Welcome to Sabaton. Considering how close we are getting to the holiday I hope that they let you listen to the Christmas truce before too long. Sabaton is a European band which about halfway through their first album started looking into history, and discovered that there was enough material to make songs for as long as they want to make them. Most of their songs are like this one, reminding us of the cost of going to war. Yes they do have occasional heroic theme songs but always and forever the Frontline songs will be ones that remind us exactly how expensive the war was. When they get around to doing Christmas truce with you, and I can only hope kit and Kyra get to watch it as well, I hope they provide tissues.
@ChicagoReacts
Жыл бұрын
I hope I get to watch it too. I love that story. Even that one chocolate commercial about it makes me cry, haha!
@johan.ohgren
Жыл бұрын
Hrrm, Swedish band.. 😁
@RakRescue
Жыл бұрын
@@ChicagoReacts Devil dogs, Red baron, Attack of the dead men,Hellfighters these songs are beautiful
@drigerdranzer7514
Жыл бұрын
And make sure to do the animated story video of Red Baron.
@williammelaniegappmayer2655
Жыл бұрын
Even the "heroic songs" speak of the high price, look at "To Hell and Back".
@jonashansson2320
Жыл бұрын
The battle of Passchendaele, one of the most senseless battles in human history. Besides all those numbers, the way it happened was almost worse.. The "allied" ordered a big offensive in the autumn, and during that autumn it basically never stopped raining, turning the whole battlefiled into a giant swamp. Many of those that died, died from drowning in the mud and were never recovered. There are reports from soldiers that when they marched forward, they hated when they got some solid footing under the mud, because the only possible reason for that solid footing was because they walked on the corpse of a fellow human..
@Tarasque.
Жыл бұрын
Tell that to the Marines at Pelilu. We could have completely skipped that island.
@jonashansson2320
Жыл бұрын
@@Tarasque. Perhaps, but I'm just gonna throw out a wild guess here that there weren't 700 000 of them there.
@liamwimmer562
Жыл бұрын
or the pommies who went to the somme, 24,000 dead in just 12 hours
@tarkhantarkus
Жыл бұрын
@@Tarasque. Wait, you were AT Pelilu?
@jeffbo7515
Жыл бұрын
@@Tarasque. dont think the marines deserve a bit of honor which sabatons sings about here -.-
@spedwyrm7427
Жыл бұрын
This song uses the battles at Paschendale to demonstrate one of the lessons from the Art of War. The intro narration is the text from the book
@CrossedKatana
Жыл бұрын
Artillery and machine gun placements existed during WW1, the browning is probably the most famous. It's not really nebulous it is definitely about WW1.
@dhamon45
Жыл бұрын
I think you meant the Maxim machine gun, which was used by basically every nation
@sirboomsalot4902
Жыл бұрын
@@dhamon45 Correct; Brownings designs didn’t start arriving until late in the war with the M1917 mg, BAR, etc.
@JariJuslin
Жыл бұрын
IIRC early machine guns were already used in the US Civil War. They were heavy and needed water cooling, but they pushed brutality of war to a whole new level. Some machine guns of such design are even user in Ukraine right now. If you have a static firing position and plenty of water they can keep firing the whole day and they kill just like when they were designed.
@GetDougDimmadomed
Жыл бұрын
@@JariJuslinThat's the Maxim, and it was designed in the late 1800s. Humanity had muskets during the Civil War, the Gatling gun didn't even exist until America helped modernize Japan.
@martind5653
Жыл бұрын
Half a million lives for six miles. HALF. A. MILLION.
@thebighurt2495
Жыл бұрын
A million men died in the first *month* of that war.
@RandomFurry07
3 ай бұрын
Use math and that's ... 83 333 dead per mile!
@MrJamesBanana
Жыл бұрын
If you want something more positive, I highly suggest Race to the sea. If you would prefer a more similar song, Gallipoli are also great. Both are about WW1.
@ChicagoReacts
Жыл бұрын
Ooh, thanks! I would love something like that
@alexmax3502
Жыл бұрын
7:23 "It's interesting that they look the same" They are the same... young boys away from home, from their families... dying for a cause they barely understand.
