Italian Mountain Warfare - The Espionage Act I THE GREAT WAR Week 151

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The US entry into the war had raised some pretty unrealistic expectations among the Allies. When General Pershing arrived in Britain, King George personally told him how he looked forward to the 50,000 US airplanes soon in the air. At the same time the Italians start an offensive in the Trentino and attack Mount Ortigara.
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Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
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[@Kuhlfurst]

"Yes, THAT Hermann Göring." You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.

[@andreascovano7742]

yes

[@suomisolider32]

Kuhlfurst Your profile pic... UKK?

[@Kuhlfurst]

UKK

[@theawesomesausage]

The *_LORE_*

[@punishedpokemonfanboy1032]

Kuhlfurst you mean Herman Meyer?

[@derrickthewhite1]

That lucky Russian officer: he could actually surrender and talk with his captors.

[@wach9191]

USA - "We only have over 50 planes" King - "Great news everyone, americans are bringing 50 thousand planes!"

[@oxis77gas]

They bring those planes 23 year later for real.

[@halorecon95]

oxis77gas Better late then never I guess? :P

[@SigEpBlue]

Spoilers?! Well...distant-future spoilers, but still...! ;)

[@doubledouble4g379]

America in a nutshell ;)

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Reminds me of independence day.

[@mikked01]

Italian soldiers receive their orders: "Attack up mountain, in the mud, with no artillery support. Here are some sharp pieces of metal, you are to stab your enemies with them." It's amazing ANY success was achieved at all, however briefly.

[@mikked01]

I know, I was impressed they managed what they did given the problems they had to overcome. It's another frustrating thing learning about this war; watching the skill and bravery of nations be wasted time and again.

[@braith117]

I'm still going through the older videos but that does seem like all the Italians have done this war. Only difference is that they have British helmets to do it with at this point.

[@citizenofvenus]

Italian special forces seem to perform far better than others given the stupidity of their high command.

[@tommasorucci4088]

braith117 so what did the British do except loosing to the Germans?

[@braith117]

The British have been dealing with the Ottomans and neutering the last of the German fleet.

[@britpoint7022]

Can I just say how much I appreciate the fact that you always reiterate who everybody is, instead of just using their names and relying on our memories for the rest. 151 weeks in, I *know* who Italian Army Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna is, but only because you've been reminding me that he's the Italian Army's Chief of Staff every time he comes up. It's really good. Puts everyone in some kind of context.

[@KingOfShadeEmpire]

Unless it's Hermann Göring. Then it's just THAT Hermann Göring. But we'll learn about him yet!

[@mr.quarters6047]

0:10 - 0:17 This ENTIRE war could be summed up exactly in that one phrase. Unrealistic expectations.

[@eternalvirgin2227]

Mr. Quarters and tons of deaths

[@akula6352]

Wait, FDR was elected in 1932

[@James--Parker]

Dude come on, I don't care what you think of FDR. Saying FDR caused the great depression is ridiculous, when he took office US unemployment was at 24%. It was already the height of the great depression, the darkest hour if you would. Saying that he somehow caused it when it reached its peak before he even took office is frankly ridiculous. Secondly when he took office the economy wasn't about to turn around, it was about to get a lot worse. By the time he took office 1/3 of all banks in the US had failed. The banking panic was so bad it looked like the remaining banks where days away from collapsing. He not only ended the banking panic within a week, he prevented all future banking panics with the creation of the FDIC. Ending the greatest destabilizing factor in the US economy forever. Most people these days don't even know what a banking panic is.

[@mattdickson2]

T5rux Lee you're not do good at that whole reading books thing are you?

[@mkd2839]

"There was one disastrous offensive just getting started this week" Oh com'on Indy, that's not news since 2/19/15 "On the Italian Front" Of freaking course "Luigi Cadorna resolved to overwhelmed the enemy" So...his tactic the entire war then?

[@pez4]

It just had to be Luigi Cadorna right?

[@GerackSerack]

Yes, he sed the same tactic in all his previous offensives. That's why it's so brilliant! The austrians won't expect him to do the same again!

[@thexalon]

Cadorna isn't even close to the only lousy general in this war.

