It is bedtime stories for war nerds. Just like as a child you knew how the story ended so you stay in touch as you drifted off to sleep. And they all lived happily ever after the war.
I love sleeping to this,, be good if you could put all the "series" that you've uploaded on here as 1 very, very, very long documentary, great work though
Sadly his miss pronunciation of so many places and names "grinds the bones!" How do you spend so much time putting together a presentation like this and fail to find out how to pronounce these things correctly. A major let down for the whole series :(
I just want to thank you for keeping the ads off here. These have been a great help falling asleep- weird I know but I find history comforting. You should upload this twice and mark one as Ad free and the other with ads to support the channel as I can’t imagine how long this took you to put this together and make. WWII fascinates me, one part of history it’s important to learn from and remember. So I’d GLADLY watch this with ads during the day to support this channel and the time put into making this. Or given how hard it is to find docs ad free to help people sleep. Start a channel marked to specifically help people sleep-ad free. And add a patreon so people can donate if they can or want to. Then on a separate channel upload it again with ads. Anyway just suggestions. Thanks again for the work this took and keeping it ad free for us folks who need help falling asleep! Take care
Incredible that this was 80ish years ago. We have conflicts & sovereign disputes that fester today. This was & is the most remarkable historic event perhaps - in recorded history. What have we learnt? I think you should watch & listen. You can answer that yourself.
We learned about ww2 but we dont study it a lot it was in high school i happened to like documentary’s so I already knew a lot about it but it was very vague and just skimmed over it that was about 3 years ago tho idk what they learning atm
The U.S. schools only use a skewed ideological version. The students will never get exposed to the background and reasoning from the original war-time sources such as in WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure, for example.
Thank you for a nice script, narration and presentation. Lots of interesting historical footage but unfortunately, there were instances of footage that are of the wrong battles or period. e.g. @42:19 that's not a Russian tank. It's a prototype American T28 Super Heavy Tank built in 1945, of which, only 2 prototypes were built prior to end of war. @3:31:58 that's a US Infantry and M18 Recoilless rifle. Both are not in the narrated time-line of Sept 1940.
1:55 "In 1937, Chamberlain was elected prime minister." I'm shocked that a British historian would make such a glaring error. The majority party in Commons selects the prime minister, who's then officially appointed by the monarch. Not only is there no election, but there wasn't even a general election in 1937. And to illustrate the Christmas Blitz over London, 4:22:44 shows a family in Germany. And Gibraltar is a peninsula NOT AN ISLAND.
Well of course he's going to make a few mistakes & missteps along such a long & rocky road. I've even heard him say that Blitzkreig translates as Lightning Strike, even though he translated it correctly in another video. You never make mistakes, I suppose?
@@danielbrowne2436 I do, but when someone points them out, I correct them. But you're right, that he's giving out lots of information, so it wouldn't be perfect. I was just surprised at this particular mistake from a Brit.
Check out “Apocalypse, WW1”. The stock films they used were colorized and slowed down to normal motion. The narration is done well along with the writing. There are other documentaries that use “apocalypse” in the title so beware. This has 6 episodes a little less than 1 hour each. It shows how it started and who and why the alliances formed
I sm listening to these historical days of war. They are interesting becsuse, its possible it could happen again and I look at it as a way of identifying the possibility of the outbreak of a WW3.
Im not sure people today have forgotten WW2 its in SO many realistic games and movies the interest in the holocaust is on a whole other level now and you cannot separate the two so heres hoping
The series begins with lofty goals, but in the first hour of the first episode, there are narration mistakes and the questionable placement and use of stock footage that brought me to a point where I wondered if anyone was paying attention to the production values. After an hour and a quarter, I had seen and heard enough. I am a Historian, so all of this material and a vast amount more are as familiar to me as the street where I live. This entire enterprise is middling to low quality overall, and compared to some of the landmark series done four decades ago, this series is little more than an extended "book report" with someone else's pictures to give you something to watch. I'm sorry, but please try again, and watch the shop while you're trying to make a wedding cake, but wind up with stale cookies instead.