@DavidStruveDesigns
Жыл бұрын
THIS battle is _the_ reason why we have the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. So many of our brothers were never recovered, still to this day buried somewhere out there deep in the soil. And a LOT of them couldn't even be formally identified since they were buried in the mud pretty quickly after death, and without absolute confirmation you couldn't place them on the "Killed In Action" list. They instead went on the "Missing In Action" list. They still deserved a memorial and a gravestone back home, so we created the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to commemorate them and their ultimate sacrifice. And any and all other soldiers killed in battles since that also never made it home - not even to be buried. The UK has it, the USA has it and many other countries have also got at least one or more. It's also why, if you ever go to visit the Tomb, the _highest_ level of respect, reverence and behaviour is expected - because we owe these men an even higher debt than those buried on our lands, _because_ of the fact they didn't even get to have their bodies brought back for their families to bury. That's an extra level of sacrifice that wasn't even their choice to make.
@dorlonelliott9368
Жыл бұрын
10+ albums of History taught with Metal to go - Sabatonic Metal.
@mudshark5393
Жыл бұрын
That's a fan made video using clips from movies (about ww1 since that's what the song are about) There in no official music video for a price of a mile, just a lyric video and a live video.
@phantomreaper2057
Жыл бұрын
This song is based on World War One and the machine guns shown are the First World War weapons but the Second World War had different gun designs and more automatic weapons etc but it’s mostly based on the price of lives lost during war in general
@danieljones7843
Ай бұрын
I’ve been reading a lot of books about ww1 and ww2. That young German soldier just staring at everything in complete shock reminds me so much of one of the storeys that stood out. A young German soldier in ww2 with a machine gun in a trench was playing a deadly game of chicken with a Sherman tank, refusing to give up his ground. Between the Sherman’s cannon bursts he would pop up and pepper away at the tank with the machine gun hoping to get one of the bullets in through one of the slits the tank crew used for looking through. The gunner lost his temper and aimed just before the trench. The shell drove itself into the ground. The trench immediately disappeared in a massive explosion of steam, mud and dirt. When the steam cleared, the German soldier crawled out of the now massive hole in the ground, momentarily stood there like a deer caught in the headlights with a look of shock and terror in his face, dropped his machine gun and stumbled clumsily away. The British soldiers in the Sherman just couldn’t bring themselves to shoot him.
@chaosXP3RT
Жыл бұрын
The exact casualties are debated, but it's generally agreed that casualties ("casualty" in the military sense means, dead and wounded) included from both sides came to a total of more 500,000. The British won the battle, securing 6 miles of territory, so that's about 83,300 people killed and wounded per mile. It was pretty horrific and extremely pointless. It's heart-breaking
@dougboulter
Жыл бұрын
The video came from the Canadian movie "Passchendaele". (pronounced passion-dale). The weapons used were those in use at the time in 1917.
@OldGreyGryphon
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Sabaton! These guys are the best historical metal band you will ever find! Almost all of their songs are about events or people from history. They describe themselves as “anti-war, pro-soldier.” Since you’ll (hopefully) enjoy pretty much all of their music. Permit me to suggest: Night Witches (WWII Russian women bomber squadron), Christmas Truce (an amazing WWI Story you have to look up yourself to believe), and Blood of Bannockburn (the last battle of the 1st Scottish war for independence). I was going to stop at three but I can’t fail to recommend 82nd All the Way (the story of a peaceful man who got pushed to the limit during WWI) 82nd is my favorite Sabaton song.
