in the Boer War before, he'd fought in a battle for 7 hours before being captured and held prisoner, and returned to civilian life as a shoe riveter. He was one of the original professional BEF soldiers called up as a reservist and sent over in 1914. He was killed in 1918 during the German offensive when his casualty clearing station was hit by shell fire, leaving behind a wife and two daughters.
The generations that fought the first and second world wars were our greatest, but the toll it took on our nation and its view of itself is still being felt, these men would never have allowed this country to fall into the mire it has fell into now, I can’t help feeling as a veteran myself of one of our modern misadventures, that all this death and suffering has been a complete and utter waste of the best this country had to offer……
every generation says the same thing..
Totally agree with you 🙏🇬🇧
@@beyondrecall9446 I don’t think anyone is going to call our generation, ‘ the greatest’ we have abjectly failed to create a better society for our children and grandchildren…….
Perhaps this was all done on purpose 🤔
@@vanmush My generation is X, and our brains should have been mush due to video games, cable TV and rap music, and that's if we didn't fall victim to crack. According to my parent's generation, we were stupid, lazy and unmotivated. Fast forward 40 years, and we've become our parents. Gen Z is now the stupid, lazy, unmotivated ones. Tik tok, anime and mumble rap is rotting their brains, and legalization of weed?! It's anarchy! Listen, no one likes change and uncertainty, and the only constant in this world is change. This whole "the new generation is ruining the world!" is silly. It hasn't happened yet, and new generations have existed for millennia. Because it's no longer a world you readily recognize, that doesn't mean it's wrong or bad.
My 3x great grandfather John Alfred Hawkins known as “Jack” was killed during the first week of the battle of the Somme at Mametz Wood on 9th July 1916 he was a private serving with b coy 14th battalion royal Welsh fusiliers he is buried in Etaples Cemetery Thank you Jack for your service and god bless you may you rest in peace
Its to the point where I can't watch documentaries on the Battle of the Somme . When Pals brigades were killed , villages in Britain lost their male youth . This is why there were very strong peace movements in Britain during the inter war years as explained in this Documentary . .
So did he also go over the top on the first day July 1..do you know?
You were almost never born. 9/11 Terrorists??? BUT Einstein's Equivalence Principle says gravity is not a force? The War to end all wars will be the one that makes all people extinct.
Thank you for this documentary not holding back of the horrors inflicted on our soldiers who fought in the great war and subsequently WWII. My mother and father were teenagers in Northern Ireland during WWII with my father being buried alive in a direct hit from German airforce during the blitz. He survived but his stories of Europe and the sacrifices were told to us as children. As first generation American citizen I understood at an early age of the sacrifices and losses to all across the globe. War is so last century and the events of today have opened my eyes once again demanding a peaceful resolution be sought even after an attack on us. Two wrongs do not make a right and may the rest of this century learn a lesson once and for all. Peace to all.
This HAS to be the best explanation of war ,The bits no one speaks about
Oh? Investment banking? Communism?
I’m usually more interested in WWII, but for whatever reason I was mesmerized by the production value, narration/narrative, and natural flow of the overall unfolding historical landscape of the story. Great program. Absolutely great. 5 stars.
Same here...I don't know why ive never felt the interest in WW1 ...
@@kluafoz a lot of that is because of mass media. Look at all the camera footage of the WWII compared to that of WWI. Next most people over the age of 40 (as of 2023) probably knew a relative that fought in WWII. Then you had all those TV shows on the History and Discovery channel like Battle: 360, GI Diaries, Wings Over Europe, and even TV shows like Bah Bah Black Sheep, Hogan's Heroes, Sgt, Bilko, McHale's Navy and their British and Australian counterparts. You also have all the countless WWII movies that our grandfathers and fathers watched and we watched too because of them. You have all the archived interviews of all the WWII heroes. Now compare all that media with the media of WWI and that is your difference maker. WWII is also portrayed as a righteous war, a war of truly good vs. evil whereas, and the narrator mentioned it, WWI is viewed as a war of useless slaughter.
