As a former teacher I used to love teaching this topic with my students. I had a fun activity where they put there desks down on the floor and hid behind them on opposite sides of the room, and I said if anyone can get from one side to the other and get the oppositions flag without getting hit by a paper ball that the opposite side was constantly throwing, you win. No one ever won.
@JamesofSuttonYorks28 күн бұрын
@@clydewakefield7349 you used to love teaching about the slaughter of million's of people due to foreign policies?
@OleSmokey Жыл бұрын
My great grandfather survived WW1 infantry from 16 to 18 one of greatest men I've ever met yet barley spoke. Loved him dearly God bless.
@richardmoss59343 жыл бұрын
The more I see of such videos the more I understand why my grandfather, who served in the European trenches, didn't speak about it. A great uncle died between the two attacks on Gaza so would appreciate seeing videos on that era of the war.
@AnEnemy100 Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Those I know who fought in various theatres were extremely reluctant to discuss their experiences, and when they did it was as witnesses to a crime. They felt the shame and confusion of having survived and deep sadness at the loss of friends and family and their own youth.
@daniel11111 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather was deployed to the Italian theatre during world war 2, he was there when the social republic fell. Indian forces are not remembered in this important event in history and it’s tragic.
@petertimowreef90852 жыл бұрын
Crazy how digging holes in the ground has been a defining feature of (defensive) warfare since civilisation and large scale warfare began 6000 years ago. For the largest part of history we just called them ditches and moats and sat behind them, and then when guns became so prolific and effective the entire sky above a battleground was filled with lethal projectiles, we decided that maybe sitting inside our moats was a better idea. So we made them smaller and called them trenches.
@bobdadnaila7708 Жыл бұрын
We are terrestrial, after all.
@dosidicusgigas1376 Жыл бұрын
You are correct, trenches and ditches have been used historically to protect troops from projectiles and infantry. I would say though what makes ww1 unique is the scale (race to the sea) and tactics. The best examples of trench warfare as we know it that pre-dates WW1 would be the US civil war and Russo-Japanese war, where artillery and machine guns became the standard. European military staff ignored the facts of those wars and attemped to wage a war using napoleonic tactics on the modern battlefield, which is why it ended up being a war of attrition that lasted 5 years.
@suspicioustumbleweed4760 Жыл бұрын
Moats are for poop mainly
@dELTA13579111315 Жыл бұрын
@@suspicioustumbleweed4760 to be fair there was likely loads in trenches too
@gordonlekfors2708 Жыл бұрын
I don't think trenches were very common 6000 years ago, so I'm not sure you could call them a "defining feature".
@Sam-rf8yh Жыл бұрын
I saw an interview with a former soldier recorded in the 1980’s. I believe he was in his 90’s at the time of the interview. He told a story of a friend who was bitten on the face by a rat while they were resting. The young man’s face swelled up like a balloon and he died. He kept referring to it as “rat poison”.
@RuinVystopia Жыл бұрын
Just watched that one. Very profound and chilling explanation of that war
@chuckh5999 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather served on the western front. I remember what he said to this day. He did not want to be buried. I asked why. He said he didn't want to be eaten by maggots and rats.
@SoloRenegade3 жыл бұрын
WW1 is always taught as a mindless exercise in pointless frustration and waste of life (and it very much was), such that no one is interested in studying it further. But when you study it instead as a transition between eras, and in a struggle to adapt to the modern technology and weapons, it's far more interesting.
@Ricky_Baldy2 жыл бұрын
It effectively broke the back of colonialism allowing democracy to become the prominent system. That, plus the middle east and many other conflicts today can be traced back to WW1.
@SoloRenegade Жыл бұрын
@@ryucartel351 the psyops aspect of WW1 and how it was then used to influence the US ever since is very interesting, but frightening at the same time. Most people are still oblivious to it and until they wake up and see it, it will/can continue. But in studying how such pysops can work so well, you really learn a lot about the human psychy at the same time though too.
@tmclaug90 Жыл бұрын
@@ryucartel351 can you elaborate a bit?
@scruffscruffeton986 Жыл бұрын
@@tmclaug90 Your being invited to explore a number of 'rabbit holes'. It will be up to you to search and evaluate.