@dangarrett8676
2 ай бұрын
The song others have pointed out I'd specifically about Passchendale in WW1, but this scene specifically is from a movie called Passchendale
@EskChan19
Жыл бұрын
Sabaton makes historical songs about acts of heroism and compassion, but also of tragedy. They're really good because all their songs and texts are accurate (and they have a second channel where they have videos about the historical background to every song they make), and they sing about heroes of all sides and don't try to present everything as black and white. They can sing about the heroes of the US just as much as about the Soviets or the germans in WWII, but also about battles that have nothing to do with the World Wars. They acknowledge that every soldier regardless of the side they're on is a human fighting for what they believe is right. I learned a lot about otherwise unsung battles(pun intended) from their songs. Plus their songs are just catchy as fuck. A lot of their songs are about the horrors of war too, but a lot are also more uplifting. I can really recommend "Christmas Truce" and "No Bullets Fly"
@rasungod0
Жыл бұрын
The Battle of Paschendale (WWI) was the battle where they lost the most men per mile of land gained. All of the battles had huge death tolls, but Paschendale was to muddy they could barely dig trenches or any cover so it was just men vs machine guns for months. It is not a battle Americans typically learn much about because it happened before America joined the war. But it was a battle where the Canadian Forces took the lead and eventually won it.
@rodlepine233
Жыл бұрын
the film is called Passchendaele a Canadian made movie
@centurio101
Жыл бұрын
It is so sad if you think of all the brave soldiers that died back then… they fought for peace without ever seeing it and in the end the war to end all wars ended NOTHING. All those lifes are gone for nothing… but they will be remembered… it doesn’t matter which nation the soldiers where fighting for… in the end they all just where humans that suffered, killed and died for the mistakes of politicians… they all where just humans that wanted to survive and see the peace one more time… it was a generation that lost their future in the blood and the mud of the battlefield
@calebnwaobia6285
Жыл бұрын
Btw, Sabaton is a Swedish heavy metal bad from Sweden, they perform songs about historical figures and events
@NightL3gacy47
Жыл бұрын
I've known this song for a long time, but this is the first time I've ever seen the music video, and it hits even harder seeing the video. I'd love to see more reactions to Sabaton, specifically, I'd like to see Kit and Kira react to En Livstid I Krig (The Great Tour Live In Gothenburg) at some point.
@rodlepine233
Жыл бұрын
the scenes are from the movie Passchendaele 2008
@thedarkestknight2540
Жыл бұрын
It about WW1 and the third battle of the Ypres or the battle of Passchendaele where half a million British, Canadian and Anzac soldiers died for 5 miles of land
@John2r1
Жыл бұрын
The song is about the third battle of Ypres, also known as the battle of Paschendale in 1917 during WW1. 240,000-448,614 allied casualties and 217,000-400,000 soldiers killed on the Germans side. Essentially in total between 457,000 to 848,614 men died on the battlefield. WW1 was the first time that machine guns played a major role. It was also when flamethrowers and poison gas was used extensively. Making it one of the worst episodes in human history. 9,911,000 men roughly where dead by the end of the war. War itself is brutal , savage and should be a last resort. What sabatons videos like this show is the history and reality of warfare. It's not some glorious thing that people have made it out to be. Fact is there are no winners. Only survivors. Additionally an estimated 7,700,000 civilians died as a result of WW1.
@Richie8406
Жыл бұрын
3:00 Yes, we do this to protect you, if we have to.
@Richie8406
Жыл бұрын
We know it will suck
@LMPR
Жыл бұрын
One of the machine guns used in that war was invented by Hiram Maxim at year 1884. It is still used today in Ukraine. Those cannons looked like that in Word War one like those Civilian War cannons. That machine gun with round clip on top is called Lewis Machine gun. It was invented 1911.
@Teome1985
Жыл бұрын
And the Grim Reaper put down his scythe and mounted the harvester, for it was war.
@jensnilsson985
Жыл бұрын
plz loook at SABATON - En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg) with subtile. its about the 30 year war from a solders view
@johnstuart1338
Жыл бұрын
One of the deeper songs by Sabaton is Shiroyama. It’s about the last stand of the Samurai.
@rodlepine233
Жыл бұрын
Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. On 6 November, the Canadians launched their third attack on the ridge. They succeeded in capturing it and the ruins of Passchendaele village from the exhausted German
@ShaneWalta
Жыл бұрын
I strongly recommend checking out the Sabaton History channel, either in your own time or as a reaction. They talk about the history that inspired the songs and give a lot of detail
@ShaneWalta
Жыл бұрын
And if you want a song that will still probably make you cry but has a happy story, No Bullets Fly is an amazing song. The video on the Yarnhub channel will give a little bit of the history and the song at the same time
@Kmcgonigle0
Жыл бұрын
The thing about WW1 it started as 19th century war and ended as 20th century one. Also put the final death nail in the idea of noble gentile war.
