When They Realised WW1 Wouldn't Be Over By Christmas

Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @restishistorypod   EPISODE ONE 👉    • WW1: The War Begins...   | EP 1   EPISODE TWO 👉    • The Moment Everything Went Quiet in The Wo...   EPISODE THREE 👉    • The German Mistake That Changed the 20th C...   EPISODE FOUR 👉    • WW1: Hell in the Trenches | EP 4   EPISODE FIVE 👉    • How Russia Was Annihilated at Tannenberg   EPISODE SIX 👉    • WW1: Downfall of the Habsburgs | EP 6   What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres? What made the fighting so particularly violent? How were the British able to repel the relentless German onslaught time after time? What was the famous “Kindermord” - “the Massacre of the Innocents” - in the German army, and how true was it? And, what would be the outcome of this almighty clash? Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the terrible Battle of Ypres; its significance to the First World War overall, and its consequences for the rise of Hitler in Germany later on…. --------------------------------------- Try Adobe Express for free now at https://www.adobe.com/uk/express/spot... or by searching in the app store. Explore the world’s most loved stories in their most beautiful form - only at https://www.foliosociety.com/. Learn more at https://uber.com/onourway --------------------------------------- 0:00 – Adobe Express AD 0:49 – Intro: To the Front 3:26 – The Kindermord Myth 5:02 – Race to Ypres 11:04 – The Ypres Salient 17:07 – Crisis at Gheluvelt 23:29 – Uber & Folio Society ADs 25:43 – November Slaughter 32:05 – The Langemark Legend 44:02 – Why the War Didn’t Stop Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Animator: Michael Sherdyts - YT:    / mercenarycamp   Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Social Producer: Harry Balden Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor