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

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

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.

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

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 ❤️☮️

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.

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

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

@@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

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.

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

That's nothing, I did 4 tours.

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 !

@@stefansyiemiong5881 Beautifully said. Thank you.

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

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

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

​@@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'!

I love documentaries!

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.

School is better.

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@@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. 🙂

May you find peace in this lifetime.

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

God bless you too, sir.

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

courage or a death wish.

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

@@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.

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

Your great grandfather maybe😂

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

​@@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!🤦🏻‍♀️

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.

@@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.

So utterly, horribly, very sadly, true

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

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.

@@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...

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

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.

Makes me wonder what he said.

Oh? Investment banking? Communism?

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

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

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

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

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

Try hemp cream, helps my arthritic knee no end.

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Pain is no fun. Heat helps.

@@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.

@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.

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 . .

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.

Very sad, so sorry for him.

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 🙏

So sorry about your grandpa 😞.

My great grandfather was in ww1 and also committed suicide.

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

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. 😢

Wow do you have any stories?

And both sides

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

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

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@@KennyMcCormick99 there are no hero's in War

every generation says the same thing..

Totally agree with you 🙏🇬🇧

@@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…….

Perhaps this was all done on purpose 🤔

@@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.

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Thank the BBC

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

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.

He gets that hi im dan snow out so fast 😂

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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.

they are a disgrace ....and deserve nothing

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

Thank you for sharing.

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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…….

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.

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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

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

@@bradbufton1517 you're a special kind of silly

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

@@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

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.

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.

@@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.

@@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.

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.

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.

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Agreed. A superb BBC documentary.

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

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 /

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

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Most interesting documentation.

His documentary on Nixon is a masterpiece

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

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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! 😳🤣

This was made by the BBC

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.

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

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

Past life connections??

My thought too. Curtis’s work is fantastic.

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

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

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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.

Welp- it was, after all, the white man's burden. I'm sure he didn't mind. I'm gonna refrain from calling him a white supremacist jackass in the hopes that even if he lived as one, that he learned something from sacrificing his son to something as pointless as war, and maybe he didn't die as one.

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@@poutinedream5066 it was a World War....From All of the "Continent's" participated in the War.....Damn White People's an their abilities too develop Weapons of War..,.Along with the Asians of Pacifica. Ciao

Read recently that a number of bodies from the U.S. Civil War, in a mass grave, came to the surface.....all unknown soldiers

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‘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.

We won't, Russia will though.

Why did they treat Germanyso pitifully in that Treaty? It’s as though they knew what would happen.

that's why there's the quote "history is written by the victor" a line I don't think will ever cease to be true

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

@@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.

he was a vagina?

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 ?

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

Trust me, it's quite assailable. But you have to break out of the paradigm of Western capitalist hegemony to do it. Most people find this task impossible or confounding.

I do to, but publishing is not creating. The creators deserve the credit for it's content. In this case, this Timeline docu-video is based on Prof Reynold's 2013 book and was produced by ClearStory and premiered on BBC2, as noted by another commenter on this thread.