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Bill masterpieces future every moment definition History Channel of all the disasters of the 20th century the conflagration once called the Great War looms as the one that damaged mankind irreparably it wasn't just the 22 million who died between 90 14 and 1918 in population dramatically smaller than now it was a much greater depth centuries-old Empires met their end the world lost generations of philosophers right Builders musicians poets scientists healers artist The Flower and seed of a magnificent continent dead in mud and misery the French soldier found by 1916-17 that the war would be endless indeed and that there would be no survivors standing there if you will with the victors flag at the end is that was inevitable Glory chivalry and idealism did not survive from the horrors were born all the tools all the Munsters for later part of the beginning to end it was epic it's battles kids Slaughter which error people were full of the notion of sacrifice not the god that they sacrifice the Millennium that had on the 1900 showing up on a European civilization but it seems Within Reach of every opulent promise of mankind there have been many sharp ugly Wars over the last century but now you're coming diplomatic ballet at it last team to Alan's power for a long prosperous piece beyond that the blood of England's King George V mingled with that of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and Austria's emperor France Joseph in intricate marriage alliances it was cousin Willie Nikki in Georgia what was the fear in the Victorian Afterglow England's prosperous Island was fed I have treasure Fleet of merchant ships connected with government it's lifelines of chores were protected by the impregnable steal walls of the royal Navy 1/4 of the map was England's red Germany was an industrial Miracle become Europe's wealthiest Center of industrial night formidable Prussian Army was brilliantly professional its Navy was growing fast Walmart the Bismarck had said I am bored the great things are done Branch with its Rich overseas Empire had reached an intellectual and economic prominence that made Paris the golden Hub of world turn business Francis spirited Army stood behind an iron line of forts that denied the Eastern frontiers of the German a Cheyenne was as happy as God in France Russia was a feudal monarchy that bling that the crown it's some to scorpion inner Decay but it's Titans of literature music and dance guided World statue the rushes ill equipped by a floor industrial base they were Valiums and huge but a smoldering revolutionary and in Trotsky was observed that history had already poised it's gigantic soldiers boots over the antique in Austria of a 66 year reign of the ancient France Joseph was beset by arrogance and the tensions of a polyglot Empire always on the verge of breaking into ethnic fragment nothing new and the court of Vienna same time and it's watching magnificent barber shop in Washington's White House Woodrow Wilson died of the youthful happy Giant and enjoy the high peace who thought of the college professor he has been it is correct to say that Americans buy a large both inside and outside the government were of the opinion that war in Europe we really none of our business. In Sarajevo Bosnia on the morning of June 28th 1914 a hot sunny day of peace everywhere Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of Austria and his beloved wife Sophie set forth in an open audible view military review on the Royal couple's 14th wedding anniversary 19 year old Gabriel apprenticeship an Australian who belong to the Serbian radical group called black hand was waiting in the salary of a mob so long the parade in two shots he fulfilled his mission killing both France Ben and Ed Sophie George Duke's last words were it is nothing but prints of small revolver at the gun the annihilation tens of vision assassination ultimately help you worked against the interests of Serbia National independence why because it gave Austria-Hungary the government of pre-tax to militarily occupy Serbia for good. 29 Ambassador stood before Kaiser Wilhelm asking if Austria-Hungary could count on Germany support if she mobilized against Serbia even if Russia came in Germany said she could without thinking she might have to the alliances were essentially protective this was an arm piece of Germany up felt that it was hemmed in by France and Russia course for Allied so there had been the German Austrian Alliance since 1879 which has been followed by a French Russian a liar at this critical moment guys are built have went to see on his yacht described as the greatest Maritime disaster ever behind his back Austria scuttled the serbs conciliation if it's sent them a harsh ultimatum and flan Serbia's subjugation in Partition now Russia responding to Serbian the pills against the Austrian threat mobile. Austria-Hungary ordered full mobilization without the emperor knowing that Russia had mobilized on Serbia side show began Cascade of mobilizations that was soon to emulate Europe This is a time that called the Giant and they were eating on you had a lot of men rent control who are afraid they were afraid of what would happen to them not if they went to war for what would happen if they didn't go to war entering the Fatal August of 1914 the Domino's of Dusty alliances kept up late remembering nervously that Russia extended to her East Prussia borders Germany gave Russia 12 hours to call off mobilization next was the Preposterous German ultimatum to France giving her 18 hours to pledge her neutrality if Germany fought Russia French fortresses of Verdun Abdul to go to Germany as hostages France mobilized the rest was formality my August 3rd Germany would be at war with France and Russia on the side of Austria-Hungary and it turned out to be rather