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In the early morning of June 7 the area around Messines Ridge is shattered by huge explosions beneath the German positions. Miners and sappers had dug tunnels and filled them up with tons of explosives. Up to 10,000 German soldiers are killed in this inferno. At the same time, the Romanian Army seems to be in shape for an attack against the Germans again and the 10th Battle of the Isonzo continues.
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@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Let's talk a bit about mentioning individual nationalities (for lack of a better word) during our show. We ruffled some feathers yesterday when we didn't specifically mention that Australians and Canadians were digging the tunnels. Or that the Irish where also fighting at Messines. Generally, when we are using the term "British troops" this includes everyone fighting within the British Army at that point. It's a free world and you can accuse us that we don't want to give credit to everyone involved. But the matter of fact is that we don't have the time in our episode to mention the precise order of battle for every event that is happening. And generally the whole thing is quite tricky. Let's take Vimy Ridge for example: Did you know that a British division attacked there together with the Canadians? We actually didn't research if these were Scottish, Welsh, English or Irish either. And the artillery support was definitely mostly British as well. Still, realising the almost feverish expectations of some of our Canadian fans for this event, we went with calling out the individual Canadian accomplishment. But that was more an exception than the rule. The same thing of course applies to the Austro-Hungarian Army or the Russian Army or the Ottoman Army. It could even technically apply to the German Army (which consisted of the Prussian, Saxon, Wurtembergian and Bavarian Army). Long story short: It's a complicated topic that we cannot always lay out in ten minutes a week, but naturally we encourage everyone to read up on the battles and events and in most secondary sources these aspects should be laid out clearer. But be aware of sources that just want cramp an event to fit a national narrative.

@SirSaladhead 7 лет назад

Feathers will be unruffled.

@ColTravis 7 лет назад

If anyone is interested, there is a free RU-vid move about this battle "Beneath Hill 60". It shows some of the British units involved as well as German (Bavarian).

@mikhailv67tv 7 лет назад

British Units ????You mean Australian Units , It is an Australian Movie and It's brilliant

@Nickster292 7 лет назад

:P and id say some romanians from russian moldova, i currently live in Moldova and it used to be part of Romania so most people then and now are still romanians, my grand granddad i think fought for the russian army although he was romanian, still, best show about WWI, hoping to see you guys do stuff after the great war!

@teamchoko1 7 лет назад

the producer and his helpers www.tunnellers.net ,helped us find an Anzac from Duchess qld that fought at Gallipoli and then hill 60 with no mention of him at the war memorial, passed on this info and still looking for two cowboys that went with him to sign up,,may of found a lead to this from a old station hand ..thanks to this channel for re-inspiring to keep looking.

@cclaudiusfelix 7 лет назад

"Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography" - General Sir Charles Harington

@L.D.Aurelianus 7 лет назад

Sharo of St. Lmao.. Sir you made my day.!!

@nightspawnson-of-luna4936 7 лет назад

Sharo of St. Jean claude van damnit you beat me to it

@dennisharmonii3453 7 лет назад

Jonathan Williams yeah

@markgarcia3101 7 лет назад

Sharo of St. Yup! Lets make a mudman (snowman but with mud)

@geoffreytudor5674 Год назад

"Topography", to be utterly pedantic.

@CyberVirus549 7 лет назад

*DAYS SINCE LAST BATTLE OF THE ISONZO:* *0*

@Chazwazzer-sk8sk 7 лет назад

Alliance Trooper actually I believe it's about 36500

@MephLeo 7 лет назад

The twelfth time is the charm.

@MajinOthinus 7 лет назад

Well, number twelve *did* work splendidly and spectacularly......just not for Cardona.....

@blankblank6545 7 лет назад

This comment doesn't ever need to have a date

@HaloFTW55 7 лет назад

Is there a Staff Officer standing there with a chalk ready to rewrite?

@crosseightyeight 7 лет назад

Just imagine. You've been fighting for months, enduring unimaginable horror....and then the entire Earth explodes beneath you.

