Hearts of Iron 4 - The History Documentary

ah not yet, not really, I can't get Excalibur out of this stone maybe you can help me Gandalf, I'm murdering your little bastard. I'm sorry, it's just that if I can't get this rusty saber out of this rock, I'll never be king. of England maybe you can use some of your magic Dumbledore Merlin look boy, I can't make you king of England but I can't make you your lord in Scotland, which the Scots will tell you is better than being king of England any day. That sounds brilliant, what mission should I undertake? Will there be a dragon?

Will he speak suspiciously good English without a mission? He only uses established titles. You can buy just one square foot of land and officially become a lord in Scotland. Every title purchased plants a tree to preserve the forests of this planet yes I foresee great destruction on these lands in the future I think this will all be supermarket car parks you might even be buried under one anyway you will even receive a certificate in frame to hang over your round table, a gorgeous certificate, now go to settitles.com escudero and use the coupon code escudero to get 10 off.

Well, I could make you one now. I guess I'll finally get the respective call I deserve and I'm supporting afrostation charities like a tree planted and trees for the future it's January 1, 1936 time itself seems to have stopped as if it's waiting until everyone is ready and then , almost at the push of a button, the chaos, confusion and sirens of daily life begin. This is the arbitrary date that sets the world on the path to war, you know, it's funny, I don't remember anything before 1936, but those were the old days, things were getting better, amelia earhart and she just circumnavigated the world, which at the time I said was quite an achievement, sure there was a lot of stuff in the news coming out of china, but no one knew whether they were good or bad or somewhere in between, time really seemed to fly by in the 30's, the days had passed in what seemed like seconds, but the years after seemed to drag on for centuries and years.

Time and time again, people back then complained about how boring everything was in peacetime. I think they expect Germany to start a second world war or something, of course, which never happened. Adolf Hitler, Germany's would-be dictator was removed from power after a cruel and accidental civil war began in 1937 that ousted the non-aligned party that came after it promised peace and nothing exciting in the years to come adolf hitler, once considered a ruthless dictator in the making, becomes a footnote in

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adolf no, doesn't ring a bell at all, I mean, I have to say that if there was any problem, it was here at home, in Britain, well you see , the common man was getting very bored, it wasn't long before right wing groups were giving rousing speeches in the speakeasies of margate then the unthinkable happened the british union of fascists began a full blown military rebellion this is the moment when that the second English civil war began, to the surprise even of the fascist leaders themselves, who were Surprised when the fighting began, Valeo was just a humble merchant who worked for Pratt's sons, but like everyone else, he saw the civil war coming , it always happens and it's always a disaster before the British Army can assign its generals, surprisingly well-armed fascist troops spring into action. and cause chaos, what you have to understand is that there were no lines because the lines had not really been drawn, these were small pockets of fascism that emerged in cities and towns everywhere, whether we wanted it or not, well, one day always . making toasters the next day they told us on the farm and we're turning into a tank factory we're smashing coupling tanks and he rolled up and it turned out our factories were in one of those fascist areas they got I guess that meant we had than to be 100 fascists from So what are we completely committed to?

I think what you have to understand is that these little pockets of fascist rebels were springing up everywhere in Norwich Plymouth Pontefract, but I think for Britain the really nail in the coffin was the defeat of the Eighth Army at Torquay, the fascists had won. What would become known as the Battle of Britain and the glorious leader proclaimed that never had so few gained so much at the expense of so many, but the British Empire was not yet out of the woods, as its overseas colonies began to break away after this sudden change in national ideology.

Claims that countries like Canada would have been useful allies were quickly suppressed by the new regime, so their importance was completely forgotten in popular histories. Canada, where is what you say? For now, the world seemed at peace, apart from that war, what Japan is doing in China, which no one cares about, every government is too busy with the daily stress of mass weaponry, but something in England is not right and before Before anyone could act, the British Empire questioned Luxembourg's sovereignty in a move that shocked the world into silence. At the time, I simply couldn't believe Luxembourg and its outrageous territorial claims.

It was in the newspapers that they were making the case that we were in direct danger from the beginning now most of us didn't know where that was, myself included. I don't mind telling you, but when the war started it was too late to point out that Luxembourg was landlocked and impregnable, but the British Empire has a way in. They had the answer everyone was asking for. Invade France. The supreme leader declared war and gave a now infamous speech at a rally in the houses of truth we will invade that country at any cost we will fight them on their beaches and in their landing zones we will fight in their fields and streets we will fight them in Their In the hills, they will always surrender, but the British know that invading France means fighting the French navy first, but the British admirals have a trick up their sleeves as the French move to combine their fleets into a single mega flotilla in the channel where they were trapped off the cape. from trafalgar and no one could predict what happened next yes yes they arrived completely on june 6, 1940 with the threat of the french navy gone operation underlord better known as d day is underway the british begin their invasion of france choosing to land the British Expeditionary Forces in the port city of Dunkirk, I mean, as a historian, I'm often asked what the d means in D-Day.

