passchendaele

This link has an image of the artillery plan for the Passchendaele campaign.

Here's hoping it doesn't take another Passchendaele or Hiroshima to reignite it.

The Battle of Passchendaele alone killed roughly 600,000 men.

It wasn't, it hadn't been for some time, probably since Passchendaele or since Jutland demonstrated that being a Naval Superpower does absolutely nothing when it comes to a big European land-war.

And for me the incoherence of claiming that the romantic notion of war died with Verdun and Passchendaele and then demonstrating that this is an outright lie with the Grenada story might even amount to a neat trick if it was done deftly.

Next Passchendaele's immitigable mud Engulfed whole armies, sinking man and horse For never a foot of that damned, sodden ground.

I wonder if any of the people who died in the Ypres/Passchendaele region, or Somme, would call the war “cool“.

All of this flailing around and creating a new framework every week is like the poor sods trying to struggle through the mud at Passchendaele.

I'm not watching a 'historical' thingy in school anymore, I'm watching a real boy march along in the toxic sludge of Passchendaele, staring at this new fangled camera thing.

Yup: one of my grandfathers walked off the land, got a job as a dockside blacksmith and was a professional soldier in 1913 (bad news, Ypres, Passchendaele, Mons the whole lot).

"During the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, over 3,000 British guns and howitzers fired a “creeping barrage” on German positions" Throw lots of stuff to prevent their soldiers from killing your soldiers with their guns while your soldiers advance on their position.

I wonder if any of the people who died in the Ypres/Passchendaele region, or Somme, would call the war “cool“.

"During the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, over 3,000 British guns and howitzers fired a “creeping barrage” on German positions" Throw lots of stuff to prevent their soldiers from killing your soldiers with their guns while your soldiers advance on their position.

Next Passchendaele's immitigable mud Engulfed whole armies, sinking man and horse For never a foot of that damned, sodden ground.

All of this flailing around and creating a new framework every week is like the poor sods trying to struggle through the mud at Passchendaele.

I'm not watching a 'historical' thingy in school anymore, I'm watching a real boy march along in the toxic sludge of Passchendaele, staring at this new fangled camera thing.