"I leave you with just a couple thoughts. The Battle of the Somme in 1916 that started on July 1st when they blow the whistle and say, "Over the top, guys." There are more British soldiers killed and wounded in the first three days of the Battle of the Somme, three days, three days, than there were Americans killed in World War I, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
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One of the most amazing things is that people in the hell, actually that more of them didn't mutiny. That's one of the most incredible things about the whole bloody mess. They died in hell, they called it Passchendaele. That was a place where the British gained four miles, that's about seven kilometers, in exchange for 300,000 dead or wounded, 300,000. Take a football stadium like University of Michigan or UT Austin and fill it up three times, and imagine that you know those people. That's what it was like."
© John Merriman
Yale Lectures on European Civilization, 1648-1945 (2008)
(...)
One of the most amazing things is that people in the hell, actually that more of them didn't mutiny. That's one of the most incredible things about the whole bloody mess. They died in hell, they called it Passchendaele. That was a place where the British gained four miles, that's about seven kilometers, in exchange for 300,000 dead or wounded, 300,000. Take a football stadium like University of Michigan or UT Austin and fill it up three times, and imagine that you know those people. That's what it was like."
© John Merriman
Yale Lectures on European Civilization, 1648-1945 (2008)
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