NaN/100 votes#1 - Machinations In The British High Command - Week 180
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2018
1918 starts with machinations in the British High Command since Prime Minister Lloyd George is holding back troops and generally would like to replace Sir Douglas Haig as commander.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points - Week 181
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2018
In the first full week of 1918, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlines his points for peace. In the Caucasus, the increasing instability leads to daily skirmishes between the Armenians and Ottomans. Ludendorff continues planning for an upcoming German offensive whilst his countrymen negotiate peace terms with Russia.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Assassination Attempt on Lenin - Chaos in Romania - Week 182
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/2018
This week in Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was almost killed by sharpshooters in Petrograd and the Constituent Assembly meets. Tensions rise as Russia issues an ultimatum to Romania, with an order for their King’s arrest. There are also machinations in Finland and some action on the Western Front.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Civil War in Finland and Ukraine - Week 183
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2018
This week in the Great War, two more wars start - the Finnish Civil War and the Ukrainian War of Independence. Meanwhile, David Lloyd George pulls some strings in France, even as Ludendorff settles on a target for Germany’s upcoming Spring Offensive.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Strikes and Mutiny - Week 184
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2018
Public opinion is turning against the war for the Central Powers but not only that, mutinies are also happening more frequently. Winning the war will be a race against time for Ludendorff and Germany's allies. Within the month, the biggest German offensive of the war is to be unleashed.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Austro-Hungarian House of Cards - Week 185
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2018
The situation for Austria-Hungary is dire, even after the success in Italy and the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. Strikes and mutinies break out across the Empire and the emerging drive for ethnic self determination by the subjects of the Empire are worrying to the leaders of the Habsburg Empire.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - No War, No Peace – Trotsky's Gamble - Week 186
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2018
The negotiations between the Bolsheviks, the German High Command and Austria-Hungary reach a new low this week 100 years ago. Leon Trotsky is playing for time since the revolutions in Berlin and Vienna are only a matter of time in his opinion. At the same time, the Ukrainians are try to get German aid against the Bolsheviks against Ukrainian grain for the starving German population.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Operation Faustschlag - Germany Advances In The East Again - Week 187
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2018
Germany has had enough with the stalling tactics by the Bolsheviks and is unleashing its military might on the Eastern Front again to show who is in charge. Within the first days of Operation Faustschlag, the German Army marches on Kiev and the Baltic region. At the same time, the plans for a German spring offensive in the West are getting more pronounced.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Ludendorff's Window Of Opportunity - Week 188
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/2018
German victory in the East, chaos in the British High Command, stable fronts in the Balkans and Italy, the US still not in full strength; German General Erich Ludendorff has a window of opportunity for his spring offensive and he intends to use it. Within the next weeks the German Army will launch their biggest offensive of WW1: Operation Michael.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Peace In The East - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Week 189
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2018
Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Government sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending hostilities on the Eastern Front. Previously Germany had resumed the war in the East to put pressure on the Bolsheviks to accept the dictated terms. The Western Front Caucasian theatre were far from peaceful though.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Allied Unified Command On The Horizon - Week 190
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/2018
While Germany is occupying a territory from the North Sea to the Black Sea and planning it's huge spring offensive, the Allies are still trying to get behind the idea of a unified command.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Kaiserschlacht - German Spring Offensive 1918 - Week 191
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/2018
It was all or nothing for the German Army under General Erich Ludendorff now: They unleashed the biggest offensive of the entire war on the Western Front trying to split the British and French Armies, drive the British off the continent and capture Paris.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Backs To The Wall - All Eyes On Amiens - Week 192
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/29/2018
The German Operation Michael continues this week and after some uncertainty, the Germans put their eyes on Amiens. The city is a vital communications and transport hub for the Entente and so Ferdinand Foch decides to mount a defence in front of the city.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Operation Michael Runs Out Of Breath - Week 193
