Zeppelin Raids in WWI

This is the story of the largely overshadowed, but not forgotten, First Battle of Britain, when German Zeppelins bombed the United Kingdom during WWI.

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[TSmith-yycc]

I can absolutely imagine Brain Blaze Simon acquiring a zeppelin to drop pamphlets advertising his and the other Simon's channels.

[stephanieclark]

I feel this was an important one. Schools only talk about the air raids of WW2, they never mention it started in WW1. I was so confused when some dramas set in WW1 showed air raids with the Zeppelins, it's good to learn that they weren't being inaccurate at all.

[heraldtim]

I have long been fascinated by Zeppelins / Airships / Blimps/ Thanks for this informative episode!

[Kyle-qdsy]

Oddly enough I only exist today because of a zeppelin raid. My great grandfather was waiting to be deployed to the western front when a raid resulted in him losing his left arm. On his journey home back to Canada he met my great grandmother by chance and they were married a month later.

[isaacBson]

“Terror of death, raining from a lacerated sky…” Simon, is that a low-key Slayer reference I heard?

[onbedoeldekut]

You would enjoy the Mark Felton channels, he has made a good few episodes about the WWI bombing raids.

[harrysweeten]

The Kaiser saying that he was concerned about hitting a Royale family member since they were cousins make the wars in Europe sound like family squabbles fought by the common people.

[tomlindsay]

The story of Germany's 4-engine giant bomber biplanes is worthy of it's own video.

[dannykassmieh]

I've been getting into this Channel lately. I am subscribed for all of Simon's Channels. This is the only one I wasn't watching regularly. I'm glad that's changed! I enjoy all of these episodes and binged most of them recently. If possible can you do more ancient battles? I know it isn't an easy ask for your script writer considering sources can differ widely, if they exist in detail at all. For those battles from ancient times that have details I'd love to see more. I feel as though we have a poor understanding of how battles were actually fought from Roman times and the pre-modern era even. Enjoyable video as always! Thank you Simon and Co!

[PeterKimTX]

Thank you, Simon 😅 I’ve always felt that this chapter of WWI has been overlooked!

[KarlBunker]

This episode made me realize that Simon talks somewhat like Winston Churchill: With lots ... of ... not entirely appropriate ... pauses.

[ignitionfrn]

1:20 - Chapter 1 - Hydrogen filled cigars
3:20 - Chapter 2 - The raids begin
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Darts & grapnels
8:10 - Chapter 4 - Terror over london
11:40 - Chapter 5 - Biplanes fight back
14:40 - Chapter 6 - End of the silent raiders
17:15 - Chapter 7 - The shape of wars to come
- Chapter 8 -
PS: *Teodorani* Fabbri ? Is he related to Arnaldo ?

[rickwilson]

Thank you for taking on this topic.
I’ve read two books on what is indeed the First Battle of Britain and what strikes me is how brutally mean-spirited the Zeppelin raids were. No war aims—just kill shopkeepers and children.
And yet it ended up the shape of things to come …

[michaelhughes]

Well made episode, I really enjoyed learning about this part of history

[jasonleman]

the bbc did a series on ww1 called the great war and interviewed one of the zeppelin crew and what struck me was him saying how cold it was in it (the episodes are on youtube)

[seanbrazell]

It must have been....uhmmmm.. AWKWARD to drop bombs then fly away with the speed of a brisk JOG.

[stelleratorsuprise]

Airships with the designation SLxx where 'Schütte-Lanz' airships build with a wooden frame and ZLxx where 'real' Zeppelins build with an aluminum frame.

Even an 'ineffective' air defense has an effects in forcing the attackers to fly in high altitude, making aiming more difficult ore reducing the attack to night raids ...

[GraniteStateofMind]

I’d love to see a video on the Battle of Khe Sanh or the Tet Offensive

[grimmevol]

I have a book called "The Zeppelin in Combat" by Douglas H. Robinson on this subject. it is an outstanding book if Zeppelins and their missions interest you.

[kevinbarry]

Lighter than air craft have always been tempting to humans but also always ended in disappointment.