@tmclaug90 Жыл бұрын
@@scruffscruffeton986 lmao. No, I'm good. If you could actually give me a brief run down it may or may not peak my interest. But you can't seriously just expect me to Google, what, ww1 secret agenda and sift through all of that to reach the same conclusion as you? You wanna reach people, than actually try! I have a fairly open mind.
@terminatorgamingyt6513 жыл бұрын
Everyone who was sent here "by their teachers" Im not. I just like history. And WW1
@Blastoisebo1223 жыл бұрын
You need help
@sadsader100yearsago93 жыл бұрын
Same
@dieseldog12723 жыл бұрын
Yall gonna get bad jobs if u don't know ur history m8
@Madenity3 жыл бұрын
i suddenly like WW1 and playing WW1 games and I like trenches cause idk
@sejalseetaram81452 жыл бұрын
omggg he’s different 😣😩🥶
@davidgray3321 Жыл бұрын
I have seen that first photo of the men in the foreground going down the trench while a couple of men are going over the top at the end, I believe the regiment is The Cameronians, my grandfathers regiment. He went to France in November 1914, and was very fortunate to survive.
@tundranomad Жыл бұрын
He fought to the end of the war? That would be miraculous
@captaincrash9286 Жыл бұрын
It is a well known photograph. I remember reading that it was developed after the camera was recovered from the trench following a direct artillery hit which killed the photographer and most or all of the men in the picture.
@James-is2dr Жыл бұрын
Thanks for vid. My grandfather from Blackburn Lancashire joined British Army 1915 aged 17. Served as rifleman in East Lancashire Regiment. Never talked about the war unless you asked him something and answers always in general terms exception being the night he was wounded area of Passchendaele 1918 (taking him out of the war) with his childhood friend beside him being killed. Recall him mentioning trench life being rats, mud/water and trench foot it caused, lot of men being sick especially in winter - said the NCOs would make them all take a big spoon of vaseline every other day to protect the throat.
@dannyrozenberg7985 Жыл бұрын
I've watched countless hours of ww1 footage, but never learned once about the weaponry invented for infentry like in this "short" video. Many thanks!
@evanleehome21782 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation! Will be very helpful in teaching my 5th graders about this horrible and complicated war.
@coreywilliams46782 жыл бұрын
Love the stock footage in these documentaries.
@bobdadnaila7708 Жыл бұрын
I went to the British war museum in London back in 2006ish, They had a WW1 Trench warfare exhibit occupying one of the main wingsof the building. The entire place was done up like a trench that you walked through as they made audio and lighting backdrop. It still looked fake but something about it conveyed the horror of it... It's stuck with me ever since.
@olwe1000 Жыл бұрын
I was just thinking of that when I saw the start of this video and saw to whos channel this video was from. I was there about the same time, 2005 or 2006. I have watched a number of WW1 videos. But the IWM had always been on my bucket list. I have been there twice. I also find that the Gallipoli campaign was fascinating. There is an hour long video on youtube about that campaign.
@GingaTea01 Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing that same exhibition
@Chimpae Жыл бұрын
Please never use « ish » again
@bowden__1419 Жыл бұрын
I went on my own one day and walked around the corner to about 15 german school kids with their teacher in that trench. They stopped talking and looked at me and I looked back, and while I do not find humour in anything relating to the world wars it did put a little smile on our faces
@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN Жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember that. On the way out you turned and came face to face with a terrified trench soldier.🎉
@kurtbjorn38412 жыл бұрын
The US Civil war started Napoleonic and ended up presaging WW1. The Crimean war was similar, but the repeating firearms of the US Civil War made open maneuver insanity. It's interesting that little seemed to be learned by generals of "digging in" from these previous conflicts.
@eyeli1602 жыл бұрын
Not really, only 3 of the ~12 fronts during WW1 used extensive trench warfare. The trenches on the Western front had more to do with the high concentration of soldier in a small area. Try to build any trenches on the Eastern front and you would never achieve the necessary concentration of forces required to defend them and counterattack when the first trench falls, which it will.