exhilarating why what's your chance to distinguish yourself put some color on yourself to put a decoration on your chest and to know in the face of a large public you were being valued for being different war with this opportunity between August 2nd and 18th France would ship 3781000 soldiers in 7,000 trains A train running every 8 minutes Germany Woods 1500000 mens of the West add another 500,000 to the east against Russia it's a war about power about Prestige about colony about competing Market it's not a war about ideologies it's a war about people wanting respect War about Germany feeling being squeezed in and needing to expand its O'War about settling old scores the way France was determined to get back out in the rain it's a war about stabilizing Empire as Austria wanted to neutralize Serbia you rock that was a very impatient nation in 1914 wanting above all seems access to the Mediterranean into the sea trade routes that lay Beyond and hands wanted a foul ball control of the straight into the Black Sea the supremacy Heavy Artillery a raid in hundreds and thousands and Limitless machine gun set behind miles of barbed wire had yet to be shown indeed one attack-minded French General would boast that is weapon was the living breast of the French soldier Germany's secret weapon was its War plan worked out years earlier by one of its vaunted tactician General outfit from sleeping the French from show me some calculated would fix a chiffon regaining the Lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and direct their attack straight Eastwood towards them in Germany when sleeping intended no more than a holding action here with the Vas preponderance of his German Army is concentrated to the North in a steamroller right wing that powerful Wing would break in the huge Wheeling attack through neutral Luxembourg and Belgium then the attack could sweep down France by the back door French fortresses facing Germany would be out playing on the French army is crushed between German Legions from east and west neither Britain's prime minister Herbert Asquith know his farm Pizzeria Edward gray were much interested in Serbia or an ambiguous defense pact with France stand aside would not hurt British on it unless Germany violated Belgium was neutrality but guaranteed at the formation of that stating 1831 under was also the thought of having the rapidly strengthening German Fleet right across the channel in the Belgian Port of Antwerp the challenge Lucy Supremacy the process was in command on August 1st Germany cross the Luxembourg border sees the country within 24 hours and demand free Passage through Belgium Germany gave Belgium's King Albert 12 hours to agree he refused and appealed to King George for support Germany's bethmann-hollweg oyster stomach London would go to war over what he called a scrap of paper World opinion abandoned Germany and on August 4th Britain declared war the Army Britain what's Pleasanton colonial wars and deeply professional could you put timing in this Maelstrom just 125000 minutes the British position reports rush to the continent for what all cuz you would be a short war they recognize that our Modern Warfare Modern weapons the capabilities of armies and navies at the time that lead great Slaughter but for this very reason the cost both in the blood and treasure will be so great that the world would have to be over very quickly this became known as a short war illusion the fun sleeping plan was no longer in the hands of its late originator the general staff was now headed by General helmets for the month k a gloomy shadow of the Titan father who had engineered fresh in Victory in 1870 promote care have been forced to Tinker Faithfully with the french lesson plans when a massive French offensive on his left wing and Lorraine threatened to cut off the German Army is advancing through Belgium so we're sleeping at the to the left win with only 9% of the forces on the right from Mullica had to divert 42% of his army is there the British army have deleted the entrenching space from its equipment call Josh says he will Resort back city was the French Creek their horses were ready all the powers England France Germany Russian Pusher hungry eldy's great reserves of Calvary equipment swords and lamb ready for the ride through to Victory on August 4th 1914 the Cavalry spearhead of 60,000 German purple that the mouth of the liege gateway to Belgium the battery is a break Forks dominated the attack card has some 25,000 Belgian man the defensive works and the bridge is over the Meuse River had been demolished the Germans found the going heavy contact syncing blood early in the mud but a German Legend was being born and obscure Cardinal of fusiliers Erich ludendorff became separated from his own unit in the confusion of battle in the chaos ludendorff shop they got the Milling German Cavalry under the right road to swing behind them the Irish defensive when the Commanding General fell asleep Kindle enter the Irish and became Germany's faulknerian hero lost in the battle smoke was the real hero deceived the world's first secret weapon Prestige car wreck the sick world part one by one with men size show we might say now that the germ have no sense of public relations and they proved that again and again in their invasion of Belgium and of northern France there would be suspected Guerrilla action and they would simply line hundreds of men from 8 year olds to 84 year old up against the wall and kill them they burned The Great Library of lupine one of the great centers of culture in the Middle Ages the legend of the burning murdering hum would be a formidable weapon in the hands of Allied propaganda the ghosts of the murdered Belgium with form themselves in armies Germany to its death with the war on the day's over the German momentum was building as they plunged deeper into Belgium