[@holly5234]

You see when you attack on the Isonzo so often the Austrians will never expect another Offensive on a different Front!

[@ringo1692]

Luigi Cadorna exactly!

[@sourkraut7437]

"Will Germany Prevail?! Will the Allies succeed in their attempts?! Tune in Next week to find out!" jus jokin, you guys know we love your content

[@louisxivoffrance1386]

Hunter Rolph OF COURSE GERMANY WILL PREVAIL YOU INCAPACITATED BABBOON!

[@prettypointlessvideo]

Hunter Rolph it'll be over by Christmas anyway. oh that was 3 years ago? Rip

[@nightrise45]

I mean technically it will be over by Christmas. Just Christmas 1918.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

"We lived through it...the Great War, 1914 to 1917. Hip-Hip-Hurrah!"

[@danielscheurwater2466]

Mikhailia Gacesa No you fools. The artillery has stopped firing because we are going to attack. Even our generals aren't mad enough to shoot their own troops. They think it is far more sport to let the germans do it

[@SeraphinaPZ]

Why does Indy always wear that vest? It gives +5 to Wisdom.

[@castalov247]

I thought that was his Chair?

[@JamesTullos]

The chair gives +8 to Wisdom, but only when he's sitting in it.

[@mkd2839]

So his chair in his appartment gives him +5 madness?

[@ChristopherM720]

I have been looking for that vest in shops because i want one!

[@nathanjohnson1995]

Romance The Three Kingdoms.

[@peterlynch1458]

What the Italians really needed in all these offensives was several divisions of cavalry to exploit the breakthroughs.

[@alessiazenatelli5141]

Peter Lynch on the top of the alps?! at that highs you can bring mules not horses!

[@peterlynch1458]

I'm channeling the brilliance of Sir Douglas Haige, please do not interrupt.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@@peterlynch1458 Cadorno already was posessed by the Ego and brilliance of Captain Zapp Brannigan... their command style is eerily similar :D And if you know Brannigan, you can be sure that no other ego has place in any body his dwells in :-p

[@fhsreelfilms]

One of the best descriptions I've heard of the 1917 French Army mutinies is that they weren't so much classic mutinites in which soldiers kill their officers and abandon their posts as they were a kind of military strike. The soldiers demanded better conditions, an improved leave system that included travel time, and an end to pointless offensives, but they were still committed to the war effort and winning the fight.

[@stevenjlovelace]

55,000! I just looked it up, and from what I've read, the US currently has around 13,000 active aircraft. 55,000 planes in a single military is insane even now, much less a decade after the Wright Brothers.

[@DazBull26]

I bet the USA had more than 55000 in the second world war.

[@DazBull26]

I meant at the same time (operational) not how many were built

[@AcidTripOk]

"The italians were trapped in the mountain side for the rest of the week, waiting for an order to retreat that never came, and there they remain." WOW that was sad...

[@jeremyheckathorn1479]

Love all the work you guys do

[@Killachow23]

He referenced the dooblydoo! My inner Nerdfighter could not be more excited.

[@nathanberger7643]

12 battles of the Isonzo and then the battle of Caporetto retakes all the ground that Cadorna has gained. Well done Cadorna.

[@GenesisProgressive72]

The Battle of Caporetto is the 12th battle of the Isonzo

[@DanielWW2]

6:37 It is not a weekly recap from the Great War without Cardorna launching some dumb offensive that fails miserably. Well, at least it was more original than attacking at the Isonzo, again. :P

[@TheGreatWar]

+DaniëlWW2 you could say he spiced it up to keep the relationship fresh

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

Ah yes, the little known French commander of WWI, General Mútiny. :)P

[@enveenva5584]

Taistelukalkkuna lol

[@michealohaodha9351]

He held only a temporary command. Better known is his distant cousin General Mutinyovich who had a successful career in the Imperial Russian army, contributing greatly to the outcome of the war.

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

In his staff were also chief-of-operations major Mál-Funczion, and intel officer, proud descendant of Irish mercenaries, who fought for France, capitain O´Bivious.

