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.
I learned one thing that made WW1 a bunch of senseless violence and one thing I came across was Trench Warfare, and it would make a great essay because it shows the futility and the pointlessness of the tactics used in Trench Warfare. Also it turned the war from something where you could still say your opponent was human, but by the end you hated them so much that you couldn't even acknowledge them as human. So all in all Trench Warfare was pointless, because they fought for barely any gain and you would think hey are soldiers keep dying lets find another tactic. Yet they continued to charge across no man's land in hopes of capturing a trench. Which ended up costing millions and a whole generation lost in the mud.
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