To understand WWII, you need to understand WWI. It's essentially a continuation. "Unfinished business" if you will.
This for me, has to be the greatest series I’ve seen in a very long time, offering a perspective one doesn’t much think about.
I may be the last generation to be spoken to by a WWI veteran. That's something I will never forget as long as I live. WWI have a special place in Canadian history. Also, I'm getting shivers down my spine at the similarity between Italian Fascist rise and what's happening to the world right now. They're quick learners and history is the best teacher.
Definitely! I've also noticed the same analogy between the rise of Mussolini and what's going on in the USA right now. I think there are basically too many idiots out there to stop it..? MTG and the "Gazpacho Police" for example... I can't believe that dolt is a US Senator.
The Russian missile that landed on Polish territory after being hit by a Ukraine missile had the WW1 Axis vs Allies vibe to it. All this just happened a month ago. (November, 2022)
Lol me me me me me me you’re all unbearable
You forgot about Fascist Trump to your south. That was scary for us Americas too.
@Ryan Gibson the main reason for the shiver down my spines.
My grandfather was a veteran of WW1…The war and memories what we call PTSD today.. Grandpa committed suicide in 1927..This video was well done and informative..
I wonder how many Great War vets killed themselves after the War? We'll never have an accurate number, but I bet it was much higher than any of their estimates, if they even have any.
Very sad, so sorry for him.
Life was something very different. My thanks to your grandfather, and I hope he will be remembered for his bravery, not for the consequences of his valor 🙏
So sorry about your grandpa 😞.
My great grandfather was in ww1 and also committed suicide.
That the young man, allows the old man to persuade him to war, is what never breaks that burdensome chain.
The profiteering group of elder men* "Order out of Chaos" "Divide & Conquer" Problem Reaction Solution Cause of most wars Greed , Power the love of Money
Ya ur right we should probably have 60 year old troops that would work out well.
@@bradbufton1517 you're a special kind of silly
Regrettably if a country does not keep a viable military they end up like Palestine, or fighting for their very survival as is Ukraine right now
@@refuge42Ukraine military was always disproportionately large and well equipped for its economy. It’s just it’s economy wasn’t very large. It now probably has the worlds second best military
I'm 64 yrs.old. My German grandfather fought for Germany in WW1. When WW2 came he had to fight for Germany again at the Russian front. My father fought with the British army stationed in Burma in WW2. So I have ties to both world wars.
I can relate to that and for you. My father,my uncle and grampa canadian vets whent to 1st and 2 nd ww And never talk about it. Today and for the past few years i have been thinking they should have gpne tp some kind of therapie ( so tabou and miss information during those years.😢 ❤❤❤ imagin
My dad was in North Africa and mum was in the ATS. My first girlfriends dad was at Remegan. I wish id been more interested when i was a teen. They've all gone now, i'm a bit ashamed of myself. God bless them all. 😢
Wow do you have any stories?
And both sides
This makes no sense your grandfather fought in ww1 and ww2 for Germany. Your father fought for Britain in ww2. Unmmmm ooooookay sir
Dan Snow again. This man never quits.
Dan Snow has nothing to do with this. Hes just a paid actor to do a lil message at the beginning
@@Dustin_47 sounds like something Dan Snow would say. I see through your tricks.
@@Dustin_47 he’s a little more than a “ paid actor “! 😆
Always skip that part lol. No clue what he's going on about lol.
HELLO I'M DAN SNOW AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT DOUBLE GLAZ. .. (I click on any other video)
I knew nothing about the great war, until i moved to Britain. This war has changed this nation more than any other wars since.
That it has,and rightfully so I think. Still you can arguably say it changed central europe and Germany even more. Youll find tiny countries with huge cities inside of it like Austria with Vienna because of this war.
David Reynolds intense style of explanation draws me in every time
Makes me wonder what he said.
