Germany's Reckoning - Bulgarian Armistice I THE GREAT WAR Week 219
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While Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonika and effectively exits the war as the first of the Central Powers, the Hindenburg Line is broken on the Western Front. It dawns among the German leadership, that an armistice is necessary and in a desperate attempt to secure a more favourable position at the negotiations table, the Kaiser agrees to a "revolution from the top" that gives more political saying to the Reichstag.
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Bulgaria: Don’t worry guys
Bulgaria: I have a plan
Bulgaria left the server
Austria-Hungary: Excuse me, WTF
Matěj Baroch A-H will leave in 20 days just wait
Bulgaria fought for 3 years! AT least they are not like your Italy changing sides all the time
Will there be a patch to fix the crash issues on this server?
Turkey: I HAVE A PLAN ALSO!!!!!
(shoots himself)
Could be worse. You could be Austria-Hungary and not fight for 4 years, then break AFK to realize you've already lost.
Bulgaria has left the server.
Classic.
Maybe there will be a patch to fix the crash issues on the server?
Aparently there will be a sequel so I doubt they will patch anything.
Guys.
I have a plan.
Bulgaria has left the server.
Ragequit!
With Steiner's counteroffensive, everything will be back in order
I'm sure of that!
Duke of lorraine steiner....... steiner didnt attack he had do low manpower, the alied are taking lots of land on the Balkan front without eny counteroffensive, we are on retreat.
Yes Steiner will win us all!!!
Das war ein Befehl! Der Angriff Steiner war Befehl!
@@Kanbei11
"Es bleibt im Raum..."
You know its bad when the Belgians come out and attack.
If been waiting for Belgium to get back in action for a long time.
Lol I chuckled
That's what happens when they smell blood, All the sharks join in the feeding frenzy they all come in for a piece of the action..
The Civil Guard's top hats will send fear into their foes! Yeah if I was a German soldier I would laugh at the headline!
The top hats are long gone at this stage ;)
It's hard to imagine all the death that has already happened, but it pains me to know that those soldiers who will die in the following few weeks were so close to making it through the war.
Don't forget they also have the Spanish Flu to contend with, even if they do make it to Armistice.
Fight a war for four years, survive, be one of the 50 million to die anyway. Bad luck huh?
That's why all quiet on the western front had the protagonist die mere hours before the 11th hour.
1200+ men died on the final day. True madness.
And to think, they would all be doing it again in less than two decades!!!
Also worthy of note this week: On 4 October, the German submarine UB-68 was sunk off Malta. Most of her crew survived and were taken prisoner. Among them was her 27 year old captain, an officer named Karl Dönitz.
😲😳 Great Admiral karl donitz!
Hmmm, I bet that guy won’t be important later
Come on Conrad! Pull out the plan I know you’re working on and defeat the entire allies with a swift move!
xD
The war will end on Christmas with a final duel between Conrad vs Cadorna.
Unfortunately for him, Cadorna isn't in charge anymore, Armando Diaz took his place and he's far more competent
It's a ruse by the Central Powers . Conrad will suddenly appear as the final boss the Entente has to fight!
Remember back in mid July the immortal words of Indy Neidel: " For Conrad Von Hotezendorf, this war is over". I think if you compiled a list of all that he has said over the past 4 years, that one really rivits, because as Indy would say "This is modern war".
Is it too late for Germany to say it was just a prank bro?
It will be featured in a pranks gone wrong compilation.
That's for the Serbians to do. Top Ten pranks that went too far...
"Hey guys, today we're in Sarajevo."
@@APalebloodSky
ROFL! 🤣
@@APalebloodSky that makes it sound like the black hand was a sorority......which it kinda sounds like one.
@@lapisleafuli1817
Maybe it is a sorority/fraternity. Where is their clubhouse? 😂
As soon as Bulgaria signed the armistice, the Turks, themselves already being defeated in the south, knew that the game was over: Istanbul was now open to Allied attack from the west, with no adequate forces to defend it. And the land connection with Germany was severed, meaning no further supplies and war material from there.
yep. If only they hadn't sent every fresh recruit and cannon in Turkey to reinforce the drive on Baku...