@TheGM-20XX 7 лет назад

Imagine massive explosions ripping across from the horizon 1 by 1 heading towards you before....nothing.

@Self-replicating_whatnot 7 лет назад

I'd be miffed, to say the least.

@MisterTnT2 7 лет назад

You don't have to imagine ;) Their is a movie about it.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 7 лет назад

Cross88 we've been digging saps and mines for centuries, ever since somebody invented the stone castle. The castle builders did all sorts of things to stop their walls being undermined (this is where the word comes from, if you didn't already know that), such as round towers and widening the foot of the wall. Once gunpower was invented they gave up on high curtain walls, concentrating on lower, wider, walls which were harder to blow up, until high explosives came along.

@ninoschier9528 7 лет назад

Just as they thought they saw everything war can show the whole thing went up. This is modern war.

@rosstigane 7 лет назад

I saw Hill 60 as well as the massive craters there and in the surrounding area, most now filled with bodies of water and lush green plants. One of the massive craters was ironically named "The pool of peace".

@lukecox2782 7 лет назад

Ross Costigane Irony. A bit like the religion of peace

@bigburd875 7 лет назад

jack flash using "invasion" with imence quotation marks

@Sommer57 7 лет назад

More like "pool of pieces."

@st.tropez6084 2 года назад

My father would have seen the explosion, but he never spoke about the war. He was wounded on the afternoon of June 7th abdomen and right shoulder. He spent the next 3 nights badly wounded crawling back to the Australian line. The book Somme Mud decribes how he was found, but based on the assumption that he had spent 3 days in a bomb crater instead of crawling somewhere near the town of Mesen back to where his unit of the 45th battalion had regrouped.

@jacobseed6537 Год назад

Yeah I've been there, its quite surreal

@brianholmes1812 7 лет назад

the battle of messines was actually an important part of Irish history, as this was the first time both nationalist and unionist divisions had fought side by side, a great feat considering the political crisis at home. it is a battle that was often brought up in peace talks during the troubles in Northern Ireland

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

Shame the Orange men still make a big deal of July 1st each year. I mean, it was memorable and amazing, but I think those guys in Connaught Cemetery would like to see the end of the Troubles after 100 years.

@Tarumarugan 3 года назад

Late to this comment but: I think It’s an important part of world history that I don’t think enough ppl know about unfortunately.

@commando1124 7 лет назад

First time I saw Hill 60 as a child I was confused because in fact, there was no hill to be seen

@erikthomsen4768 7 лет назад

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. "It was blown away."

@The51stDivision 7 лет назад

"This wasn't actually foolish." WoW that's new. Congrats to Haig for actually not being foolish.

@bp837 7 лет назад

-Yes, Romanians, we are here to teach you how to fight. -Cool, but shouldn't you be worrying about those mutinies of yours first? -Mutines? What mutinies? We never had such problems... *SEND HELP FAST*

@jacksonpaul7279 7 лет назад

What an explosive turn of events.

@joehudson3042 7 лет назад

Jackson Paul the pun blew up

@MrRenegadeshinobi 7 лет назад

Jackson Paul I think we're blowing this out of proportion.

@jacksonhikes1344 7 лет назад

MrRenegadeshinobi 😂😂😂

@bigburd875 7 лет назад

Jackson Paul my mind was blown

@NerevarOfficialReal 7 лет назад

That pun blew my mind.

@crosseightyeight 7 лет назад

I can't understand how the spontaneous loss of 10,000 men doesn't instantly destroy your army's ability to wage war.

@TheGM-20XX 7 лет назад

Drop in the bucket.

@cisco3111 7 лет назад

Cross88 draft 10,000 by the end of the week

@eldorados_lost_searcher 7 лет назад

Welcome to Modern Warfare.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 7 лет назад

Cross88 only those related to those 10,000 men or their friends would have been affected by this event. The greater the number killed that are killed, the less the effect on those that remain; in the words of Stalin, 1 dead is a tragedy, 1,000 is just a number (and Uncle Joe would know). People struggle to come to terms with larger numbers of people killed in one go, whereas they can epathise with somebody who has lost only a handful, such as a family size group, in one event, such a car crash or fire. This is more to do with human psychology than anything else.

