The Crippling Long Term Effects Of The First World War | The Long Shadow Full Series

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2 жыл бұрын

David Reynolds examines the legacy of the Great War, across 100 years and 10 different countries, explaining how the war haunted a generation and helped build the peace that followed.
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@christopher480 10 ай бұрын

I remember doing a report in high school for history on WW1.....so i asked my grampa about it and he told me a cpl things he thought were ok for me to hear. At the end i said "grampa you were one of the lucky ones that made it home" His reply(stone faced) was "you wouldnt think that if you dreamt my dreams"

@MrBillsomm2000 9 ай бұрын

My Pops fought in Belleau Wood, God bless your Grampa.

@dougrobbins5367 7 күн бұрын

Very powerful. Respect to your grampa, and others like him.

@readmylisp 5 күн бұрын

Powerful words.

@daehr9399 7 ай бұрын

As a young historian (born early 90s), I must say I really appreciate this documentary. It make me feel uncomfortable, and it challenged my point of view. With WW1 being my focus, it has been years since my POV was challenged like this. And I appreciate that - it makes me see things through a different lens, and realize how much more there is to history, regardless of resource, simply because of the passage of time. Thank you!

@joeclay5511 7 ай бұрын

Heya @da, well said ,eh . I was born in 1952 and have been studying this stuff all of my life and , your right, this critical analysis of our history is so overdue… the program presents a pov that was positively Treachery when I was a young student and soldier. The hints and clues have been there all along I just didn’t have the maturity, experience or balls to criticise my tutors , mentors , family views and the media. Your turn now….be courageous and reference everything ( footnotes) .Good luck on this journey ❤️☮️

@davidmudry5622 6 ай бұрын

9/11??? BUT Einstein's Equivalence Principle says gravity is not a force? The War to end all wars will be the one that makes all people extinct.

@devogrant2817 6 ай бұрын

Qeen Victoria married off all her children to all of European aristocracy and nobility ....after her death they became a European family torn by divide for greed and power for world wide domination for world resources and land in my eyes it was a European family tribal war were greed and supremacy was the main dividing dominating force..@@joeclay5511

@invisibleman4827 6 ай бұрын

It's good to do this, because we only really focus on the Christmas truce, the underage soldiers, the Somme and Passchendaele, and we forget the early and late battles and the aftermath and long term effects, and the build up to the war

@MykeWinters 5 ай бұрын

@@invisibleman4827not if you read books and have the urge to want to explore the subject more. I have that urge. When I was a child I read up the more obscure parts of WW1, for eg: the East Africa and Mesopotamia campaigns. Then there’s things like the shipping raiders in the pacific, the Japanese involvement, the Portuguese involvement etc etc etc

@WaraxTheThird Жыл бұрын

I will come back to documentaries with this man for years. What a teacher and speaker.

@markonw6661 Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, HUNTING is a valid critique from the vegan curry breathed ‘men’ of Britain from 80+ years in the future. If he had said “Fox Hunting”, or “harrying and then killing defenseless foxes”; YES. Aren’t all animals ‘defenseless’ when faced with a tool bearing male human? Vapid over-enunciating of moralized self aggrandizement by a tiny island that tells each other THEY defeated Germany, when they just barely survived a near fatal beating, like Putin’s Russia. Clearly, all of the real men were sent from the isle to die, now leaving this.

@kamrul828 Жыл бұрын

I know really theatrical pulls u in and appreciate the past.

@nigelralphmurphy2852 9 ай бұрын

Two of my mother's uncles served with the NZ forces at Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele. One was wounded at Passchendaele ending his war. The other went on and served on the western front, the Somme again, and then after November 1918, as a member of the army of occupation in Cologne. Both brothers returned their bodies intact, but their minds permanently and tragically damaged. In 1935 when NZ extended the war pension to those wounded in the mind, both brothers immediately went on it and remained on it to the end of their days. The brother who had served as a rifleman in the NZ infantry suffered the worse. But his younger brother, who went through the entire conflict first as a mounted rifleman at Gallipoli and then as an artilleryman for the rest of the war, suffered less. But what point in measuring the mental torture suffered by each of the brothers? Neither recovered. Both suffered for the rest of their lives. A son of the rifleman later said 'they don't raise memorials to those wrecks they shipped home.' In a letter to the editor during the second world war, a Gallipoli veteran wrote decrying some writers who had never served yet bayed for blood. He informed these people of the torture of war and the torture of returning from war, a torture that never ended. He signed his letter 'another martyr of Anzac.' Historians can dance all they like. For our family war is just destruction and the ruination of good men's minds and good men's lives. As the Romans said 'dulce bellum inexpertis.' War is only sweet to those who have never tasted it. What was it for? My two great uncles had no idea, and cared less. No war is worth the damage inflicted on our family by the trenches of Gallipoli and the western front.

@jenniferholden9397 6 ай бұрын

What waste of futures. The leaders of Germany and UK were cousins, did it have to end like this? These lads were heroes before they ever set foot on a battlefield. Mothers who had given birth to the flowers of our future were heroic to let their country take away their hopes for their future, did these women vote for war? Well we know the answer to that.

@elainehiggins713 6 ай бұрын

Many young men romanticized war and were eager to go off to battle. It has happened throughout history, after Pearl Harbor, after 9/11.