[@michealohaodha9351]

Incorrect Capitaine O'Bivious was fired after the Battle of the Marne, the intel officer of the time was of Irish- French-Russian extraction Major O'Shyte I believe.

[@fenrir7878]

50,000 aircraft. Jeez, that must have been a typo. Britain would be lucky if America brought 50,000 soldiers in that year. Their army was so small.

[@mrbushi1062]

hey Indie and gang! Could you please do a special on the winter fighting in the Alps? Im so fascinated by how they dug the ice out or how they got big guns in the mts. Then caused avalanches. Even today as the snow melts from global warming we continually find remnants of WW1 in the Alps

[@TheGreatWar]

We intend to do so.

[@irondeath212]

That guy Luigi Cadorna...never fails to fail. :D

[@podemosurss8316]

We need him more and more, now that Höztendorff had been fired.

[@alessiazenatelli5141]

Rae1x3 yep It took the disaster of Caporetto for having him replaced by the good Armando Diaz.

[@voxelstein3680]

6:37 Yep...saw that one coming a mile away

[@johnc4122]

Hey Indy & Co. I have a question! I saw photos of mountains of spent shell casings, and it prompted me to wonder what happened to all the casings after firing. Given that millions of shells were fired during The Great War, did any of the nations try to reuse their casings in ways other than trench art? Perhaps by collecting them and then melting them down? Surely the resource hungry warring nations would want to recycle this precious metal! P.S. Keep up the excellent work, your show is phenomenal!

[@TaaviSimson]

Was wondering the same thing at some point. By todays standards it would be logical thing to do, common sence, but don`t know what people thought then.

[@Biker_Gremling]

Metals where recovered, melted and re-used. Bullet casings and artillery casing where re-loaded and re-used in lesser degree.

[@Palifiox]

John C. Brass, copper and bronze have always been valuable as scrap because of the copper, tin and zinc content. You can bet anything made of those would have been snapped up during or after the war. Someone once estimated that something like 70% of the copper that has ever been mined in the past ~ 4,000 years is still in use. I can't remember where I saw that but it was before the internet existed.

[@hagamapama]

My grandfather was a combat engineer in the 9th army in WWII, and he came home with some shell casings he'd turned into art. He made several vases out of 37mm shell casings and containers, an ash tray, an umbrella stand out of a 57, 75 and 90mm shell casings respectively. So to answer the OP's question -- a lot of them were taken to make trench art like that. At least among the engineers, but I doubt they were the only ones.

[@danieleflorean7064]

Sorry I'm late... After WWI and until the late '50s it was common occupation among poor mountain people to go on old battlefields (e.g. the mentioned Ortigara Mountain) to scrap every kind of metal they could and then sell it. That included shells and even unexploded artillery ammo. Italian mountains, especially in Trentino, are still full of the remains of WWI. I personally collected some barbed wire (both italian and austrian) and bomb fragments as i went on the Pasubio Mount as a kid, another place that saw bloody offensives and a "mine battle" similar to the one in Messines

[@Paperfiasco]

King: Ah, we will have our aerial superiority now! 50,000 planes! US: Yes! They're a bit old but we've got 50-wait...ooooohh...this is gonna get awkward.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

The King just was already looking forward to the NEXT war ;-p

[@alexnyan7055]

I came here to say thanks for such great channel. This is how history should be taught.

[@jessepinkman4191]

Great job as always, many thanks to Indy and the team!

[@wolfofverdun9084]

Man i love the intro for this show, another great show guys.

[@Himalayastar]

indy and team you are just amazing ... I dont have words to compliment your show and your ideas

[@bobcanapary7084]

Thanks for your videos Indy. You make history fun! I cant believe its been 3ish years now. We are lucky not to know such carnage in the modern world.

[@alessiazenatelli5141]

I suggest to listen the song: "tapum" which is also known as 30 giorni sul Ortigara (30 days on the Ortigara) is one of the most famous Italian ww1 songs and appropriate considering the episode.