@calumsomers43373 жыл бұрын
My teacher made me watch this also
@deronkoppel3 жыл бұрын
Ye
@haninditabudhi65743 жыл бұрын
What happened to ur teacher??
@soobindoll97673 жыл бұрын
Same
@pokugaming54183 жыл бұрын
Same
@ethanharter38033 жыл бұрын
Omg same🤣
@atlanteantruth3 ай бұрын
Every single thing about this is an absolute and complete nightmare. I truly cannot even begin to imagine having to deal with this situation.
@adriankristoffersen31214 жыл бұрын
Interesting look at one of the defining features of WW1. Another seems to be using poisonous gasses in combat, almost unique to this war and rarely seen since in human conflict. What were these weapons, their effects on people physically and psychologically and how did the use of them evolve throughout the war?
@richardcall74473 жыл бұрын
You failed to mention that trenches were a regular feature of siege warfare for centuries.
@festumstultorum1462 Жыл бұрын
You can find a lot of media about it but you have to look carefully at it cause they speak a lot about the use of it by axis side but the "missed" the part of informing who did it first...and the allies specifically french where the ones who started the use of gas and that decision change the curse of war totally among other cruel things down by allies like the use of forbidden weapons in trench warfare by the American soldiers those protest did not have any political effect during war but a very good one in remaining and surviving troops that was carry on to the next one
@dosidicusgigas1376 Жыл бұрын
Poison gas was mainly used to try and clear trenches, they started off with white phosphorus & tear gasses, then it escalated to the use of chlorine gas, mustard gas and finally phosgene. Many gasses were just irritants however notorious ones like mustard gas took a horrendous toll on soldiers both psychologically and physiplogically. Phosgene was the deadliest gas used in the great war. The evolution wasn't anything crazy, the first gas attacks were often just released on to the battlefield from massive containers, allowing the poison gas to waft towards the enemy fortifications; the problem there is if the wind direction changed, the gas could blow back on to friendly lines. Artillery shells that could carry poison gas payloads pre-dated the war but they were eventually included and became one of the primary methods of gassing enemy troops. Pretty much every major armed force utilized poison gas during the great war. Lastly I don't know if you were aware but Adolf Hitler suffered injuries from a gas attack in ww1, many people believe that's why Nazi Germany never employed chemical weapons on the battlefield. Just to be clear Im not saying the Nazis were above the use of chemical compounds in warfare, they did rely on Zyclon-B to commit mass murder in their gas chambers, however I do find it interesting that they chose not to use their stockpiles of chemical munitions in combat.
@dosidicusgigas1376 Жыл бұрын
@@festumstultorum1462 You have to keep in mind that the French used tear gas against the Germans. The use of white phosphorus and CS gas (irritants, granted white phosphorus can be deadly in high concentrations) predates WW1. The germans were the first to use poison gasses as opposed to irritants like white phosphorus or CS gas. If I recall correctly the first use of poison gas (chlorine) was launched by German troops versus Canadian forces.
@festumstultorum1462 Жыл бұрын
@@dosidicusgigas1376 the difference wasn't in the kind of gas they used but the quantity and the hidden purpose behind It that is what cause the retaliation in a higher level
@nathannowicki1123 жыл бұрын
really cool vid, learned loads
@knockshinnoch19502 жыл бұрын
I've read dozen of books and watched dozens of films and documentaries about the First World War but nowhere does anyone explain in detail HOW the trenches were first created. With both sides at a stalemate facing each other often just yards apart how on earth did they manage the process f digging those very first trenches- was there some kind of truce to enable both sides to "dig in"- how did they remove the spoil? I really wish someone would take time to explain this is detail.
@rosesandsongs212 жыл бұрын
They first started when the Germans having failed to win a quick victory in France still had to go take care of Russia on the other side so they left just enough divisions in France to hold on until Russia had been beaten so without their full force and with the new weapons and the flat terrain, they had to find a way to survive and hold their positions, that's how it all started. At the beginning they barely protected the men who had to crawl to avoid being shot and the digging was done at night by the men themselves. Later, special teams were assigned to do only that and they became deeper, more and more complicated, comfortable and they offered a much better protecion. As was to be expected, the Germans developed the science to a much higher degree than the allies who fought with feet in an advanced state of decomposition pretty much for the whole of the war. That's all I know, I'm sure google could take over here. Cheers.