I have amazing photos of my Grandfather and Grandmother In WW1 and my dad during WW2 in North Africa and my Uncle in Arnhem and more. They sacrificed for this Country and would turn on their graves if they see how British people are treated by their government now.
I thought I knew a lot about history. I was born in 1947, so just after the War. I confess that I have never, ever heard of the Peace Ballot! Certainly didn't learn about it at school, or in modern history courses I've taken. Just can't understand why, considering the amount of people who responded to it which would have included grandparents and my parents. Thank you so much for his important piece of world history.
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica. I have family member who fought in both wars. One Jamaican who fought in France during WW1 was awarded a medal by the French embassador to Jamaica at the age of 105. His first comments are that the medal was over 80 years late and many of his comrades that surved died over the years and recieved no medals. I still have the news paper with that story of which I can share if you wish.
Thank you for the message!
The French Playing with Veterans...for political points He called it....
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@@maureenledwidge1349 Don't know what that means
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Being a veteran myself i love reading and listening to documentaries about my great grandfather generation. He too served but during WWII. He was a D Day survivor and would tell me about it as a young boy. He wouldnt tell anyone else in our family except me. I guess i figured out i would find the stories entertaining and informative. I miss him everyday
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My grandfather fought in Gallipoli and Iraq and never spoke of it to my Nan about it but talk to him About any subject and within a few minutes it was turned to Gallipoli it haunted him for all his life..
My grandfather also fought there. My main memory is that he hated Churchill, as did most Scots at that tme. The subsequent lionization of Churchill surprised me, although it mainly took place in the media.
My grandfather fought at Ypres and the Somme , was finally mustard gassed 3 weeks before armistice. I adored him , I knew him 50 years post his war but I still know every word to all the WW1 song, “ mademoiselle from Armentiers “ and “it’s a long way from Tipperary “. He didn’t talked about the war but it permitted his whole life and his children’s and grandchildren’s lives. My own children know those songs through me singing them. I don’t think enough is known about the generational effects of something so life children.
@@davidw.robertson448 Churchill was loathed in our family too, remember his grip over politics lasted from the Boer war , through WW1 , the interwar years with his treachery of shooting strikers , through the Second World War. It was no wonder the British working class loathed the entitled aristocratic bully who did so much damage. Though probably uniquely effective in WW2 from making so many previous costly mistakes.
@@dianeshelton9592 The shooting of the miners is a complete myth. Spread by idiots who refuse to do the work to actually find out. There is more BS pumped out about Churchill than any other figure of the time. F*ing annoying really.
"Want to watch a documentary?" "I'm not sure" "David Reynolds is in it" "Yes! I'm in!"
My FATHER (1897-1970) was in both WWI and WWII. As well as 2 uncles, one of whom was killed ar Soissons in 1918. I believe I'm one of a small number of people who are the children of WWI service members -- far smaller for those who were multiply wounded, decorated, front-line troops. My MUCH-older brother (36 years older than me,) and I discussed it often (I'm an infantry/ SF combat vet myself) and I'm fortunate that my 2 surviving WWII brothers,(survived the war, lived into their 90s, but gone now) and our father, spent several years in retirement writing their memoirs. I also have a Ph.D. in Military History, and a. currently editing their memoirs for publication. To me WWI is still very TANGIBLE. The Spanish-American War/ Philippine Insurrection as well, thru my maternal grandfather. It's NOT "distant" history. WWI, thankfully, gave historians the technology to engage in "oral histories" from the veterans as well as those on the homefront. This allowed us to gain a vast amount of eyewiness information. And this has continued with every conflict since.
My grandfather was a Sergeant in charge of a motorised ambulance company at the Somme. He survived the war and in his late fifties at the start of the Second World War was in charge of training mechanics at home.
My grandfather (my father's father) was an airplane mechanic for the US Army Air Corps in France and my great grandfather (my mother's mother's father) was in the Canadian infantry. The latter was around 35 years old at the time and was old enough he didn't have to go but he volunteered anyway and joined the Canadian army; he later said that was the worst mistake he ever made.