@inkyskeleton
Жыл бұрын
I have danced to this song many times 😂
@Austin1723
Жыл бұрын
What's the price of a mile? 83,333 men That's the price of a mile
@LordBaldur
Жыл бұрын
All that death and destruction resulted in a 6 mile gain that ultimately played no role in the outcome of the war. The sad part is that this was pretty common in the western front.
@signolias100
Жыл бұрын
the song was specifically talking about the death toll that happened in ww1 due to trench warfare and the snail slow progress of advancement in the war. to break it down what is the price of a mile? : in some battles up to a couple hundred thousand men died taking 100 meters of ground. it's a stalemate at the frontline: again this refers to the almost static combat of ww1 in which both sides were dug in like ticks. gone is the field that was once green: this refers to the massive mortar and artillery barrages that tended to precede an assault of either side it turned no man's land into a quagmire of mud, wreckage, dead bodies, unexploded rounds and discarded weapons of the dead.
@fenrisulfur842
Жыл бұрын
Nice reaction! its allways nice to watch people dealing with the first shock and then work on finding out what happened back then ;)
@dfautomaton
6 ай бұрын
i think it is.. old stuff depicted... but i loved your articulation of your though process. thank you for the commentary
@brizzo4554
Жыл бұрын
They have another channel Sabaton History, that goes into the history of their songs. Another to check out
@brizzo4554
Жыл бұрын
The third battle of Ypres (Battle of Paschendale) WWI both sides the Allies and Germans lost an estimated, although disputed, 500,000 men on both sides in 3 months
@okairo
Жыл бұрын
In combat it's hard to tell who is on what side at a glance. Once the uniform is covered in mud, dirt, sand, whatever, who is to say the person you shoot isn't on your side back then. Nowadays they've figured out ways to help with this issue, but there are still blue on blue situations so it isn't completely fixed.
@cruxnajii2056
Жыл бұрын
"A man fights, not because he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him."
@rokkraljkolesa9317
Жыл бұрын
I am once again requesting for Kit (and maybe Kira) to react to En Livstid i Krig (preferably the live version from Gothenburg) also, he should make sure to have captions on
@bwehhueh5135
Жыл бұрын
i can't bring myself to headbang or do anything else than being overcome with melancholy and overall be filled with grief
@donovanwaters9403
Жыл бұрын
Watch Sabaton History price of a mile to hear about this battle details and the making of the song
@pedroconcha1715
Жыл бұрын
wars occur cause some people want more then what they already have. these ppl will never be on the frontline or risk dying. they will how ever reap all the rewards...
@DawidC.909
Жыл бұрын
Begin from one of the sadest songs made by Sabaton... Respect. Personaly... One of my favourites
@wendellbunn6195
Жыл бұрын
This is about the battles around passiondale france.in world War 1
@adamleonpope
Жыл бұрын
This was about Passchendaele WW1. Sabaton is very historically accurate. They are fantastic story tellers and really bring realistic history to life. As previously mentioned check out "no bullets fly" to see how realistic this really is. Then delve into into the rest of their history book. Not just do they weave and tell our history they are musically at the top of the field
@Wrathlon
Жыл бұрын
*3 seconds in* "Oh no..." Yeah, Sabaton do that.