@VinnyCarwash-js8op 5 ай бұрын

That's nothing, I did 4 tours.

@stefansyiemiong5881 5 ай бұрын

My friend war is young men who do not know or hate each other , killing each other at the behest of old men who know each other , hate each other but do not have the guts to kill each other !

@jenniferholden9397 5 ай бұрын

@@stefansyiemiong5881 Beautifully said. Thank you.

@knockshinnoch1950 Жыл бұрын

I'm 62 and was brought up believing that no one in either side of my family had fought in the First World War. When I retired last year I decided to take a DNA test and begin researching my family tree. it has been one of the most incredible humbling and emotional projects I've ever undertaken. I wasn't prepared for the roller coaster of emotions. I discovered that my dad had an uncle he knew nothing about. He was my grans older brother and was killed in Russia 2 weeks after his 20th birthday and 2 weeks before the Armistice, this young coal miner was fighting with the Allies against Trotsky's Red Army. There were never any pictures on display and he was never spoken of. Another branch lost 3 sons- an entire generation. A cousin of my paternal grandfather was a 2nd Lieutenant at the Somme where he won a Military Cross before being killed in the final 100 days offensive in 1918. All together I've discovered almost 50 young men from across the British Empire who fought and mostly died fighting in every theatre between 1914-1918 and in every major battle. One young man stands head and shoulders above the others- a young Scot who emigrated to Canada in 1913 only to return and fight on the Western Front. He was a Piper who in a heroic act during the Battle of the Somme when his unit was pinned down during an assault on a German trench sought permission to play his bagpipes. This act rallied the troops and they succeeded in taking the trench. He was killed a few hours later when returning to retrieve his pipes. There are also reports of others who were subjected to Field Punishment No1, who deserted, who were severely injured in battle or in carrying out their duties such as the boy kicked in the head by a vicious horse. All of these stories have stirred a myriad of emotions- anger sadness and great pride among them. For the first time I truly appreciate the terrible toll the Great War had on a generation cutting a swathe right across the world.

@sydmccreath4554 Жыл бұрын

Killed 2 weeks before the Armistice (which was the 11th of November 1918) IN RUSSIA ? But Russia had already given up WW1 signing a peace treaty with Germany in MARCH 1918. So, your comment doesn’t ring true. Sorry.

@knockshinnoch1950 Жыл бұрын

@@sydmccreath4554 Oh dear, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Maybe you're not quite as smart as you think. He was sent to Russia to fight with other allied troops on the side of the White Russian Army against the Red Army during the RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. He was killed near Archangel on the 27th October at Topsa- one of 27 men who died that day. Do a bit more research before you attempt to insult my integrity and besmirch the memory of my great uncle. I don't expect you'll have the decency to apologise...

@Ukraineaissance2014 8 ай бұрын

@@sydmccreath4554britain, america and others sent soldiers to russia in 1918 to fight in the civil war there.

@davidmudry5622 6 ай бұрын

A guy I know did a DNA test, and his closest relative having a DNA test done was his mother's brother's wife's sister.

@chrismccartney8668 Жыл бұрын

My grandad fought at Gallipoli and survived but his experiences haunted him all his life he lived to 80..

@robertdore9592 Жыл бұрын

He was let down by planners who's blood would never be shed.

@SubvertTheState Жыл бұрын

@@robertdore9592 as is the nature of all wars

@macysondheim 11 ай бұрын

That’s not possible. Maybe your grandad fought in WW2, but not WW1. WW1 was over 100 years ago

@berniesheahan9485 11 ай бұрын

My grandpa served in France during the Great War. He was born in 1895.

@pcka12 11 ай бұрын

@@macysondheimmy Grandma was born in 1886, so she was 14 in 1900 & 28 with a daughter in 1914, other grandparents were also born in the 19th century! And I do still have all my 'marbles'!

@GlamorousTitanic21 4 ай бұрын

My great great grandfather was a medic in the US Army during WW1. He witnessed the horrors of the trenches up close and dealt with the injuries. After the war, he returned to Texas and opened up a pharmacy which he ran all the way until his passing. We used to have his medic uniform but it disappeared a long time ago. Wish I could have seen it.

@davidran9317 2 жыл бұрын

65 years old now and grade 9 schooling I learn so much from documentaries like this in KZbin. Thank you 🙏

@heatherl.johnson6639 2 жыл бұрын

I love documentaries!

@wyndorphstormcrow8372 2 жыл бұрын

You learn more and more truthful information than from school in these, my kids watch some of these with me and we talk about them and they will always say I had no idea these things happened and for that reason and I always ask didn't you talk about that in history class? And they always say that they mentioned it but they don't delve into the topics and I am always horrified by the stuff "history class" leaves out.

@BEDLAMITE-5280ft. 2 жыл бұрын

School is better.

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@inr63 2 жыл бұрын

@@wyndorphstormcrow8372 - That’s awesome; I’m sure it will not only enlighten your kids, but also bring them fond memories of doing so with you in the future. I don’t have any children, but if I ever do, this sounds like a wonderful idea. 🙂

@DanielAiello-sv1bm 6 ай бұрын

Could you imagine how many emotionally unavailable men this war has caused? Not many people talk about the families affected after their husbands,Dads,Uncles and brothers come home completely changed.