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The narrator and writers deserve a national honor
they are a disgrace ....and deserve nothing
Maybe they can get a medal from King Charles Saxe-Coburg-Gotha😂
I’ve watched a ton of WW1 and WW2 documentaries. This is honestly one of the top ones I’ve ever seen. Quite amazing.
Eh... I'd just rather see MUCH LESS of this narrator & much more of the heroes & historic figures of the era.
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@@KennyMcCormick99 there are no hero's in War
The ANZAC Spirit is far from myth, it brought a young nation together that was at the time less than 20 years old having only federated in 1901. Post WW1, Australians and New Zealanders were the most united they’d ever been in a classless system of democracy that survives till this day.
Yes my friend, am from uk but them guys spilt there guts and we’re as brave as anyone.
Didn’t the Australian government basically impose CCP like restrictions during covid and also de-arm the entire civilian population? Didn’t the Australian government cozy up to China only to find out that China was using the partnership to influence legal and social institutions in Chinas favor? Democracy on the surface maybe
we lost the best we had in 1914/15 and in my opinion we never recovered we have gone down hill every year since There is no victory in death and my god the world saw a lot of death
thanks again Professor David Reynolds for this very captivating, yet thoughtful presentation.
I'm 70, and I remember the WW1 veteran selling the wire and fabric poppies in front of the building my mother worked in. The man had one leg and his empty leg of his pants pinned up. I looked at him in wonder as a child would. It was only as a high schooler I investigated WW1 and found my mothers father was in a depot brigade. My fathers brother was in Italy in WW2 and was a very gentle and emotional man. I wonder how his experience in WW2 in Italy affected him. I'll never know
Every time I hear Dan Snow tell me "I wanna tell you about History Hit TV. It's like the Netflix for history!" it furthers my resolve never to get it. Thanks Dan!
They have a free YT channel. It's pretty good.
I'm with you, I'd consider if it they just didn't use the exact same bit in every video and make him annoying.
He gets that hi im dan snow out so fast 😂
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I don't mind him, But it seems to me that on that YT channel is nothing but topics on British history. Quite typical for current Brittain, self-centered, arrogant, and delusional about its importance.
It is so strange how many people I have spoken to who have voiced an opinion on why is history even a topic for school? What can we learn about the way things were going on even ten years ago? History can be something that can be allowed to regurgitate itself again and again upon people who don't want to learn by the past mistakes.
If someone cannot understand the value of history then they have serious blinders on intentionally.
Literally the war to start all wars
For whatever reason, this is the first Great War documentary to make me tear up multiple times in the first 10 minutes
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Because it was pointless how many men died on the front and it’s horrific
Oh What a Lovely War made me cry beside my dry-eyed father who was in WWII.
Past life connections??
This was a good distraction from knee pain that was keeping me awake. Thank you! Very informative.
Try hemp cream, helps my arthritic knee no end.
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Pain is no fun. Heat helps.
@@speckledhen409 I’m very suspicious of heat after burning the back of my knee with a wheat bag. I have lower sensation in my skin so didn’t notice it for a while either.
@Kammie-If you can enjoy such a documentary to that level of intensity, then you have strength within you. Do not ignore that strength. You will be fine, my friend.
As I was born 38 years after the end of the great war a lot of what I knew about it was thru different family members. Some like my great aunt who's husband was gassed and survived until 1922 when he succumbed to the effects of chronic obstructive lung disease. Her house was like a time capsule with nothing much changed from the early 1920's, no city water, only ground and attic cisterns to supply everything. no television. There was one room in the house that contained my great uncle's effects, regimental photograph, uniform and so on. We got to see it only on Memorial day when all the family would return to lay wreaths at the cemetery and stand for the Honor Guard ceremonies. Any event in history has a much different meaning if you don't have a direct connection to it in some way.
Thank you for sharing.