@knockshinnoch19502 жыл бұрын
@@rosesandsongs21 Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have that info and am very knowledgeable about all aspects of the War including the politics in each country. What is always missed is the process- the "nuts and bolts" about how both sides managed to dig the trenches while only yard apart- no one has ever explained that in detail. I've seen documentaries and read about the construction of trenches but it's the practical problems of how each army coped with their enemy so close!
@rosesandsongs212 жыл бұрын
@@knockshinnoch1950 Good. It's true that when you think about it how did they manage to feed so many soldiers and how do they bring it all to the front, and where does it come from..., we never see those aspects. And when they make thousands of prisonners on the same day, how do they cope with that, they can't carry tons of food just in case? I do remember seeing a documentary on trench construction but that was long ago and my memory is not what it used to be! : ) Take good care now.
@trevorbarham38302 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZjcnH57nct4pc0 Seems like the original soldiers dug in foxholes during active combat and then later expanded upon.
@asdf2593 Жыл бұрын
They literally just took cover on the flat ground and just began digging. Cant remember which book exactly, but one of the many WW1 memoirs had a passage depicting what you're asking about. Digging the cold hard ground with your hands and bayonet out of sheer desperation while being sporadically shot at by the other guys who have also started digging. A slight dip in the ground becomes a muddy hole, eventually individual foxholes are enlarged and connected into a single trench, you and the enemy are trying to outflank each other so the trenches keep being made larger in length all the way to the North Sea and boom, you're balls deep in WW1 and have a hell of a problem on your hands to overcome Rommel's book Infantry Attacks also goes into some of the logistical side of things mentioned here, like how food & supplies were brought to the front. Basically it was a fuckin mess but they HAD to be brought up, so the men just...got killed doing it. No choice in the matter, they have to get to the front, no other way for it. No food today because the courier was hit by artillery.
@PoutingTrevor Жыл бұрын
This video was very informative, but despite answering the why, I don't feel like this answered the burning question which I've had ever since first studying the war back at secondary school, which is the how. How do two armies enter a field and both dig out huge trench networks parallel to one another? Did they have periods of amnesty? Were battle lines negotiated? Was it considered improper to attack while trenches were dug? I simply don't understand the logistics.
@_-.Everlast.-_ Жыл бұрын
It's hard to explain tbh, but once everyone got into "position" to fight they basically stalemated instantly lol, and to protect yourself from snipers, artillery etc they built trenches to move around, they weren't really supposed to be permanent defenses as you're meant to attack from them.
@evakasai11643 жыл бұрын
5:59 everyone else layed their gun down with ease while that one guy struggles lol
@10vibezzz3 жыл бұрын
it wasn’t funny. You should try living in a 2 feet wide 5 feet tall muddy, bloody, rat filled, dead bodies laying down right beside you, missing your family, trying to not die, gets barely any sleep, starving, seeing your friends and buddies die, wearing 30 pound armor so you shouldn’t be judging anyone ESPECIALLY soldiers.
@Ak-db9zc3 жыл бұрын
@@10vibezzz bro chill they were literally training and he made a slip up and someone called it out... It isn't that serious.
@Deadshot_Sim2 жыл бұрын
Timmy tenders IRL
@MaxIsBritish2 жыл бұрын
@@10vibezzz arent friends and buddies the same thing?
@sacredbane42212 жыл бұрын
“Lol” so disrespectful, the amount of fear and trauma this soldiers had to experience are beyond our modern minds. They missed their families, they Fought for their lives every second, they had no food to eat, barely any clean water to drink, and exhausted so much energy to win their wars, and here you are, having the balls to even post such a disrespectful comment, in their comfort of your couch or bed, and they were laying on the ground with blood stains, dead bodies, and stinky rat filled trenches. Disgraceful.
@craigbennett12933 жыл бұрын
For all the people saying here for class lesson ...you only in class because of these brave men
@nigeh5326 Жыл бұрын
I was at high school in the 1970s and our O level history course stopped at 1900 so we never learnt about the 2 world wars. Still no doubt there will be people in the comments shouting about how kids aren’t taught about the wars when they have been now for years. I learnt most of my military history from books as I grew up with veterans in my family who encouraged my love of history.
