Mud & Blood: Battle of Passchendaele | Animated History

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LETS GO ANOTHER UPLOAD WHILE I EAT A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!

"By the time the town was captured, it had lost all strategic significance". That sums up most of WW1.

One side of my family is German, and the other is English. My family on both sides fought on the western front. Little did they know 90 years later, they would go from fighting one another to joining arms in marriage.

“The British army had lost its spirit of optimism. All that remained was a deadly sense of depression among the officers and men.”-Phillip Gibbs a war journalist at passchendal

"In a foreign field, he lay Lonely soldier, unknown grave On his dying words, he prays Tell the world of Passchendaele Relive all that he's been through Last communion of his soul Rust your bullets with his tears Let me tell you 'bout his years" - Paschendale, by Iron Maiden "Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men's lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out" - The Price of a Mile, by Sabaton

It’s weird how WW1 had a more apocalyptic vibe than any war prior or since.

October 12th 1917, New Zealands darkest day. 0.1% of the countries entire population was wiped out that morning in those muddy fields

Everyone forgots how horrifying WW1 was 😢 and everyone focuses on WW2 instead

You overlooked the very good Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 by Lyn Macdonald with its quote "We died in Hell, some called it Passchendaele"

My great great grandfather was killed during the offensive at Ypres, visited the cemetery he was buried at. Somewhat surreal to stand where he died over a hundred years later.

This is a crazy coincidence for an upload, I was in Passchendaele just a few days ago! I highly recommend WWI enthusiasts visit Ypres, Belgium, as it houses several WWI museums and memorials, including the “In Flanders Fields Museum”, the Last Post, and the Passchendaele Museum for WWI.

Y'know as a Belgian and living in the region, I still find it hard at times to think about the horrors of that time, especially when I drive through the- now peaceful- areas around the city. Even to this day, farmers and building crews find unexploded ordenance, weapons and small-arms munitions, the occasional human remain... Watching these kind of videos, I just wonder what the point of it all was. My deepest gratitude to those who fought for my country back in 1914-18 & 1939-45.

There is a map in battlefield one based on this battle. It was part of the apocalypse DLC and looks amazingly horrific with mud, gas, fire and craters everywhere

Who remembers the flash game Mud and Blood?

Can you make a video on the Japanese WW1 perspective?

My great great uncle fought and died in this battle. He was a private in the British army and served in Flanders. One day he got wounded during the fighting and was taken to a frontline hospital tent for treatment. Unfortunately for him and everyone in that tent, a rogue German artillery shell hit the tent square on. The tent was destroyed and everyone inside was instantly killed

“I caught my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!” JRR Tolkien

My great Grandfather was killed the night before this battle on his way to the jump off lines he was hit by a shrapnel shell through his forehead , they found his body after he didn't answer roll call, his brother went through Somme and Ypres and other offensives until 1918.

Its allways good when the armchair historian uploads a new video