@hendrikonraet8965
Жыл бұрын
Passendale in Belgium , big battle WW1 . fighting to free Belgium from the germans . never forget them
@kjelledbom1728
Жыл бұрын
Hello, is my first time watching your reaction and i liked it. Some facts as i know them, im not a professor or anything but i do know some things. This song is about the battle of Passiondale where one side won and moved forward about a mile and 500 thousand died combined, so the price of a mile is 500 thousand toung men. And yes this is WW1
@Brother.Árganos
Жыл бұрын
This song was based of the battle of Passiondale wear over half 1 half million lives were lost on both sides this was Canadian and British forces fighting there was some Americans were most were Canadian British. Canadians were seen as a spearhead expendable usage from World War I and fun fact the Geneva convention was actually a checklist for Canadians pretty much say they executed any German they got their hands on beat them tore them apart with meat cleavers all of it through the food once and then after the Germans started asking for more food they started throwing grenades so the Germans will come blow them selves up
@johnsullivan6192
Жыл бұрын
That was the battle of passchendaele
@danielson1463
Жыл бұрын
i'm sure you heard this already but all of that was ww1 tech
@tjay45
Жыл бұрын
the price of a mile is approximately 83,333 men.
@alexamerling79
Жыл бұрын
Sabaton is the perfect history teacher. RIP to all those brave souls who fell in the Great war.
@jokekopter2509
Жыл бұрын
2:20 These arent canons,this are artilyer or aka howetsres
@hadesdogs4366
Ай бұрын
The leading causes of death were Suicide due to intentional causes of injury where soldiers would try to injure themselves in order to get medically discharged and sent home. Friendly fire either through mistake as soldiers mistook their friends for the enemy only to end up shooting their ally rather than an enemy. Funnily enough drowning was a major contributor to soldiers deaths along with the extreme weather where you’d either froze to death in the winter, rotted to death in the autumn or burnt to death in the summer and spring during to the unyielding heat, all the while in autumn and winter the ground would turn to mud sucking anyone and anything into its never ending maws eating men and equipment alike After that was through enemy fire be it an indirect artillery shell burying you alive or riddling you full of holes from shrapnel or similar by enemy gunfire Last not least death via firing squad or summery execution
@marc-yt957
Жыл бұрын
its about ww1 machineguns are from ww1 the most of the machineguns in ww2 are used in ww2
@najroe
Жыл бұрын
react to the Christmas truce video from Sabaton, it is also about ww1, they are big on showing both how horrible AND futile war is and also celebrating the heroics, like, lady of the dark, about a female soldier who earned several medals in ww1, To hell and back, about a Medal of honour (and several other medals and awards ) recipient who returned home with SEVERE PTSD and addicted to opioids (he was wounded multiple times and was given morphine... for the pain.
@weybye91
Жыл бұрын
Neither the germans or french or any of the involved nations men wanted to fight, since they thought of eachother as neibourgs and freinds
@LSAMace
Жыл бұрын
Do a recation, Sabaton- The unkillable soldier, the video with the nurses face. SO powerful
@peterkensborn8035
Жыл бұрын
Well, when reacting to Sabaton, you actually react to a History Lession. But so much good music ahead of you go on with them.
@ChicagoReacts
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'd never heard of this battle before. It was highly distressing, but informative and beautiful. I love it when art is so multifaceted. It doesn't happen as often as it should.
@nash3timemvp
Жыл бұрын
Why men threw themselves into a war for the political elites is something I will never understand, and why men continue to do it is even more distressing. War is a great money spinner for the elites, and we play right into their hands by engaging in it.
@lovecraft8639
Жыл бұрын
BTW This is not the Battle of Paschendaale its the Battle of Wacken when the Beer goes Empty.
@NiktoPH
Жыл бұрын
If u want to recognize soldiers, just look at helmets. Brits have those ridicoulous round helmets ( Brodie helmets) and Germans classic Stalhelm, used in WWI and WW2.
@RandomFurry07
Жыл бұрын
The US did use the Brodie as well, are inspired from the medieval era helmet called the "Kettle Cap" there's also the French Adrian M1915, though the Italians, Serbians, Greeks, and somewhat the Russians and Romanians used it aswell
@garyrobb5341
Жыл бұрын
The coal shuttle helmets of the Germans vs the tin hats of the Americans can help tell who’s who. Luv ya girlie!
@Pterodactylus548
8 ай бұрын
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
@metalheadssweden4296
Жыл бұрын
This video is not done by SABATON. Here is the official lyric video of the song. kzitem.info/news/bejne/rYWo0oase4hmbHo Here is the story behind the song from SABATON history channel kzitem.info/news/bejne/maZuyqJqjp6HnmU
@PawroWolf
8 ай бұрын
Passchendaele, it's about the battle of Passchendaele.