[@OuterHeaven210]

Indy I've been watching ur show for years. As a ww2 buff I never knew much about ww1. I thought it was just France Germany and England who fought on the western front and Russia getting whooped by Germany let alone the Italians fighting the AH Empire and the Serbian front! My favorite front to hear about. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to this very interesting period in time. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see what war/subject you cover in 2018

[@j_geau]

The only regret I have with this channel is that I didn't discover it until this year. Keep up the great work guys!

[@Cmanr5]

Hey, great videos and a great insight into our war history! Good work!!

[@stevenjlovelace]

At 5:52, I'm guessing the sentence about Harry Chauvel was added in during post-production? The sound is a little off.

[@stevenjlovelace]

It's cool that you can fix that after the fact. It's like magic in Henry Potter.

[@peterlynch1458]

I thought it was an intentional Easter egg, like you had someone else record that bit. It doesn't sound like you.

[@stevenjlovelace]

Oops. Sorry to point it out.

[@nunya7055]

meh... good enough! I can't tell the difference. :^/

[@Geekygirrls2014on]

your videos are wonderful! I'm writing Christian fantasy series and my current series has five books, 2 completed, 2 in progress. I finished the first book and realizzed it really must be the SECOND book in the series, as it covers the 60s-70s and has spiritual plain battles during the Six Day War and then Vietnam, etc. But when I was almost done I realized that I needed to write an earlier timeframe book. That book, Antonio's Story, covers the Great War then up through the end of WWII. I knew what I would write about WWII, but I had no real background info on the Great War. I'm using your youtube series, supported by other research, to create screnarios for the GW, specifically 1917-18. The bad news is that I got hit by a car while crossing the street (his bad) and am now stuck in a nursing home/rehab center till probably August (accident happened May 5th). The good news>>I have my laptop and a private room. Aside from 2 hours of rehab exercise, all my time is spent on this book. I am very grateful for your videos. I will give you credit in the foreword. When I'm back home, hopefully no later than September, I'll contact you to get approval, and if you agree, I will include links to appropriate videos in my Great War chapters. Blessings! Violet Weed @geekiestwoman

[@Totalballa41]

love the videos! keep it up

[@TheReturnoflee]

This show keeps getting better. Also, speaking of WWI, my grandfather's grandmother was the second cousin to Kaiser Wilhelm II. I am not kidding. So really I have a WWI heritage.

[@trentonebel9088]

+The Great War Hi there, Indy and team. I've been following the show for some time now, and I love it. I was wondering, when it comes time for the episode of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, would you consider doing a biographical episode on American Major Charles Whittlesey? As someone who lived in my home state, and led the famous "Lost Battalion," I've always found him interesting. I think it would make a good episode. Thanks guys. Good work.

[@Αγορακριτος]

I realy like the"World War 1"decoration of your office briefing room.

[@hemmingwayfan]

Allenby? Well that's a step in the right direction. 50 bonus points if you got that.

[@silvioevan11]

Indy, are there plans of an episode about Emilio Lussu? He was the author of the most important WW1 memoir about the Italian front: 'Un Anno Sull'altipiano' (A Year on the High Plateau). He was an officer of the famous Brigata Sassari, from Sardinia.

[@vbdope]

How about who did what in ww1 about Goering?

[@TheGreatWar]

+Vojtěch Braun sure, not sure when though

[@stevenjlovelace]

I'm still hoping for a "Who Did What" episode about Hemingway.

[@Seabreeze756]

Also - for Rokossowsky, Zhukov, Shkuro. Although the German crew wouldn't be happy with those three.

[@podemosurss8316]

Rokossovsky and Zhukov were minor Russian soldiers at the time, both serving in dragoon regiments as NCOs. They most likely fought on the Brusilov's offensive, but I'm not sure, what I'm sure is that Zhúkov got promoted because of war merits and received the Order of St. George twice. During the Russian civil war, both joined the Bolshevists, and although Zhukov spent part of the war in a field hospital due to illness, both were promoted to captains and, later on the war, to "battalion commanders" (Soviet designation at the time for Major, all officers above captain were named as " commander"). In the 1920s both were prominent figures in the Soviet military as were seen as two young, promising officers with skill as strategists, and rose through the ranks, first to regiment commanders and then to division commanders and above. In 1929, Rokossovsky was sent with his unit to China, protecting the railways from the problems caused by the Chinese civil war. Zhúkov meanwhile was the inspector of the Soviet cavalry, having as task the modernisation and mechanisation of the cavalry units (he would be later given the command of a cavalry corps by himself and, in 1939, an Special Corps in the Far Eastern theatre, comprising 3 infantry divisions and 3 mechanised brigades. He used them to encircle and destroy an entire Japanese army corps that had entered the Soviet allied of Mongolia in the so-called battle of Khalkhin Gol.

