Includes 36 x 30 min. lectures.
Also includes a Course Guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The cost was ghastly: Altogether, at least nine million soldiers died. Twenty million were wounded, seven million of them permanently disabled. Some estimates put the civilian deaths at almost six million. And countless survivors suffered from psychological trauma for decades after.
The world itself would never be the same. Governments had been given broad new powers to marshal resources for the battle to the death, and these powers have persisted ever since, even in peacetime. Another legacy can be seen almost daily in today's headlines, as border disputes, ethnic conflicts, and ideological arguments smolder on, almost a century after they were first ignited in the Great War.
World War I: The "Great War" tells the riveting, tragic, and cautionary tale of this watershed historical event and its aftermath in 36 half-hour lectures delivered by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee. Professor Liulevicius has a gift for cutting through the tangle of historical data to uncover the patterns that make sense of complex events. And few events are as complex as World War I, which pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey, later joined by Bulgaria, against the Allies, principally France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, after 1917, the United States.
Most narratives of the war focus on the Western Front in France and Flanders, with its mazelike trenches, gas attacks, constant shelling, assaults "over the top" into withering machine gun fire, and duels of dog-fighting aviators in the sky. Professor Liulevicius devotes great attention to this theater, which has become emblematic of World War I in the popular imagination. But the war had other important arenas of engagement that you will also explore in depth, including:
Eastern Front: In his writings, Winston Churchill called this theater the "Unknown War," and its battles throughout Eastern Europe were much more fluid than those in the West—but certainly equally bloody.
Southern Fronts: In a disastrous attempt to break the stalemate in the West, the Allies landed troops at Gallipoli in the Turkish Dardanelles in 1915. Major action also raged in the southern Alps, Serbia, and northern Greece.
War at Sea: The war introduced submarines as a potentially decisive strategic weapon, particularly as deployed by Germany against Allied shipping. On the Allied side, Great Britain used its naval supremacy to blockade German ports.
Arab Revolt: Aided by archaeologist turned intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), the British encouraged Arab attacks against Turkish forces in the Middle East, feeding the cause of Arab nationalism.
Communist Revolution: A battle-exhausted Russia succumbed to the Bolshevik seizure of power in the fall of 1917, introducing a new factor into world politics: the ideologically guided utopian state, which would cast a dark shadow over subsequent history.
Armenian Massacre: The war formed the backdrop for the first full-scale modern genocide: the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey, in which as many as one million men, women, and children of the Armenian minority were killed or died from abuse.
Spanish Influenza: As a crowning horror in the concluding stages of the conflict, a worldwide pandemic swept the globe. The Spanish Influenza killed an estimated 50 million people, exceeding the war itself in lethality." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

DISC 1
Lecture 1. The Century's Initial Catastrophe
Lecture 2. Europe in 1914
Lecture 3. Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture
Lecture 4. Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914
Lecture 5. The August Madness
Lecture 6. The Failed Gambles - War Plans Break Down

DISC 2
Lecture 7. The Western Front Experience
Lecture 8. Life and Death in the Trenches
Lecture 9. The Great Battles of Attrition
Lecture 10. The Eastern Front Experience
Lecture 11. The Southern Fronts
Lecture 12. War Aims and Occupations

DISC 3
Lecture 13. Soldiers as Victims
Lecture 14. Storm Troopers and Future Dictators
Lecture 15. The Total War of Technology
Lecture 16. Air War
Lecture 17. War at Sea
Lecture 18. The Global Reach of the War

DISC 4
Lecture 19. The War State
Lecture 20. Propaganda War
Lecture 21. Endurance and Stress on the Home Front
Lecture 22. Dissent and it Limits
Lecture 23. Remobilization in 1916-1917
Lecture 24. Armenian Massacres - Tipping into Genocide

DISC 5
Lecture 25. Strains of War - Socialists and Nationalists
Lecture 26. Russian Revolutions
Lecture 27. America's Entry Into the War
Lecture 28. America at War - Over There and Over Here
Lecture 29. 1918 - The German Empire's Last Gamble
Lecture 30. The War's End - Emotions of the Armistice

DISC 6
Lecture 31. Toppled Thrones - The Collapse of Empires
Lecture 32. The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement
Lecture 33. Aftershocks - Reds, Whites, and Nationalists
Lecture 34. Monuments, Memory, and Myths
Lecture 35. The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships
Lecture 36. Legacies of the Great War