The most interesting part of listening to people talk about WW2 is that they talk as if they're completely outside of these events and have nothing to do with them. Most people don't even know much, if anything, about this period in history. Ancient history and utterly irrelevant is what I get to hear. Yet the world we live in today, exists as a direct result of WW2, just as WW2 was a direct result and consequence of WW1. As a matter of fact, many of us wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for that monstrous conflict. As an example, my maternal grandfather was a submarine skipper in the German nave in the Atlantic. while my paternal grandfather was an engineer on a US Nave sub in the Atlantic at the same time. After the war, after being released from British captivity, my grandpa packed up his family and came to America. The two families met, their kids married, and my siblings and I are the result. So, anything I do with my life, is a direct consequence of WW2 and had that conflict not happened, then I wouldn't be sitting here typing this comment
Hi enjoying the program except for one thing! You keep referring to Britain when you should be saying UK. Perhaps you are unaware that Britain is only England and Wales. It became Great Britain in 1707 with the Act of Union with Scotland. So your comments Britain did this and Britain did that is very insulting to the many people of Scotland and Northern Ireland! Who paid the ultimate sacrifice! When I watch a history program I expect the history to be factual! Perhaps in future programs you could fix this? Regards Andy
It was an era that bought many changes not just death and destruction. War brings out both the best and worst in humans and marks out segments of time in social developments regarding technology and industry. War never ends it just dies down only to blow up again when things are not right. War also helps with population control even though it sounds cruel. Where there are shortages and not enough to eat you get unrest. We would like a happily ever after but it will never be.Humans are pretentious primates not gods and have that nasty streak that is constantly fighting for someone to be top of the wood pile. Even the social hierarchy is similar where you have lower ranking monkeys submit to those higher ranking bullies who get all the goodies.
34:50 - German casualties during the Polish campaign were minimal? Cite sources please! This statement flies in the face of even contemporary German assessments that German ground forces casualties were "heavy" and significant. This fact is attributed as the reason for the length of the delay for launching the German spring offensive (late May, 1940) in the Low Countries and France as the Wehrmacht needed extra time to draft and train troops to replace significant losses suffered in the Polish Campaign. Even German losses in the May 1940 western offensive were considered significant enough for OKH to revise their expected manpower requirements for the Russian Campaign slated for the spring of 1941 (critically delayed until June 22, 1941). In general, German ground force casualties resulted in the Wehrmacht always being short of "ground pounders" as signified by their efforts to recruit "non-Aryan" troops from conquered countries and other nations as early as 1941, putting lie to the claim of exclusively "pure" Aryan warfighters in the German armed forces. Such recruitment was not an "eleventh hour" late war act of desperation.
Germany had won the war in Europe . It was only when he attacked the USSR that he lost the war . Same with Japan. They only lost the war because they attacked America. Very stupid mistakes.
Utterly simplistic viewpoint. You ignore two relevant facts regardless of outcomes of the European land campaigns: (1) Germany was blockaded as early as 3 Sept, 1939 by the most powerful navy in the world, the Royal Navy, and thus was immediately cutoff from many critical raw materials (and thus the main reason for not invading Sweden). (2) the USA began increasing war production early in 1940 (the "Arsenal of Democracy") and by October, 1940, all men of military age were registered in the Selective Service system and started being drafted into the military. The USA would have continued supplying arms and materiel to Great Britain and her colonies even if Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler had not stupidly declared war on the US days later. The naval blockage was decisive in not one but TWO wars involving Germany.
Looking at that first scene you can imagine what big heads the Nazis and Hitler himself had. Thousands clapping cheering them on. Its very easy to see how nuts they became.
At 5:52, "the bombing of Chong-Kwing" to show that there's no hoity-toity professionalism stuff around here, this is strictly the amateur hour. The Q in Chongqing is of course pronounced "CH" as in "church," Chong-Ching." It's Q, no QU here. The 庆 in Chongqing means "celebration," and it's a perfectly ordinary word to find in a Chinese place name, as these folks would know -- if they were even faintly qualified to make a documentary about China. The "Chong" is "heavy," so maybe think "Happy Valley" or some such as an ordinary place-name but this is not a documentary about China. It's a nice soporific piece of Anglo propaganda, good anodyne stuff to go to sleep to. (I was drowsing off, but was jolted awake by that bizarre "Chong Kwing" clanger.)
really dodgy amateurish' history and appallingly bad use of archival footage i.e. King Tiger tanks in December 1939, SU-85 tank destroyers and T-34/43 tanks invading Poland etc etc. ❌❌❌
I see you simply repeat the old chestnut of how “unfair” Versailles was. A bit more research and you could have done so much better. I stopped at that point.
Some great film and photos here, but the narration is fairly bad, and the 'history' is pretty thin and uninteresting from the real thing. Not bad, but not a great documentary
Am i the only one that sleeps to these masterpieces
Me too. It's relaxing for some reason.