They tried to re-deploy troops, of course, but it would take literally weeks or months to get divisions back to Istanbul. And in the meantime it was only defended by skeleton forces.
Mustafa Kemal, among others, tried to warn Enver Pasha about this, but he wouldn't listen... He wouldn't give up his increasingly unrealistic dreams.
Yeah, Enver pasha is probably the biggest idiot we have in entirety of Turkish history, the Turkish Conrad as I like to call him.
kadir yildirim you cant blame him he was trying to save his nation it was already clear that the ottomans would be slowly being eaten by the west but when they fought in ww1 he tried to send a message to the world that the ottoman times arent over which wasnt true and he failed
which says to me that IF BULGARIA joined the Entente side instead in the War.....Istanbul would have FALLEN! because who is gonna protect Turkey's western side from a combined British+French+Russian+Bulgarian+Serbian+Greek attacks . Bulgaria took all the weight on its shoulders to prevent from such attacks
"First!"
-Gavrilo Princip
"Last!"
-Henry Gunther
'MOO!'
- Cow dying of a landmine after the iron harvest 2017
@@kuoseis that was a dumb thing. "We all know an armistice is coming but lets keep killing eachother until the literal last minute"
”FIRST BLOOD”
That is not correct. Princip made the first victim. Franz Ferdinand and his wife were the first victims of the war. He died on 28 April 1918 at Terezín 3 years and 10 months after the assassination. TBC.
"In the space of a single day, Germany's militarism and autocracy were all but over." If only!
germany 20 years later, hold my beer
Germany wasn’t an autocracy though. The Kaiser didn’t rule as an absolutist, like the Tsar. They had a pretty modern and liberal (for that time) reichstag.
Bulgaria has left the server.
Germany PMs Bulgaria: Dude! You can’t leave now! Come back!
Message failed to send: Bulgaria is offline.
It's amazing to think how quickly things deteriorated for Germany and their allies. Just a few weeks ago they were advancing on the Western Front, now they are in retreat on 3 fronts and Bulgaria is out of the war.
Whatever happens next, the German Army did ask for the end of the War. Something someone will conveniently forget in later years. Thanks for sharing facts TGW team.
someone? how about everyone was trying to whitewash the defeat.
I think he mean Ludendorff, who is the one who came up with the stabbed in the back story, while here we have him insisting on ending the war.
What do you mean? They asked for an end to the war because it was unwinnable now for them, and they wanted to try and get some kind of armistice and not a forced unconditional surrender.
They did get an armistice. What was to become the Treaty of Versailles was not an conditional surrender, and was far preferable to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which the Germans forced upon the Soviets.
Something the apologists always overlook
The last time I was this early Bulgaria was still fighting the Great War
So.... last week?
Ooh Lost Battalion episode coming!
Toby Wood that would be AWESOME
@@coolminecraft1457 indy mentioned that this week an American battalion got stuck behind german lines and that he would talk about them next week.
friendly fire incoming as well
T-34-85KempsBush a disregarded demand
THEY STOOD STRONG AND THE LEGEND STILL LIVES ON!
When a channel has become a member of your family...
Al Mol I spend more time watching Indy narrated channels than I do with my boyfriend. And the worst part is that’s not a joke.
I believe you!
"Noob team!!" - Germany, 1918
Well, it's kind of true...
Germany was probably saying the same in 1945 as well
Kurtownia well Ottomans has been into several by several I mean a lot of wars
Japan was literally the worst ally of Germany
@knäppgök 911 Considering History I would suggest to allie with France or UK without a doubt since they "won" a lot (if you can call ending a war "winning") when Germany...meh best diplomacy ever.
We've entered the last full month of the war. Being a subscriber since the very first episodes, it's now hard to imagine that this series soon will be ending ... But I can't be more grateful, the journey was incredible. Thank you for giving us such a unique perspective on the history of that horrible war.
Their world war 2 series has already started :) time to transfer over
I've got to be honest, I'm wondering exactly how big a spike the World War II series is going get once The Great War comes to a close.
