The Great War — Season 1, Episode 12: Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy - Week 12

Episode synopsis

After defeating the Russian Army in the early weeks of the war, the German and Austrian generals hope to push the Russians back with combined forces. But, like Napoleon 100 years earlier, they underestimate their enemy and his tactics and so the tides are turning on the Eastern Front. On the Western Front, the last frontline gaps are closed and the British army is entering a small town called Ypres, which will eventually be the symbol for the carnage in Flanders for the next four years.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1
• E2Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan - Week 2
• E3To Arms! The Deployment of Troops - Week 3
• E4A New War with Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front - Week 4
• E5The Rape of Belgium and the Battle of Tannenberg - Week 5
• E6Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia - Week 6
• E7Taxi to the Front – The First Battle of the Marne - Week 7
• E8Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 8
• E9The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea - Week 9
• E10Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll - Week 10
• E11Back for Christmas? - The Illusion of a Short War - Week 11
• E13A War to End All Wars - Home Front Propaganda - Week 13