I mean, it's blindingly obvious to me that it's Dunkirk Day, which of course was chaos. Total: Eight British divisions led by Hong Kong's elite Second Volunteer Defense Force met French troops It's a nightmare scenario No one saw coming An opposing landing It's a massacre for the ages It was as if everything had been planned and put together in two weeks and you could tell I heard them They were going to try a smaller aid first in Dieppe as practice, but they didn't carry it out because they realized it was a plan and they didn't have Canadian troops to waste, then only three days After the assault on the beach, the English attack advances. stopped after losing over 50,000 soldiers, the unthinkable just happened, they have run out of men, well the truth houses said the invasion was a brilliant success, but when we suddenly received a huge order at the factory of 50,000 new rifles, well I'm not stupid, I put two and two together of course, it was only then that the government realized that they were not recruiting new troops to replace the losses.

They immediately changed the draft laws to scrape the barrel, which is when I volunteered for the military afterwards. Using a variety of civilian vessels to land reinforcements at the dock due to a lack of cargo ships British forces take Dunkirk What they don't know is that the French are mounting their own armored counterattack British forces advance at the Pas de Calais and are They encounter approaching French forces and what we now know as the second battle of Agincourt end up encountering French forces with s35 cavalry tanks coming in the opposite direction, but they are moving into terrain that is actually very swampy and they begin to be channeled. towards a narrow front, so while the French forces actually outnumber the British forces, the British have the archer and that comes at a high cost to the French cavalry tanks, they are decimated and the British forces work together to them, in addition to infiltrating. some forests approach the side of what could only be described as slightly arrogant French tank tactics.

The French suffer a catastrophic defeat at Agincourt, this buys the English room to maneuver and they soon stake everything on a new battle tactic that would change the situation. Face of combat forever Blitzkrieg I think what needs to be appreciated is that at an operational level Britain's main objective was to capture Paris at any cost so what they did was charge a cavalry division that they had forgotten they had directly in their hands. forehead. Paris forced an immediate French surrender, which is why it is called the Hundred Hour War. It's a bit of a misnomer because it was actually 116 hours and 32 minutes, but let's not divide, it was a remarkable victory anyway, it turned out that the French had trained and equipped a whole new army that could have saved Paris, but they forgot to deploy them, so that was it.

The war finished. I went back to work at Pratt Sons and everyone forgot about Luxembourg, which was really strange. Meanwhile, around the world, the Soviet Union builds six lines of defensive bunkers as they prepare for a German invasion that would never happen Joseph Stalin is desperate for something else to happen, what was all the horror? However, the German Empire followed the famous Treaty of Versailles that limited the permitted size of its standing army, which Britain quickly remembered. and she began to justify the war goals, but how would germany invade britain? The British strategy is interesting, I mean, they decide that Belgium is out of the question, they accept that the ardennes are impossible for tanks, so they just decided to go to hell, mel, straight to the shellfish line despite the fact that The Germans have completely reinforced the western wall but the British have a new weapon in a display that shocks the world, they are deploying a new heavy tank, a monstrous vehicle that would strike fear into the

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of their enemies in the building.

Until the invasion of Germany in 1941, Britain designs and builds a tank which they call, rather unimaginatively, the Mark One heavy tank and this will be a large and complex vehicle that actually has problems being built initially it can only be manufactured. about one a week and there are a lot of problems in the factories because they have to re-equip themselves, they have to learn how to build a tank on a scale that we are not used to in Britain and that means there are delays in production, so in fixed line operation. the real invasion of germany only see limited action in the last week of the real fighting the blitzkrieg stops while the british army waits on the maginot line for their new tanks to arrive this period is known as the fake oh english diesel war uh grass panzer yeah very good uh once the English heavy tanks arrived they broke through our defenses with ease we had nothing to stop them with I kept saying we should have built tanks like this ourselves they could have been that heavy It would almost have been too much heavy, although once again Britain forgets to deploy the RAF until the invasion is basically over.

They defeat the Germans using the miracle of blitzkrieg with Germany now annexed and fascist rebellions beginning to take hold in the former colonies. The sun never really set on the British Empire mainly because the day night cycle was deactivated, but then in a dramatic turn that shocked the world, Britain turned its sights towards the United States of America, this excited the American people because, As usual, they had spent years doing absolutely nothing interesting, but before war could be declared, Japan said it had to go to bed, all the powers agreed to resume the war next time, but the next time it never happens. , so we did very well, it was very fun, very good, thank you.

Yeah these guys are an absolute joke, I don't know what the hell that was all about, I mean they seem nice but don't ever set me up with something like this again, okay yeah I told everyone we'd like to thank. to all our wonderful patreons for their support as always and also this time to our friends david willy and james holland for agreeing to risktheir reputations and careers by appearing in this video. Check out the tank museum youtube channel where you can see david talk tanks and then go immediately and listen to the podcast "We have ways to make you talk" to hear James Holland.

Check out a great story without Murray. It's really my favorite podcast, so go and do it too from James' recent book. Brothers in Arms. It's very good anyway. Greetings.