[@AvantAveGarde]

Hoo boy, I don't want to stick around for that comment section.

[@IdesofMarch223]

I wonder if Pershing had Geico, to save 15% or more on his insurance for those "50,000" planes.

[@praetorianguard4469]

So are you telling me that the Italian soldiers menaged to take Austrian positions without artillery support, with ground turned in mud, up to a mountain with crappy rifles and daggers? If I had those soldiers I could have reached Vienna in months! (JK... perhaps...)

[@praetorianguard4469]

Nationalism is not bad if not put into exageration, as everything you just need moderation... Italian soldiers were great soldiers, the problem that a lot of people often forget is that Italy was a very poor country, just come out from centuries of foreign domination and exploitation, that tried to face the great powers of that time and someway menaged to succed, hat down to Italy and its soldiers, be proud of your grandfather and his bravery

[@alessiazenatelli5141]

Steve Kaczynski they were alpini not arditi not that it changes much since alpini were recruited from alpine areas (I know shocking ;)) that biside being rough asses the could move way batter on the mountains than their A.H. opponents who mostly come from the Hungarian plains.

[@socialabsurdity6723]

“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring." - Hermann Meyer

[@DeusGladiorum]

It's surprising to hear Indy cite Verdun as an example of French soldiers' lack of leave, as more than once I've heard Indy juxtapose the German topping up of losses with the French rotation of men at Verdun. I just inferred that the men would be sent on leave, but it's clear now they were simply sent elsewhere then. Where exactly would they be sent? Simply to the rear? Or to other fronts?

[@TheGreatWar]

To the rear or to other fronts, both happened.

[@Anderle52134]

In WWII, this plane would not have been able to take off with that Göring lol

[@tommybhoy1581]

love the show .The youngest solder to be killed in ww1 was John Condon from Waterford Ireland at 14 and 9 month old at yepres

[@Zumoari]

Hi Indi, love your guys' show, it is amazing and you are such a fantastic host! That being said I'd like to point out you often use the term "en masse", which means "as a whole" not "in a mass" as many people mistakenly use it. If people die en masse, that means that everyone has died. Keep up the great work guys, I learn so much!

[@metalfuk1]

I binged watch this series for just about a month now and I'm finally caught up. This series is incredible.

[@briantanner1068]

Great program, keep up the good work!

[@TheGreatWar]

+Brian TAnner we shall

[@dadsausmchero]

Details int he "doo be doo"??? I love it keep it up Indy.

[@lepangolin4080]

Isn't that mutiny kind of the first "french strike"?

[@SirAdrian87]

Did Indy just quote John Green at the end?

[@itsjustafad]

Wheezy Waiter was the pioneer actually, but they're close friends.

[@stevenjlovelace]

I believe that "dooblydoo" is becoming an actual term. I've heard other KZbinrs use it too.

[@AlanDeAnda1]

Amazing thumbnail!!!

[@TaaviSimson]

To be honest it puzzles me a lot how did Cadorna managed to stay in command. I mean somebody in Italy high authorities surley noticed bad decisions made by him and large casualties it caused. I believe that certainly there were more reasonable and smarter men to put in command. And as a sidenote, thinking that just using numbers advandatge, no matter lives lost, to win is a bad attidue. Unfortunately, that attitude could also be seen on other fronts as well (Russian front comes into mind).

[@scubbasan]

It took Britain and France to ask loudly for his dismissal to actually make it happen.. but sadly we'll have to wait another four months and a disastrous defeat before that happens.

