

The First World War
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Σ1 Ε1 – To Arms
21 Σεπτεμβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revolution, and it launched America as a world power. The fault lines from its failed peace settlement led to a second terrible world war barely twenty years later.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε2 – Under The Eagle
26 Σεπτεμβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe first months of the war on the Western Front were mobile, fast and dangerous; casualty rates were higher than with later trench warfare. The Germans were halted by the Allies at the Battle of the Mame, fell back to high ground and dug in. The Allies followed suit.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε3 – Global War
3 Οκτωβρίου 200350 λεπτάWar for Europe meant war for the world. Germany gambled that Britain might risk everything to protect her Empire - even victory on the Western Front. So, to divert British resources, maverick German commanders led the British a dance; across the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε4 – Jihad
10 Οκτωβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally, summoned all Muslims to Jihad - holy war - to overthrow Allied power in the Middle East.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε5 – Shackled To A Corpse
17 Οκτωβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mobile, fought across brutal terrain from the Urais to the Alps. It initiated many horros of twentieth century warfare: chemical weapons, mass expulsions of civilians, the persecution of Jews.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε6 – Breaking The Deadlock
24 Οκτωβρίου 200350 λεπτάAttrition; "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas - old, mistaken views of the war on the Western Front. In fact there was constant tactical evolutions; hundreds of generals died in action; some men adopted a system of "Live and Let Live", with countless informal local truces.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε7 – Blockade
31 Οκτωβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe British expected a second Trafalgar - but within days German submarines turned the North Sea into a no-go area for Britain's great battleships. The British responded with a blockade of Europe to starve the enemy out. Germany launched submarine attacks against civilian ships, including the Lusitania with 1200 lives lost.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε8 – Revolution
7 Νοεμβρίου 200350 λεπτάIncreasingly governments faced the risk of their men mutinying, morale cracking, and civilians rising up in strikes and civil disobedience. As governments worried about containing unrest at home, they set agents working to foment revolution among the enemy.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε9 – Germany's Last Gamble
14 Νοεμβρίου 200350 λεπτάIn March 1918 Germany launched a massive offensive on the Western Front - her bid to win the war before the Americans arrived. The master was General Erich Ludendorff - a genius but unstable. Within days the British 5th Army was in retreat, Paris was under shell-fire.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV DocumentariesΣ1 Ε10 – War Without End
21 Νοεμβρίου 200350 λεπτάThe war's last months were more destructive than trench warfare had been. Germany remained on French soil, believing herself unbeaten. The Armistice was the Allies' bid to obtain - on paper - Germany's unconditional surrender.Δωρεάν δοκιμή του XiveTV Documentaries