The first two installments are already available on YouTube. Also, the "Between 2 Wars" series on the interwar years is available. So far, I think it looks pretty good.
Though much smaller I’ve always found WWI much more difficult to study than WW2. It’s the pointlessness of the horrible slaughters engineered by incompetent buffoons like Haig. Years of masses of men charging machine guns in daylight. Hideously disgusting.
Indy and crew have done a superb job on WWI.
A video classic to rank with any documentary series, bar none. This thing is up there with Ken Burn’s “Civil War”, but it deals with a vastly more complex topic, in enormous detail.
WWII will be that much more complex.
The complexity is a problem for some of their collaborators. Notably Othais, of C&RSenal, which is well worth supporting. Othais has collected, restored, explained and demonstrated all the major, and many minor, infantry weapons of WWI. That is a huge ordeal, especially all the automatic weapons. WWII will be worse.
WW I and WW II were the self inflicted mortal wounds that led to the death of European culture. Europe cannot and will not ever recover from the irreplaceable loss of its best genetic stock from 1914-1945. The migrations of the hordes was inevitable. Sorry but it has been forever transformed.
Be hard to top “The World at War”.
“Teaming Up To Recap World War II, Day By Day”
FReeper Homer_J_Simpson put his blood, sweat and tears into the same project using period newspaper articles here on FR for 4 years on the 70th anniversary of each day starting nine years ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356646/posts
He’s doing the Civil War now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3684633/posts
They better lay the blame on Hitler and Stalin equally.
They started the war, were initially partners, and both need to be given equal recognition for the magnitude of evil and havoc they unleashed upon humanity. The scars of which we bear to this day.
And America better get due credit for its sacrifices and for holding the moral high ground despite our temporary alliance with the Soviet Union.
Kings and Generals have great content on YouTube
I will have to check this out.
Dollars to doughnuts, the role of the Albanian SS will be omitted (or only briefly mentioned in passing) as will all points of contact between Hitler and the muslims (whose koran he plagiarized and Germantisized).
Don’t worry, Kiddies, the history of WWII will be thoroughly sanitized and politically correct so no one will have hurt feelings or become ‘outraged’. Connections will be made between Nazis and present-day American and European conservatives, doubtless.
Stalin will be a good guy and praised due will be made to the utterly humble man who saved the West at great cost to his beloved Soviet Union. / i
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There at least three Series called “the Great War”
The one I like best is 26 episodes of 38 minute3s each. It is narrated over lots of original film clips. The editor is especially fond of guns. The number of different type big guns is amazing. The footage comes from all the combatant archives. The series does not give much coverage to the American battles like the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es4zhqqM5lU&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj7DtmB-YsnpK_WUlPs3MNCu
The Great war series on this thread is a week by week lecture lasting 7- 10 min each. It has pretty good maps but the events are described rather than shown. It boils doen to a complex college lecture. It was dropped after the first 5 weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
Sometime last week, I realized that WW I was won by the allies exactly 100 years ago now. September was the point where the aliesw actually advanced and the Germans were in retreat.