@@firemochimc I know it has :) Been watching it already
[*] Bulgaria
Respect for all Bulgarian soldiers, who was killed in this war from Poland.
May they they’re sacrifice never be forgotten. From United States of America.
wow thanks so much! This warmed by heart and i am Bulgarian.
nnvist Thanks!
Thank you!
@@jackthorton10 If it was Serbia you would be hoping their families die of pancreatitis
It all comes tumbling down for Germany. Well, it's been tumbling down for the past few months but you get the idea.
It's snowballing now. Each day it turns into a bigger disaster.
They could have sought peace terms several months ago and gotten a far better deal. But by waiting until they were at their dying breath, they were forced to accept whatever terms the Entente wanted.
It’s like sitting on a greased metal ramp, if you can hold you might stay there but once you feel yourself starting to slip it’s already far too late.
"Breaking the mighty Hindenburg line" 12:19 I wonder how powerful that sentence was in the hearts of millions of people of the Entente & how much it gave them hope to end the war
Interesting to think what Germany though would happen post-war.
oh they have nooooo idea whats coming for them- they though losing Alsace-Lorraine was bad
Rash B blin look what that got us in the long run...
That's what happens when you drag out a conflict as long as possible, at utterly enormous cost. If Germany had sought peace terms sooner, it would have been a lot better. But by waiting until the Central Powers had all but collapsed, the Entente could afford to just continue the war until Germany itself utterly collapsed as a state.
Well the Entente forces also had suffered enormous casulties and lets be honest: In WW1 the US were truely what tipped the scale.
But indeed, the last offensive of the German forces was just too ambitious and once it failed, negotiations should have started immediatly.
SaltyWaffles just wait about twenty years...
@@Raptor747 Just google 12 decembre of 1916. Now u know who wanted peace and who not.
Teasing the Lost Battalion, I see...
Can't wait.
"We cannot fight against the whole world," said Ludendorff cluefully.
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
Bulgarians:
"desperately in need
Of a strangers hand
In a desperate land"
The Austrians are "lost in a Roman wilderness of pain."
Can’t wait for the 1919 German summer offensive!
I have a plan
Bulgaria left the party
You were waiting for it 4 years, didint you
@@cody100pl20 been counting down the days
@@cody100pl20
Totally worth the long wait, though!
Bulgaria has ragequit lol
I had to re-watch this several times just to take in everything that happened this week.
"We cannot fight against the whole world"
Hmm, turn clocks about 25 years ahead and what do we see.
I guess history lessons are better learnt if you actually tel them to your children.
P.S Too bad Germany didn`t think of armistice in spring 1918. A lot of lives could have been spared.
You are aware that Germany made many peace offers before and during the war? You can of course discuss whether they were acceptable or not. But be it as it is, people died..
Well, in early spring they were at advantage and on end of spring they were still equal with Entente, so from military point they didn't had the reason to sign armistice.
From a military standpoint their country was not on equal footing. They were draining the last of their manpower, morale, and resources on a campaign that was overly ambitious considering their logistical supply chain. Moreover, their allies were losing almost everywhere and the Italian front was to be another example of the German offensive, draining the last of the manpower and resources of the Austrians on an offensive that could not sustain itself. Moreover, the Americans were coming in force. Spring was the time to negotiate if, not earlier.
well they did but their terms were delusional
@@karlkarlos3545 the main problem was they wanted to keep AL and domination over Belgium which was obviously unacceptable for the Allies
It’s truly amazing how quick the central powers imploded, especially given how long they held on for
This is merely temporary. When the German army takes Paris, Bulgaria will come back!!!!
It’s all falling apart around Germany. At the start of this year they were riding high and today? Well the writing is on the wall
It might be argued that things were already quite bad at the start of the year. Germany's allies, all three of them, were all but finished. Germany itself was almost out of options. The U-boat war had failed in its larger purpose. The Americans were on the way. The Central Powers were starving. The Spring Offensives were a desperate gamble.
"If we do this we might win" Is still riding high when compared to "Quite literally beginning the process of surrendering"
"...Macedonian capital Skopje...." Indy the fortune teller?? The map a few seconds before clearly states "Serbia".