"The cost was ghastly: Altogether, at least nine million soldiers died. Twenty million were wounded, seven million of them permanently disabled. Some estimates put the civilian deaths at almost six million. And countless survivors suffered from psychological trauma for decades after.
The world itself would never be the same. Governments had been given broad new powers to marshal resources for the battle to the death, and these powers have persisted ever since, even in peacetime. Another legacy can be seen almost daily in today's headlines, as border disputes, ethnic conflicts, and ideological arguments smolder on, almost a century after they were first ignited in the Great War.
World War I: The "Great War" tells the riveting, tragic, and cautionary tale of this watershed historical event and its aftermath in 36 half-hour lectures delivered by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee. Professor Liulevicius has a gift for cutting through the tangle of historical data to uncover the patterns that make sense of complex events. And few events are as complex as World War I, which pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey, later joined by Bulgaria, against the Allies, principally France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, after 1917, the United States.
Most narratives of the war focus on the Western Front in France and Flanders, with its mazelike trenches, gas attacks, constant shelling, assaults "over the top" into withering machine gun fire, and duels of dog-fighting aviators in the sky. Professor Liulevicius devotes great attention to this theater, which has become emblematic of World War I in the popular imagination. But the war had other important arenas of engagement that you will also explore in depth, including:
Eastern Front: In his writings, Winston Churchill called this theater the "Unknown War," and its battles throughout Eastern Europe were much more fluid than those in the West—but certainly equally bloody.
Southern Fronts: In a disastrous attempt to break the stalemate in the West, the Allies landed troops at Gallipoli in the Turkish Dardanelles in 1915. Major action also raged in the southern Alps, Serbia, and northern Greece.
War at Sea: The war introduced submarines as a potentially decisive strategic weapon, particularly as deployed by Germany against Allied shipping. On the Allied side, Great Britain used its naval supremacy to blockade German ports.
Arab Revolt: Aided by archaeologist turned intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), the British encouraged Arab attacks against Turkish forces in the Middle East, feeding the cause of Arab nationalism.
Communist Revolution: A battle-exhausted Russia succumbed to the Bolshevik seizure of power in the fall of 1917, introducing a new factor into world politics: the ideologically guided utopian state, which would cast a dark shadow over subsequent history.
Armenian Massacre: The war formed the backdrop for the first full-scale modern genocide: the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey, in which as many as one million men, women, and children of the Armenian minority were killed or died from abuse.
Spanish Influenza: As a crowning horror in the concluding stages of the conflict, a worldwide pandemic swept the globe. The Spanish Influenza killed an estimated 50 million people, exceeding the war itself in lethality." (Publisher's Website)

DVD CONTENTS:

DISC 1
Lecture 1. The Century's Initial Catastrophe
Lecture 2. Europe in 1914
Lecture 3. Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture
Lecture 4. Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914
Lecture 5. The August Madness
Lecture 6. The Failed Gambles - War Plans Break Down

DISC 2
Lecture 7. The Western Front Experience
Lecture 8. Life and Death in the Trenches
Lecture 9. The Great Battles of Attrition
Lecture 10. The Eastern Front Experience
Lecture 11. The Southern Fronts
Lecture 12. War Aims and Occupations

DISC 3
Lecture 13. Soldiers as Victims
Lecture 14. Storm Troopers and Future Dictators
Lecture 15. The Total War of Technology
Lecture 16. Air War
Lecture 17. War at Sea
Lecture 18. The Global Reach of the War

DISC 4
Lecture 19. The War State
Lecture 20. Propaganda War
Lecture 21. Endurance and Stress on the Home Front
Lecture 22. Dissent and it Limits
Lecture 23. Remobilization in 1916-1917
Lecture 24. Armenian Massacres - Tipping into Genocide

DISC 5
Lecture 25. Strains of War - Socialists and Nationalists
Lecture 26. Russian Revolutions
Lecture 27. America's Entry Into the War
Lecture 28. America at War - Over There and Over Here
Lecture 29. 1918 - The German Empire's Last Gamble
Lecture 30. The War's End - Emotions of the Armistice

DISC 6
Lecture 31. Toppled Thrones - The Collapse of Empires
Lecture 32. The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement
Lecture 33. Aftershocks - Reds, Whites, and Nationalists
Lecture 34. Monuments, Memory, and Myths
Lecture 35. The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships
Lecture 36. Legacies of the Great War

COURSE GUIDEBOOK CONTENTS:

Professor Biography
Course Scope
Lecture 1: The Century's Initial Catastrophe
Lecture 2: Europe in 1914
Lecture 3: Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture
Lecture 4: Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914
Lecture 5: The August Madness
Lecture 6: The Failed Gambles - War Plans Break Down
Lecture 7: The Western Front Experience
Lecture 8: Life and Death in the Trenches
Lecture 9: The Great Battles of Attrition
Lecture 10: The Eastern Front Experience
Lecture 11: The Southern Fronts
Lecture 12: War Aims and Occupations
Lecture 13: Soldiers as Victims
Lecture 14: Storm Troopers and Future Dictators
Lecture 15: The Total War of Technology
Lecture 16: Air War
Lecture 17: War at Sea
Lecture 18: The Global Reach of the War
Lecture 19: The War State
Lecture 20: Propaganda War
Lecture 21: Endurance and Stress on the Home Front
Lecture 22: Dissent and it Limits
Lecture 23: Remobilization in 1916-1917
Lecture 24: Armenian Massacres - Tipping into Genocide
Lecture 25: Strains of War - Socialists and Nationalists
Lecture 26: Russian Revolutions
Lecture 27: America's Entry Into the War
Lecture 28: America at War - Over There and Over Here
Lecture 29: 1918 - The German Empire's Last Gamble
Lecture 30: The War's End - Emotions of the Armistice
Lecture 31: Toppled Thrones - The Collapse of Empires
Lecture 32: The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement
Lecture 33: Aftershocks - Reds, Whites, and Nationalists
Lecture 34: Monuments, Memory, and Myths
Lecture 35: The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships
Lecture 36: Legacies of the Great War.
Maps
Timeline
Glossary
Biographical Notes
Bibliography