@RandomFurry07
3 ай бұрын
Indeed, the Third Battle of Ypres
@istrysii
Жыл бұрын
it is 1 battle in WW1 only ...
@wendellbunn6195
Жыл бұрын
Please listen to the night witches, the animated version with sabaron
@rogerhouben9230
Жыл бұрын
50000 death per mile was the price...
@historyfan6684
Жыл бұрын
World War 1 is the most tragic of all wars. Look at just the battle of Verdun. The French lost more men each month than the US did in all of Vietnam and the battle lasted for 10 months.
@rogerhouben9230
Жыл бұрын
Nothing will ever come close to the cruelty of ww1
@historyfan6684
Жыл бұрын
@@rogerhouben9230 I would say that the American Civil War came close in spirit but nowhere near in scope and scale. WW 2 was far greater in scope and far larger but the absolute tragedy of the trenches was thankfully lacking. It did have it's own horrors but the western front of the Great War was Hell on earth
@CoCooMa11
Жыл бұрын
Passchendaele was the battle that had the highest loss of canadian soldiers in a single battle.... I think...
@steveclarke4542
Жыл бұрын
MEN of Iron and courage
@IsaacKing-rx7kf
Жыл бұрын
What feel this is a massage to any country at war example Russian and Ukraine more to Russian infact give my puttens number he need to hear this one .trunch warfare still has a place it's just a little scarier I love sabton's music every song has a story
@andreanecchi5930
Жыл бұрын
try carolus rex and lion from the north
@ex0nxoxo495
Жыл бұрын
Ass @lee Chowning said Start with next Christmas Truce
@victoriamarket6283
Жыл бұрын
no bullits fly sabaton.
@cptsheepy
Жыл бұрын
Its about paschendale all the equipment I correct 😂
@azracore3974
Жыл бұрын
THEY DID IT FOR YOU. RESPECT THEIR SACRIFICE.
@quendras7953
7 ай бұрын
Well, it seems like the old style reaction/review works out... ;)
@LSAMace
Жыл бұрын
passion dale
@jox1022
Жыл бұрын
Trenches, WW1 uniforms I gues that this should be WW1 or WW2 or war at general Ah yes, american schools
@borisgarcia817
Жыл бұрын
Millions die but millions where liberated from German are .
@TIannone
Жыл бұрын
One of the things that annoys me is when people are reacting to a song and stop it every 30 seconds asking what its about and what is going on and this and that.. Maybe if you try to listen to the actual song it explains it to you. Trench warfare, so world war one. This can be for a particular battle but it also encompasses the majority of the war as a whole because there were many periods were countless soldiers were lost trying to gain a few miles of ground. Fyi, they had machine guns in world war 1, they werent exclusive to world war 2 and later
@michaelginnis521
Жыл бұрын
its 1000% WWI
@lordallaoy
Жыл бұрын
the red baron
@loverareme
8 ай бұрын
The canadien army how take passchendaele Price of a mille how many soldier die to get 1 mile of ground
@5taunch
3 ай бұрын
Died for the banking cartel. And ultimately replaced by the third world
@C0ldD1rective
Жыл бұрын
To put it into perspective, the guessed casualty ratio for this battle, PER FOOT, was between 10 to 15 Men. Per foot. For every 12 inches gained, 10 to 15 men were either Killed, Wounded, or Lost.
@helenaatenor944
Жыл бұрын
That is wwI
@steveclarke4542
Жыл бұрын
Don't see too many feminists running between trenches...
@RandomFurry07
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, because they're in field hospitals, some are literally in the military (most from the East) And there's a Sabaton song called "Lady Death" Go hear it, it's about a woman
@bandit6272
Жыл бұрын
Talk too much during the song
@Railfan105.
Жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, by the end of the campaign the victors only gained a mere 6 miles.
@Krokmaniak
Жыл бұрын
That's literally in the lyrics. "6 miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone"
@decimusdecius7858
Жыл бұрын
Germans regained it back in few days. Thats the end to this story which makes it even more tragic. Tens of thousands life lost for literally nothing.
