{"id":98090,"date":"2026-02-08T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98090"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:44:54","slug":"ww1-the-eastern-front-in-1914-ep-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/ww1-the-eastern-front-in-1914-ep-5\/","title":{"rendered":"WW1: The Eastern Front in 1914 | EP 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WErG2evYNlM?si=ObzGpzCN6Z_lH93N\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Sept 2025<\/p>\n<p>While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it an even bloodier and more brutal arena than the West? As Austria took on its great antagonist &mdash; the spark of the entire war &mdash; Serbia, why were its early campaigns constantly blighted by disaster? What terrible mistake did Russia, with its behemoth of an army, make? How would its dramatic war with Germany unfold? And, would this be the beginning of the end of the Habsburg Empire?<\/p>\n<p>Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the outbreak of the First World War on the Eastern Front, and its early clashes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Adobe AD<br \/>\n0:50 Intro<br \/>\n3:27 The Eastern Front explained<br \/>\n5:15 The Serbian Front<br \/>\n33:23 Uber AD<br \/>\n34:02 Folio Society AD<br \/>\n35:33 Russia invades Germany<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Animator: Michael Sherdyts &#8211; YT:    \/ mercenarycamp<br \/>\nProducer: Theo Young-Smith<br \/>\nAssistant Producer: Tabby Syrett<br \/>\nSocial Producer: Harry Balden<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 8 Sept 2025 While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it an even bloodier and more brutal arena than the West? As Austria took on its great antagonist &mdash; the spark of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7,5,1119,246],"tags":[418,1104,988,1604,1228],"class_list":["post-98090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-austria","tag-prussia","tag-serbia","tag-therestishistory","tag-warcrimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pw6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98094,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090\/revisions\/98094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}