Operation Crusader aimed to relieve the Tobruk Siege, but turned into the most complicated and confusing battles in World War 2, if not in world history! Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps faced the British Eighth Army as the North African Campaign hung in the balance. This documentary video uses maps and unit animations to detail the events on the operational level - because that's what BATTLESTORM is all about. Watch as the British plan unfolds, how the New Zealanders fight for Sidi Rezegh, and how Rommel makes his 'Dash to the Wire'. Who's to blame for the way this battle turns out? Let's find out!

Good luck to all of you who marathon this, and be sure to boast about that in the comment section below!

The script for this video was approx 84,300 words.

YOUTUBE SUBTITLE ISSUE - I spent 8 hours hours wrestling with technical glitches whilst trying to put subtitles into this video. Every time I “saved” the subtitles, some sentences would be replaced by random other subtitles, and it was almost impossible to edit anything due to extremely heavy jittering and stuttering on the subtitle editing page. It’s definitely because of the length of the video. If you want to see this series with subtitles, please check out the individual Crusader videos, which do have subtitles.

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Timestamps!
00:00 Intro
ACT 1 - Pre-Battle
01:32 Chapter 1 - Context
Part 1 - Strategy 01:39
Part 2 - Fall of Wavell, Rise of the Auk 08:04
19:21 Chapter 2 - British Forces
Part 1 - Auchinleck’s New Commanders 20:05
Part 2 - Units and Doctrine 28:30
Part 3 - British Weapons of war 48:53
01:09:42 Chapter 3 - The Crusader Plan
01:34:02 Chapter 4 - The Axis
Part 1 - Rommel 01:34:50
Part 2 - Axis Forces 01:47:06
Part 3 - Axis Weapons of war 02:07:05
02:18:12 Chapter 5 - Preliminary Operations
Part 1 - Operation Sommernachtstraum 02:18:51
Part 2 - Operations Flipper and Squatter 02:31:59
02:39:06 Chapter 6 - The British Attack
Part 1 - The British Advance 02:39:57
Part 2 - Cavalry Charge at Bir el Gubi 02:59:42
03:16:01 Chapter 7 - Reality Check
Part 1 - Panzer Clash 03:16:56
Part 2 - Dancing Panzer Hidden Rommel 03:28:50
03:51:53 Chapter 8 - The Armoured Battle
Part 1 - The Hunt 03:53:04
Part 2 - It’s ok, Everything’s Fine 04:12:47
04:39:26 Chapter 9 - Sunday of the Dead
Part 1 - The Dance of Death 04:40:00
Part 2 - Sunday of the Dead 04:46:12
Part 3 - Crisis Point 05:08:55
05:16:21 Chapter 10 - Rommel’s Dash to the Wire
Part 1 - The Die is Cast 05:17:03
Part 2 - Across the Rubicon 05:25:29
Part 3 - I came to bury Caesar 05:37:26
05:57:34 Chapter 11 - The End of Cunningham
Part 1 - Choosing a Successor 05:58:25
Part 2 - Conflicting Orders 06:11:46
Part 3 - Cunningham Replaced 06:18:50
06:36:25 Chapter 12 - The Infantry Battle
Part 1 - The Tank Clash 06:37:10
Part 2 - The First German General 06:42:58
Part 3 - The Epic of Pienaar 06:57:08
07:09:01 Chapter 13 - Last Stand
Part 1 - Freyberg Falls Back 07:09:39
Part 2 - Stalemate 07:26:14
09:45:17 Chapter 14 - Retreat
Part 1 - A Date which will Live in Infamy 07:45:55
Part 2 - Gazala 1941 08:00:34
08:13:26 Chapter 15 - Accidental Victory
Part 1 - Last Stand 08:14:29
Part 2 - Surrender 08:24:16
08:36:37 Chapter 16 - Analysis
Part 1 - Reasons for Victory
Part 2 - Why was Crusader an Accidental Victory 08:49:45
Part 3 - Who’s to Blame? 08:59:49
Part 4 - Why has Crusader been Forgotten? 09:10:16

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