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True, one can’t learn from history without connection to it. That is how most of the population become fodder of a politician be it democrats, radical right, fascist, communist, extreme capitalist, monarchist, dictator…….
Our extended family lost two members, full blooded Cherokee Native Americans, first cousins to one another, but our older family members say they were like two brothers growing up. They joined the Corps together, went through boot camp together, traveled to Europe together as part of the American Expeditionary Forces and lost their lives on 26 September and 27 September 1918 to German gas attacks. May they all Rest In Peace for their selfless sacrifices and senseless slaughter that ultimately didn’t accomplish a d@#% thing.
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I agree that it was consequential and century shaping. The Great War was a slaughterhouse with little military consequences but huge political, social, economic, and geopolitical consequences.
Trench warfare under ww1 is to the soldiers as horrible as it gets. 720.000 brits dead and over a million with horrible damages done to both their bodies and minds. Seeing young men with their faces blown off and seeing them come home with shell shock staggering around not even able to walk in a time were they didn't know about ptsd and how to treat it. War is horrible and it truly is old men talking young men dying. So sad..
We should keep a list of the old who are to lead the first wave in the next war, especially the ones who have NEVER served in the military.
@@proudamerican7662 i totally agree. I am against most wars started by America but if i hadn't both my legs amputated when i was 19 i would definitely be their for the honorable wars with purpuse.
and todays VA is equally as useless and self serving.
@@anders9646 WWI wasn't started by the US.
@@ericsierra-franco7802 i never said it was. You didn't read his answer which he deleted
My prayer is that we never forget this history so that we for no reason at any time repeat it’s horror.
‘We’ have no choice. History will repeat itself whether ‘we’ learn from it or not. That is the way the world and Governments work. War after war after war.
We won't, Russia will though.
The sad part is, we are in a society that has become indifferent to conflict. Many don’t pay attention, many don’t research the history of war. Many don’t see what’s coming. Spiritual warfare also rages beneath and behind all things, and to assume we have evolved past such depravity as a species is to put blinders on. It seems every generation has had to sacrifice and fight. If we don’t adapt, this century will be no different.
Canadian. My great-grandfather was in the Hampshire Regiment and died on the first day of the Somme. His Irish widow took their daughters and moved to Canada. I can't see any point in what befell him.
My grandfather fought at the Somme, Thiepval, Passchendaele and Gallipoli with the Lancashire Fusiliers. He couldn't stand the noise of fireworks and would go into the cellar (basement) whenever they were being let off.
I'm a combat veteran of Iraq and I do the same thing.
@@joshuasill1141 Respect to you for serving in what I imagine were extremely difficult circumstances. Fighting against insurgents embedded within a civilian population must be a f^^king nightmare man. Thank you for doing what you did anyway, putting your life on the line to make the world a better place is admirable and no words can describe the gratitude you deserve for it.
My grandfather survived the great war but was never able to talk about his experiences to even his sons.
he was a vagina?
When I first heard of the musical "Oh what a lovely war" I was horrified at the callousness of it. But when I saw the film of it I could understand and at the end when the men went over the top for the last time and fell in the mud there was water in my eyes as they slowly turned into mud and then into red poppies on green grass. Why should he want to talk about it ?
@@20chocsaday I get the impression he could only have ever talked about it to people who were there and had also survived.
And more than 100 years later, Treaty of Versailles is still the “gift that keeps on giving” (the part in quotes is sarcasm).
Why did they treat Germanyso pitifully in that Treaty? It’s as though they knew what would happen.
that's why there's the quote "history is written by the victor" a line I don't think will ever cease to be true
“ We are small players in a senseless game for power and domination, the day we stop playing their games we all will be able to live in peace” - Rebl trakker
Greetings from Los Angeles! I am thoroughly enjoying this fantastic history lesson. I am especially loving the actual news reels/home movies and photographs. Thank you so much!
No one sees this, but this is awesome.
So I am a Canadian, more specifically a quebecois. You really didn't really touch on how much the war touched us and we a still respect it
It touched every province and as a percentage I think only the ausies put more out.
