00:00 – D-Day
22:11 – Blitzkrieg: The Fall of France
45:28 – The Battle of Britain
1:11:22 – Austerlitz
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WW2 was decided on the Eastern Front, not the Western Front.
One of the reasons why Operation Sealion failed was that he was wasting too much effort on Operation Barbarossa.
Jean d'Arc leading the defeat of the English invasion of France wasn't listed?
The way battles like Tours and Hastings shaped Europe is fascinating, not just for their immediate outcomes but also for their long-term cultural and political impacts. It’s incredible to think how a single clash could alter the course of an entire continent.
I was thinking Stalingrad would be the last battle, but no, not even WW2
Idk Napoleon had fought a few battles that changed Europe for over 100 years. Until the First World War
Napoleon was the greatest emperor of Europe
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Correlation is not causation; thus, no one theatre of war won WW2. Without the West's aid and air power, the Soviets would have been at the Germans' mercy. Without Soviet gains, the West would have lost many more men than it otherwise had. The fact that Stalin ordered his soldiers against the enemy to soak up bullets does not mean the Soviets accomplished more than the West.
You missed the biggest and most critical one. The Battle of the Atlantic. It was longer, covered FAR more territory than any other battle, and involved every branch of service; even the American and Canadian Airborne divisions crossed by sea (since by late 1943 it was safe enough to do that)… and it was won by women. Jean Laidlaw, WRNS, and her colleagues designed the tactics that, even before Liberators and Jeep carriers, make the Kriegsmarine pay dearly for every transport lost. Without the men and materiel those transports brought to Britain and to Russia and to North Africa, TORCH, OVERLORD, and the Russian counteroffensive after Barbarossa Pytor'ed out would have _never happened_.
It it said that junior officers study tactics; senior officers study logistics. In this case the Wrens studied the tactics necessary to make the logistics possible_… The ships upon which they never set foot were the _sine qua non of winning the war. It's not iconic, it's not glamourous atall; it's a bunch of really sharp women kneeling over a game board racking their brains, and then teaching what they come up with to a bunch of junior and midlevel officers who then had to go out in the freezing Atlantic and fight a frustrating war with both the Reich and Mother Nature… and your true measure of success wasn't how many of Jerry's whatsises you sent to the bottom, but how many of your own folks they *didn't*…
Of course, a heck of a lot of that stuff involved signing the Official Secrets Act, which meant it didn't come to light until this century, but twenty-five years after it did has been more than long enough, don't you think?
Tours and the Seige of Vienna should be on this list.
D-Day was inconsequential. Germany was well on the way to losing the war by the time of D-Day. The historical impact of D-Day was the location of the East/West division in Europe after the war, not the defeat of the Nazis. That was determined at Stalingrad.
Dan Snow's "History Hit" network is you traditional Western-centric/bias history channel. If you were educated in the West, you won't learn anything new, nor breakout of they mythology that system imposes on you. I'm not sure if Mr. Snow has oriented things this way intentionally, or if he believes the mythology himself.
Poltava 1709….
What about the Battle of the Tollense Valley (c. 1300 BC), the Battle of Alesia (52 BC), the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9 AD), the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451), the Battle of Soissons (486), the Battle of Tours (732), the First Battle of the Marne (1914)…
Three battles from WW2 is a bit blinkered…
Frankreich ist wie eine Frau, es fällt immer in die Arme des Stärkeren