[@TaaviSimson]

You forgot to say SPOILER ALERT ;)

[@grayflaneur4854]

Taavi Simson - Could it also be a case of nobody else wanted the job.....?

[@rideroundandstuff]

Nice how you took the effort to enhance the extended area of Charles Dobell's portrait :-)

[@janwillemdewaard9032]

question for out of the trenches what would have happened if the Netherlands would have joined the war in the end love the show keep it up

[@jameskipp1657]

"The attack was a disaster" I think Indy summed up much of WW1 with that statement...

[@jagx234]

Shocked to hear "dooblie doo" outside of vlog brothers :)

[@TheFridge0x]

nooooo, i have been binge watching these for the last month, watching so so many, now i have to wait for the weekly updates, noooooooo

[@TheGreatWar]

Good binge, ey?

[@TheFridge0x]

Absolutely awesome, I have learnt so much , and know there is so much more to learn, thank you all for your hard work.

[@D.M.S.]

Hi Indy, great show! Will you speak about the anti-german movements in the USA while the war was going on?

[@TheGreatWar]

+SnoopysOtherBird we already talked about them a few times in out of the trenches

[@D.M.S.]

The Great War Thank you! I will catch up on that! :)

[@yukikaze3436]

Indy Alexander Kerensky is going to be on one of programs soon the books The Russian Revolution R Pipes, Thou Shalt Kill and Young Stain have a lot of info on him that you should use.

[@admirallongstash8056]

Hi Indy, Let's try: Lárissa other than that, great show, as always. Skol

[@uhhbonk]

Love your video's I watched most of your video's and as understand in one your out of the trenches someone asked about you as I know was wrong a bit and in fact Prussian deftly noticed how effective trains. Also a fun fact a the battle of Yorktown in American revolution used wait for it trenches. Please reads these it took forever to wright (no pun intended.)

[@andrewgoenner120]

Question for Out of the trenches What are your thoughts about how the wonder woman movie portrays the Great War. Both in London and as they walk to the trenches, through the trenches, no man's land and the village beyond the German lines?

[@TheGreatWar]

Haven't seen it, yet.

[@jonathonrussell474]

Hello Indy and crew, love the show. I have a question about the Western Front. With the Royal Navy imposing a blockade on the North Sea and the Dover Patrol blocking the channel, why were the allies intent on even implementing offensives and trying to attack the Germans. By the end of the war nothing had been achieved and the Germans left the war with the myth they hadn't been defeated in the field but betrayed on the home front. If Germany lost due to being starved out why did the allies not just build a defensive line and hold out till a German collapse?

[@ColTravis]

Three weeks ago our local historical society passed out magazines depicting the US entry into WWI with stories and photos including a local German - American who was tarred and feathered just because he could not say the word "Water" PS I should have grabbed one for Indie, but I forgot, Sorry!

[@richardcolesjr9472]

Hi Indy, I'm just writing you with another idea on what can be done with the site in the future. Special episodes can be made for each power containing various trivial details on ldrs., wpns., last survivors, etc. I've discovered the last survivor of the Imperial Russian Army was a Jewish Ukranian lieutenant in the engineers named Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky. He died on December 26,2008 at 111yrs. and 308 days.

[@richardcolesjr9472]

How much research and what kind of research would be required?

[@richardcolesjr9472]

I'm not on facebook but am still interested in writing an episode.

[@VladTevez]

Another trivia: The day Constantine left the country, the Entente blockade of southern Greece ended

[@mikhailv67tv]

The 10th Battle of the Osonzo River did they have any more original names to show what little progress they had made.

[@chrisw443]

This week of the war feels more hopeless than most, that the end will truly never come.

[@dcikaruga]

The US had the Curtis Jenny bi-plane available around this time, it was a nice little aircraft but no match against what they had in Europe.

[@PowerMacG14]

Hey Indie, I really love that map that you have behind you. Though idea, perhaps have a version of it that uses the nation's flag instead of a flat color. Perhaps no national names on it either. Anyhow, thank you very much for the program, been following you since 2014!

[@podemosurss8316]

0:52 General Mutiny? Didn't hear of that general before. Will he take over command after Nivelle's failure?