@tonguepetals 6 ай бұрын

I met a woman whose dad had fought. She said he’d get drunk and her mum would tell her to run, and by 4 she knew to run and hide his bullets. He had terrible flashbacks, nearly killing his wife and 2 daughters in a bid to save them. If I saw him start cleaning his gun, I knew he’d been drinking, she told me. One night he got savage drunk and she had run and hidden all the bullets, not realizing he had already loaded the gun. She was 9 years old by this time, but she heard her mum trying to calm him down, but it wasn’t like the other times. He reared back and fired at her mother, killing her instantly. She said he snapped out of it, and called out, Jess…Jessie…are you okay my love? What’s happened to you? He noticed the gun in his hand and when he realized he had killed his wife, he turned the gun on himself. She watched both her parents die. As she is telling me this, all I can do is quietly weep. She said, Dad adored my mother, and he adored us. There was nothing he would not do to protect us and give us the best life. It’s not that he ever stopped, but the war changed him. He never raised a hand to us when he was drunk, but he went back to that place and I think a part of him stayed in those trenches. Daddy came home, but only part of him. To know that this was PTSD related and to think how poorly we treated these men for desertion, for cowardice…for being boys trying to be men when they were just boys. So quick to sacrifice our youth to un winnable wars. Who really wins? Nobody, on either side. Not in the end. I wish we had some of the WWI eterans left to tell us what it did to them. Would it have changed things for later wars? Of course not, America loves war. It loves policing the world when it benefits them financially, but not those sent out to fight. 4 servicemen and women die by their own hand every day in the US. I’m sure those numbers are the same worldwide. And we still refuse to help those who sacrificed everything for LIES. For OIL. And here we are again, once more on the brink of destruction, the only upside is we won’t be alive to see what horrors we caused. Mutually assured destruction means no one wins. Except the elites. Got to save them.

@DanielAiello-sv1bm 6 ай бұрын

@@tonguepetalsWW1 ruined an entire generation of bright young men. It’s true, war is just bitter old men sending boys to die ,and they’re the ones who get to live. The story about the father realizing he had killed his wife is unbelievably tragic.

@freedomunltd 6 ай бұрын

So utterly, horribly, very sadly, true

@jack18over 5 ай бұрын

@@DanielAiello-sv1bmGermany made the war very necessary when they invaded Belgium.

@dbeaus Жыл бұрын

A death to wounded ratio of 1 to 2 is unbelievable. In Vietnam is was 1 to 8 or 9. I am a Vietnam Vet and saw things I still try to forget, but that experience I cannot phantom. The courage of those men, on all sides, walking, without cover, into that inferno and dying is almost without understanding. I salute them.

@torressr3 Жыл бұрын

May you find peace in this lifetime.

@dbeaus Жыл бұрын

@@torressr3 Thank you. May we all find peace, understanding, love and fulfillment. I hope you have found yours.

@psr0459 Жыл бұрын

God bless you too, sir.

@edwinmodu3178 Жыл бұрын

But I am so angry at those that made them do it 🙏🏾

@davidfoster3427 Жыл бұрын

courage or a death wish.

@donwilsmore3945 6 ай бұрын

My Grandfather’s both fought in WWI …one in the Artillery….the other in 3 different Regiments.The Suffolk’s ,The Rifles ,and the Tank corp …he won the Military medal for bravery in the field…the war effected him for the rest of his life 🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

@caseyphilips3007 2 ай бұрын

Your great grandfather maybe😂

@donwilsmore3945 2 ай бұрын

@@caseyphilips3007 ….no !..my Grandfather Bob Cowell …my mothers dad …I’m 70

@MsMichaela999 20 күн бұрын

@@caseyphilips3007this comment sums up social media perfectly. Not knowing who the other person even is, people try to discredit their comments and even find it funny. Ah, social media!🤦🏻‍♀️

@SP-kh7dp Жыл бұрын

This HAS to be the best explanation of war ,The bits no one speaks about

@SenzoTanaka Ай бұрын

Oh? Investment banking? Communism?

@Panda-gs5lt 7 ай бұрын

This for me, has to be the greatest series I’ve seen in a very long time, offering a perspective one doesn’t much think about.

@vanmush 7 ай бұрын

The generations that fought the first and second world wars were our greatest, but the toll it took on our nation and its view of itself is still being felt, these men would never have allowed this country to fall into the mire it has fell into now, I can’t help feeling as a veteran myself of one of our modern misadventures, that all this death and suffering has been a complete and utter waste of the best this country had to offer……

@beyondrecall9446 6 ай бұрын

every generation says the same thing..

@donwilsmore3945 6 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you 🙏🇬🇧

@vanmush 6 ай бұрын

@@beyondrecall9446 I don’t think anyone is going to call our generation, ‘ the greatest’ we have abjectly failed to create a better society for our children and grandchildren…….

