Watching this now on BBC1.
fascinating to watch and also very sad.
The Battle of the Somme must of been harrowing to be involved in.
fascinating to watch and also very sad.
The Battle of the Somme must of been harrowing to be involved in.
The First World War from Above
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pauldyson1uk
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The underground tunnels and the bombs that was put under the German frontlines.
Strange to be able to see them from the air and how a couple of them have been built into a golf course.
Strange to be able to see them from the air and how a couple of them have been built into a golf course.
I had forgotten all about it and only tuned in about halfway. The aerial views of Passendale (Paschendaele) were in the papers here the other day. Hopefully I'll find some other way to view the whole docu soon.
I'll be going to Ieper and Passendale next week on a bike trip if the weather is not too bad.
I'll be going to Ieper and Passendale next week on a bike trip if the weather is not too bad.
There is a fantastic Australian movie called Beneath Hill 60 about Australian tunnellers and miners sent to the Western Front in the Great War to burrow beneath the German trenches and set bombs.
I saw it at the cinema earlier this year and it was brilliant. The film culminates in the detonation of Hill 60, the hardest trench to take and at the time it was the largest explosion ever on earth which could be heard in England.
I highly recommend to download it or buy it on eBay or something.
I saw it at the cinema earlier this year and it was brilliant. The film culminates in the detonation of Hill 60, the hardest trench to take and at the time it was the largest explosion ever on earth which could be heard in England.
I highly recommend to download it or buy it on eBay or something.
pauldyson1uk
Full Member
There is a fantastic Australian movie called Beneath Hill 60 about Australian tunnellers and miners sent to the Western Front in the Great War to burrow beneath the German trenches and set bombs.
I saw it at the cinema earlier this year and it was brilliant. The film culminates in the detonation of Hill 60, the hardest trench to take and at the time it was the largest explosion ever on earth which could be heard in England.
I highly recommend to download it or buy it on eBay or something.
I will give that film a watch , I have to admit to not knowing that much about WW1 , but that program was fascinating , what both sets of soldiers went thought in the trenches was just wrong.
At one stage there was 1 death for every 2 inches of ground taken , that is just criminal and would not be acceptable now.
I will give that film a watch , I have to admit to not knowing that much about WW1 , but that program was fascinating , what both sets of soldiers went thought in the trenches was just wrong.
At one stage there was 1 death for every 2 inches of ground taken , that is just criminal and would not be acceptable now.
Well without spoiling the film, there was an interesting commentary text at the end describing that the mission was successful yet the Germans recaptured the same portion of land within three months resulting in a total stalemate.
Which makes you wonder, what was the point in the effort and the death count involved?
There was a brilliant documentary on the Manchester Pals Regiments I saw a while back, maybe it was Nat Geo who did it, I can't remember but it used real footage and re-enactments to show the horror. The real footage showed these lads marching towards the battle-field, all smoking and laughing and smiling. Thirteen thousand of them died from the various regiments...
I will give that film a watch , I have to admit to not knowing that much about WW1 , but that program was fascinating , what both sets of soldiers went thought in the trenches was just wrong.
At one stage there was 1 death for every 2 inches of ground taken , that is just criminal and would not be acceptable now.
Here's some info on it by the way..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hill_60_(Western_Front)
Frosty
Logical and sensible but turns women gay
I bought The Great War on DVD last year, after havign searched for it for ages. Really really recommended, I would say better than The World At War too.
Hill 60 was recaptured during the Second Battle of Ypres after a gas attack, but the ground was needed as from the 'high ground' (which is minimal in Flanders) the Germans could have unrestricted observation of Ypres, which is why the town and salient was a slaughterhouse for four years.
Hill 60 was recaptured during the Second Battle of Ypres after a gas attack, but the ground was needed as from the 'high ground' (which is minimal in Flanders) the Germans could have unrestricted observation of Ypres, which is why the town and salient was a slaughterhouse for four years.
Massive Spanner
The Football Wrench
World War I really was brutal, the technology back then was so poor that the battles were just horrible.
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