All quiet on the Western Front.....

[Falkirion]

RIP to all the brave men from both sides who lost their lives during the conflict.

And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Falkirion

And those are some very haunting pics, hard to imagine what they would have looked like nearly 100 years ago.

The before and after pictures of Fort Douaumont near Verdun gives one a sobering glimpse.

Good post this one, thanks. In today's hussle bussle life it's easy to over look what men went through in the 14/18 war. I often google map these places and I am humbled by the French and their refusal to plow these land marks under, I'm not sure the British would have been able to muster that level of respect.

I read an interesting little article on an Amazon review where a man describes the first world war as a european civil war, he even went as far as describe WW2 as the same, a civil war.

I find this point of view very interesting because of the fact that Britian was in 1914 and uptil the 50s, still teaching school children about their Saxon heritage. How quick we all are to put aside who we all are for war.

[Jimbuna]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

[papa_smurf]

I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.

On friday I will paying my respects at my towns war memorial -we shall never forget.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.

On friday I will paying my respects at my towns war memorial -we shall never forget.

I get a little resentful when I view footafe of the Somme....that is where my grandfather was buried alive in an explosion.

Thanfully he was rescued but he was stone deaf after that for the remainder of his life.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I get a little resentful when I view footafe of the Somme....that is where my grandfather was buried alive in an explosion.

Thanfully he was rescued but he was stone deaf after that for the remainder of his life.

So sorry to hear, was he in the army or a civilian?

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

I have a excellent series on DVD about WWI, called "The Great War", which was originally broadcast in the 70's on the BBC. Of all the episodes, the worst has to be the one on the British dug in around Ypres/Passchendale where there were no trenches to speak of, but a landscape of shell holes filled with water/corpses/etc.

I remember seeing this series, the horrendous images made there mark on all who watched. There where no imbedded news teams in those day's, the first a person new about tragedy was by telegram.