John Kipling was, eventually found, but tragically his parents never lived to know this. He is buried in Plot 7, Row D, Grave 2. St. Mary's ADS Cemetery, Haisnes, France
Welp- it was, after all, the white man's burden. I'm sure he didn't mind. I'm gonna refrain from calling him a white supremacist jackass in the hopes that even if he lived as one, that he learned something from sacrificing his son to something as pointless as war, and maybe he didn't die as one.
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@@poutinedream5066 it was a World War....From All of the "Continent's" participated in the War.....Damn White People's an their abilities too develop Weapons of War..,.Along with the Asians of Pacifica. Ciao
Read recently that a number of bodies from the U.S. Civil War, in a mass grave, came to the surface.....all unknown soldiers
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Man!!!!! I was glued to my screen!
The content of this channel is mind-blowing. Thank you so much.
Thank the BBC
The narrator is absolutely brilliant! Great documentary
My Uncle was gassed during WW 1 and was never the same. Remember him as a young boy and he always look tired.
This is the most layered and complex documentary i have ever seen. Bravo
An exercise in utter brilliance .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That's what strikes home, the sheer numbers of men forever missing, for as well as the well known monuments at the Menin Gate and Thiepval, there is the memorial wall at Tyne Cot, and the lesser known Ploegsteert Memorial, the Arras Memorial and the memorial at La Ferte Sous Jouarre.
Yes with the exception of the last one. I have visited all the others. The scale of the missing is unbelievable. The Menin gate at 8 each evening is so very poignant.
This is my second time through with The Long Shadow videos, and I read the book as well. Reynolds is a brilliant storyteller
Most interesting documentation.
His documentary on Nixon is a masterpiece
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 I agree, his documentary on Nixon was quite interesting.
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A great documentary although a very sad subject. We have all lost Great Uncles, Great Grandads from that period, and I wished I had spoken to to both my Grandmother's more about the relations that had died in the Great War. Better still if I had recorded them telling their stories...a great regret.😪
No do not regret. 99.9% of them NEVER talked about it and never would. In 2013 I found out grandad was at Tobruk after my boss got his war number for me and subsequently his war record.
To me it is appalling how little our young people know their history. The old adage that if "we fail to learn our history we are doomed to repeat it" is so very true. I am a war veteran, and there is nothing glorious or wonderful about it. It is a failure of people to communicate and come to terms with their differences. There is what President Eisenhower warned us about. "The great military complex". As long as we allow war hawks to sound the great clarion cry of war we will continue to have wars over and over.
This is the British version of history. The narrator conveniently writes off communism to “the dust bin of history” along with fascism but that could not be further from reality. Never believe history that comes from a British person who is still ruled by a German family posing as British
I am a combat veteran as well. I do believe we should heed what Ike said about the military complex, but I also believe in what Teddy Roosevelt said "speak softly and carry a big stick". He was a war veteran himself and lost 2 sons, one in WWI and one in WWII. Sometimes we can talk till we are blue in the face yet bad men will still do bad things. WWI and WWII, and even Korea, taught the US a lesson to never get caught with our pants down.
Thanks so much information. I've to watch it again.
Brilliant presentation. As a PhD in Civil and Geotechnical from The University of Texas at Austin, I have worked on dams around the world: Colbun Dam in Chile, several dams outside San Francisco, and the largest, the Mosul dam in Iraq, your presentation is unassailable.
Trust me, it's quite assailable. But you have to break out of the paradigm of Western capitalist hegemony to do it. Most people find this task impossible or confounding.
It wasn't Sinn Fein during the Rising :x It was the Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army, and Irish Republican Brotherhood. Sinn Fein was formed from these groups *after* the Rising *and* was a political party/organization.
Thank you for your BRILLIANT and thoughtful documentary. It touched on so many aspects heretofore not thoroughly mentioned.
This evokes Adam Curtis and the power of nightmares. Excellent videos on this channel.