@oliveoil7642 5 ай бұрын

Perhaps this was all done on purpose 🤔

@memyselfandeye76 24 күн бұрын

@@vanmush My generation is X, and our brains should have been mush due to video games, cable TV and rap music, and that's if we didn't fall victim to crack. According to my parent's generation, we were stupid, lazy and unmotivated. Fast forward 40 years, and we've become our parents. Gen Z is now the stupid, lazy, unmotivated ones. Tik tok, anime and mumble rap is rotting their brains, and legalization of weed?! It's anarchy! Listen, no one likes change and uncertainty, and the only constant in this world is change. This whole "the new generation is ruining the world!" is silly. It hasn't happened yet, and new generations have existed for millennia. Because it's no longer a world you readily recognize, that doesn't mean it's wrong or bad.

@invisibleman4827 6 ай бұрын

My great-great grandfather was a professional soldier and WW1 veteran who'd served in the Boer War before, he'd fought in a battle for 7 hours before being captured and held prisoner, and returned to civilian life as a shoe riveter. He was one of the original professional BEF soldiers called up as a reservist and sent over in 1914. He was killed in 1918 during the German offensive when his casualty clearing station was hit by shell fire, leaving behind a wife and two daughters.

@morganbutterfield9408 11 ай бұрын

My 3x great grandfather John Alfred Hawkins known as “Jack” was killed during the first week of the battle of the Somme at Mametz Wood on 9th July 1916 he was a private serving with b coy 14th battalion royal Welsh fusiliers he is buried in Etaples Cemetery Thank you Jack for your service and god bless you may you rest in peace

@landsea7332 9 ай бұрын

Its to the point where I can't watch documentaries on the Battle of the Somme . When Pals brigades were killed , villages in Britain lost their male youth . This is why there were very strong peace movements in Britain during the inter war years as explained in this Documentary . .

@brentinnes5151 6 ай бұрын

So did he also go over the top on the first day July 1..do you know?

@davidmudry5622 6 ай бұрын

You were almost never born. 9/11 Terrorists??? BUT Einstein's Equivalence Principle says gravity is not a force? The War to end all wars will be the one that makes all people extinct.

@kayleetailfeathers2178 Жыл бұрын

I’m usually more interested in WWII, but for whatever reason I was mesmerized by the production value, narration/narrative, and natural flow of the overall unfolding historical landscape of the story. Great program. Absolutely great. 5 stars.

@kluafoz Жыл бұрын

Same here...I don't know why ive never felt the interest in WW1 ...

@joshuasill1141 8 ай бұрын

@@kluafoz a lot of that is because of mass media. Look at all the camera footage of the WWII compared to that of WWI. Next most people over the age of 40 (as of 2023) probably knew a relative that fought in WWII. Then you had all those TV shows on the History and Discovery channel like Battle: 360, GI Diaries, Wings Over Europe, and even TV shows like Bah Bah Black Sheep, Hogan's Heroes, Sgt, Bilko, McHale's Navy and their British and Australian counterparts. You also have all the countless WWII movies that our grandfathers and fathers watched and we watched too because of them. You have all the archived interviews of all the WWII heroes. Now compare all that media with the media of WWI and that is your difference maker. WWII is also portrayed as a righteous war, a war of truly good vs. evil whereas, and the narrator mentioned it, WWI is viewed as a war of useless slaughter.

@marcuscook5145 7 ай бұрын

To understand WWII, you need to understand WWI. It's essentially a continuation. "Unfinished business" if you will.

@ToudaHell Жыл бұрын

I may be the last generation to be spoken to by a WWI veteran. That's something I will never forget as long as I live. WWI have a special place in Canadian history. Also, I'm getting shivers down my spine at the similarity between Italian Fascist rise and what's happening to the world right now. They're quick learners and history is the best teacher.

@sqwuade Жыл бұрын

Definitely! I've also noticed the same analogy between the rise of Mussolini and what's going on in the USA right now. I think there are basically too many idiots out there to stop it..? MTG and the "Gazpacho Police" for example... I can't believe that dolt is a US Senator.

@robkunkel8833 Жыл бұрын

The Russian missile that landed on Polish territory after being hit by a Ukraine missile had the WW1 Axis vs Allies vibe to it. All this just happened a month ago. (November, 2022)

@jorroma9041 Жыл бұрын

Lol me me me me me me you’re all unbearable

@ryanreedgibson Жыл бұрын

You forgot about Fascist Trump to your south. That was scary for us Americas too.

@ToudaHell Жыл бұрын

@Ryan Gibson the main reason for the shiver down my spines.

@Ye4rZero Жыл бұрын

David Reynolds intense style of explanation draws me in every time

@wadeadams2775 Жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder what he said.

@arturahmeti486 Жыл бұрын

I knew nothing about the great war, until i moved to Britain. This war has changed this nation more than any other wars since.

@Ulyssestnt 2 ай бұрын

That it has,and rightfully so I think. Still you can arguably say it changed central europe and Germany even more. Youll find tiny countries with huge cities inside of it like Austria with Vienna because of this war.

@divaden47 10 ай бұрын

I thought I knew a lot about history. I was born in 1947, so just after the War. I confess that I have never, ever heard of the Peace Ballot! Certainly didn't learn about it at school, or in modern history courses I've taken. Just can't understand why, considering the amount of people who responded to it which would have included grandparents and my parents. Thank you so much for his important piece of world history.