Technically he should say capital of modern day Macedonia. Of course there was no such thing as Macedonia in 1918. Ideo of Macedonia developed in second Yugoslavia.
@Abenstern ....Capitol of Future Yugoslav province would be more accurate, even for the viewers from Skopje. Everybody knows the name MACEDONIA doesn't belong to Slavic people.
@@mememejst there is no such thing today either as it's called FYROM (former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia) although that's historically also incorrect
@@admirallongstash8056 absolutely correct, FYROM is a silly name so nobody uses it.
@@mememejst It's as silly as today Poland would call itself Prussia, although large parts of today Poland were Prussia.
Silly. Time for these people to choose their identitie and future...
... BULGARIA LEFT THE SERVER... Central powers: 3 ; Allies: Far too many to count.
Ottoman empire left the server
Turkey joined the server
lol funny
kemal Ataturk reconnected back to the Server :D
Let's see, we have: Britain and her colonies and Dominions. France and her empire. Russia. Belgium. Italy. Japan. Serbia. Montenegro. Greece. Roumania. Portugal. USA. Brazil(their naval forces reached Europe just before the Armistice). The Arab Revolt. Lots of other countries that did not take part in any fighting but contributed in other ways: China(sent hundreds of thousands of workers). Thailand. Liberia. Cuba. Some small states in the Americas. And whenever a country declared war on the Central Powers, the first thing it did was to seize German and Austrian ships sheltering in its harbors. The Allies gained a lot of shipping that way.
@@DeathOnSernpidal Yeah the odds did not favour Central powers.
I really find it remarkable that the Central Powers lasted this long.
That's something i find more and more impressive the more i read and hear about WW1. Lacking food since 1916, recources of all kinds and outnumbered still holding out and putting up a hard fight for this long.
Even as early as January 1916, both Falkenhayn and Conrad(yes, even him!) agreed that the war should end before 1917. They believed Germany and Austria-Hungary did not have the resources for a war longer than that. Also in January 1916 Falkenhayn warned the Kaiser that time was against them; that Austria-Hungary and Turkey would be unable to continue the war beyond Autumn 1916. Yet here we are in Autumn 1918, and they are still somehow in the fight...
Best soldiers ever... For Bulgarians I can say they fought for national unification and thetefore the spirit was so high. They protected their own homes and families.
DeathOnSernpidal: Actually CvH wrote in a letter to his love interest Gina Reininghaus at the beginning of the war that A-H is going to loose a comming war, because in his opinion it was too late for it, and he knew that with the number of armies he had against Serbia and Russia he was at least 1army short of what he would have needed to just keep the borders as they were. (So he directed 1 army first to Serbia and when it arrived there he directed them to the eastern front, where they also arrived "too late" basically he unintentionally made sure that his soldiers lacked the numbers everywhere. and not only the numbers...)
Probably that`s the reason why they eventually rebelled and fled to their REAL homes in to the Bulgaria PROPER! (As well as the Serbs were in hurry to cross Macedonia and reach THEIR real homes in Serbia PROPER! Local population was all fed up with nice neighbors fighting in their country and on their backs,like always in history thank you very much for everything you did then, and before,and after!
Really interesting how a conflict that had so few changes for years can come to an end so quickly
After three and a half years, I have finally caught up completely with the Great War series.
I was in the Lembet war Cemetry in Salaonika, in northern Greece where many of the allied war dead are buried - The place has bewcome something of a shrine for Serbs, a reminder of how the events of 100 years ago still resonate with us in the modern day. I headed a refugee aid group and where we worked was basically on what had been the front lines of the Maceonia front during WWI. See just how tough things could be for those without proper shelter in the area, sheering heat in the summer, bitter cold in the winter.
the entante troops were way better equipped then the bulgarians.
RIP Bulgaria
Ha
They didn't die, they just surrendered lol
F
Bloody afks...
Bulgaria Boom outta here
I`m Indy Neidell and I'm a time traveler from 1939. Welcome to the Great War.