@LaHayeSaint2 жыл бұрын
A great video. I'd like to see a video on women spies in WW1 please. Also, VAD nurses and army nurses in WW1 -- what they did.
@anastasian56193 жыл бұрын
Why are we all watching this for class 😪
@joshuastoddard35563 жыл бұрын
yeah :(
@lespectator49623 жыл бұрын
So it doesn't happen again
@elvirasamo49933 жыл бұрын
I’m crying in English
@sakanig3 жыл бұрын
Not me lol
@jone17003 жыл бұрын
@@lespectator4962 it can’t There’s planes
@terrenceconcannon Жыл бұрын
Just watched all quiet on the western front so had to learn more
@terencehennegan14393 жыл бұрын
What hell it must have been, just seems so wasteful to be engaged in such circumstances.
@paulredinger5830 Жыл бұрын
#1 trenches kept them out of direct fire from machine guns and rifle fire. Reduced the possibility of injury from exploding shells, unless it landed in the trench. #2 they were muddy, rat infested, smelled, had lice, the dugouts in them weren’t very great either. Note* The German trenches were the same, but the dugouts were much better. Up to 30 feet underground, some with electricity, desks, beds, and some with wallpaper even. The British high command wanted them sparse to keep the allies in an “advance mentality.” The German high command didn’t have the same mental attitude. #3 there was never any major breakouts of the trenches. The allies won by attrition, and starving the Germans with the naval blockade of Germany. The allies had more men, bullets, bombs, guns, shells, aircraft, food, and the other supplies to keep armies in the field. Three questions answered in only a few minutes.
@Rucidness15 ай бұрын
This helped me with an assignment, thanks😎
@stevejeffery77103 жыл бұрын
uim in a live lesoon anyone from my class watching this
@floppypenguin32903 жыл бұрын
Me! 🛀
@user-7263 жыл бұрын
Me
@Drew791 Жыл бұрын
3:51 “flies move from corpses to toilet to food” oh man that sentence is horrifying
@MrDreskee032 жыл бұрын
Just watched they don't live to be old documentary. The utter bravery these men had was scary. Knowing you were going to die over a meaningless war of cousins fueding was interesting. The men on both sides didn't even question why they were going. Men as young as 16. Russia had a revolution over it, many monarchies lost, and a man created Ww2 from it. It too 4 years for one side to come together and storm the other. And the british treated it like this is normal. With the amount of new fire power this war should of lasted a year without trenches. It's like they tried to use old tactics with new fighting and know one knew what they were doing.
@paleo704 Жыл бұрын
Great analysis
@egg-iu3fe Жыл бұрын
the fascinating thing is trench warfare is still used to this day
@aye_productions4 жыл бұрын
thanks for the info
@sandesh6667 ай бұрын
World war 1 - slow fight World war 2 - Trench Warfare? Nah my new technique Bliekrieg
@natheriver89104 ай бұрын
Very interesting
@perkar49 Жыл бұрын
The British were taught about trench warfare when they tried to invade New Zealand and were met by Pa fortified with deep trenches behind fences made of Manuka branches ( world first barbed wire ) The attacking soldiers thought they were dealing with primitive natives, when in fact as they broke down the stick fence a Maori warrior , woman or even youth would impale each man with a spear ( taiaha ) or clubbed to death with a stone Patu..The numbers killed were large and when a Pa was finally taken only women , children and old men were found ..after suffering major losses the Treaty was written .
@maxcalder1010 Жыл бұрын
this was truly hell on earth :(
@Russia-bullies3 жыл бұрын
Pls,feature the Korean War & the French & Indian War.
@callez2402 Жыл бұрын
Please put some addirional considerations on sound quality, please.
@timsparks185825 күн бұрын
Trenches were all the Armies could do to protect themselves. The Development of Combined Arms finally broke the Trench deadlock from August -November 1918. Arms-Artillery-Air- Armor.
@arandomguy4663 жыл бұрын
seriously, I am french and I have to wach this for class ...