I sleep like the dead with ww2 documentaries playing.
Same here
Same here
It is bedtime stories for war nerds.
Just like as a child you knew how the story ended so you stay in touch as you drifted off to sleep. And they all lived happily ever after the war.
I love sleeping to this,, be good if you could put all the "series" that you've uploaded on here as 1 very, very, very long documentary, great work though
It helps me relaxing so I can sleep deeper without nightmare's.
The best-liked war reels. Thanks again ❤
Great work Liam Dale, thanks for the video.
Your voice is so suited to telling stories, Especially ghost stories.
Sadly his miss pronunciation of so many places and names "grinds the bones!" How do you spend so much time putting together a presentation like this and fail to find out how to pronounce these things correctly. A major let down for the whole series :(
Whatever or wherever you are this series is tremendous! Thank you for posting!
Great documentary series. Thanks for the upload! Really good stuff! 👍👍
I just want to thank you for keeping the ads off here. These have been a great help falling asleep- weird I know but I find history comforting.
You should upload this twice and mark one as Ad free and the other with ads to support the channel as I can’t imagine how long this took you to put this together and make.
WWII fascinates me, one part of history it’s important to learn from and remember. So I’d GLADLY watch this with ads during the day to support this channel and the time put into making this.
Or given how hard it is to find docs ad free to help people sleep. Start a channel marked to specifically help people sleep-ad free. And add a patreon so people can donate if they can or want to. Then on a separate channel upload it again with ads.
Anyway just suggestions. Thanks again for the work this took and keeping it ad free for us folks who need help falling asleep! Take care
Thank you. Very interesting and well done.
Outstanding history presentation. Fit so sit next to the "Battlefield" series and the classic "The World At War."
You should check out Soviet Storm.
@@aliasunknown7476 I think I have seen parts of that.
@@hifibrony It's on the tube!!
@@aliasunknown7476 brilliant series, enjoyed it
Awesome documentaries put together thank you ❤
Thanks for this documentary, brilliant 👏
Brilliant series, thank you. ❤
I love sleeping to these kind of documentaries. Especially if the narrator dude has a British accent
Me too I thought I was the only one but looking at all the comments we are a decent sized community lol
Incredible that this was 80ish years ago. We have conflicts & sovereign disputes that fester today. This was & is the most remarkable historic event perhaps - in recorded history. What have we learnt? I think you should watch & listen. You can answer that yourself.
Thank you , I am 77 , I am enjoying this and Learning too ! I am starting 3 , Smiles Billy D
Great video good narration easy to listen to
I have a question for any parents out there of middle school and or high school students. Is this still taught in schools?. It's a serious question.
As far as I know it is not. The only way kids will learn this now is if they choose to study it in university…or parents teach them about it 😕
when i was in highschool a few years back we studied post ww1 germany and hitlers politics
Nope it’s not
We learned about ww2 but we dont study it a lot it was in high school i happened to like documentary’s so I already knew a lot about it but it was very vague and just skimmed over it that was about 3 years ago tho idk what they learning atm
The U.S. schools only use a skewed ideological version. The students will never get exposed to the background and reasoning from the original war-time sources such as in WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure, for example.
Nice narration.
LOL love the "comfort breaks" expression. It does sound nicer than "pee breaks".😀
Just started over, took me a year of bedtimes to be somewhat familiar with the 1st 10 to 12 hrs
i took my time and savored every word. took two weeks.
Cannot seem to get enough.
Thank you for a nice script, narration and presentation. Lots of interesting historical footage but unfortunately, there were instances of footage that are of the wrong battles or period.
e.g. @42:19 that's not a Russian tank. It's a prototype American T28 Super Heavy Tank built in 1945, of which, only 2 prototypes were built prior to end of war.
@3:31:58 that's a US Infantry and M18 Recoilless rifle. Both are not in the narrated time-line of Sept 1940.
It's Christmas in August!!!! How awesome is this?!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
1:55 "In 1937, Chamberlain was elected prime minister." I'm shocked that a British historian would make such a glaring error. The majority party in Commons selects the prime minister, who's then officially appointed by the monarch. Not only is there no election, but there wasn't even a general election in 1937. And to illustrate the Christmas Blitz over London, 4:22:44 shows a family in Germany. And Gibraltar is a peninsula NOT AN ISLAND.
That is why I ceased watching, and DRC'd. Alright, for naive children.
Well of course he's going to make a few mistakes & missteps along such a long & rocky road. I've even heard him say that Blitzkreig translates as Lightning Strike, even though he translated it correctly in another video. You never make mistakes, I suppose?
