Why The First World War Failed to End in 1914 (WW1 Documentary)

Support us and get 40% off Nebula: Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: Nebula Lifetime Membership: In the summer of 1914, following the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand the July Crisis, the Great Powers of Europe went to war. Everyone expected a short war “over by Christmas“ but instead the war turned into a colossal struggle on multiple fronts and trench warfare set in. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: Nebula: » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Afflerbach, Holger. Auf Messers Schneide. Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg Verlor. CH Beck, 2022. Clark, Alan. The Eastern Front 1914-1918. Suicide of the Empires. Windrush, 1999 (1971). Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. Profile Book, 2013. Holzer, Anton. Das Lächeln der Henker. Der unbekannte Krieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung 1914-1918. Primus, 2008. Le Naour, Jean-Yves. 1914. La grande illusion. Perrin, 2016. Lloyd, Nick. The Eastern Front. Penguin, 2024. Palmer, Svetlana and Sarah Willis. A War in Words. Pocket Books, 2003. Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel. Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918. Penguin, 2014. Addington, Larry. The Patterns of War since the Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed. Bloomington, 1994. Ashworth, T. Trench warfare, 1914-18 : The Live And Let Live System. 2000. Doyle, Peter and Robin Schaefer. Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire. 2016. Griffith, P. and Dennis, P. Fortifications of the Western Front 1914–18. 2013. Ferro, Marc. La Grande guerre : 1914-1918. 1968. Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. 2014. Imperial General Staff. Field entrenchments : spadework for riflemen, hasty fire-cover, fire-trenches, communications, concealment, obstruction, shelters. 1916. Kendall, P. Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare. 2012. Linnenkohl, Hans. Vom Einzelschuss zum Feuerhagel. Die Entwicklung der Artillerie- und Infanteriebewaffnung im Ersten Weltkrieg. 1990. Legrand-Girarde, E. and H. Plessis. Manuel complet de fortification. 1909. :/12148/bpt6k5675591g Loez, André (ed.). Mondes en guerre. Tome III : Guerres mondiales et impériales 1870-1945. 2020. Palmer, Svetlana and Sarah Wallis. A War in Words. 2003. Saunders, A. Trench Warfare, 1850–1950. 2010. Strachan, Hew. The First World War. Vol 1: To Arms. 2003. Zabecki, D. “Military Developments of World War I” in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Stevenson, David. 1914-1918: the History of the First World War. 2004. Albertini, Luigi, The Origins of the War of 1914: Volume II, (Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, Publishers 1980) Becker, Jean-Jacques & Krumeich, Gerd, “Outbreak” in Winter, Jay (ed), The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume I, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013) Berghahn, Volker R., “Origins” in Winter, Jay (ed), The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume I, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013) Bischof, Günter & Karlhofer, Ferdinand (eds), 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I, (Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, 2014) Clark, Christopher, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, (London : Penguin Books, 2013) Hamilton, Richard F. & Herwig, Holger H. (eds), The Origins of World War I, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012) » OUR SISTER CHANNEL »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Philipp Appelt, Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt, Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Mark Newton, Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024