[@5678sothourn]

At 6:04 the soldier on the lower left of the picture. Is that Tom Cruise?

[@Transforsen]

I have a question for you Indy, It struck to me about what would happen to your channel after November 11th 2018 when you finish the 'week by week 100 years later' series. I am very curious and hope to get a reply. Thank you :) James, your biggest fan.

[@antisocialmunky]

Can you guys cover the Espionage Act and Sedition Act since only the 1918 provisions were repealed? Just like how parts of the Patriot Act were never repealed because reasons.

[@ognjengaric2687]

Can you please make a special on Montenegro in WW1?

[@stanzahero]

Indi's voice changes when he mentioned Chauvel. Was that a dub in or does it pain to hear of Aussie commanders (tongue-in-cheek)?

[@Mr.Joyless]

"And there they remain." Now that's a depressing quote.

[@Aszknee]

Hi great videos but I wonder if you count only KIA as casualties or all casualties in the military sense?

[@TheGreatWar]

military sense

[@vladsimionescu4954]

No dislikes man they're good , best ww1 videos i've ever seen

[@karlkarlos3545]

What's the obsessions with dislikes? You know they will come. Was there ever a video on YT which was never disliked by some?

[@vladsimionescu4954]

Karl Karlos yea but this one is like the first i saw with no dislikes in a lot of time

[@arnootie]

Hey Indy and crew, quick question: how could Cadorna remain in command after all these failed offensives?

[@Hotsoup_]

"If you want to see a handful, not 50k, but a handful of WW1 airplanes, details in the doobie do." You can't let that one slip past! LOL

[@thistletea4978]

Did the soldier's pay differ from the region they were stationed in or did every soldier in the french/english army get the same amount of money apart from rank?

[@alanbrito5239]

Podrían hacer un especial de países latinoamericanos durante la Gran Guerra?

[@carterpalmer2618]

Gentlemen, I was given the green light to help with a special episode, how shall I proceed? Is there a way to contact you to help. Great job guys! Carter

[@TheGreatWar]

drop us a message on Facebook?

[@davididiart5934]

"Lafayette! We are here!"

[@henriquesimoes1791]

Hi there guys, unrelated to the video itself, you have forgotten to put the last two videos in the 1917 playlist. Thanks.

[@TheGreatWar]

+Henrique Simões will fix that tomorrow

[@franciscojosehistoriador]

A question: Why did the Entente not attempt to launch a massive attack against the Austro-Hungarian Fleet on the Adriatic and then carry out an amphibious operation alongside an offensive in the Isonzo?

[@wuugaa6776]

Francisco Criado I don't know for sure, but probalbly because the pretty sizeable Austro-Hungarian fleet was stationed in the Adriatic and they might also not have wanted a second Gallipoli

[@yungtoolshed251]

I know we have a ton of weeks left in ww1 but will you guys transition into WW2 ever? 2039 is really far away and I feel like your channel can do WW2 in the same nice and neat format that you have now and actually do it better than others youtubers and even the history channel. Keep up the good work!

[@podemosurss8316]

They could do it "80 years later" and start in 2019...

[@yungtoolshed251]

Podemos URSS True

[@TheGreatWar]

www.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/

[@Paflos]

Do and episode about Leuven in Belgium.

[@TonySki]

Details down there in the Do Be Do. What?

[@MeyRevived]

"Yes, that herman goring" was there another one? It's not like rudolf hess/hues that you'd need to spell out to specify who it was

[@TheGreatWar]

There are plenty of people that don't know he was a fighter ace in WW1 and neither herman nor göring are exactly rare names in German.

[@b.hagedash7973]

Indy, when will you release the winner of the survey as well as the correct answers?

[@FrazzP]

Have you considered making a special for Luigi Rizzo?

[@noelng6747]

hi indy and crew i was wondering what southeast Asia contributed to ww1 keep up the good work

[@jamespolk1925]

Noel Ng Siam is about to declare war in Germany soon

[@itsjustafad]

Details in the doobly-do

[@SpruceReduce8854]

The thumnail looks like the Verdun title art. Italian front confirmed?