heading for removal of the birds French Chief of Staff Marshall Joseph Jacques scissors massive Ignatius remote from the welfare of these troops and the true situation fun sleeping script like one of his soldiers the French attack in Luray that had to be Lorraine and outside because part of the rhetoric was getting the Lost provinces back play Work destroy by the channel you realize that the French lost 300 thousand men in the first three months of 1914 in England is hero war minister field Marshal Lord Horatio Kitchener the legendary Kitchener of cartoon saw things with brutal clarity Kitchener argued that the Germans were already in the knockout punch through Belgium you saw the British officer Corps as The Preserve of gentlemen who dislike having to take that profession seriously and stated that the war would be won by the nation with the last million squarely in the path if you would turn on Russian German right-wing the scam 100,000 men of the British expeditionary Force deployed where the Belgian front hinge on the mining Center of Mall the British commander amiable skittish John French was nowhere up to the job but was blessed with a brilliant subordinate tigerish General Horace Smith Daria princess position by squarely in the path of the belligerent Gambler General open clock leading the powerful first Army northernmost reports of the German wheel hook Rush directly at The best-trained Rifleman in the world so deadly was the fire the British professionals that the Germans could not believe they would not up against machine gun The Dead Files. Mom was taken as a British vicar the survivors were there after cold moseman and Boris special middle called the month. The French in particular were so inexperienced with War come 1914 and so on playing in the future conduct of war that they sent soldiers to the front this in the fall of 1914 and red pants low and behold because of course the German machine gunner could walk the mini socket this time was it need to change soft rock remain blind to the Mortal danger to his armies is futile plans 17 the frontal assaults of the German Center in the rain stock quote French maid no Yusuf stealth ground or short brushes they chanced all on Audacity and died for for the north the gallon British expeditionary force was being expended in a series of tragic battle sometimes just blow the Germans and sometimes because the exhausted men had strength to shoot but not to walk foremost Brooke was closing upon Paris where were the reports of huge prisoner bags and captured guns the only sure sign of a faux defeated the one bright spot in the Allied was General Joseph Simone Guinea he was old he was retired but he was the best of the French generals and he was pulled out of retirement to set up defenses around Paris the French government was prepared to evacuate Paris women were weeping in the streets show Unstoppable seen the German wheel on Harrison the general French proposed the retirement of the British expeditionary Force to England only a furious rebuttal by Kitchener calzone in England Conan Doyle spoke of the most terrible August in the history of the world one thought that God's curse on heavy uncooked meeting Garlin resistance and beginning to feel these overextension the guy in the undoing of his I'm paging right-wing by invoking of crucial change in the plan that it served him so well instead of swinging Southwest whip around power he began turning inward to the South to pin the French armies between two German forces this presented the flank of his army already weakened by two cars sent to East pressure on the Russian front do a flanking Counterattack from forces in Paris this seem not to concern his impetuous nature the new aerial reconnaissance capability proved its mettle by spotting the god-sent in Wood wheel along the Marne front clip with the bit in his teeth drove his stretched exhausted when men March day in day out day in day out there comes a point where they get a little tired and furthermore they did not anticipate what hauling guns over these distances Paris began to panic crowds demanded that it be declared an open City drop German leaflets declared their nothing you can do but surrender refugees Rush toward the railway station ministers weapon galliani responded I have received the mandate to defend Paris against Invader this man days I shall carry out to the end jafra finally began to see the possibilities of the Germans blank being in the air you sent me to see if Sir John French is British exit fishing reports was ready to join in Attack the John became lost in the gallic language and finally blurted tell him that all that men can do our fellows will do the battle of the Marne was a series deadly clashes that began on September 5th and bled onto 7 Dreadful day the Germans had not looked to their flag Timberline. Everywhere they bought their communication they attacked without reconnaissance or artillery preparation and advanced in the opener against massed fire all the mistakes there. I spoke at made in the early going the big wheel was found to run out of gas they had gone too far too quickly some days they would average 46 Mi marching and they didn't have the elliptical ability to keep up with it March at one critical juncture as the French line began to bend. Galliano collect to 1200 French taxicabs the rush decisive reinforcements to the front it was history's first important use of gasoline powered mopeds in war bit by bit the German wedge fell back to the River end Paris with shade nobody could know it but the wild Mobility that didn't characterize the world's first weeks in the west was over for good obviously we will never know what would have happened if the Germans had taken of Paris in 1914 but the evidence that we do have on this General issue is that there is nothing to suggest that the French were going to throw