It's amazing to see how much the tide of war ebbed and flowed through these four years, in contrast to the general perception of a stalemate. Roll back the clock a few months and the central powers seemed on the cusp of victory on the western front.
I think I started watching back in 2015/16, and it's been an amazing journey. If anyone hasn't seen Indy's newest channel, World War Two, do yourself a favour and start now to see week by week coverage of the second great war.
once the USA entered it was all over,,,fresh troops, fresh supplies, fresh attitude...allowing the USA to enter turned the war from slugfest to eventual route...even with the Russians leaving the war
I've been going through some hardships and I don't know what will be of me, but at least I can watch the end to this great series soon. I'm sad the factions that I was rooting for will lose (I really wanted Austria-Hungary to win), but it was great while it lasted. Thank you for the great job, guys.
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Been watching this show for more than 3 years now, what a journey it was.
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do you Gangstalk
You too :)
Don't tell me what to do.
Thank you!
Aww thanks! You too :D
Dude...I'm starting to get Abit emotional about this, THIS November is the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War 1 the war that shaped everything leading up to this exact point in our lives....I'm still trying to process that, and how far we've come sense....
It’s a bit amazing to understand how the 100 days offensive was, I mean, chaos was all over the central powers, and it’s shocking to see those 4 countries finally losing this war
Just found out a British ancestor of mine, (I’m American) was KIA in Flanders on Oct. 10, 1918. Service No. 44489 Pte The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). He was 24 years old.
Lion🦁
Thank-you for keeping the humanity in focus.
War is a terrible thing.
I have quite never been this early for an episode, great work Indy and the team!
Bulgaria is out of the war
Thanks captain obvious
@@luxembourgishempire2826
Not all heroes wear capes! 😀
@@TheCimbrianBull ?
@@luxembourgishempire2826
Captain Obvious is a superhero in disguise.
@@luxembourgishempire2826
*In a manner most joking* Hey, you call him Doctor Jones, you uncultured swine!
This series has been amazing. Literally been watching every episode since 2016. Seeing every new episode and getting reminded of specific battles that were going on on that exact day or week exactly 100 years ago was just awesome. I got more history and details from this than any other source on the Great War. Thank you.
After about 4 months I finally managed to catch up!
Now there are only a few weeks to go...
It has been a great experience so far! Thanks to Indy and the rest of the team! You're doing a wonderful job!
"Take down the flags! Here comes the winner of Doiran."
- the command of Lord Milne when Vladimir Vazor visited London in 1936.
Sgt. York & Maj. Whittlesey
Two great soldiers & two incredible stories of going above and beyond the call of duty. Next week, two MOH recepients, one major bloody battle in the Argonne. 100 years later, their legend still lives on. 🇺🇸!!! See you next week Indy & team.
again impressed by your work, thank you!
The two world wars have one common cause - French-German enmity. The French and Germans have hated each other since the 16th century, with the hatred reaching its peak during the Franco-Prussian War. I'm so glad that since 1945, the French and Germans have overcome their ancient rivalry and have both worked together to become twin engines of European integration!
"Twin engines of European integration"?????? this duopoly is destroying Europe. They only do their interests and they want us to believe these are the interests of the whole of Europe.
@@67claudius I bet you're a Brexitier who voted out.
Pauly B I like civility in arguments, but why are you complimenting him?
@@MsPaintMr I'm not, I'm just guessing who he is
Its a bit too simplistic to boil down both world wars to Franco-German rivalry, it was a minor factor.
On 10 of october German units retreating from Bulgaria and one German and one Austrian division coming south gathered at the Serbian town of Nis trying to set up a new front, but they didn't even had time to dig trenches, they were broke by fierce charge of Serbian troops in the center and the French troops on the flanks, which was last major battle in the balkans, Nis was liberated on the 11th and Belgrade by 1st of November.
Awesome job! I will terribly miss you, in a month or so, when this war finally come to an end!
The loss of Bulgarians is a minor setback the Germans will regain the initiative and the war will be over by Christmas.
Nope...germany will surrender at 11 november 1918 :))
David Mihnea actually Conrad comes back and does the final sweeping offensive to destroy the allied advance and encircle the American first army in the Argonne its masterful!
