These horrific wars yet was strangely a more civilized time vs today’s dumpster-diving societies.
Motorhead - 1916
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFoqtpUFY8
19,240 British troops were killed on the first day;
In one of his letters in 1960, Tolkien himself wrote that “The Dead Marshes [just north of Mordor] and the approaches to the Morannon [an entrance to Mordor] owe something to northern France after the Battle of the Somme”.
What my history professor referred in class as “the great f%@k up”. It even had the honour of starting on my country’s Dominion Day.
I’ve been reading Churchill’s biography and am currently in the WWI period. The casualties in the war are simply staggering and battle after battle fought to gain a few hundred yards at the cost of one hundred thousand lives. Unbelievable. One quarter million lost in the Gallipoli campaign.... which could have been successful if the Brits had quickly followed up on their initial successes.
I recall the Brits had a special project interviewing WWI survivors before it was too late to lose their stories forever.
Current Englishmen should go to the war cemataries in France and apologize to all the soldiers killed defending the island they gave away to the muslims.
Conclusion drawn since the Civil War, WW I, WW II, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan;:
Working Class lives, especially White Working Class lives, don’t matter.
These are always battles of leaders, but the suffering is always upon the followers.
Why we continue to permit it keeps us in the role of followers…
see my reply 53 for link to cornucopia of videos...World WarvOne Museum and Memorial youtub channel.
The movie 1917 does a great job in showing visually what this war was like. I had no idea for instance that command centers were dug into small caves just off the trenches.