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The Great War extras

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• E01 Europe Prior to WWI - Alliances and Enemies14. 07. 2026
• E02 Tinderbox Europe - From Balkan Troubles to World War I14. 07. 2026
• E03 A Shot that Changed the World - The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand14. 07. 2026
• E04 Are Those Insane Austrian Railways Still in Use?14. 07. 2026
• E05 The Role of Airplanes and Cavalry in World War 114. 07. 2026
• E06 The Red Baron - Manfred von Richthofen14. 07. 2026
• E07 Why Wasn't Switzerland Invaded in World War 1?14. 07. 2026
• E08 Hard and Muddy Times - The Trench Warfare14. 07. 2026
• E09 The Maconochi Stew14. 07. 2026
• E10 Kaiser Wilhelm II - The Last German Emperor14. 07. 2026
• E11 How Did Gas Shells Work in WW1?14. 07. 2026
• E12 Ferdinand Foch14. 07. 2026

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After the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the following events today known as the July Crisis, the European powers go to war. The Entente and the Central Powers mobilise their armies for a war that is supposed to be over by Christmas.

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• E01 The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 114. 07. 2026
• E02 Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan - Week 214. 07. 2026
• E03 To Arms! The Deployment of Troops - Week 314. 07. 2026
• E04 A New War with Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front - Week 414. 07. 2026
• E05 The Rape of Belgium and the Battle of Tannenberg - Week 514. 07. 2026
• E06 Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia - Week 614. 07. 2026
• E07 Taxi to the Front – The First Battle of the Marne - Week 714. 07. 2026
• E08 Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 814. 07. 2026
• E09 The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea - Week 914. 07. 2026
• E10 Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll - Week 1014. 07. 2026
• E11 Back for Christmas? - The Illusion of a Short War - Week 1114. 07. 2026
• E12 Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy - Week 1214. 07. 2026

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The war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1915 but instead of peace, 1915 brings ever more escalation. The Ottoman Empire and Italy join the war, gas warfare is introduced and the Eastern Front sees huge battles between Russia, German and Austria-Hungary.

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• E01 The Ottoman Disaster - The Battle of Sarikamish - Week 2314. 07. 2026
• E02 In Dire Straits - Russia on Austro-Hungary's Doorstep - Week 2414. 07. 2026
• E03 Onwards! - The Western Front Of Early 1915 - Week 2514. 07. 2026
• E04 Zeppelins Over England - New Inventions For The Modern War - Week 2614. 07. 2026
• E05 All Or Nothing - Winter Offensive In The Carpathians - Week 2714. 07. 2026
• E06 Gas! - A New Horror On The Battlefield - Week 2814. 07. 2026
• E07 Stopping Russia - Hindenburg's Final Offensive? - Week 2914. 07. 2026
• E08 Hindenburg's Cunning Plan - A 2nd Tannenberg - Week 3014. 07. 2026
• E09 Prelude to Gallipoli - Naval Bombardement of the Dardanelles - Week 3114. 07. 2026
• E10 Playing With Fire - The First Flame Thrower - Week 3214. 07. 2026
• E11 The Battle of Neuve-Chapelle - Week 3314. 07. 2026
• E12 A Slice of The Pie - Splitting Up The Middle East - Week 3414. 07. 2026

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2 years after the start of the war, three of the biggest battles of human history are fought simultaneously: The Russian Brusilov Offensive, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun cause over 4,000,000 casualties. And still there is no end in sight.

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• E01 Prelude to Verdun And The Road To the Somme - Week 7614. 07. 2026
• E02 The Invasion Of Montenegro - The End of Gallipoli - Week 7714. 07. 2026
• E03 The Fight for Montenegro & The Disaster Of Kut - Week 7814. 07. 2026
• E04 The Kaiser's Birthday - Hypocrisy in Greece - Week 7914. 07. 2026
• E05 Germany Aims For Verdun - Russia Goes South - Week 8014. 07. 2026
• E06 The Generalissimo Goes Forth - Week 8114. 07. 2026
• E07 The Ghost Of The Lusitania - Russia Takes Erzurum - Week 8214. 07. 2026
• E08 The Battle of Verdun - They Shall Not Pass - Week 8314. 07. 2026
• E09 The US Arms Industry - The Fight for Douaumont - Week 8414. 07. 2026
• E10 Equilibrium of Carnage at Verdun - Portugal Joins The War - Week 8514. 07. 2026
• E11 Battle of the Isonzo - Discord Among the Central Powers14. 07. 2026
• E12 Russian Spring Offensive - Confusion at Fort Vaux14. 07. 2026

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The war gets bigger and bigger as the USA and several other countries join the war. At the same time Russia is drowning in revolutions and pulling out of the war.

