Not sure who might be interested, but I've been studying WWI stuff, both tech and politics (heck, I own some of the more rare tech...).
I've found a few outstanding channels for this, really head and shoulders above the rest. I found these as sadly, I'm often glued to the couch these days and have time to look.
Timeghost history has some series of "things as they happened" where they don't cheat the timeline, but somehow magically know everything every government knew during the events, for example,
a kind of interesting series for WWII (and WWI and between the wars) week by week, with astonishing research and production work, great presentation. Makes "history channel" stuff look like it was done by and for 5 year olds.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmO ... 5JhHpnj4Ng
There's a WW2 sub channel linked on that page too. The between 2 wars is really fascinating stuff not well covered other places. Mostly the other coverage is just people with some agenda...this is just the real stuff and how people were - and fell into the trap of WWII.
Greg's Airplanes an Automobiles...he's a pilot, but this is the very best coverage of WWII western (allies and axis) planes an tech out there.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynGrI ... gHJAIp9oSg
Drachinifel is the same kind of thing for warships - going back to the throwing rocks days. Hilarious dry British humor usually added in there somewhere too.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Drachinifel
Everything from design to stuff like "ship's cats". The fire control video is a lot of fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbXyAzGtIX8
There are a few more really good history ones, some going back to "and then the earth cooled and grew fuzz all over it, we call life, some people think that's the most interesting part" handling all recorded history and the fall of all the major civilizations in long form - the parallels are striking with each other, and sadly, the present time. I'll have to find some of them again, but these are top notch and will keep anyone interested in these things busy for quite a few days. They have for me, anyway.
Really good youtube sites
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Re: Really good youtube sites
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.