The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis - Professor David Stevenson

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  @stevenliu6514 · 3 months ago

  I wish Dr. Stevenson could do more public lectures like this. They are only a couple of videos of him on YouTube. Nearly all of them are done with great delivery.

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  @gabemorgan1212 · 1 year ago

  Interesting point about communication.  At the beginning of WWI, it was the French who had intact communications while the Germans struggled.  Contrast that with the invasion of France in WWII, when the French lost their communications because the Luftwaffe destroyed their telegraph lines, while the Germans had mastered radio.

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• AN

  @andyball1317 · 10 years ago

  Outstanding lecture brilliantly delivered, pity it's only an hr ..

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• WS

  @wskinn · 1 year ago

  The work holds up 9 years later.

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• RI

  @richardsimms-v4n · 7 months ago

  Excellent just excellent talk<br>RS. Canada

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• MA

  @Matthan678 · 5 months ago

  In August 1914 Joffre could move far more quickly than Moltke because Joffre got himself a car and a driver; his Driver was Georges Boillot. Boillot was chosen because he had won the French Grand Prix in 1912 and1913, and would have won in 1914 but his car fell apart on the last lap. Joffre sacked him in January 1915 because he was too dangerous.

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  @fredjones554 · 9 months ago

  Excellent

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  @ssvoogel · 10 years ago

  As someone who grew up in the Netherlands I really enjoy these lectures about the Great War. Because of our neutrality, there is little to no interest in this war in my country, which is a shame, because I find it much more interesting than World War II. The family ties between the King George of England, the Tsar Nicholas of Russia, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany and the Queen Marie of Romania for instance... Intriguing politics leading up to the escalation in 1914 are so much more interesting than what happened in the 1930s.

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  @johncecilia4517 · 3 years ago

  Would the Allies have accepted a truce or treaty from Germany after they gained the Russian lands? Germany had gained a lot of land from Russia, and it was a stalemate in the east &nbsp;for years earlier

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  @x5ruse2 · 1 year ago

  It is mind bogglingly terrible what we did to each other in WW1. That&apos;s why I&apos;m so grateful for the existence of the EU despite its flaws. We have never been so prosperous and peaceful. It is a real shame that the Brits left. They could have greatly helped to reform it.

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  @TheTinoXL · 1 year ago

  Anyone know which British Somme documentary he reffers to?

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  @geekpie100 · 1 year ago

  This historian in talking about the logistics of the early part of the war around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMEFg_-26Ms&amp;t=780">13:00</a>, ignores the numbers moving around by bicycle. &nbsp;This is &nbsp;a common mistake particularly of UK historians, because the bike plays such a minor role in the UK today, it is hard to conceive of a world where it was so pivotal. &nbsp; One would think from this talk, and many other lectures, that there was nothing between the horse and the train / truck, but of course there was.

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