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Thank you for supporting Extra History! We hope you enjoy this early look at tomorrow's episode. This wraps up the story for our mini-series - our next episode will explore final thoughts from James about the writing of this mini-series. Remember: there is also a discussion session this weekend if you donated over the $10+ tier, so please check the Activity Wall and mark your calendars!

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Extra History - World War I: The Seminal Tragedy - Chapter 4: The Final Act

FINAL CHAPTER! Visit our Patreon for information on the next mini-series. Support Extra History on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Subscribe for More Extra History! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTwitter Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.y/ECTwitch ___________ Serbia responds to Austria-Hungary's ultimatum after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the pretext for war grows thinner and thinner.

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Anonymous

I have learned much about the Great War. After all of the history classes, all of the books I read, the games I've played, the movies and cartoon and TV shows and plays that I've seen, I've learned much about it. About who the Allied and Central powers were, when each country entered, where the main battle lines were drawn, and how the war came to an end. I have seen pictures of the devastation, read poems inspired by the mustard gas attacks. and I've played games that let me experience the pain and hopelessness of the common soldier charging mindlessly under orders from a feckless fool of an officer into the jaws of death from land mines, snipers, barbed wire, machine gun nests, and artillery barrages just for a few meters of additional worthless land that will be taken back three days later. And from that, I can truly say: never in all of my life has the soul crushing emotion of that loss hit me until I watched this series. Never has the sorrow, the anger, the...the *pain* that the war caused ever truly connected with me in such a raw form. Now, though, as I sit here with tears running unabashed down my cheeks, as I reflect on all that these rulers - these men - did to try and prevent war, and how stupid circumstance and mistakes caused the deaths of millions of young men and women on a nearly global scale...I also realize that, at last, I can truly understand how awful that war was, and how terrible all war is not just on an intellectual level, but on an emotional one, too. And I feel that this, more then anything else I've ever done, honors the memory of those who fought and died in those years.

Anonymous

This is how you explain history. I was so bored in class... it's like they wanted us to just know dates. Like "this war started this year, and finished this year", but not WHY happened? HOW? Could that be avoided? That's how you learn what happened, and how to prevent it to be repeated. Thanks a lot for doing this, seriously.