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Monday nites. Damn good.
They way it all started is so insane. And all the leaders being related,well,a lot were.
This coming Monday is the 3rd hour but they are not replaying the 1st two this time.
I need to see that 1st hour again just to absorb more of the factors that started it.
They way it all started is so insane. And all the leaders being related,well,a lot were.
This coming Monday is the 3rd hour but they are not replaying the 1st two this time.
I need to see that 1st hour again just to absorb more of the factors that started it.
I knew ww1 was started by a couple Muslim terrorist killing Franz and wife but the other countries and their reasoning I never knew. Almost ever country in Europe was declaring war on someone.
That one battle where the number of shells was near a million ( I thought they were full of shit on that number but with number of guns per mile and number of miles it was about a thousand shells per gun so it is believable ,and the pictures showed spent shells piled 15 ft deep around the guns) trying to imagine the noise that it created,it had to carry hundreds of miles.
I will watch it again and see if I got that right,they also said 200 million shells were used during that war.
As to the rest of the Great War's causes, it was basically a huge family feud over empires, which killed the cream of Europe's manhood and set up the U.S.A. for it's place in the World today.
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I find that history stuff very interesting as well.
Kinda on this note....what was the name of the book that was written about the founding of America, based on the victim's perspective?
I saw this thread earlier, taped the series, just got around to watching it!!!!!
Brutal, digusting, real total war,
Geez, if you like gore, watch this.
I'm a history buff, this has always interested me, but archival footage brings it home
Ugh!
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I started looking into my familys history of ww1.
My family all served with the British Army in the first world war, i've only found out about 2 of them so far.
My great uncle (i think) was killed in the trenches around Cambrai on the 12th January 1918 aged 21.
My great grandad was wounded at the battle of the Somme with the Royal Warwickshire regiment in August 1916 when he was in his early 20s.
Still looking for more info on them, it's really interesting, and sickening at the same time.
end & we treated Italy & Japan like a ugly step child regarding WW1.
http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive
Ypres, Belgium was the most haunting of them all. As I drove around, farmers had laid in piles near telephone poles unexploded artillery shells that they had dug up 90 years later when plowing their fields. I was also walking around the battlefield, amongst craters still blasted in the ground with a tour guide...I saw something white and protruding from the ground. The guide knelt down and examined what I saw, and said "yep, this is a human bone. We see them pop out of the earth daily."
It hit me right there how horrible that war was.
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