@sygmarvexarion7891
Жыл бұрын
@@decimusdecius7858 Tens? 500,000 soldiers died on both sides. Almos as much as the dead of the American civil war, in just one area of the war.
@A_Name_
Жыл бұрын
@@sygmarvexarion7891 I think he just ment 10s of thousands in how you can say fifty two hundred or five thousand two hundred. Means the same just can sound like more or less from the wording
@xandersnyder7214
Жыл бұрын
As a Sabaton fan, and military history buff, this song hits home HARD! This song specifically is about The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as The Battle of Passchendaele, it took place between July and November 1917. If you listen closely at the beginning of the song you will hear what sounds like rolling thunder in the background, this is symbolizing the sound of the artillery during this long battle. At the beginning of the offensive by the British Expeditionary Force the German lines were shelled for 10 days (18 July to 28 July 1917) by 4.5 MILLION artillery rounds. That comes out to just slightly over 5 artillery explosions every second! This is where the term "Shell Shocked", which we now know as PTSD, comes from. Although the causality numbers vary depending on which historian you read, there were roughly 250,000 Allied losses and about 270,000 German losses. Which is where the lyric "Half a million lives are gone" comes from. All of this for SIX miles of ground. A great Sabaton song, if you get a chance to listen to it, that demonstrates the courage and resolve of the Belgians (which is where Ypres / Passchendaele is) would be "Race to the Sea" which is about the Belgians flooding the Yser river to hold the German advance and stop them from taking all of Belgium. One last note, this battle took place in the western province of Belgium called Flanders, there is a poem by a Canadian surgeon Lt. Colonel John McCrae called "In Flanders Fields" that he wrote after the funeral for one of his friends (Lieutenant Alexis Helmer) who died at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Sabaton did a beautiful version of this song as the final song of their album "The Great War", it is sung as a hymn by an acapella choir.
@FanEAW
Жыл бұрын
ultimately The Canadians, ended this battle in a costly victory for the allies. General Curry, responsible for the passchendaele front and the Canadian Expeditionary Force, predicted about 16000 canadian casualties, we were the tip of the spear in many important battles, and were recognised by MANY generals (triple entente or triple alliance ones) as the most effective fighting force in the war. Canadians pioneered many infantry tactics and inner-rank information spread (every soldier in our ranks knew the battle plan unlike what the other allies did)
@charlestoth3273
Жыл бұрын
Survivors from Paschendale wrote that they slogged through knee deep mud and when they stood on what felt like solid ground they realised they were standing on the fallen...both friend and foe alike
@xandersnyder7214
Жыл бұрын
@@FanEAW The contributions of the Canadian forces are often criminally under represented in the current media, for both World War I and World War II. Canada has always fielded some of the top infantry in every conflict they have been involved in, Canada has a rich martial history.
@Oneaveragecatcher
Жыл бұрын
Same
@ireneusz-u9i
Жыл бұрын
World War I was practically a slaughter. Incompetence of generals in the confrontation with modern technology. Despite the fact that the front line did not change much, it could kill 50,000 to 1 million people in the battles. At the beginning of the war, the French fought in silver helmets and colorful uniforms. They were visible from a distance against the gray background of the surrounding areas. Sabaton talks about it with real brutality.
@EskChan19
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't really incompetence, more a lack of experience. This was the first modern warfare. Before that, for the most part it was armies clasing their heads together in the open field or behind the walls of a fortress like a kid playing with action figures. This was the first time that modern weaponry, industrialised arms industries, the dawn of armored, motorized combat vehicles and large scale mobilisation of giant armies ment that battles could remain in a stalemate for weeks at a time.
@weybye91
Жыл бұрын
Europe didt learn the lesson from the Amarican civil war, since all European nations thought it would be like the napolionic wars
@RandomFurry07
3 ай бұрын
@@weybye91not the Napoleonic, the Franco-Prussian war, which is indeed a very fast war, lasting a year, they looked at this, instead of the slog and slaughter of the American Civil War
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