@@danielbrowne2436 That response took you SEVEN MONTHS to formulate? SEVEN MONTHS? Get a hobby..
@@danielbrowne2436 I do, but when someone points them out, I correct them. But you're right, that he's giving out lots of information, so it wouldn't be perfect. I was just surprised at this particular mistake from a Brit.
Check out “Apocalypse, WW1”. The stock films they used were colorized and slowed down to normal motion. The narration is done well along with the writing. There are other documentaries that use “apocalypse” in the title so beware.
This has 6 episodes a little less than 1 hour each. It shows how it started and who and why the alliances formed
I sm listening to these historical days of war. They are interesting becsuse, its possible it could happen again and I look at it as a way of identifying the possibility of the outbreak of a WW3.
No !!! You are not the only one “( One Finds Themselves Amazed!!!🤔
Excellent video! The more I hear of Stalin, the more I think he was Hitler's equal and should have faced work crimes trials himself, like Putin.
how many times you have use stock footage to go over, over, and over again???
3:33:33 - That's when interesting Ep.5 actually starts.
Isn't that nice.
I agree, this content is oddly comforting. ZZZZZZ
Im not sure people today have forgotten WW2 its in SO many realistic games and movies the interest in the holocaust is on a whole other level now and you cannot separate the two so heres hoping
A billion? Crazy 😅
Are you creating a new backup? Because we both know this will be taken down, again.
I stand corrected. Did they finally accept your offer @LiamDale?
Thank you . ( 2024 / May / 26 )
The first email was on that enigma machine.
lol
Queen Elizabeth sent the first email in 1975. Enigma was a code breaking machine, it didn't send messages
About 45 minutes and I'm snoring.Wake up rewind and start again
Basic Geography....Malta is an Island....Gibraltar is at the tip of a peninsula.
The series begins with lofty goals, but in the first hour of the first episode, there are narration mistakes and the questionable placement and use of stock footage that brought me to a point where I wondered if anyone was paying attention to the production values. After an hour and a quarter, I had seen and heard enough. I am a Historian, so all of this material and a vast amount more are as familiar to me as the street where
I live. This entire enterprise is middling to low quality overall, and compared to some of the landmark series done four decades ago, this series is little more than an extended "book report" with someone else's pictures to give you something to watch. I'm sorry, but please try again, and watch the shop while you're trying to make a wedding cake, but wind up with stale cookies instead.
👋🤡
Oh Hell Yea!
The most interesting part of listening to people talk about WW2 is that they talk as if they're completely outside of these events and have nothing to do with them. Most people don't even know much, if anything, about this period in history. Ancient history and utterly irrelevant is what I get to hear. Yet the world we live in today, exists as a direct result of WW2, just as WW2 was a direct result and consequence of WW1. As a matter of fact, many of us wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for that monstrous conflict. As an example, my maternal grandfather was a submarine skipper in the German nave in the Atlantic. while my paternal grandfather was an engineer on a US Nave sub in the Atlantic at the same time. After the war, after being released from British captivity, my grandpa packed up his family and came to America. The two families met, their kids married, and my siblings and I are the result. So, anything I do with my life, is a direct consequence of WW2 and had that conflict not happened, then I wouldn't be sitting here typing this comment
Hi enjoying the program except for one thing!
You keep referring to Britain when you should be saying UK.
Perhaps you are unaware that Britain is only England and Wales.
It became Great Britain in 1707 with the Act of Union with Scotland.
So your comments Britain did this and Britain did that is very insulting to the many people of Scotland and Northern Ireland! Who paid the ultimate sacrifice!
When I watch a history program I expect the history to be factual!
Perhaps in future programs you could fix this?
Regards
Andy
Really? It's that important to you? That he's missed the word Great? We're doomed.
It was an era that bought many changes not just death and destruction. War brings out both the best and worst in humans and marks out segments of time in social developments regarding technology and industry. War never ends it just dies down only to blow up again when things are not right. War also helps with population control even though it sounds cruel. Where there are shortages and not enough to eat you get unrest. We would like a happily ever after but it will never be.Humans are pretentious primates not gods and have that nasty streak that is constantly fighting for someone to be top of the wood pile. Even the social hierarchy is similar where you have lower ranking monkeys submit to those higher ranking bullies who get all the goodies.