@blackmichael75 7 лет назад

You should ask the Grand Old Duke of York.

@akshittripathi5403 7 лет назад

Jeez, I've been on the channel for 2 years now, and the numbers are still mind-numbing. 10,000 soldiers blown up in a second, 250,000 dead at yet another battle of the Isonzo, and a casual 300,000 dead from Typhus "not being a major problem"

@InugamiTheHound 7 лет назад

I can't imagine being shelled by over 1 million shells over course of many hours and than have the enemy turn around and drop over 2 million shells on them. That must have been madness

@ericswain70 7 лет назад

Week 150 and Indy's passion has not diminished one bit.Thanks for the history

@bbainter7880 7 лет назад

Hi Indy, Can you guys do a special on tunnelers in WWI? Seems like it might turn out to be a fascinating subject for a special.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+B Bainter working on it

@MephLeo 7 лет назад

I would say that's a deep topic and you guys should dig it down carefully.

@EntryLevelLuxury 7 лет назад

To me, that is the most interesting part of researching this incident - this whole underground war developed to counter enemy tunnelers. Seems terrifying to me, but I'm uber claustrophobic.

@matteohetzy7599 7 лет назад

Don't neglect the mines on the Alpine front between Italy and Austria

@captiannemo1587 7 лет назад

Need to find a good book on that.

@jeddkeech259 3 года назад

I like how the comment section in this series is so educational, encyclopedic, and respectful compared to other RU-vid vids

@sammccullough1255 7 лет назад

Michael Bay Approves!

@lukestrawwalker 5 лет назад

lol

@gedewidi6666 4 года назад

Michael Bay might be a reincarnation of Herbert plumer

@charleslaine 7 лет назад

I saw a documentary a few years ago about that underground explosion. It showed one of the trenches full of dead Germans who were still standing up, squished by the two sides of the trench that had squeezed in on them from the blast.

@christinabishop9101 2 года назад

Do you remember the name of the docu?

@_Braised 7 лет назад

If everyone hasn't already, check out the movie Beneath Hill 60- it covers this event spectacularly and is one of the best WW1 films ever made, in my humble opinion.

@OldFellaDave 7 лет назад

Of all the mines exploded at Messines - 2 failed to explode. 1 of them exploded during an electrical storm in 1954 - killing 1 cow. The other one ...well ... they don't know exactly where it is ... and it still there, with tens of thousands of kilo's of un-exploded 100 year old munitions ...

@rikpien2925 7 лет назад

David Read Cant they find it with modern sensors and shove a shell into it?

@OldFellaDave 7 лет назад

Not sure of the reasons behind it - just the story I've read on a number of WW1 sites during my own research on a number of related things ;)

@breeze1349 5 лет назад

Isn't it under a farm house and the farmer has refused to have it removed (not sure if it the right mine but look It up on Wikipedia)

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

@@breeze1349 As a local guide, this is what I have been told (and the farm pointed out to me). But, it's only the local info, not a promise.

@brutalnyas5639 4 года назад

RIP Cow

@kbholla 7 лет назад

Everyone should watch the film 'Beneath Hill 60." It is a very well done depiction of this event.

@StraboSE 7 лет назад

ive finally done it. after begining to binge this series when i was put under hospital quarantine for a completely drug resistant intestine bacteria in september, i have caught up with the show. ita going to be weird watching it in real time. At least im out of my hospital room now. If any of the great war crew see this, thanks for giving me something to do while i was down for the count.

@JPMadden 2 года назад

There was a battle in the American Civil War where a tunnel was dug under enemy trenches and then filled with explosives. Called the "Battle of the Crater," it ended up causing far more casualties to the Union side that launched the attack, due to a combination of dereliction of duty, incompetence, and bad luck. That makes it sound like a WW1 battle.

@petitflocon647 5 лет назад

I'm living just at 10kms of Messines. The Belgium landscape is weird... farms, little cemeteries everywhere even in gardens of farms.

