The Great War (2014)
Date de parution : 28 juin 2014
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the Great War After the assasination of Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary is determined to put a lid on Serbia once and for all. Germany wanted to go to war with... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan Austria-Hungary starts the bombardment of Belgrade. What follows is a race of armies between all major powers in Europe. Nobody wants to be... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | To Arms! Deployment of Troops The first few days of war were a combination of failed organisation and chaos. The Austro-Hungarian supreme command lacks in combat experience, and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | A New War With Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front In the early days of World War 1, warfare is still based on ideas and ideals of 19th century generals. The technological progress during... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Rape of Belgium And The Battle of Tannenberg During their advance through Belgium, the German Army is committing atrocities against Belgian civilians. The Austro-Hungarian Army is perpetrating... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia While the Germans are very close to reaching Paris, the Eastern Front proves to become a disastrous fail for the Austro-Hungarian forces. Conrad von... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Taxi To The Front – The First Battle of the Marne The German army is so close to Paris that French soldiers are brought to the front by taxis. Together with the British troops, the French are... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 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 at the river Aisne. The German army is digging... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | The Russian War Machine And The Race To The Sea Sparked by the desperate state of the Austrians, the Russian army goes on the offensive. General Ivanov even tries to us his numerical superiority... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Back For Christmas? - The Illusion Of A Short War In the trenches on the Western Front and in the mud on the Eastern Front, hundreds of thousands of soldiers die and with them dies the illusion of a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy After defeating the Russian Army in the early weeks of the war, the German and Austrian generals hope to push the Russians back with combined forces.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | A War To End All Wars - Home Front Propaganda The first weeks of war already took hundreds of thousands of lives and the daily struggle to survive in the trenches has by far nothing to do with... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Fresh Meat - The Search For New Recruits After some heavy casualties during the first months of war, the armies had to look for new recruits. While Great Britain undertook soldiers in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | The World at War - The Ottoman Empire Enters The War Three months after the outbreak of the war, another world power enters the conflict: The Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman war minister Enver Pascha, a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | The Defensive War on the Western Front The German army dug in at the Western Front and waited for the next enemy attack at the Eastern Front. Even though the Germans outnumbered their... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | The Enemy Within - The German Army's Power Play The commanders of the German army blame each other for the missing victories. Falkenhayn and Hindenburg both believe that they have the only... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Iron, Steel and Oil - The Fight For Resources Four months after the outbreak of the war, a new fight develops: the fight for the most valuable resources. The modern warfare and its war machines... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Mission Accomplished? - The Austro-Hungarian Empire Conquers Belgrade During the first week of December, Austria manages to capture Belgrad. Thereby Austria is the first nation to achieve one of its war aims. The... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | The Naval Battle At The Falkland Islands - The Death of Maximilian von Spee Near the far away Falkland Islands the story of the German East Asia Squadron is coming to an end: in a naval battle nearly the entire squadron sunk... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | The Raid On Scarborough - A Failed Attempt at Intimidation German admiral Franz von Hipper reluctantly carries out his orders to bomb British costal towns. And indeed, this attempt to intimidate British... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | The First Battle of Champagne - Dying In Caucasus Snow Right before Christmas the allied powers begin the Champagne offensive, which will last several months. In the snow and the mud, and under horrible... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | The Ottoman Disaster - The Battle of Sarikamish The Champagne offensive is still going on the Western Front without any side gaining a decisive advantage. In the Caucasus, Enver Pasha is showing... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | In Dire Straits - Russia on Austro-Hungary's Doorstep The Austro-Hungarian army resembles a better militia after six months into the war. After defeats against Serbia and Russia and still under siege in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | Onwards! - The Western Front Of Early 1915 French general Joseph Joffre is stuck in a dilemma: the Champagne offensive has been going on for weeks now - without any expected results. Should... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Zeppelins Over England - New Inventions For The Modern War For a decisive advantage on the Western Front, the military commanders of both sides are trying to use technological advances. And so this week,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | All Or Nothing - Winter Offensive In The Carpathians Konrad von Hötzendorf has to prevent the Russian army from entering the Hungarian plains. So, he starts a huge offensive in the Carpathian Mountains... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Gas! - A New Horror On The Battlefield After more than 6 months of stalemate, the German Empire is playing two new cards to gain a decisive advantage. On the Eastern Front, the Germans... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Stopping Russia - Hindenburg's Final Offensive? This week, well over 1 million soldiers are on the advance everywhere in Europe. General Hindenburgs tries to beat the Russians once and for all at... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Hindenburg's Cunning Plan - A 2nd Tannenberg After more than six months of war, the first big mutiny breaks out in Singapore. The endless battles in which big powers sacrifice thousands of... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Prelude to Gallipoli - Naval Bombardement of the Dardanelles To break up the stalemate and get a decisive advantage, France and Great Britain open up yet another theatre of war in the Dardanelles. The plan is... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 32 | Playing With Fire - The First Flame Thrower Modern war already took place in the sky and under water but the waring nations also wanted to gain an advantage in the trenches. So this week, we... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 33 | The Battle of Neuve-Chapelle The British Expeditionary Forces are starting their first major offensive since the beginning of trench warfare. Near Neuve-Chapelle they attack the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 34 | A Slice of The Pie - Splitting Up The Middle East Even though the Entente offensive near Constantinople didn't really take off yet, the allied powers were already dreaming about splitting up the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 35 | The Fall of Przemyśl - Changing Strategy On The Western Front The generals at the Western Front are slowly starting to adapt to the modern war. The battle of Neuve-Chappelle will be a blueprint for future... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 36 | Showdown In The Dardanelles - Bulgaria Flirts With The Central Powers Not only the soldiers are suffering on the Eastern and Western Front, the Dardanelles or since this week also in Macedonia. More and more civilians... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 37 | The Armenian Genocide The leaders of the Ottoman Empire are looking for a scapegoat after their collosal defeat in the Caucasian Mountains a few month earlier. They start... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 38 | Russia Fails In The Mountains - Basra Falls This week, generals on three different fronts show that they are not able to realise their mistakes. Basra falls to the British, the quick victory... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 39 | Gas On The Western Front - Baptism of Fire for Canada After experiments on the Eastern Front, the German Army is using poison gas for the first time on the Western Front. At the beginning of the 2nd... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 40 | The Sea Turns Red - Gallipoli Landings Completely underestimating the Ottoman army at the Dardanelles, the British commanders decide to let the ANZACs take the Gallipoli peninsular as a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 41 | Sinking of the Lusitania & The Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive Ignoring the warnings and cruising carelessly slow the RMS Lusitania is hit by a torpedo of the German U-Boat U20. Almost 2000 people die during the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 42 | The German Phalanx Chases Russia The 2nd Battle of Ypres is still going but no side can gain a decisive advantage. The main reason on the British side is a lack of artillery... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 43 | The Battle of San River - Winston Churchill Gets Fired The big success of the Gallipoli Campaign never came, thousands of soldiers died and so Winston Churchill is forced to resign. At the same time... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 44 | The New Alpine Front - Italy Joins World War 1 After the defeats of Austria-Hungary against Russia, Italy is seeing her chance to grab disputed territories from them. Even though they are not... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 45 | Artillery in World War 1 - The Key To Success When Przemysl falls for the 2nd time and when the British and ANZAC troops fail at Gallipoli again, one thing becomes clear: Artillery is the key... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 46 | Rex Warneford Destroys A Zeppelin - Austria Digs Into the Mountains Reginald Warneford is important to Britain's war effort. Not just because he shot down a German zeppelin, but because he is made a hero in times... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 47 | Cavalry, Spies and Cossacks The war seems like a romantic novel this week: In the East the Russians are saved by Cossack Cavalry while August von Mackensen's artillery is... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 48 | The Austro-Hungarian Empire Strikes Back Just a few weeks ago Austria-Hungary's military laid in shambles. But with German support from August von Mackensen and other German generals, the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 49 | On the Move but going Nowhere - Optimism is Failing! Two months after landing in Gallipoli the fight has become a trench warfare. In Mesopotamia British troops were losing the optimism, they had felt... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 50 | Adapt or Die - The Artillery Barrage The Great Retreat of the Russians during the last weeks has shown one thing: Artillery is the key to success. More specifically, a new kind of... |
