Early Access! Chapter 2: One Fateful Day in June
Added 2014-09-12 14:07:23 +0000 UTCYours one day early, here's Chapter 2 of our World War I mini-series! The video will be released publically tomorrow. You're welcome to share this video with friends or even classes, but we ask that you don't post the link somewhere public (e.g. blogs, Facebook feeds, etc.). These early access links are a gift for donors like you and we'd like to keep them special!
Comments
I don't think that a lot of coincidences had to happen for WW1 to start. The way that Europe had polarized against each other, I think war was inevitable. You are right though, there were a bunch of amazing coincidences that led to it starting the way it did.
Chris Wolfe
2014-09-13 19:48:02 +0000 UTCCliffhanger !!! Almost brought me to tears. Left me wanting more. I love it.
Mom
2014-09-13 14:10:41 +0000 UTCWhenever I would like someone to get interested in history, I will show them this video. Thank you, crew of EC.
Jason Thomas
2014-09-13 05:49:38 +0000 UTCA very well told and moving episode. Very much congratulations, y'all! Tremendously well done!
Kathyrne
2014-09-13 05:47:30 +0000 UTCIn the US textbooks tend to gloss over WW1 in general it just wasn't that important to America, we were never under threat, we didn't lose many people, we got rich as hell selling war material to pretty much all sides of the war, and got to jump in on the winning team for the exiting conclusion.
paul staber
2014-09-13 01:04:47 +0000 UTCI do hope they mention Dragutin Dimitrijević at some point during the series he was then head of Serbian intelligence and the Black Hand, set up the assassination of archduke Ferdinand and had orchestrated a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph in 1911. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on him if anyone is curios. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragutin_Dimitrijevi%C4%87" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragutin_Dimitrijevi%C4%87</a>
paul staber
2014-09-12 22:21:21 +0000 UTCBrilliant. Excellently done. I particularly like how you aren't serving up conclusions or labels... offer interpretations sure but let the facts tell the story. This series is going to be epiiiic....
Tom Murphy
2014-09-12 22:09:30 +0000 UTCI'm sure the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph will respond in a calm and rational manner when he learns that his heir and nephew (the emperors only son Rudolf had committed suicide) has been killed by a group of assassins who received arms and instruction from the Serbian military.
paul staber
2014-09-12 22:04:27 +0000 UTCI gotta ask, is this all from what you have pulled from research? No over or under exageration? Because if it is, damn... what a story! I'm dumbfounded that no one has made some kind of media whether book or film of this moment. And here I always thought Franz and Sophie died in the parade, at least that's what was in my Textbook.
Zachary Taylor
2014-09-12 21:34:28 +0000 UTCWow, that was quite... emotional. I've never really heard someone describe the beginning of the war in such raw emotional terms. Good stuff.
Brian Schulze
2014-09-12 20:17:35 +0000 UTCAnd people say the little things don't matter. This episode is nothing but the little things happening and those little things truly mattering in a global scale. And such an emotional episode as well. Good job Exta History crew!
Peggy (Lizzytpau)
2014-09-12 19:57:54 +0000 UTCYou guys did a great job conveying this series of events. It's amazing how many coincidences had to happen for WWI to start.
Wesley Wu
2014-09-12 19:51:37 +0000 UTCWow. I'm about to cry. awesome video. in an awkward way.
Peter Marenthyu
2014-09-12 18:12:43 +0000 UTCA brilliant piece of history. A well executed delivery that grips you like a good story (and it is)! It really drives home how much consequence one persons actions can have on the world. Well done guys! Bravo!
Maximilian Vermilye
2014-09-12 17:54:13 +0000 UTCAbsolutely chilling at the end. Well written, terrifically narrated, and superbly drawn. Thanks for this!
Ryan Young
2014-09-12 17:23:02 +0000 UTCI hadn't expected you to take such a close, emotional look at that day. It was a good decision and change of pace, and really put us there on that day.
Mask
2014-09-12 16:55:06 +0000 UTCThis is quite probably the best work you've ever done. Thank you!
Trejaan Cavelion
2014-09-12 16:29:13 +0000 UTCThat was great, as expected. Thank you, guys. o/
Frederico Lohmann Jr
2014-09-12 15:54:18 +0000 UTCWow...that series of events...and that end. Thank you guys, as always.
Krishna Markwort
2014-09-12 14:53:29 +0000 UTCJust very sad. What a tragic waste of life.
Russell Wishard
2014-09-12 14:41:16 +0000 UTC