You can see the end coming. The fall of Bulgaria and the collapse of the Ottoman lines, the end is so close
It is amazing to hear how quickly things came undone for Germany. After all the years of minor gains and losses and millions dead it is shocking to hear Indie describe how things unraveled in the past few weeks. The mighty Hindenburg line seemed to be a minor obstacle at this point. The northern ports are falling. Germany transitioned to a democracy overnight. Even though we know it happened, hearing it in weekly updates puts perspective on how quickly they fell apart
Thanks for great input!
Sir Douglass Haig: "We have finally broken trough the german lines! That can only mean one thing!"
David Loyd George: "Oh, no, oh no, oh no..."
Sir Douglass Haig: "Cavalry charge to Berlin!"
David Loyd George: "Dammit Haig"
Just a few weeks to go.
What will the Great War channel do next? Will the Russian Civil War get its own channel?
Ill go for that. The Polish War too.Nasty stuff.
Ive been waiting for this!
nothing worse than surviving to the end of a war and dying in the last days .
There is one. Dying even after the armistice had been signed. Some American commanders were keen on "glory" even after the armistice had been signed and thus attacked German positions. This is how some lives were completely needlessly sacrificed even after the official armistice. Look it up.
You got it all backwards. The date for the end of the war was decided because of this collapse (and others). It's not like the end of the war was to happen on a pre-set date.
Or are you referring to the individual soldiers?
This can be found on a history site: "In particular, the Americans took heavy casualties on the last day of the war. This was because their commander, General John Pershing, believed that the Germans had to be severely defeated at a military level to effectively ‘teach them a lesson’. Pershing saw the terms of the Armistice as being soft on the Germans. Therefore, he supported those commanders who wanted to be pro-active in attacking German positions - even though he knew that an Armistice had been signed."
and this: "In November 1919, Pershing faced a House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs that examined whether senior army commanders had acted accordingly in the last few days of the war. However, no one was ever charged with negligence and Pershing remained unapologetic, remaining convinced that the Germans had got off lightly with the terms of the Armistice. He also stated that although he knew about the timing of the Armistice, he simply did not trust the Germans to carry out their obligations. He therefore, as commander in chief, ordered the army to carry on as it would normally do as any “judicious commander” would have done."
On another site this can be read:"On November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front in France suffered more than thirty-five hundred casualties, although it had been known unofficially for two days that the fighting would end that day ."
and this: "To Pershing the very idea of an armistice was repugnant. “Their request is an acknowledgment of weakness and clearly means that the Allies are winning the war,“ he maintained. “Germany’s desire is only to regain time to restore order among her forces, but she must be given no opportunity to recuperate and we must strike harder than ever.“
"The generals left in that limbo fell roughly into two categories: ambitious careerists who saw a fast-fading opportunity for glory, victories, even promotions; and those who believed it mad to send men to their deaths to take ground that they could safely walk into within days."
"Pershing’s postwar claim that he had had no official knowledge of the impending armistice before being informed by Foch’s headquarters at 6 a.m. was disingenuous. The moment when the fighting would cease had been clear from the time Foch handed Erzberger the deadline, information to which Pershing was privy."
Sounds to me like everybody high up knew the armistice was pretty much given and that Pershing ignored that for reasons he clearly stated himself.
I repeat the "although it had been known unofficially for two days that the fighting would end that day" part as an answer to your "It's not like the end of the war was to happen on a pre-set date." Well, it certainly appears like it was.
and "Therefore, he supported those commanders who wanted to be pro-active in attacking German positions - even though he knew that an Armistice had been signed."
So, yes he certainly either ignored the armistice, believed it was foolish or wanted his troops to keep attacking because there was no other way.
1 month and 7 days left
1 Month and 7 Days till the German Revolution
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Crazy to think that it's that close now. Jeez.
Or 6 more episodes. What a great channel, it will be missed...
Next week! Major Charles Whittlesey and The Lost Battalion!! Yes!
Ludendorff: "we cannot fight the whole world"
Hitler: "has someone say something?"