@AnGhaeilge 2 года назад

My great-grandmother's husband was killed just before before the Battle of Messines in May of 1917. He was serving in the 7/8th Battalion of Royal Irish Fusiliers, and they were camped in a trench about 2 miles south of Ypres building up for the Battle of Messines. German artillery attacked their trench and he was killed a long with 2 other men.

@ironhornforge 2 года назад

My great grandfather was in the 1st and 3rd aust tunnelling company, he died of his wounds sustained later tunnelling in 1918 and is buried in France. This was his job

@Duke_of_Lorraine 7 лет назад

Writing geography instead of history is such an accurate description of this war so far

@VladTevez 7 лет назад

Another trivia: On June 8, 1917, the Italians took over Ioannina, nominally to force king Constantine's abdication

@asnard2346 7 лет назад

*"nominally"* . well put... I'm not buying it either

@thenecromorpher 7 лет назад

"Gentlemen, we might not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography" a remark made by General Sir Charles Harington to the press the night before the Messines Ridge assault; which had utilized ~400 tons of explosive devices in ~22 different mines, and Hill 60 used just ~20 tons of explosives alone to create the almost fantastical sounding descriptions amongst onlookers...

@edpurkey6286 7 лет назад

Recently viewed the excellent Australian film; < Beneath Hill 60 > which tells the human story of the sappers who dug the tunnels/packed the explosives. Highly recommended!

@michaelmanning5379 7 лет назад

There's an excellent Australian film "Beneath Hill 60" that tells the story from the point of view of a mining engineer. I found it on RU-vid and quite enjoyed it.

@Legoapollo13 7 лет назад

just went to the Scottish flight museum today saw a part of a ww1 plane wing, done the ww1 workshop showing all the aviation stuff like those darts they dropped from planes to kill solders. also the museum was a ww1 airship field and a ww2 airfield. it was good also the Concorde was there so that is a plus. just thought you might be interested great war channel. PLZ keep making for videos about this horrible conflict 100 years ago.

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

The women who painted the dope on the fabric of the aeroplanes often died or became chronically sick within a few months, because the fumes were so toxic.

@EntryLevelLuxury 7 лет назад

Woo I wrote my senior capstone paper on this battle in conjunction with the development military geology. Most of the German casualties came from the trenches clamping shut (as seen at 1:58). With so much earth being displaced, it only makes sense that the ground would cave on the path of least resistance. Terrifying.

@moosemaimer 7 лет назад

"Yes, we the French are here to teach you to fight modern war!" *looks past at mutineering armies* "Are you, now."

@thexalon 7 лет назад

To be fair, by that time, the French (possibly with Italian help) could legitimately provide an encyclopedic knowledge of what didn't work.

@ninoschier9528 7 лет назад

To be realistic. I dont think the Italians didnt know anything by now. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. They attacked at the Isonzo river. Lost. And forgot. Well makes sense when nobody survives to tell you it doesnt work.

@gladehartdreamer5620 7 лет назад

thexalon indeed, also mutineering armies are one of the most basic elements of modern war, its like mascots for sports teams, they arent helping the team, but they set the mood.

@hlynnkeith9334 7 лет назад

thexalon To be fair, by 1917 l'Aeronautique Militaire had a working system of airpower use. It lacked CAS, but it excelled at bombing and was effective at reconnaissance.

@Nutellafuerst 7 лет назад

Nino Schier did you really make sure you write it down the exactly correct amount of times? now thats what i call determination to make a point, my good Sir.

@Panzer4F2 7 лет назад

There were two mines that were not detonated. One went off June 17 1955 during a thunder storm. There is still a mine that has not been found.

@pooperdrop 7 лет назад

This is the first of my great-grandfathers battles - his diaries of this event are amazing.

@helenharrelson5138 4 года назад

Which army was he in. I’m researching a Scottish soldier

@Ashfielder 7 лет назад

A battle my Great Grandfather fought in with the Middlesex Regiment, as he led them over the top. Surprisingly, as a junior officer, he actually survived the war and fought from 1915 to 1918.

@Sammy1234568910 7 лет назад

The Battle of Messines Ridge is an important battle from an Irish perspective, as both the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) Divisions were engaged in the battle at the same time. As is covered rather well in the Ireland special these were Ireland's two volunteer divisions largely made up of Loyalist (36th) and nationalist (16th) former paramilitaries who were on the verge of civil war before war broke out. Although they had both seen action before this was the first battle that the men of the two divisions who were set to fight each other before the war fought and died side by side. It was hoped that if these men could serve together overseas in the British army then they could live together in peace at home. Unfortunately events in Ireland during the war had changed since these men left home, and would ensure that this didn't happen at least not until the later part of the 20th Century.

@paulvonhindenburg8674 7 лет назад

Guy Fawkes would be proud

@kbholla 7 лет назад

I cant even fathom seeing 10,000 men dead, let alone from one single explosion.

@oskareriksson8831 6 лет назад

Kbholla I wasn't one explosion

@spartan2000music 6 лет назад

Just realising how big the operation was really blew me away

@sammccullough1255 7 лет назад

Messines Ridge attack will go down on the Top 10 Anime Plot Twists!!

@cosminvarga5349 7 лет назад

Hey Indy I translated an article from 2014 that I found on the internet about the german occupation of Romania's capital: Bucharest. All credit goes to Goerge Popescu for writing this. I would really like it to get into an "Out of the trenches" or "Out of the ether" episode. Hope you guys find this an interesting lecture. "Hard, oppressive and humiliating. These are the attributes of the german occupation of Bucharest. The arrival of the German, Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian forces was preceded by a series of robberies and altercations but the very next day von Mackensen, promises the well being of every citizen in Bucharest in exchange for collaboration with the occupying forces. Obviously the promise was not respected! Many cases of abuse from the occupant forces were recorded. The strategic resources of Romania (petrol, corn, wool, wood, and so on) were confiscated for the use of the german army. Both private and public property was arrested for the use of the occupying army. Any kind of deviation from the rules of the assailants would be punished by death. With small exceptions when the lives of certain people was ransomed with coin or other valuable produce. While germans were cutting the trees in the parks of Bucharest and in the summer cultivating cabbage, Romanians were burning the wood from the fences of their houses due to the german requisition of wood. Even so, the germans had a certain honorable behavior towards the populace of Bucharest, the Bulgarians on the other hand were downright brutes. Rapes, robberies, vandalisation, even the stealing of slavic documents from museums was not beneath the Bulgarian army. At the end of the occupation the women of Bucharest sent about four thousand divorce requests. They were trying to divorce their romanian husbands at the front, having found new "love" in the arms of enemy soldiers. The german army found in romania a paradise. Abundant food, luxury goods, entertainment, these were things that many german soldiers lacked back home but found in Romania." One of the main problems Romania has always struggled with were the stray dogs. During the german occupation of Bucharest a series of strict leash laws were enacted. Every citizen had to pay a tax for owning a dog and no dogs were allowed on the streets. Many dogs were shot just for putting their head out of the fence and barking at a german officer. The germans never bothered getting rid of the dog's body. The efficient german army was not worried about the morality of their actions when it came to dealing with animals. If there ever was a good to come out of the german occupation of Bucharest it is the fact that for the first time we had a capital with no stray dogs.(up until the forced urbanization that came with the communist era, but that is another sad story).

@tpaktop2_1na 7 лет назад

The depth of that crater by the mine. Wow!

@saprophycs950 7 лет назад

I've been waiting since 2014 to hear about this single action during wwi. Such brutal force

@GosWardHen98 2 года назад

On my mother's side, one of her dad's brothers served with Field Coy 106 'RE' & was in the early stages of the Messines battle. He was an Osetlier before the war, so also looked after the horses too. He was K.I.A before 6am. Unimaginable forces used in desperate times...

@razor3110 7 лет назад

I will be at Messines in October to see where my Great Grandfather served as a tunneller and will be staying in Zillebeke right near Hill 60. Been waiting for this ep since subscribing and becoming a supporter on patreon, GREAT WORK!