Anything that ends in nuclear devastation has got to be captivating. 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
34:50 - German casualties during the Polish campaign were minimal? Cite sources please! This statement flies in the face of even contemporary German assessments that German ground forces casualties were "heavy" and significant. This fact is attributed as the reason for the length of the delay for launching the German spring offensive (late May, 1940) in the Low Countries and France as the Wehrmacht needed extra time to draft and train troops to replace significant losses suffered in the Polish Campaign. Even German losses in the May 1940 western offensive were considered significant enough for OKH to revise their expected manpower requirements for the Russian Campaign slated for the spring of 1941 (critically delayed until June 22, 1941). In general, German ground force casualties resulted in the Wehrmacht always being short of "ground pounders" as signified by their efforts to recruit "non-Aryan" troops from conquered countries and other nations as early as 1941, putting lie to the claim of exclusively "pure" Aryan warfighters in the German armed forces. Such recruitment was not an "eleventh hour" late war act of desperation.
Gibraltar is not an Island
Exactly right, it’s a peninsula
"We will expect it to be hard! And long!"
-Winston Churchill
*childish chuckle*
War is Hell
Germany had won the war in Europe . It was only when he attacked the USSR that he lost the war . Same with Japan. They only lost the war because they attacked America. Very stupid mistakes.
Nah , dumb ass Adolf declared war on America .
And Americans response was " Hold my beer !!"
100% agreement
Utterly simplistic viewpoint. You ignore two relevant facts regardless of outcomes of the European land campaigns: (1) Germany was blockaded as early as 3 Sept, 1939 by the most powerful navy in the world, the Royal Navy, and thus was immediately cutoff from many critical raw materials (and thus the main reason for not invading Sweden). (2) the USA began increasing war production early in 1940 (the "Arsenal of Democracy") and by October, 1940, all men of military age were registered in the Selective Service system and started being drafted into the military. The USA would have continued supplying arms and materiel to Great Britain and her colonies even if Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler had not stupidly declared war on the US days later. The naval blockage was decisive in not one but TWO wars involving Germany.
4:32 "..is often referred to as The Great War, although there was little that was great about it."....HORRIBLE NARRATIVE!
Looking at that first scene you can imagine what big heads the Nazis and Hitler himself had. Thousands clapping cheering them on. Its very easy to see how nuts they became.
Naw man. I'm an addict.
Germany v The International Banking Syndicate.
At 5:52, "the bombing of Chong-Kwing" to show that there's no hoity-toity professionalism stuff around here, this is strictly the amateur hour.
The Q in Chongqing is of course pronounced "CH" as in "church," Chong-Ching." It's Q, no QU here.
The 庆 in Chongqing means "celebration," and it's a perfectly ordinary word to find in a Chinese place name, as these folks would know -- if they were even faintly qualified to make a documentary about China.
The "Chong" is "heavy," so maybe think "Happy Valley" or some such as an ordinary place-name but this is not a documentary about China. It's a nice soporific piece of Anglo propaganda, good anodyne stuff to go to sleep to. (I was drowsing off, but was jolted awake by that bizarre "Chong Kwing" clanger.)
Hardly😂
IVE WON WW1 AND 2 IN MY DREAMS!!
Industrial scale war
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Too many commercial interruptions, it becomes unwatchable.
Thank you for letting us know. I have now fixed this for you so hopefully you will enjoy it more.
im just wondering why you think its ok to steal peoples videos?
Just so you know, all the videos on this channel have been correctly licensed from the rights holder. We're not in the business of stealing videos.
Wow, they just told you in your face!!! You won't be forgetting this anytime soon! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫛🧠
In yo face, sucka! You been rick rolled! Whoooooo!
I'm just wondering why ýou think it's ok to make unfounded accusations?
We were wondering the same
Something wrong with the narration, robot? Can't watch.
It's not AI, it's actually Liam himself.
@paulreilly3904 think again. His voice yes but artificial.
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really dodgy amateurish' history and appallingly bad use of archival footage i.e. King Tiger tanks in December 1939, SU-85 tank destroyers and T-34/43 tanks invading Poland etc etc. ❌❌❌
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OK I can put up with quite a few mistakes but blitzkrieg literally means "Lightning Strike".
Try "Lightning War"
Hell no 😊
I see you simply repeat the old chestnut of how “unfair” Versailles was. A bit more research and you could have done so much better. I stopped at that point.
This documentary is full of dirty lies!!!
Some great film and photos here, but the narration is fairly bad, and the 'history' is pretty thin and uninteresting from the real thing. Not bad, but not a great documentary
Lol
Troll
Nobody asked for your crappy opinion pal