@johnhealy66762 жыл бұрын
The chap cat tying the wounded soldier on his back survived the war and lived in Ilford Essex to a reasonable age So I’m told Well played Sir
@monfort5372 жыл бұрын
The first real attempt to use combined arms warfare effectively was actually during the Kaiserschlacht or Unternehmen Michael. The Germans didn't use many tanks though, but the coordination between infantry and artillery was outstanding if one considers that radio wasn't a thing during that time. Together with the focus on Sturmtruppen for the advance, the Germans were able to achieve a 20 kilometers breakthrough already in the first three days. The battle of Amiens was the counteroffensive which pushed the Germans back to their initial positions.
@matteocervesato6372 Жыл бұрын
In ogni monumento o cippo delle nostre città o nelle nostre piazze DOVREBBE ESSERE IMPESTATO DI FIORI E DI CORONE ........SOLO PER TUTTO QUELLO CHE HANNO PROVATO. ......VISTO E PASSATO😢😢😢😢😢
@mwrp3597 Жыл бұрын
The barrage lift was called a creeping barrage and was developed by the Canadians🇨🇦
@MrArcher7 Жыл бұрын
All the armies had access to machine guns and had numerous machine guns in their inventory, but none of them gave any thought to how machine guns would make their style of war obsolete. When attacking an defensive position, it's preferable to have more numbers than the enemy, but an enemy with a machine gun negates any sort of numerical advantage.
@pad84x Жыл бұрын
you made background sounds louder than the Expert.
@MrKnight199713 жыл бұрын
It would seem I'm one of the few here due to their own volition. Writing a story about trench warfare on Mars isn't easy. The hardest part is knowing fact from fiction. Ironic that I'm using fact to write fiction.
@sadsader100yearsago93 жыл бұрын
Same here. I’m just interested in history.
@6574493 жыл бұрын
I’m a history fanatic and got hooked on The Great War when I read a book called The Proud Tower by Harriet Tuckman. It was on Europe at the turn of the 20th century and gave the reader an insight of events then. Try to imagine what problems we would have avoided if Franz Ferdinand wasn’t killed, the war was won by either side by Christmas, the flu started in late 1914, etc. the alternative history scenarios are endless. The war ended the way it did. The politicians screwed up the peace and we got the The Even Greater War in 1939. We are still suffering from it. Fifty years ago, I saw a textbook that was written just after the war. I flipped through it and one page at the end said that if a good peace treaty wasn’t signed, another war was in the future.
@cainanneedham90223 жыл бұрын
Where can we find your story?
@MrKnight199713 жыл бұрын
@@cainanneedham9022 I'm far from done, but possibly on the Agorist nexus or Amazon books. if all else fails, i may just narrate it myself and use it as video content.
@megapizzadragon23972 жыл бұрын
Curious how you Mars trench story is going. Sounds cool.
@jessiehughes9432 Жыл бұрын
Those tanks are so dang cool!
@Rowlph8888 Жыл бұрын
Shockingly monstrous to the German troops 1st witnessing them. It must've been like the rebels in the Empire strikes back,on the planet of hoth when faced with the at at's, Striding towards them
@nocturne7371 Жыл бұрын
Who knew when this video was posted that we would see flooded horribe trenches in the stalemate in Ukraine in 2023/23?
@geekpie100 Жыл бұрын
If you want to see Haig's birthplace, it is in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Another place where the idea of Haig as an uncaring man is overturned is the Central Freemason's Hall in London. (Haig was a Freemason.)
@weerobot Жыл бұрын
War explained.... insane
@yilsa3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know this about shells :)
@ValCronin Жыл бұрын
How do you make a video about trenches but not discuss how they went about digging them
@chris_devlog Жыл бұрын
I'd love to know where I can find the photograph at 1:34, amazing..
@chris_devlog Жыл бұрын
a quick google search brought it up: The Allies set off 19 such mines of various sizes beneath the German lines in the opening moments of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The largest, which was dug beneath what was known as the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, consisted of18 tons of high explosives. The resulting blast, which tore a hole in the enemy position could be felt in the streets of London. It was the largest man-made detonation history to that point.
