The Great War (extra credit)

I mentioned in class the "Great War" series on YouTube. This series follows in detail the key events of the war week-by-week. There's an interesting "Stupidest Moves of the First Year of World War I," highlighting some particular senseless things going on in 1914-1915.  There's another great episode on the Stupidest Moves of 1915-1916.

The series has episodes with more details on each of the stupid moves.  Watch either summary, and then choose *one* event you want to know more about and view the episode that gives details on that event or choose any of the other "Great War" videos and comment here on your impressions. If you look at the links to the right on the video here, you'll see all the "Great War" videos in chronological order.

For extra credit, click on the comments link below and note something you learned from the video that would help you write a good essay on the senseless violence of World War I.

Those of you who are interested in guns may like some of the "special" episodes that talk about rifles used by various countries, e.g., this video on German rifle.