@deirdre5940 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this documentary not holding back of the horrors inflicted on our soldiers who fought in the great war and subsequently WWII. My mother and father were teenagers in Northern Ireland during WWII with my father being buried alive in a direct hit from German airforce during the blitz. He survived but his stories of Europe and the sacrifices were told to us as children. As first generation American citizen I understood at an early age of the sacrifices and losses to all across the globe. War is so last century and the events of today have opened my eyes once again demanding a peaceful resolution be sought even after an attack on us. Two wrongs do not make a right and may the rest of this century learn a lesson once and for all. Peace to all.

@andrewthomson 2 жыл бұрын

Dan Snow again. This man never quits.

@Dustin_47 2 жыл бұрын

Dan Snow has nothing to do with this. Hes just a paid actor to do a lil message at the beginning

@andrewthomson 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dustin_47 sounds like something Dan Snow would say. I see through your tricks.

@Boatperson 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dustin_47 he’s a little more than a “ paid actor “! 😆

@louisgantt4606 2 жыл бұрын

Always skip that part lol. No clue what he's going on about lol.

@robertbruce7686 2 жыл бұрын

HELLO I'M DAN SNOW AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT DOUBLE GLAZ. .. (I click on any other video)

@coolworx Жыл бұрын

That the young man, allows the old man to persuade him to war, is what never breaks that burdensome chain.

@michaelbrownlee4857 Жыл бұрын

The profiteering group of elder men* "Order out of Chaos" "Divide & Conquer" Problem Reaction Solution Cause of most wars Greed , Power the love of Money

@bradbufton1517 Жыл бұрын

Ya ur right we should probably have 60 year old troops that would work out well.

@thundabearz5092 Жыл бұрын

@@bradbufton1517 you're a special kind of silly

@refuge42 Жыл бұрын

Regrettably if a country does not keep a viable military they end up like Palestine, or fighting for their very survival as is Ukraine right now

@dianeshelton9592 11 ай бұрын

@@refuge42Ukraine military was always disproportionately large and well equipped for its economy. It’s just it’s economy wasn’t very large. It now probably has the worlds second best military

@noahmcdarby5417 Жыл бұрын

Literally the war to start all wars

@sallybeaudoin9687 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a veteran of WW1…The war and memories what we call PTSD today.. Grandpa committed suicide in 1927..This video was well done and informative..

@marine4lyfe85 Жыл бұрын

I wonder how many Great War vets killed themselves after the War? We'll never have an accurate number, but I bet it was much higher than any of their estimates, if they even have any.

@MH-YouTube-Controlled Жыл бұрын

Very sad, so sorry for him.

@variaxi935 Жыл бұрын

Life was something very different. My thanks to your grandfather, and I hope he will be remembered for his bravery, not for the consequences of his valor 🙏

@Mary-qv8hr 11 ай бұрын

So sorry about your grandpa 😞.

@melissaallen6914 3 ай бұрын

My great grandfather was in ww1 and also committed suicide.

@dagmarueberfeld-lang4088 Жыл бұрын

thanks again Professor David Reynolds for this very captivating, yet thoughtful presentation.

@PeterGonet 11 ай бұрын

I'm 64 yrs.old. My German grandfather fought for Germany in WW1. When WW2 came he had to fight for Germany again at the Russian front. My father fought with the British army stationed in Burma in WW2. So I have ties to both world wars.

@chatmall 8 ай бұрын

I can relate to that and for you. My father,my uncle and grampa canadian vets whent to 1st and 2 nd ww And never talk about it. Today and for the past few years i have been thinking they should have gpne tp some kind of therapie ( so tabou and miss information during those years.😢 ❤❤❤ imagin

@swirljet4245 8 ай бұрын

My dad was in North Africa and mum was in the ATS. My first girlfriends dad was at Remegan. I wish id been more interested when i was a teen. They've all gone now, i'm a bit ashamed of myself. God bless them all. 😢

@johnhenrycrowder9649 7 ай бұрын

Wow do you have any stories?

@Anglo_Saxon1 7 ай бұрын

And both sides

@brianbushfamily1814 6 ай бұрын

This makes no sense your grandfather fought in ww1 and ww2 for Germany. Your father fought for Britain in ww2. Unmmmm ooooookay sir

@josesiliezar1758 2 жыл бұрын

"Want to watch a documentary?" "I'm not sure" "David Reynolds is in it" "Yes! I'm in!"

@kinglion5435 Жыл бұрын

The narrator and writers deserve a national honor

@brianwallington9744 11 ай бұрын

they are a disgrace ....and deserve nothing

@n.speezly1467 10 ай бұрын

Maybe they can get a medal from King Charles Saxe-Coburg-Gotha😂

@chrismccartney8668 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather fought in Gallipoli and Iraq and never spoke of it to my Nan about it but talk to him About any subject and within a few minutes it was turned to Gallipoli it haunted him for all his life..

@davidw.robertson448 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather also fought there. My main memory is that he hated Churchill, as did most Scots at that tme. The subsequent lionization of Churchill surprised me, although it mainly took place in the media.

@dianeshelton9592 11 ай бұрын

My grandfather fought at Ypres and the Somme , was finally mustard gassed 3 weeks before armistice. I adored him , I knew him 50 years post his war but I still know every word to all the WW1 song, “ mademoiselle from Armentiers “ and “it’s a long way from Tipperary “. He didn’t talked about the war but it permitted his whole life and his children’s and grandchildren’s lives. My own children know those songs through me singing them. I don’t think enough is known about the generational effects of something so life children.

@dianeshelton9592 11 ай бұрын

@@davidw.robertson448 Churchill was loathed in our family too, remember his grip over politics lasted from the Boer war , through WW1 , the interwar years with his treachery of shooting strikers , through the Second World War. It was no wonder the British working class loathed the entitled aristocratic bully who did so much damage. Though probably uniquely effective in WW2 from making so many previous costly mistakes.

@rorykeegan1895 8 ай бұрын

@@dianeshelton9592 The shooting of the miners is a complete myth. Spread by idiots who refuse to do the work to actually find out. There is more BS pumped out about Churchill than any other figure of the time. F*ing annoying really.

@thegumballwatterson 2 жыл бұрын

No one sees this, but this is awesome.

@N_0968 2 жыл бұрын

This was a good distraction from knee pain that was keeping me awake. Thank you! Very informative.

@markrowley2739 2 жыл бұрын

Try hemp cream, helps my arthritic knee no end.

@BackDoorBetty. 2 жыл бұрын

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@speckledhen409 2 жыл бұрын

Pain is no fun. Heat helps.

@N_0968 2 жыл бұрын

@@speckledhen409 I’m very suspicious of heat after burning the back of my knee with a wheat bag. I have lower sensation in my skin so didn’t notice it for a while either.

@issaomar5698 2 жыл бұрын

@Kammie-If you can enjoy such a documentary to that level of intensity, then you have strength within you. Do not ignore that strength. You will be fine, my friend.

@diorocks5858 10 ай бұрын

I have amazing photos of my Grandfather and Grandmother In WW1 and my dad during WW2 in North Africa and my Uncle in Arnhem and more. They sacrificed for this Country and would turn on their graves if they see how British people are treated by their government now.

@rodneymarsden3003 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather survived the great war but was never able to talk about his experiences to even his sons.

@SpartacusErectusJR Жыл бұрын

he was a vagina?

@20chocsaday Жыл бұрын

When I first heard of the musical "Oh what a lovely war" I was horrified at the callousness of it. But when I saw the film of it I could understand and at the end when the men went over the top for the last time and fell in the mud there was water in my eyes as they slowly turned into mud and then into red poppies on green grass. Why should he want to talk about it ?

@rodneymarsden3003 Жыл бұрын

@@20chocsaday I get the impression he could only have ever talked about it to people who were there and had also survived.

@Jeffybonbon 8 ай бұрын

we lost the best we had in 1914/15 and in my opinion we never recovered we have gone down hill every year since There is no victory in death and my god the world saw a lot of death

@MLA56 6 ай бұрын

My FATHER (1897-1970) was in both WWI and WWII. As well as 2 uncles, one of whom was killed ar Soissons in 1918. I believe I'm one of a small number of people who are the children of WWI service members -- far smaller for those who were multiply wounded, decorated, front-line troops. My MUCH-older brother (36 years older than me,) and I discussed it often (I'm an infantry/ SF combat vet myself) and I'm fortunate that my 2 surviving WWII brothers,(survived the war, lived into their 90s, but gone now) and our father, spent several years in retirement writing their memoirs. I also have a Ph.D. in Military History, and a. currently editing their memoirs for publication. To me WWI is still very TANGIBLE. The Spanish-American War/ Philippine Insurrection as well, thru my maternal grandfather. It's NOT "distant" history. WWI, thankfully, gave historians the technology to engage in "oral histories" from the veterans as well as those on the homefront. This allowed us to gain a vast amount of eyewiness information. And this has continued with every conflict since.

@andreasplosky8516 Жыл бұрын

The content of this channel is mind-blowing. Thank you so much.

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Жыл бұрын

Thank the BBC

@alan-the-maths-tutor Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a Sergeant in charge of a motorised ambulance company at the Somme. He survived the war and in his late fifties at the start of the Second World War was in charge of training mechanics at home.

@s.w.3604 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather (my father's father) was an airplane mechanic for the US Army Air Corps in France and my great grandfather (my mother's mother's father) was in the Canadian infantry. The latter was around 35 years old at the time and was old enough he didn't have to go but he volunteered anyway and joined the Canadian army; he later said that was the worst mistake he ever made.

@SpartacusErectusJR Жыл бұрын

so he was a bi*** in the war?

@myreplytoyourstupidity4445 Жыл бұрын

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@keelacross7620 Жыл бұрын

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@daffidkane8350 Жыл бұрын

I agree that it was consequential and century shaping. The Great War was a slaughterhouse with little military consequences but huge political, social, economic, and geopolitical consequences.

@curly8029 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched a ton of WW1 and WW2 documentaries. This is honestly one of the top ones I’ve ever seen. Quite amazing.

@KennyMcCormick99 2 жыл бұрын

Eh... I'd just rather see MUCH LESS of this narrator & much more of the heroes & historic figures of the era.