@Raptor747 7 лет назад

An excellent episode! The way you cover so many events, while giving perspective and imagery at the same time, continues to impress me.

@LeBangBig 7 лет назад

In France we can't stand a long time without going on strike.

@bigburd875 7 лет назад

Ragnar Lothbrock every 20 years or so the French have a revolution, just to keep things interesting

@bootdude7527 7 лет назад

Teddy Roosevelt your an imposter

@tomrobinson2839 7 лет назад

Idk why but this was one of my favourite weekly updates!! Thanks Indy and the team!

@jscotthatcher380 7 лет назад

my american school barely touched on The Great War, almost like it is a footnote even though it massively shaped the world we live in today (a hundred years later). i have learned more from this channel than i ever have in school. greetings from Norway.

@hlynnkeith9334 7 лет назад

IMO the amazing thing about the explosion at Messines was the security. The tunneling took months, but not a word of it reached the Germans.

@tokyozardoz 7 лет назад

I love the smell of cordite in the morning. Hill 60, blew up the whole damn ridge.When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' kraut body. The smell, you know that gunpowder smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...victory.

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

Some day this war's gonna end.

@tomskonieczka2385 7 лет назад

just as a side note, this week in 1917 saw the official swearing in of the "Blue" Polish Army in France, approx 100,000 Poles joined the force - Polish Emigres, former POW's etc formed the Army under the leadership of General Haller. This force would from the nucleus of the newly formed Polish Army in Poland itself and prove vital in the Polish-Russian war of 1920.

@Ali-ol7pk 7 лет назад

Really enjoying all of your videos. Fun and educating

@ovymeme 7 лет назад

Henri Mathias Berthelot a true ww1 legend.

@xgford94 7 лет назад

Beneath Hill 60 is a good movie too, well worth the watch

@bigbrowntau 7 лет назад

Another amazing video, thanks again. The great thing about these week-by-week videos is that it shows how events interact. I'd known about the French mutiny and the mines at Messines Ridge for decades, but for some reason, hadn't put them together chronologically. I've read speculation as to why the Germans didn't attack during the mutiny, but perhaps the giant explosions at Messines might be one reason? What does everyone think?

@kesmarn 6 лет назад

Just discovered this really wonderful series. Thanks so much for the effort put into this very valuable work. I see some WWI binge-watching in my near future!

@gartenstuhl2396 4 года назад

Wow, that was the most impressive attack I have seen so far. Unimaginable.

@aarond0454 7 лет назад

BEST CHANNEL EVER!! Indy keep up the great work!

@shawnm3626 7 лет назад

it never cease to amaze me that the men kept fighting year after year truly blessed that I was born in 1998 not 1898 it's so crazy to think about sometimes how trivial our problems are compared to there's

@DaKineSK 7 лет назад

This is awesome , keep it coming guys !

@fightingbear8537 7 лет назад

Such a great channel, keep up the good work!

@maverickgomez9996 7 лет назад

is The Great War still looking pretty great?

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Maverick Gomez in scale, yes

@thefuck7175 6 лет назад

The not so great war for the germans

@johnjacob6163 7 лет назад

finally caught up after a few months of watching, found this channel from a comment indy left on feature history's 7 years war video and I'm glad i did this channel really sparked by love for ww1 history

@tesnacloud 7 лет назад

Could you imagine something like that? Great episode, as always.

@zero-dh1pc 7 лет назад

I just got a World of Tanks ad, where they where shooting the "skip ad" button. "COMMANDER! We need to Destroy that button before they push it!" I'm just gonna play it because of this amazing ad.

@holly5234 7 лет назад

School just got out and a new Great War episode just got up. Seems like a nice way to start summer.

@willjohnson3299 7 лет назад

I'm glad the battleship Missouri memorial put a ad on this channel good to see something so historically important support a educational Channel a awesome one at that!

@mannymunoz9274 7 лет назад

Question: how common was friendly fire, and were there any records of friendly fire casualties?