in the towel meanwhile in the East the death machine has not been idle German Redbox on demand was more than recouped at the gates of Prussia why was the Battle of the Marne I grazed on the Western Front throughout August Russian army had tried for decisive victory in the east the Germans had relatively few troops in the East because their intention was to. with France as quickly as they could and they were convinced they could take frappe out of the war in a matter of a month or six weeks The Rush then started their offensive in what was then called East Prussia The Defenders of the German front covering over 200 miles of East Prussian border number barely 135000 under General Max from fitbit's the Russian army is bearing down on them number six hundred fifty thousand men and advantage of 421 open to Ami's commanded by generals have a gender-sensitive and Pavel Reynolds the Russians were good Soldiers the trouble was they just didn't have the right arms sometimes even have rights they didn't have enough artillery between the opposing armies Leo field Countryside broken miserably with Forest Lakes and marshes could deploy only slowly over Nara front enabling the Germans to ship forces over there at fishing Railway system seeing what the Russian armies would be split upon entering East Prussia and arrive on the battlefield at different times the German High command made plans to defeat each in separate term 1 * misinterpreted an adjustment in the line by Van Chris Pitts has defeated Retreat and May far-reaching decision 2 Chainz Commander on August 28th the cable General Erich ludendorff the hero of the Irish you may yet be able to save the situation in the east I'm looking for train the pressure there was a fortuitous meeting aboard was General Paul Von Hindenburg called out every time the Commander's connected instantly insta Hindenburg and ludendorff would become virtually one as military dictators of Germany Hindenburg and ludendorff proceeded with the plan for which country which had been fired it worked perfectly helped by the Russian for pain I need to send radio messages in the clear so that the Germans knew that plans on August 26th a huge pivotal Battle of tannenberg began to unfold turn off drove his split off on me into a trap bases by a purpose within German Center Ascension of Wyatt family for rent in kamsar me to be rushed to his rescue the Germans methodically crushed his Stanford Shopping Center when they close behind them by capturing the rail and Road Center at night and put the disaster was complete 90 mm Russian prisoners Jensen of bad farewell to his staff and walked into the woods a single pistol shot was very nobody bothered to go into the woods to search for his body the German public got the sense that this team of Hindenburg and ludendorff what's a pair of military Geniuses who seemed able to do most anything these two individuals look to people in Germany in a terrible crisis of the war as the most likely the people to bring drumonade victory Austria had pounced upon deserve to take the long desired territory on August Kings of Rochas Lee fighting Serbian Army under the defensive genius name to write him your foot neck smashed the Austrian attack at the Battle of the Nile River then they would be eaten by the Russian 1914 that continually had to call the Germans to save them and this happened again and again one of the motifs of that war and when the Germans safe and where did the Germans have to get the troops on the Western Front a German officer side Bloom Ali we are fettered to a corpse and there was no comfort in the west either no one realized the great implications of this many soldiers on the battlefield now in 1914 did machine gun rapid fire art gave an individual the capability to cover up about three times the ground that he had before in the war of 1870 and yet There Were Ten Times the truth as the fronts Harden each side so it's only hope for Advantage at the flags and their big guy in the leapfrogging series of movements for so-called race to the Sea do either get around the enemy or to defend against his end run there was no place where you could maneuver and that became the great dilemma of the war in France and Belgium how do you get through by the end of September 1914 two months after the Great War began the Western Front became approval honeycomb of astonishing the man height trenches Brew underground dugouts from men than horses galleries to accommodate stores in headquarters toolboxes ammunition dumps I'm communication, and the trenches appeared in successive line shrouding themselves in thousands of miles of barbed wire blood disease typhus are rats inside the trenches gas shelves day after day I'm cold and silly with the front stabilized it was possible to begin the massing of artillery we used wheels in great packs for uses in defense and attack Attila coming soon became artist Masters bequeathing barrage in the free registered fire store killer of the first world war was artillery artillery accounted for 70% of the casualties in the first World War western front by the beginning of 1915 to become a line of entrenchments reaching from Switzerland to the channel over 400 miles said that a man could walk from Switzerland to channel and every emerge above ground it was more than most men could bear with Firepower and sheer numbers ending all Western Front mobility in the early war and worked was evacuated the remains of the Belgian British forces fell back to digging on a fragment of belgian-style in Flanders that would become infamous for four years as the war most lethal gram 1 Moltres failures at Broad command of the German Army to General Erich von falkenhayn he was enigmatic dashing and stopped cold by an Old Reliable weapon if they had overpowered the Belgian they could have gained the last real prizes of 1914 which were the