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• E01 The World At War 1917 - Week 12814. 07. 2026
• E02 No Peace For The Wicked - Week 12914. 07. 2026
• E03 Fighting on Alpine Peaks - Call for Self Determination - Week 13014. 07. 2026
• E04 Nivelle's Spring Offensive - Royal Conspiracy In Greece - Week 13114. 07. 2026
• E05 Germany Resumes Unrestricted Submarine Warfare - Week 13214. 07. 2026
• E06 Bulgaria Digs In At Doiran - The Final Blow Against The Senussi - Week 13314. 07. 2026
• E07 Russian Bombing On The Eastern Front - US Prisoners of War - Week 13414. 07. 2026
• E08 Mechanised War In Mesopotamia - Toplica Uprising - Week 13514. 07. 2026
• E09 Conrad Loses His Job - Nivelle's Coup - Week 13614. 07. 2026
• E10 The Russian February Revolution 1917 - Week 13714. 07. 2026
• E11 The Tsar Abdicates - Baghdad Falls - Week 13814. 07. 2026
• E12 Kaiser Karl Wants Peace - The Sixtus Affair - Week 13914. 07. 2026

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Even after 3 1/2 years of war, the waring nations still gear for bigger and bigger offensives that will finally bring and end to "the war to end all wars".

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• E01 Machinations In The British High Command - Week 18014. 07. 2026
• E02 Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points - Week 18114. 07. 2026
• E03 Assassination Attempt on Lenin - Chaos in Romania - Week 18214. 07. 2026
• E04 Civil War in Finland and Ukraine - Week 18314. 07. 2026
• E05 Strikes and Mutiny - Week 18414. 07. 2026
• E06 Austro-Hungarian House of Cards - Week 18514. 07. 2026
• E07 No War, No Peace – Trotsky's Gamble - Week 18614. 07. 2026
• E08 Operation Faustschlag - Germany Advances In The East Again - Week 18714. 07. 2026
• E09 Ludendorff's Window Of Opportunity - Week 18814. 07. 2026
• E10 Peace In The East - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Week 18914. 07. 2026
• E11 Allied Unified Command On The Horizon - Week 19014. 07. 2026
• E12 Kaiserschlacht - German Spring Offensive 1918 - Week 19114. 07. 2026

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• E01 New Wars and Revolutions - Demobilisation14. 07. 2026
• E02 The Russian Civil War in Early 191914. 07. 2026
• E03 Greater Poland Uprising - Book Picks - Veteran Care14. 07. 2026
• E04 The Lenin Boys Go to War - Hungarian Soviet Republic14. 07. 2026
• E05 Bavarian Soviet Republic - 1919 Economy and Reconstruction14. 07. 2026
• E06 Mussolini and D'Annunzio on the Rise - Allies in Crisis Over Italy14. 07. 2026
• E07 US Soldiers Fighting in Russia - The End of the Polar Bear Expedition14. 07. 2026
• E08 Just Peace or Day of Dishonor? - The Treaty of Versailles14. 07. 2026
• E09 Estonia and Latvia Fight For Independence - Russian Civil War Baltic Front14. 07. 2026
• E10 The Allied Occupation of Germany After the Treaty of Versailles14. 07. 2026
• E11 Polish-Ukrainian War 1919 - The Battle for Lemberg14. 07. 2026
• E12 The Drive on Moscow - Russian Civil War Summer 191914. 07. 2026

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• E01 The United States Goes Dry - Alcohol Prohibition14. 07. 2026
• E02 The Greco-Turkish War & The Turkish War of Independence14. 07. 2026
• E03 Diamonds or Self-Determination? - South West African Nationalism14. 07. 2026
• E04 The Freikorps Marches on Berlin - The Kapp Putsch14. 07. 2026
• E05 Irish War of Independence - Black and Tans vs. IRA Guerrillas14. 07. 2026
• E06 The Failed Start of the League of Nations14. 07. 2026
• E07 Spoils of War for Britain and France - Redrawing the Map of the Middle East14. 07. 2026
• E08 Polish-Soviet War - First Phase 1919 - May 192014. 07. 2026
• E09 The Spanish Flu Influenza Pandemic 1918 - 192014. 07. 2026
• E10 The Treaty of Trianon - The Most Controversial of the Peace Treaties14. 07. 2026
• E11 The Peasants Rise Up Against The Bolsheviks - The Russian Civil War(s) 192014. 07. 2026
• E12 German-Polish Proxy War In Silesia - French Troops On The Rhine14. 07. 2026