@lemans_news_and_stories Жыл бұрын
Wasn't Amiens also so successfull because the germans had gained all that land by using stormtroopers and other new tactics until they ran out of supplies and men mostly and than had to go back to the Siegfriedstellung?
@snowydawolf34413 жыл бұрын
So we all students here.....
@thedillestpickle3 жыл бұрын
Not me. I find it interesting. I suspect that the Spanish Flu originated in these trenches.
@gabrielphillips82533 жыл бұрын
no
@inasismail3062 жыл бұрын
I’m a student watching this for school
@kekekeke2200 Жыл бұрын
A thing I was taught by russian friends grandfather's who told their fathers stories was "you lived in the trenches, you died in the trenches unless you died on no man's land"
@edr.2642 Жыл бұрын
Imagine living there for months to years.
@NoName-ds5uq3 жыл бұрын
One name should have been mentioned here. General Sir John Monash.
@anthonyeaton51532 жыл бұрын
What had Monash got to do with the trenches.
@deang.7483 Жыл бұрын
Poor bastards. The look in the eyes of the soldier at 0.20. Absolute shock & trauma from what they've just gone through. No wonder they never talked of it all when they returned home. Why would they want too?? This type of footage is so important.
@YnxgJoshua3 жыл бұрын
i got forced to watch this video by a school (2024 me : Icl i dont know why i posteed this comment 💀💀 but it was 3 years ago, i didnt say it was bad tho)
@nevin63183 жыл бұрын
same doing it for an online class
@spazyballer2310 ай бұрын
I didnt, just super interesting
@Piochasinchina10 ай бұрын
😂
@whitebenjamin7510 ай бұрын
Cool teacher
@alexfernandez262810 ай бұрын
i’m watching this for fun and cause i’m taking massive bong rips 💪
@vandarkholme4745 Жыл бұрын
LDR: Q: But is it really that bad? A: Yeah, probably a bit worse
@snowydawolf34413 жыл бұрын
HELLO FELLOW STUDENTS
@zacharycollins6548 Жыл бұрын
My great Opa migrated to the US before WWI, and served the US in the war against his native country. I never got to meet him, but I have his uniform shirt.
@robsmithadventures15372 жыл бұрын
I watched this video last night while dunk and eating a kebab. I'm back again and I'm impressed.
@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN Жыл бұрын
My grandfather was in WW1. Never talked about it but said they would stack the dead bodies in trench and put pallets on top of them to walk on.😞
@mrchunk073 жыл бұрын
Here from Mr Jolly
@jonrichardson53764 ай бұрын
Any one know the regiment of the soldier carrying the injured soldier on his back ?
@Cookielace3 жыл бұрын
Who else is here in their history lesson?😅
@ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣΚΑΛΠΑΚΙΔΗΣ-η9χ3 жыл бұрын
Sry
@lews_01203 жыл бұрын
Nah I'm watching outta fun
@quadratic91903 жыл бұрын
I would be happy if this was in my history subject
@jayonthegrind99792 жыл бұрын
Me
@ayshathaseem20072 жыл бұрын
Nope.... here for literature
@Seekingtruth4488 Жыл бұрын
How come there was no mention that trench warfare was learned by the British from the Maori of New Zealand?
@CalibCutz2 жыл бұрын
Our class watched this in history HAHA
@TimothyEvans-u2c Жыл бұрын
Amateur dramatics are more terrifying than an artillery shell....
@johndufford55612 жыл бұрын
Usually really like your presentations, but you might want to think of re-doing the audio on this one. The parts of Wakefield (I think that's his name) are nearly unintelligible. Very tinny and echoing. Had the volume up so loud to discern his valuable contributions to the video, that it actually hurt my ears. Had to give up on it. None of your other videos have this distortion & are quite clear. So it would be much appreciated if you were to clear it up & resubmit it for our learning. Thank you very much for your research and information.
@EddieSezPhukYu Жыл бұрын
Monash, the Aussie who invented combine arms assaults
@seba-c78483 жыл бұрын
who else teacher made them watch this
@epls26613 жыл бұрын
Not me
@hannahjohnny13 жыл бұрын
Me 😂
@True.to.yourself3 жыл бұрын
Online school
@MuhammadUmerzubairi3 жыл бұрын
mine
@user-7263 жыл бұрын
Me
@True.to.yourself3 жыл бұрын
Sent from online school
@MRMORGAN817 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't armies advance by simply going around the trenches?
