The Great War: Week by Week 100 Years Later

战争 · 历史

S1 E9 Week 9: The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea

本集简介

Sparked by the desperate state of the Austrians, the Russian army goes on the offensive. General Ivanov even tries to use his numerical superiority to make up for the German victories a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, the armies of the Western Front try to outflank each other as they race north to the sea. And in the North Sea itself, submarine warfare really gets going while in the air, we see airplanes used in large military operations for the first time in history.

上一集

2014/09/18 S1 E8

Week 8: Welcome to the Dirt - The Beginning of Trench Warfare

After the advances and retreats during the early weeks of war, the front is coming to a grinding hold after the Battle of the Aisne. The German Army is digging itself in on one side of the river and a new, horrible chapter of World War One begins: trench warfare. To be prepared for this new kind of war, the British Army is recruiting over 400.000 soldiers still believing that the war will be over by Christmas.

下一集

2014/10/02 S1 E10

Week 10: Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll

The autumn rain turns the battlefields into muddy landscapes. Mud in which the soldiers are hardly able to dig trenches and in which no artillery gun will stand. The first change of seasons is proving to be a big new challenge for the armies in Europe. While at the time, the longest siege of the war is starting, we can also see the first major African battles of World War 1.

当前季

2014-07-28

哇，窗口太小啦

The Great War: Week by Week 100 Years Later