My thought too. Curtis’s work is fantastic.
A fantastic documentary. So very informative.
so much for never again it seems wars never stop do they? just put on the news .it sickens me greatly how anyone can pick up a rifle to kill another human unless in total self defense and one has no choice /
Thanks to all involved--that was fantastic!!
Agreed. A superb BBC documentary.
I love timeline documentaries. I learn so much.
Their second to none. I only wish that I could get the importance of what the narrator was leading up too. It would save me from going back to catch ... What did he just say! 😳🤣
This was made by the BBC
Thank you Sir. I consider myself a history buff, but I have learned so many details from you. Not only did I learn a lot about domestic British politics, you covered the effects of the war on many European countries. Thank you .
Incredible! I’ve watched it twice. Wow Thanks, sir. My Father was in the Navy, WW2. He would not speak much about it, to us kids.
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Amazing documentary!
Superb documentary linking over a 100 years of history. Context is everything to understanding.
Speaking of context, to think 750 thousand killed in the Great War in G. Britain, and compare it w Stalin, who killed up to an estimated 50 million (20 mil of his own Society) is a figure indeed.
My grandfather was a member of a Royal Engineers tunnelling company (278 tunnelling coy RE I think). He was wounded underground in 1916 , compound fractures of both legs and both arms. Who knows how those awful injuries occurred, a roof fall perhaps or an underground fight with German tunnellers ? Those physical injuries were not the problem though. After the war he returned home a changed man. Moody, depressed, suffering terrible nightmares and becoming violent with my grandma and my then 2 year old mother. One day in May 1923 he told my grannie that he “ Couldn’t live with what happened in France”. He went to a quiet spot in the local woods and hanged himself. His body wasn’t found for three weeks. My grandmother received a war widows pension for the rest of her life, so it seems to have been recognised by the government that he died as a result of his service in WW1.
A great series - thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
1917, just like those two plays, was a movie that left me speechless and terrified of what the heck I was seeing.
Watch the new “All Quiet on the Western Front” whew… what a movie !!!
Mind blowing documentary.
Amazing Documentary, well done.
That was truly excellent. Thanks.
Thank you so much. For what it is, a great documentary.
What a brilliant documentary!!!!!
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Wish this was around when I was at school. Very informative.
Brilliant analysis - great, huge thanks
Me paternal grandpappy served in the 'Great' War, with an Artillery regiment in the US Army. I have photos and written references to him, found in the regimental archives. Somehow, he made the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major in his early twenties, by 1918. Survived without a scratch, because of his position, as he was assigned to Headquarters Co. , relatively safe behind the lines with the big guns. Apparently, the skills he had to rise so fast in the ranks were a) a driver's licence (rarity in 1917); b) fast typist (rarity for a man); fast shorthand stenographer (also rare for a man). Thus, he was able to take orders, type the orders, and deliver the orders, with lighting-fast efficiency! Working with the Colonel, safe behind the lines! That's all I know, I never met him; ironically, he survived WW1 only to die of a heart attack at age 54, and my dad knew very little about his exploits. So that's MY remembrance!
Brilliant, sheer brilliance. Thanks for brilliantly presenting this brilliant piece of brilliance. Only one word could possibly describe this brilliant video: Good.
Epic, comprehensive, stimulation & award winning.
Extraordinarily enlightening!
Imagine the men whom fought in both those wars , 😳, it must have felt like "War of the Worlds "the second time around .
Had a neighbor that join the army when he was 12 for world war I he also served world war II the Korean war and Vietnam and retired after that
KILL EM ALL... let God sort em out...
This is an excellent series. I thought that I had an understanding of the issues but I have learned so much from this. A lot of whats going on in the world, even to this day, is now so clear.
This is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen about this topic. Well done!
What a brilliant documentary!
Encapsulated the more relevant historical moments of a time period with this video production. #aHatTip
Great viewing, thank you Pertinent and interesting information. 🧐