@zenunderground Жыл бұрын
4:51 Zero war protection and those guys don't even flinch
@mouseshadow5828 Жыл бұрын
Drones have made trench warfare obsolete.
@armarat7419 Жыл бұрын
The comments from the expert at the end are a little strange, almost like he is saying it wasnt that bad...
@laurencedavey3121 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if he's ever had a job where he's not sat behind a desk?
@hopelesswonderchild Жыл бұрын
on the cover there is a soldier in a red circle ...why?
@connoranderson7336 Жыл бұрын
Thought this was about Chicago
@connorsmith1636 Жыл бұрын
The size of some of those rats, look almost like muskrats
@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын
And because theyd all be home by Christmas, our overlords never bothered to improve the living conditions beyond hell mudpits over years when the Germans had started building permanent concrete habitations from the get go!
@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын
@Robert Stallard And after being immobile after 4 years you thought they would have caught on? Doesnt it disgust you how our own leaders were *happy* putting their own people in places to drown in rats and mud, and treat them worse than the people on the other side trying to shoot them? The WWI generation has only recently passed, just a few years ago this was living memory. Our relatives went through a deliberately constructed hell
@Alexandros.Mograine Жыл бұрын
People always overlook the german trenches.
@El_krazyOloo-s1t17 күн бұрын
Me to
@wilkescude56822 жыл бұрын
3:40 ;Look at the size of the rat in the front. That thing probably weighs 10 lbs
@hamzah49783 жыл бұрын
Who's here from there online lesson 😂
@MuhammadUmerzubairi3 жыл бұрын
me
@elliecartwright46523 жыл бұрын
Meee
@bonccc88423 жыл бұрын
me XD
@mohg90423 жыл бұрын
me
@gerrit66773 жыл бұрын
me
@daviddenham1511 Жыл бұрын
What a ridiculous question!….”what were trenches for”!?
@reeceloganmatthee3524 Жыл бұрын
Anyone elses history teacher recommend this? 😭
@uppercut2246 Жыл бұрын
"You have not begun to appreciate the depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom of not merely the latest Great War (World War 1) but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it. Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone." - Marclis Eli Ravage, ( a Jew,) Century Magazine, February - 1926.
@joshuagauntlett8724 Жыл бұрын
cry more incel
@GravesRWFiA2 жыл бұрын
you over simplified this to the point of uselessness ignoring plumer's developed 'bite and hold' attacks rather than break through, that really brought the answer to the stalemate and it was Ludendorff's offensive in march 1918 that really broke the trench system. amines 5 months later just brought all the lessons to one point but leaving out those two really is a disservice.
@seba-c78483 жыл бұрын
lets go
@512TheWolf5122 жыл бұрын
a soldier is actually two different jobs. a fighter AND a digger.
@Overthinking-rain Жыл бұрын
when they are not digging trenches they dig graves
@512TheWolf512 Жыл бұрын
@@Overthinking-rain in a modern war sometimes there's nothing left to bury. So no gravedigging required. Especially no graves for the russians.
@shawnfinlay4952 Жыл бұрын
I think it was the Australians that were sometimes referred to as 'diggers', although I'm not entirely sure why that was.
@AnEnemy100 Жыл бұрын
To say “they never lost faith that they had to fight through to a successful conclusion” may be true of some but it cannot be true of all. It’s an absurdly glib remark. Millions died. Millions.
@danyofdeath Жыл бұрын
Crazy how trench warfare is coming back in Ukraine etc.
@AreUmygrandson Жыл бұрын
If the brits decided to actually use their removal box magazines, I feel they could have fought more efficiently.
@AreUmygrandson Жыл бұрын
@Robert Stallard it works very well on my smle
@Doomsdeath17 Жыл бұрын
What wasn't explained is how all that Mariana sauce filled up Marianas trench
@Participant616 Жыл бұрын
I've been wondering who the head of the first world war was, now I know