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/2018
Two weeks after the initial success of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael looses pace and direction. The German supply situation is dire and when the troops find cattle and food behind the British positions, there is no way for them to ignore that. At the same time, orders for a new German offensive in Flanders are given and the Germans land additional troops in Finnland.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - The Battle of La Lys - Operation Georgette - Week 194
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/2018
A year after the US entry into the war, the German Spring Offensive 1918 continues with operations Archangel and Georgette. The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps has to pay the price while the British manage to orderly retreat.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Knocking Out The Hejaz Railway - Week 195
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/2018
While the Germans are still advancing in Flanders (Operation Georgette), the other fronts are not always quiet. In Palestine, the British forces and the Arab Revolt are taking the initiative again. T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Arab Revolt are attacking the vital Hejaz Railway, a major transport factor for the Ottoman Empire.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - The First Tank-on-Tank Battle in History - The Zeebrugge Raid - Week 196
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 4/26/2018
At Villers-Bretonneux, German and British tanks clash marking the first tank-on-tank battle in history. In the same week, the most successful flying ace of World War 1 is shot down over France: Manfred von Richthofen dies after scoring 80 victories. Meanwhile, the British Navy attempts to eliminate the German U-Boat threat with a daring raid on Zeebrugge and Ostende.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Pershing Under Pressure - The End Of La Lys - Week 197
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/3/2018
Even though the German spring offensive is not able to gain any ground in Flanders, the allied casualties are mounting. This increases the pressure on John J. Pershing and the American troops in Europe to finally join the battle.
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NaN/100 votes#19 - The Ostende Raid - Peace of Bucharest - Week 198
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/10/2018
Even though the first raid on Ostende and the Raid on Zeebrugge were not entirely succesfull, the Royal Navy is still determined to block access to the German submarine ports in Belgium. And this week they attack Ostende again. Meanwhile, the Germans are planning their next offensives for late May 1918 even though ten percent of the Western Front army has become a casualty in the offensives this year alone.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - Rebellion - Week 199
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/17/2018
The summer of 1918 saw many ethnic and political groups within the warring empires to openly rebel. The Austro-Hungarian Army saw open mutiny every week, the Irish rebelled against the British, the situation in the newly annexed Eastern European territories that were now part of the German Empire was a powder keg. And in France civilians were sentenced to death for treason.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - Bombs Away - German Thirst For Caucasian Oil - Week 200
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/24/2018
In the 200th week of the war, the total nature of modern warfare is truly showing its face. The warring nations escalate their bombing campaigns and the German troops in the Caucasus are so thirsty for Caucasian oil, that they are considering to double cross their own allies.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - 50 Miles To Paris - Third Battle Of The Aisne - Week 201
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/31/2018
The German spring offensive has lost some traction over the past few weeks but the Allies are still under pressure. With Operations Blücher and York, the Germans are getting within 50 miles of Paris again, just as they did in 1914.
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NaN/100 votes#23 - The Battle of Belleau Wood Begins - Week 202
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 6/7/2018
The German Army is still threatening Paris and the situation for the Allies looks dire. Reluctantly, General Pershing agrees to put some of the American troops into action at Belleau Wood and Château-Thierry.
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NaN/100 votes#24 - The French Counter Attack At Matz - Week 203
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 6/14/2018
The French have cracked the German radio code on the Western Front and use their advantage for a counterattack at Matz. The already hastily planed German attack during Operation Gneisenau is called off after just 4 days. Meanwhile Austria-Hungary plans another offensive in Italy and German and Ottoman forces fight each other in Georgia.
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NaN/100 votes#25 - Second Battle of the Piave River - Week 204
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 6/21/2018
Even though Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna warns against, the Austro-Hungarian Army goes on the offensive in Italy again. In a two-pronged attack Borojevic and Conrad von Hötzendorf attack the Italian positions.
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The Best Episodes of The Great War Season 5
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Machinations In The British High Command - Week 180" is the best rated episode of "The Great War" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/4/2018. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points - Week 181".