@edwardcostello8833 2 жыл бұрын

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@phobos_0935 2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@21bnk Жыл бұрын

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@matildamarmaduke1096 Жыл бұрын

@@KennyMcCormick99 there are no hero's in War

@Kaiju-Driver 2 жыл бұрын

Man!!!!! I was glued to my screen!

@user-ll5jc4ks6c Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Los Angeles! I am thoroughly enjoying this fantastic history lesson. I am especially loving the actual news reels/home movies and photographs. Thank you so much!

@robertkirkpatrick4935 Жыл бұрын

Being a veteran myself i love reading and listening to documentaries about my great grandfather generation. He too served but during WWII. He was a D Day survivor and would tell me about it as a young boy. He wouldnt tell anyone else in our family except me. I guess i figured out i would find the stories entertaining and informative. I miss him everyday

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@kennedysingh3916 Жыл бұрын

Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica. I have family member who fought in both wars. One Jamaican who fought in France during WW1 was awarded a medal by the French embassador to Jamaica at the age of 105. His first comments are that the medal was over 80 years late and many of his comrades that surved died over the years and recieved no medals. I still have the news paper with that story of which I can share if you wish.

@Wassenhoven420 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the message!

@FreeTurtleboy Жыл бұрын

The French Playing with Veterans...for political points He called it....

@maureenledwidge1349 Жыл бұрын

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@kennedysingh3916 Жыл бұрын

@@maureenledwidge1349 Don't know what that means

@maximosalaza913 Жыл бұрын

@@Wassenhoven420 a ya was was was q😢

@blackfalcon1610 Жыл бұрын

I love timeline documentaries. I learn so much.

@daleslover2771 Жыл бұрын

Their second to none. I only wish that I could get the importance of what the narrator was leading up too. It would save me from going back to catch ... What did he just say! 😳🤣

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Жыл бұрын

This was made by the BBC

@neilanthony9288 2 жыл бұрын

An exercise in utter brilliance .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@LukeCassidy Жыл бұрын

My prayer is that we never forget this history so that we for no reason at any time repeat it’s horror.

@AntelJM Жыл бұрын

‘We’ have no choice. History will repeat itself whether ‘we’ learn from it or not. That is the way the world and Governments work. War after war after war.

@thisoldboat7393 Жыл бұрын

We won't, Russia will though.

@Cobraguy321 Жыл бұрын

A fantastic documentary. So very informative.

@racheldoesacrylic4089 Жыл бұрын

so much for never again it seems wars never stop do they? just put on the news .it sickens me greatly how anyone can pick up a rifle to kill another human unless in total self defense and one has no choice /

@USAR8888 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear Dan Snow tell me "I wanna tell you about History Hit TV. It's like the Netflix for history!" it furthers my resolve never to get it. Thanks Dan!

@Mustang1984 2 жыл бұрын

They have a free YT channel. It's pretty good.

@edwardliu111 2 жыл бұрын

I'm with you, I'd consider if it they just didn't use the exact same bit in every video and make him annoying.

@litneyloxan 2 жыл бұрын

He gets that hi im dan snow out so fast 😂

@TimPerfetto 2 жыл бұрын

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@noldo3837 2 жыл бұрын

I don't mind him, But it seems to me that on that YT channel is nothing but topics on British history. Quite typical for current Brittain, self-centered, arrogant, and delusional about its importance.

@pootytang5069 7 ай бұрын

The sad part is, we are in a society that has become indifferent to conflict. Many don’t pay attention, many don’t research the history of war. Many don’t see what’s coming. Spiritual warfare also rages beneath and behind all things, and to assume we have evolved past such depravity as a species is to put blinders on. It seems every generation has had to sacrifice and fight. If we don’t adapt, this century will be no different.

@andrewlufkin1392 2 жыл бұрын

For whatever reason, this is the first Great War documentary to make me tear up multiple times in the first 10 minutes

@FatRescueSwimmer04 Жыл бұрын

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@Spiritofaconure 11 ай бұрын

Because it was pointless how many men died on the front and it’s horrific

@20chocsaday 7 ай бұрын

Oh What a Lovely War made me cry beside my dry-eyed father who was in WWII.

@dubinatub1 6 ай бұрын

Past life connections??

@rileyhiggins4753 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most layered and complex documentary i have ever seen. Bravo

@thedangler1754 7 ай бұрын

A great documentary although a very sad subject. We have all lost Great Uncles, Great Grandads from that period, and I wished I had spoken to to both my Grandmother's more about the relations that had died in the Great War. Better still if I had recorded them telling their stories...a great regret.😪

@janebrown1706 4 ай бұрын

No do not regret. 99.9% of them NEVER talked about it and never would. In 2013 I found out grandad was at Tobruk after my boss got his war number for me and subsequently his war record.

@Iguazu65 Жыл бұрын

Superb documentary linking over a 100 years of history. Context is everything to understanding.

@donaldbraugh2314 3 ай бұрын

Speaking of context, to think 750 thousand killed in the Great War in G. Britain, and compare it w Stalin, who killed up to an estimated 50 million (20 mil of his own Society) is a figure indeed.

@seanconroy3567 2 жыл бұрын

The narrator is absolutely brilliant! Great documentary

@captaincat1743 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather fought at the Somme, Thiepval, Passchendaele and Gallipoli with the Lancashire Fusiliers. He couldn't stand the noise of fireworks and would go into the cellar (basement) whenever they were being let off.