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 | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | The Battle of Arleux - Robert Nivelle Gets Fired The Battle of Arras continued in smaller scale attacks this week 100 years ago. Fighting focused on Arleux and the Scarpe river. Neither of these... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | The Macedonian Standoff - The Five Nation Army Is Repelled Italy, France, Serbia, Britain and Russia joined forces at the Macedonian Front and the "five nation army" wants to break through the lines held by... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Tenth Battle of The Isonzo River - Trotsky Arrives in Petrograd The Italian Front has been quiet over the winter and while the Austrians used the time to improve their defences, the Italian Army prepared another... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | German Bombers Over Britain - Arab Revolt On The Advance This week 100 years ago, Germany is flying concentrated bomber attacks with multiple Gotha bombers on British cities - causing more damage than any... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | French Mutinies - Tunnels Under Messines Ridge The casualties and lack of success during the Nivelle Offensive were too much for the French Army and now the breaking point was reached. While... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 6 | The Battle of Messines - Explosion Beneath Hill 60 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... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 7 | Italian Mountain Warfare - The Espionage Act The US entry into the war had raised some pretty unrealistic expectations among the Allies. When General Pershing arrived in Britain, King George... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 8 | The Disillusionment of Lawrence of Arabia Almost a year after the secret signing of the Sykes-Picot-Agreement, British intelligence officer and guerrilla fighter T.E. Lawrence learns about... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 9 | Russia's New Offensive - The Russian Women's Battalion of Death After the Russian Revolution, fresh optimism is gripping the troops at the front line and another offensive is planned. The first American troops... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Turmoil In The Reichstag - The Kerensky Offensive The German home front is shaken by a political scandal this week 100 years ago. A member of the Center party reveals that the German unrestricted... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 11 | Operation Beach Party - Mustard Gas Unleashed British Commander Sir Douglas Haig is still convinced of his coming offensive in Flanders. But the Germans now that something is afoot and launch a... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 12 | July Days In Petrograd - Blood On The Nevsky Prospect The tensions between the Russian Provisional Government, between the civilians and the Bolsheviks turn violent this week 100 years ago. Machine Guns... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Three Years of World War 1 Christmas 1914 - that's when the war was supposed to be over. And now, in the summer of 1917, it entered its fourth year and there was no end in... |
| Saison 4 - épisode 14 | The Battle of Passchendaele - Mutiny in the German Navy Douglas Haig had been busy since the Battle of Arras came to an end. He amassed huge artillery concentration, got his hands on the new British Mark... | |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 15 | Despair Everywhere This week Russo-Romanian forces clash with the Central Power´s counteroffensive in the Second Battle of Oltuz. The failure of the Kerensky Offensive... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 16 | The Battle of Hill 70 - Mackensen Advances in Romania The Battle of Passchendaele has turned into a muddy mess, the weather conditions take a toll on both the defenders and the attackers alike. The... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 17 | The 2nd Battle Of Verdun - Lost Opportunities On The Isonzo River The 11th Battle of the Isonzo river continued this week and the Italians manage to break through parts of the Austro-Hungarian lines, they hesitate... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 18 | The Moscow State Conference - Black Sea Revolutionaries The political factions that oppose the rise of Bolshevism in post-revolutionary Russia come together for a conference this week 100 years ago. But... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 19 | The Fall of Riga - 11th Battle of the Isonzo River The German Army under Oskar von Hutier and his artillery officer Georg "Durchbruchmüller" Bruchmüller takes Riga from the Russians, the French... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 20 | Attempted Military Coup in Russia - The Kornilov Affair The situation in Russia further escalates as Lavr Kornilov attempts to gain complete power with a military coup. The result is a disaster for him... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 21 | British Advance At Passchendaele Herbert Plumer had a cunning plan to crack the German defences at Passchendaele, he would "bite and hold" only small pieces of the German Hindenburg... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 22 | Battle of Polygon Wood - Betrayal At The Italian Front The British and Australian forces under Sir Herbert Plumer continue to advance at Passchendaele. Plumer's new tactic comes with a high price in men... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 23 | Sabotage In The Desert - Battle of Broodseinde While the regular British forces were advancing towards Jerusalem and Baghdad, T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt were causing havoc behind the lines.... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 24 | Operation Albion - Passchendaele Drowns In Mud The situation for the German Army on the Western Front looks grim, but in the East they have the upper hand and this week begin to put pressure on... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 25 | Operation Albion Concludes - Allied Failures In Belgium 100 years ago this week, Operation Albion comes to a successful end for the Germans, as revolution is on the horizon in Russia. The Allies aren’t... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 26 | The Battle of La Malmaison - Breakthrough at Caporetto The French score a morale boosting victory over the German at La Malmaison, but the Canadians were not so successful elsewhere on the Western Front.... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 27 | Battle of Beersheba - Canadian Frustration - Balfour Declaration On the Western Front this week, the Canadians under Sir Arthur Currie attempt to advance once more, whilst Haig remains optimistic about an imminent... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 28 | The Russian October Revolution 1917 After the turmoil of the past weeks in Petrograd, the Soviets and the Red Guards seize the opportunity and topple the provisional government under... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 29 | The End Of Passchendaele - Fighting in Petrograd The Anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia are trying to fight back last week's revolution. The Battle of Passchendaele ends after 3 months of fighting and... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 30 | Tank Corps Unleashed - The Battle of Cambrai After stopping the offensive at Passchendaele, the British Army launches another, albeit more limited, offensive. Almost 500 tanks are put into... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 31 | All Quiet On The Eastern Front - Action in East Africa This week in the Great War, the Battle of the Ngomano was fought in East Africa between the Germans and Portuguese, which was a decisive win for... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 32 | Halifax Explosion - Peace in the East? This week in the Great War, we see some action in Italy and none at all in Russia - the peace negotiations are well underway. The Allied Supreme War... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 33 | Jerusalem Surrenders - Bolsheviks Consolidate Control This week in the Great War, the British under Allenby capture the Holy City. Meanwhile the British War Cabinet beings to strategise for future... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 34 | The Armistice of Brest-Litovsk An armistice between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia is signed this week 100 years ago at Brest-Litovsk. And right away the Germans make their... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 35 | Ludendorff Plans for a Spring Offensive This week, the peace negotiations are underway at Brest-Litovsk. Meanwhile, the German High Command begins to plan for a game-changing offensive in... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Machinations In The British High Command 1918 starts with machinations in the British High Command since Prime Minister Lloyd George is holding back troops and generally would like to... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points In the first full week of 1918, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlines his points for peace. In the Caucasus, the increasing instability leads to... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Assassination Attempt on Lenin - Chaos in Romania This week in Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was almost killed by sharpshooters in Petrograd and the Constituent Assembly meets. Tensions... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Civil War in Finland and the Ukraine This week in the Great War, two more wars start - the Finnish Civil War and the Ukrainian War of Independence. Meanwhile, David Lloyd George pulls... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Strikes and Mutiny Public opinion is turning against the war for the Central Powers but not only that, mutinies are also happening more frequently. Winning the war... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Austro-Hungarian House of Cards The situation for Austria-Hungary is dire, even after the success in Italy and the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. Strikes and mutinies break... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 7 | No War, No Peace – Trotsky's Gamble he negotiations between the Bolsheviks, the German High Command and Austria-Hungary reach a new low this week 100 years ago. Leon Trotsky is playing... | |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Operation Faustschlag - Germany Advances In The East Again Germany has had enough with the stalling tactics by the Bolsheviks and is unleashing its military might on the Eastern Front again to show who is in... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 9 | Ludendorff's Window Of Opportunity German victory in the East, chaos in the British High Command, stable fronts in the Balkans and Italy, the US still not in full strength; German... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Peace In The East - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Government sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending hostilities on the Eastern Front. Previously Germany had... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 11 | Allied Unified Command On The Horizon While Germany is occupying a territory from the Baltics to the Black Sea and planning it's huge spring offensive, the Allies are still trying to get... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 12 | Kaiserschlacht - German Spring Offensive 1918 It was all or nothing for the German Army under General Erich Ludendorff now: They unleashed the biggest offensive of the entire war on the Western... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 13 | Backs To The Wall - All Eyes On Amiens The German Operation Michael continues this week and after some uncertainty, the Germans put their eyes on Amiens. The city is a vital... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 14 | Operation Michael Runs Out Of Breath Two weeks after the initial success of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael looses pace and direction. The German supply situation is dire... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 15 | The Battle of La Lys - Operation Georgette A year after the US entry into the war, the German Spring Offensive 1918 continues with operations Archangel and Georgette. The Portuguese... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 16 | Knocking Out The Hejaz Railway While the Germans are still advancing in Flanders (Operation Georgette), the other fronts are not always quiet. In Palestine, the British forces and... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 17 | The First Tank-on-Tank Battle in History - The Zeebrugge Raid At Villers-Bretonneux, German and British tanks clash marking the first tank-on-tank battle in history. In the same week, the most successful flying... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 18 | Pershing Under Pressure - The End Of La Lys Even though the German spring offensive is not able to gain any ground in Flanders, the allied casualties are mounting. This increases the pressure... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 19 | The Ostende Raid - Peace of Bucharest Even though the first raid on Ostende and the Raid on Zeebrugge were not entirely successful, the Royal Navy is still determined to block access to... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 20 | Rebellion The summer of 1918 saw many ethnic and political groups within the warring empires to openly rebel. The Austro-Hungarian Army saw open mutiny every... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 21 | Bombs Away - German Thirst For Caucasian Oil In the 200th week of the war, the total nature of modern warfare is truly showing its face. The warring nations escalate their bombing campaigns and... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 22 | 50 Miles To Paris - Third Battle Of The Aisne The French and British defenses during the German Spring Offensive 1918 were put to a real test when the Germans attacked. The carefully built... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 23 | The Battle of Belleau Wood Begins The German Army is still threatening Paris and the situation for the Allies looks dire. Reluctantly, General Pershing agrees to put some of the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 24 | The French Counter Attack At Matz The French have cracked the German radio code on the Western Front and use their advantage for a counterattack at Matz. The already hastily planed... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 25 | Second Battle of the Piave River Even though Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna warns against, the Austro-Hungarian Army goes on the offensive in Italy again.... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 26 | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields While the Ottoman Army of Islam is marching on Baku and the Caspian Sea, multiple other players are trying to stake their claim of the Baku oil... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 27 | The First Modern Battle - The Battle of Hamel The Battle of Hamel is considered as the first modern battle. Masterminded by Australian general John Monash, it included meticulous planning and... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 28 | The Gardeners Of Salonica Prepare A New Offensive The Macedonian Front has been quite since the recapture of Monastir except for some minor battles like at Skra. But the five nation Army of the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 29 | 2nd Battle Of The Marne - Turning Point On The Western Front The German Army launches an diversionary attack from the Rheims-Soisson salient and increases the pressure on Paris. But the Allies knew about the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 30 | Ludendorff's Last Swing All of Germany's recent offensives have been building up to Operation Hagen: An offensive in Flanders that was to divide the Allies and drive the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 31 | Four Years of War As the war turns 4 years old, there is still no end in sight. From the Western Front to the Caucasus and the Middle East; in every theater the war... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 32 | The Black Day Of The German Army - The Battle of Amiens Ludendorff and his generals didn't think the Allies had it in them, but this week they attack with the might off several hundred tanks near Amiens,... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 33 | A Resounding Victory - German Morale Plummets As the Battle of Amiens is coming to an end, the Germans are desperately trying to stem the Allied advance and fortify new positions. But morale is... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 34 | Over By Christmas? - Growing Allied Confidence With the recent "Black Day of the German Army" and the success of the new strategy of Allied attacks along the Western Front and with the renewed... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 35 | The American First Army Gears Up - Germany Retreats As the German Army withdraws along the Western Front, the Entente prepares for ever more offensives. This includes the newly founded American First... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 36 | Red Terror in Soviet Russia After an almost successful attempt on Lenin's live, the Tscheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky responds with a terror campaign to consolidate Soviet power... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 37 | The Battle of Saint-Mihiel The American First Army joins the fray on the Western Front with the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. All along the Western Front, the Allies are attacking... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 38 | Allied Breakthroughs In Palestine And Macedonia In a turbulent week of the First World War, the Allies break through at the Macedonian Front during the Battle of Vadar and in Palestine during the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 39 | The Meuse-Argonne Offensive - Bulgarian Collapse This week, the biggest American military operation in history kicks off with 1.2 million American soldiers trying to take the Krimhilde Stellung. At... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 40 | Germany's Reckoning - Bulgarian Armistice While Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonika and effectively exits the war as the first of the Central Powers, the Hindenburg Line is broken on... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 41 | The Hindenburg Line Breaks - The Lost Battalion Returns The Hindenburg Line or Siegfriedstellung is the backbone of the German defenses on the Western Front and this week 100 years ago, the Allies break... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 42 | The Battle of the Selle - Ludendorff Resigns As the Germans are retreating further and further during the Battle of the Selle, Erich Ludendorff – the German Quartermaster General, one half of... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 43 | Italy Attacks - The Battle of Vittorio Veneto After the Battle of the Piave, the Italian front had been relatively quiet and stable. But just as unrest and instablity spread through the... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 44 | Austria-Hungary Deisintegrates - The Ottoman Empire Leaves the War I The Ottoman Empire has been on the retreat in the Middle East since the renewed British offensive in September and now, as the allies are... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 45 | Revolution in Germany - Armistice in Austria Unrest within the German Empire is spreading, resentment against the war, the hunger and the elites is turning into revolutionary action and with a... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 46 | Armistice - But Peace? On November 11 1918, the German delegation and the Allies reach an agreement for an armistice. At the 11th hour the guns go silent and the First... | |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 47 | The Victors & The Vanquished - THE GREAT WAR Epilogue |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 1 | New Wars and Revolutions - Demobilisation In our first new episode, our host Jesse takes a look at the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and how the Spartacists under Karl Liebknecht and Rosa... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 2 | The Russian Civil War in Early 1919 The biggest conflict, or rather series of conflicts, that had their roots in the First World War are today known as the Russian Civil War. After the... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Greater Poland Uprising - Book Picks - Veteran Care It's time for another episode of Beyond The Great War where we answer questions from the community. This time we take a look at the Greater Poland... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 4 | The Lenin Boys Go To War - Hungarian Soviet Republic Like many European countries, Hungary experiences rapid political changes in the aftermath of the 1918 armistices. The Kingdom of Hungary used to... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Bavarian Soviet Republic - 1919 Economy and Reconstruction Jesse Alexander takes a look at the short lived but historically important Bavarian Soviet Republic that existed for 3 weeks in April 1919. He also... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Mussolini and D'Annunzio On The Rise - Allies in Crisis Over Italy Italy joined World War 1 in 1915 after it had been promised territorial gains in the Treaty of London. Now that the Central Powers had been... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 7 | US Soldiers Fighting in Russia - The End of the "Polar Bear Expedition" The so called Allied intervention into the Russian Civil War suffered from no clear operational goals and mandate and when US President Woodrow... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Just Peace Or Day of Dishonor? - The Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was the first of the big peace treaties after the armistice of 1918. In just six months the allied powers had – without... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Estonia and Latvia Fight For Independence - Russian Civil War Baltic Front Estonia and Latvia had declared their independence from Russia in the late 1918 chaos. Over the spring of 1919 both countries' new governments... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 10 | The Allied Occupation of Germany After The Treaty of Versailles When the Allied armies marched into German territory in late 1918 under the terms of the armistice, they were surprised to see a relatively... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 11 | Polish-Ukrainian War 1919 - The Battle for Lemberg Lviv or Lwów are two names for the same city that was known as Lemberg until 1919. The Poles considered it as one of their most important cultural... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 12 | The Drive On Moscow - Russian Civil War Summer 1919 The summer of 1919 was a pivotal moment in the Russian Civil War. Backed with Allied support the White movement went on the offensive in the East... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 13 | Communist Revolution in America? - The Red Scare The American intervention in the Russian Civil War, the economic hardships of workers and returning veterans and the strikes all over the US in 1919... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 14 | Worse Than Versailles? - The Treaty of Saint-Germain The Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and Germany was only one of the peace treaties that followed the defeat of the Central Powers. The new... |
