The Spring Offensive: Germany's Final Gamble To Win WW1 | History Of Warfare | War Stories

For perspective Hitler's last gamble of WW2 the Ardennes offensive involved 26 German divisions, around 400,000 men. The Germans committed over 74 divisions in the Spring offensive. 💀

Brings me back to the original History Channel great times, without aliens.

The RN/USN naval blockade of Germany, which they could not break, was actually what won the war. A land victory by Germany would be very damaging and dangerous but not disastrous for the Allies!

In WWI, the only real gains made throughout the conflict were by the Grim Reaper.

Just a minor correction: following Caporetto's disaster (october 1917) where Italy lost a lot of territory and thousands of men, Italy didnt retreat from its contribute to the war. The Italian Army resisted against the last huge austro-hungaric offensives (spring-summer 1918) and in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto (october 1918) more than one million soldiers were deployed in a counter Attack that broke the enemy front and forced A-H to surrender.

wow a quality older documentary, I live for these. head and shoulders above the newer breed of history hit trash etc

World War1 is my favorite war to study! Thanks for these videos, I truly appreciate it 💗 💖!

American professor - shirt and tie English professor - T-shirt Now I’ve seen it all.

My Great-uncle Edwin Hodges was killed at Paschendaelle and his name inscribed on the Menin Gate in Ypres.

One of the problems with the german creeping bombardment was that they had orders to keep firing all of their shells once they hit maximum range, so when the infantry caught up they either started getting teamkilled again or had to stop advancing---read this in storm of steel

This is great, thanks!

Petain after his last great service to France which was reviving the French Army after the mutinies - was utterly useless. Many people commented on his innate pessimistic nature and defeatism. Soemthing that reached its peak in 1940.

A wonderful historical coverage and explained of that military circumstances...mobilizes the warfare required machanized units which was not excited at that times beneath German empire military even Germans elite stormy units considered a new modern veteran of machized Blitzkrieg war strategy.. Germany rialid on manpower , concentrated fire power at short range, and artillery bombarding...thank you for sharing

Very excellent. Thank You

1918 was such a strange year. Germany could have won the war even in 1918 after all the troops were freed up from the eastern front.

Germany's 1918 Spring offensive in WW1 was kinda analogous to Germany's Ardennes offensive in Winter 1944 in WW2. An act of desperation but no matter the outcome Germany was exhausted and still doomed to defeat.

14:47 Now there's a standstill in the war Repeating what's been done before It must come to an end A few will transcend

My “grandfather’s” dad fought for Russia in WWI. He received ammunition before his first battle, and only survived by picking a rifle off his dead comrade so he could actually use his ammo. Russia did not have the means to fight such a war at the time. Completely under equipped. The war ended for him after he was mustard gassed. He moved to America in the late 1920s and died relatively young, in his late 50s.

22:10 hang on. Your loosing more troops than the enemy isn’t going to be sustainable

For Bullet-Tooth Tony. You can also compare the Tet Offensive with the German Offensives in both world wars. By 1968 the North Vietnamese were in a relatively bad place due to combat and economic attrition. They needed to do something that would end up turning American citizens against the Government and Military. The Tet Offensive was the plan the Communists came up with. Like the Germans the Communists wanted to split South Vietnam in Half. In effect, controlling the Northern Provinces before their final push on Saigon.