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

Very common, no records. In most of the late 1917 fighting British Army troops had to follow the bombardment to within less than 100 yards. Guns fired so many shells that they wore out, making them less accurate. There were also many problems with spotting, identifying positions etc, and no radio for corrections. Soldiers knew it was better to lose a few to their own artillery, than to hang back and get killed by the Germans.

@unidigit5687 7 лет назад

I must say, even today, the crater near Hill 60 looks impressive.

@kapitankapital6580 7 лет назад

I've been to the crater. It's absolutely incredible.

@erikthomsen4768 7 лет назад

This episode start,played and ended with an big bang.

@DJCW_ 7 лет назад

It would be awesome if you could make a special about the people who built and fought in the mining tunnels.

@Harry-ff4vx 9 месяцев назад

Consider myself a history buff particularly when it comes to war history but had no idea about this watching on remembrance day this year

@madogthefirst 7 лет назад

I look forward to these episodes every Thursday. :)

@ARIXANDRE 7 лет назад

I was waiting for this one! I feel like little is spoken about Messine Ridge.

@matthewkearney833 5 лет назад

I visited the Lochnagar crater today. It’s unbelievable

@warmachine_1396 7 лет назад

I want to see some very well made WW1 movies being made in current times. This year or next would be perfect timing. They need to keep it as historically accurate as possible.

@RAMMSTEIN4HIMMER 3 года назад

Man, I need to re-watch these.

@mrfantastic9466 7 лет назад

you should visit the crater! its incredibly awe-inspiring

@tommcdonald1873 7 лет назад

I was reading about the Aussies at Messines Ridge. A fascinating perspective.

@Chrarsh101 7 лет назад

My great great uncles were at the battle. In the 3rd division, 39th battalion Australia

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

Do you know any more? The National Archives of Australia and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission can perhaps tell you.

@KB4QAA 7 лет назад

Superb edition this week!

@hojoj.1974 7 лет назад

Awesome as always guys... Simply awesome...

@tuf_1041 7 лет назад

Beneath Hill 60 is one of my favorite movies.

@placidrenegade 6 лет назад

My Great Uncle fought at Hill 60. The Germans first used Chlorine gas there and they fought off the German attack whilst succumbed. We will remember them.

@youknowwhydoitry2443 7 лет назад

indy can you do finland during ww1I love your show and it is great your not doing one of those lazy talks that my history teacher does that misses many details. Thank you for making a skilled and amazing documentry about every week of world war one

@elpelux 7 лет назад

Only on this show you can see the real scale of the war. I´m a three year follower and I´m from Colombia and would like to know how can I help besides Patreon wich is not working here. Thank you so much for this show, and keep it up. Andrés.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+andross23 you can recommend our show to everyone you know. or you could contribute Spanish subtitles too.

@Bookwormfrom1983 7 лет назад

Its only the 150th week in war, I am already depressed. Wonder what those soldier were going through. Those who could still pick the gun and fight are the real super heroes.

@sourkraut7437 7 лет назад

you guys are badass. From California to Berlin, Germany, hope you're around for years to come!

@moosemaimer 7 лет назад

Haig probably didn't have a plan to follow up the mine because he couldn't figure out how to get the cavalry into the tunnels.

@knightshousegames Год назад

British Soldier: "This place can't possibly get any more hellish...." *Literal pillar of flames erupts from the earth* British Soldier: "...If you need me, I'll be with the chaplain..."

@kenlawton1531 7 лет назад

Hi WW1, love the series, facinating! question: I have read and also heard that not all of the mines exploided and that two mines were still out there somewhere. Apparently one mine inadvertently exploded during a thunder storm in a farmer's field in the 1950's, but one mine still remains to this day and they don't know exactly where. Is there any truth to this?

@lllordllloyd 5 лет назад

True, but locals point to a farm and say 'it's there'. It would makes sense it IS known, there were endless records of such things and the mines were started fully two years before the battle. It wasn't that the two 'didn't go off', it was decided not to detonate them for tactical reasons.