@joshuasill1141 8 ай бұрын

I'm a combat veteran of Iraq and I do the same thing.

@captaincat1743 8 ай бұрын

@@joshuasill1141 Respect to you for serving in what I imagine were extremely difficult circumstances. Fighting against insurgents embedded within a civilian population must be a f^^king nightmare man. Thank you for doing what you did anyway, putting your life on the line to make the world a better place is admirable and no words can describe the gratitude you deserve for it.

@marclapine1305 6 ай бұрын

I'm 70, and I remember the WW1 veteran selling the wire and fabric poppies in front of the building my mother worked in. The man had one leg and his empty leg of his pants pinned up. I looked at him in wonder as a child would. It was only as a high schooler I investigated WW1 and found my mothers father was in a depot brigade. My fathers brother was in Italy in WW2 and was a very gentle and emotional man. I wonder how his experience in WW2 in Italy affected him. I'll never know

@michaelflowers5712 Жыл бұрын

Thanks to all involved--that was fantastic!!

@sydmccreath4554 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. A superb BBC documentary.

@jeffswaney3444 Жыл бұрын

Amazing documentary!

@H0mework Жыл бұрын

This evokes Adam Curtis and the power of nightmares. Excellent videos on this channel.

@sydmccreath4554 Жыл бұрын

My thought too. Curtis’s work is fantastic.

@lr937 8 ай бұрын

“ We are small players in a senseless game for power and domination, the day we stop playing their games we all will be able to live in peace” - Rebl trakker

@vettekid3326 2 жыл бұрын

As I was born 38 years after the end of the great war a lot of what I knew about it was thru different family members. Some like my great aunt who's husband was gassed and survived until 1922 when he succumbed to the effects of chronic obstructive lung disease. Her house was like a time capsule with nothing much changed from the early 1920's, no city water, only ground and attic cisterns to supply everything. no television. There was one room in the house that contained my great uncle's effects, regimental photograph, uniform and so on. We got to see it only on Memorial day when all the family would return to lay wreaths at the cemetery and stand for the Honor Guard ceremonies. Any event in history has a much different meaning if you don't have a direct connection to it in some way.

@scottlong3593 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@joegreenwood9793 2 жыл бұрын

Oo qoovoooo t. .

@Wog68 2 жыл бұрын

True, one can’t learn from history without connection to it. That is how most of the population become fodder of a politician be it democrats, radical right, fascist, communist, extreme capitalist, monarchist, dictator…….

@ronaldlollis8895 2 жыл бұрын

Our extended family lost two members, full blooded Cherokee Native Americans, first cousins to one another, but our older family members say they were like two brothers growing up. They joined the Corps together, went through boot camp together, traveled to Europe together as part of the American Expeditionary Forces and lost their lives on 26 September and 27 September 1918 to German gas attacks. May they all Rest In Peace for their selfless sacrifices and senseless slaughter that ultimately didn’t accomplish a d@#% thing.

@codystacey267 2 жыл бұрын

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@banerjeesiddharth05 2 жыл бұрын

Mind blowing documentary.

@loneprimate 11 ай бұрын

Canadian. My great-grandfather was in the Hampshire Regiment and died on the first day of the Somme. His Irish widow took their daughters and moved to Canada. I can't see any point in what befell him.

@dezreenmacdowell9967 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your BRILLIANT and thoughtful documentary. It touched on so many aspects heretofore not thoroughly mentioned.

@allychat8496 2 жыл бұрын

The ANZAC Spirit is far from myth, it brought a young nation together that was at the time less than 20 years old having only federated in 1901. Post WW1, Australians and New Zealanders were the most united they’d ever been in a classless system of democracy that survives till this day.

@johnnywindsor183 2 жыл бұрын

Yes my friend, am from uk but them guys spilt there guts and we’re as brave as anyone.

@n.speezly1467 10 ай бұрын

Didn’t the Australian government basically impose CCP like restrictions during covid and also de-arm the entire civilian population? Didn’t the Australian government cozy up to China only to find out that China was using the partnership to influence legal and social institutions in Chinas favor? Democracy on the surface maybe

@reepacheirpfirewalker8629 2 жыл бұрын

It is so strange how many people I have spoken to who have voiced an opinion on why is history even a topic for school? What can we learn about the way things were going on even ten years ago? History can be something that can be allowed to regurgitate itself again and again upon people who don't want to learn by the past mistakes.

@ericsierra-franco7802 Жыл бұрын

If someone cannot understand the value of history then they have serious blinders on intentionally.

@antiquemilitary 10 ай бұрын

My Uncle was gassed during WW 1 and was never the same. Remember him as a young boy and he always look tired.

@celineleeuwe1206 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much information. I've to watch it again.

@km3268 2 жыл бұрын

This is my second time through with The Long Shadow videos, and I read the book as well. Reynolds is a brilliant storyteller

@Hatsmoff39 Жыл бұрын

Most interesting documentation.

@julianciahaconsulting8663 Жыл бұрын

His documentary on Nixon is a masterpiece

@jmwilliamsart Жыл бұрын

@@julianciahaconsulting8663 I agree, his documentary on Nixon was quite interesting.

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