channel ports the belgians under King Albert opted to flood that flat landscape and that flooded landscape absolutely stop the Germans sending the porch with the French the British expeditionary Force May the Magnificent stand that he pray called wipers Forever by the Bridget the British defensive Salient was shaped chillingly like a skull with in it one would die or be made Slaughter that's triple the rate of any other sector Kitchener cries out this isn't War the battle died down and the armies dug deeper we know that soldiers began to recognize that the conditions of War this war of attrition does bleeding of the enemy to death was forever changing their lives when they recognize themselves. will be there most important weapon for protection what's the Spade not the gun not the bayonet the Germans did something very smart or early on in the war and that was the Day game practically All The High Ground on the Western Front The Nation suddenly understood that this is another sort of War a Munitions machine of unheard-of size had sprung up everywhere the French 75 mm gun Jerome was spewing 30000 rounds a day England was soon turning out a million two hundred thousand shells a month the Army's Butchery with need everyone I was 19. King began the German plan has broken two rival camps called easterners and westerners each seeing his own front as the decisive one to break the stalemate the Hindenburg ludendorff teen managed to take Warsaw from the Russian over the enemy Retreats into the Russian fastnesses made it meaningless the austrians again knocked heads against the serbs and Cat talk with 100,000 dead and nothing gained the Germans hoped for more from Turkey the Germans were successful in during the Ottoman Empire into the war on their side that but they had to fight Russia in the Caucasus it meant that when British forces landed in what is today a rock that had to fight them there turkey on the way to the floor the Ottoman Empire had lost most of its European territories still had the area around the same Constantinople is not a stumble the dog now another words the stripes connecting the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea and this was an area of enormous importance because it was the most possible route by which the Western Powers could Supply Russia with military supplies through the caucuses in December with luckily riposte the nervous Rush appeal to Britain for a British diversion to ease the threat from the south British and the French were determined to force the Dardanelles they planned a combined land Naval campaign largest amphibious operation probably ever try to put that point Winston Churchill is Lord of the admiralty was one of the principal architects an attempt by British and French lyrics to force the Dardanelles by Naval gun power alone foundered in a series of spectacular sinking of three attacking battleships by Turkish mine son Shore battery procedure of the Dardanelles would have to be given over to an army landed by Steam the attack Point chosen was the Gallipoli Peninsula Garden the European side of the stripes imposing Clips look down on the sea with points rising to 1250 access from narrow Rocky beaches was limited to a series of gullies running up through loads and scrubbed capable General Sir Ian Hamilton was sent by Kitchener the command to divisions of Australians and new zealanders Under General Sir William Byrd wood the anzacs and the French Brigade numbered 70,000 we're destined for valorous Calamity trying for the impossible goal they would go over the mountains toward Constantinople as it was called then and others would go up into the Balkan the idea would be to hit Germany from Another Side of course it didn't work because thanks to the Turkish machine guns Gallipoli simply turn into Western Front gone vertical The Defenders Sports superbly under the capable of German general the mountain from Sanders resume commanded 84000 The Landings were made from small boats and awkward Landing ships bunching the troops for the murderous fire that met them the forces with scattered around for small and unconnected beaches around the toe of the peninsula confused and floundering everywhere the attackers Misty tactical and strategic opportunities to go forward with the Turks were weak and walked instead into a series of hornet quickly the attacking forces found themselves pin by Turkish forces on cramp strips of unsheltered beach we need virtually unassailable height from which Defenders for down nonstop. has Turkish reinforcements arrived to freeze the lines Wahlberg would think to tell he's dying soldiers was too big transx did picking up the firmament name of the know where was courage expended more recklessly or hopelessly then at Gallipoli in the tax on the height in three days of third of the assault Force Has Fallen the Royal Navy came even close to help with big gunfire but the German submarines were waiting 3 British battleships went to the Box careers began to dissolve British prime minister Asquith removed Winston Churchill as first Lord of the admiralty by July Gallipoli battle casualties in past the 50,000 mark names like suvla Bay and and Zack who became symbols of Eustace courage and prodigious waste another $40,000 fell in August for what a soldier called five acres of bad grazing what you had as a result was a terrible bloody fight that runs through most of 1915 and which approximately 1000000 men from both sides over this small Peninsula and a quarter of them are buried there still today shortly after a December blizzard frozen ground 280 men in trenches the goblin diggers Gallipoli were pulled out and he'll thereafter withhold no new tariffs for them such as the one they would do to enjoy her on other miserable fronts of this Great War now consuming mankind Without End

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