Thanks for the video
Great video. Great job.
2:45 I have a relative who fought a the Hindenburg Line, and he mentions some of the locations shown here. Really surreal to see them, I now have a visual guide.
It has been interesting to watch just how quickly the end came. After more than 4 years of relative stalemate, in the last couple of weeks the bottom has fallen (is falling) out from under the Central Powers.
Can I just say that was a brilliant episode!
Such an amazing video
I haven't been on this channel since Brest-Litovsk. It's stunning to see everything that's happened since then: the entry of the USA, the collapse of the Western Front, and most importantly - one side actually ran out of men.
4 years of attrition warfare, an entire generation of Europe decimated.
46th British Infantry Division's breaking through Hindenburg Line at St. Quentin was one of the most outstanding victories of war in "set piece operations" style
6 more week's... I cant belive it... It was just like I started watching yesterday!
Excellent!!! Excellent!
I have been watching and waiting for years for a Lost Battalion episode, I can wait another week. Go Astros
I have a great desire watching the entire show from the beginning once it is over (this Christmas).
Wooh, finally caught up to the current point in the series!
Who would downvote this channel? I don't get it. It's pure gold.
Omg from the start of this series I can't believe its finally ending
My great grandfather was one of the Australians Who was part of the actions near Passchendaele. And was Totally and permanently incapacitated when he was struck in the head by driving band of a shell. He had a silverplate Inserted as part of the skull by a German doctor .he was not made a prisoner of war Because he was so incapacitated He lived until 1976
So long Bulgaria at least you tried
yes brother. We tried and i respect my country for it
6:08---The Lost Battalion--I see what you did there. Made for a very touching A & E TV movie back in 2001. Both an inspiration and a tragedy what those guys went through.
At last! After 3 months of watching several episodes per day I managed to catch up before the 11.11.11.! Writing this on the 5th of October 2018. Hence one month of your show is still to come and I will finally be able to watch it "live". Yeah, now I click "Subscribe" and will become your 916 000 something subscriber :-)
I live in cambrai and the germans torching the city as they retreated always struck me as a pointless and gratuitous war crime, awesome video btw it's something to see this whole thing come to an end
Sooo exciting episodes are coming,l cant waittt, and can you do episode about serbian army on macedonian front?
Wow! I've never been this early!
Wow this is getting exciting . I can't wait to see who wins .
This episode has some really cool pictures
cant believe the war will be over soon. Its gonna be interesting to see how you guys cover the post war treaties and agreements
Let us take a moment to dwell on one of the most fascinating personalities of the period, Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. A remarkable man, though also a foreign policy fool. He took his adoptive country from autonomy to independence , saw it increase its territory, then wasted all of it. At Chatadja he had his army make a desperate attack, against the worries of his own generals (See Hooton 2014, Hall 2000, Erickson 2003) going after a mirage of Bulgarian victory Parade in Sultanahmet Square of Constantinople/Istanbul/Tsarigrad . An attack that failed, and angered the Russians leading them to lean on Serbia in the Serb-Bulgarian conflict over the Vardar valley. If he had not pursued mirages the Bulgarians could had bottled up the Ottoman army in Chataldja with one army, moved substantial forces to the central Balkans and had a better negotiating position. History might had changed. Instead he led arrogance lead him and spend the next four years compounding his mistake and costing his adoptive country chances. That said on a domestic front he did manage important reforms and developments. And on a personal front he was a interesting personality. And thus this actor now exits the stage.
if the Greeks didn't turn against Bulgaria but teamed up with them......Constantinople would be Greek now.
Bulgaria's army in WW1 was strong and could take down Istanbul
@1:59 I was shocked to se the front line mooving so fast, first time even...
I have been watching from the start, it seems quite strange that pretty much nothing (aside from on the Russian front) has really changed much then all of a sudden everything is happening now.
I already knew most of the history but I didn't think the Central Powers collapse at the end happened this rapidly, just goes to show how exhausted they were by now.
Ludendorff finally gets it when he says "We can't fight against the whole world!". Too bad they forgot that revelation 20 years later and did the whole thing all over again.