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• E01 Anglo-Somali War - The Somali Dervish Movement14. 07. 2026
• E02 Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian Anti-Colonial Resistance After WW114. 07. 2026
• E03 The Persian Coup and the British Thirst for Oil14. 07. 2026
• E04 Attacking a Fortress Island Across The Frozen Sea - The Kronstadt Rebellion14. 07. 2026
• E05 Bloody Climax of the Anglo-Irish War - And a Truce14. 07. 2026
• E06 Banana Wars - US Marines Occupy Cuba, Haiti & Dominican Republic14. 07. 2026
• E07 Emperor Karl Wants His Crown Back - Habsburg Restoration Coups14. 07. 2026
• E08 Chinese Warlord Era - The Zhili-Anhui War14. 07. 2026
• E09 Battle of Annaberg - Germany and Poland Fight Over Silesia14. 07. 2026
• E10 French Troops March Into Germany - After The Treaty of Versailles14. 07. 2026
• E11 Banana Wars - US Occupation in Central America for A Fruit Company14. 07. 2026
• E12 British Economy After WW1 - Fear of the Bolshevik Brit14. 07. 2026

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• E01 World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War14. 07. 2026
• E02 China's Game of Thrones - Chinese Warlord Era 1922-192814. 07. 2026
• E03 The Actual History of Ukrainian Independence14. 07. 2026
• E04 Spring 1917: Why the Allies Failed14. 07. 2026
• E05 The First Modern War? - Why the 2nd Boer War Was So Different14. 07. 2026
• E06 Why Russia's Smartest General Failed in 191614. 07. 2026
• E07 Why Did The First World War Break Out?14. 07. 2026
• E08 How Turkey Fought a WW1 Peace Treaty - The Greek-Turkish War 1919-192314. 07. 2026
• E09 Start of the Troubles in Ireland - Irish Civil War 1922-192314. 07. 2026
• E10 Prelude to WW1 - The Balkan Wars 1912-191314. 07. 2026
• E11 How Was the Soviet Union Founded?14. 07. 2026
• E12 United States Empire - The Spanish American War14. 07. 2026

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• E01 Why the German Army Underestimated This Tank14. 07. 2026
• E02 British Empire Crackdown in South Africa - Boer War 1899-190214. 07. 2026
• E03 Rise of Franco - The Spanish Rif War 1921-192614. 07. 2026
• E04 Why Russia Lost the Polish-Soviet War14. 07. 2026
• E05 What Was the Deadliest Day of the First World War?14. 07. 2026
• E06 How the Russian Army Collapsed14. 07. 2026
• E07 Why WW1 Cavalry Was Essential on the Battlefield14. 07. 2026
• E08 Why Germany Lost the First World War14. 07. 2026
• E09 World War Zero: 3 Conflicts That Foreshadowed WW114. 07. 2026
• E10 How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts14. 07. 2026

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• E01 How Modern Snipers Were Created in the Trenches of World War 114. 07. 2026
• E02 Why Germany Lost the Battle of Verdun14. 07. 2026
• E03 Why WW1 Turned Into Trench Warfare14. 07. 2026
• E04 Why Britain Lost the Irish War of Independence14. 07. 2026
• E05 Who Really Won The Battle of the Somme?14. 07. 2026
• E06 Why The First World War Failed to End in 191414. 07. 2026
• E07 Why the Russian Revolution Failed14. 07. 2026
• E08 Was WW1 Pointless? - War Goals Of Every Major Nation14. 07. 2026
• E09 The Mexican Revolution - Bandits Turned Heroes14. 07. 2026
• E10 WW1 1916: The Year of Battles14. 07. 2026
• E11 Young Rommel's First Triumph: Battle of Caporetto 191714. 07. 2026
• E12 Episode 12

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• E01 Was Germany Really Starved Into Surrender in WW1?14. 07. 2026
• E02 Battle for Gaza 1917: The Palestinian Campaign of WW114. 07. 2026
• E03 The Irish Wars 1919-192314. 07. 2026
• E04 The Most Pointless Battle of WW1? - Passchendaele 191714. 07. 2026
• E05 Russia's Great Retreat 191514. 07. 2026
• E06 The Spanish-American War 189814. 07. 2026
• E07 Why Did the US Enter WW1?14. 07. 2026
• E08 The First Poison Gas Attack of WW1: 2nd Battle of Ypres 191514. 07. 2026
• E09 Why Did the First World War Break Out?14. 07. 2026
• E10 1917: Turning Point of WW114. 07. 2026
• E11 4 Wars Directly After WW114. 07. 2026
• E12 A German Soldier in WW1: Diary and Photos from 1914-191814. 07. 2026

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• E01 Bloodier Than Verdun? Winter Battles on the Eastern Front 191514. 07. 2026
• E02 US Empire: American Expansionism In the WW1 Era14. 07. 2026
• E03 The Massive Forgotten Offensives of 191514. 07. 2026
• E04 Harsher Than Versailles: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 191814. 07. 2026
• E05 Why the Allies Lost the Battle of Gallipoli 191514. 07. 2026
• E06 Outbreak of the Russian Civil War 1917-1814. 07. 2026
• E07 Why Italy Joined WW1 in 191510. 07. 2026
• E08 Fall of Serbia: Balkan Campaign 191514. 08. 2026
• E09 The End of WW1 and the Russian Civil War11. 09. 2026
• E10 1915 - The Deadliest Year of WW1?09. 10. 2026