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"Not a tree stands. Not a square foot of surface has escaped mutilation.There is nothing but the mud and the gaping shell holes; a chaotic wilderness of shell holes, rim overlapping rim, and, in the bottom of many, the bodies of the dead?"
-Captain Rowland Fielding
"If any man tells you he went over the top and wasn't scared, he's a damn liar."
-Harry Patch: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
"A glorious death! Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of petrol? a death for a knight."
-Baron Manfred Von Richthofen
"The Lusitania is a godsend to the British. It's quite the most stupid thing the Germans could have done."
-Professor Andrew Lambert, King's College, London.
This sea war was about innovation and dazzling advances in technology.
"Between the trenches are any amount of dead and decomposing bodies of our own men and Turks lying on the heather. The smell is awful."
-Captain Guy Nightingale
"The First World War was certainly tragic, but it wasn't futile. In the First World War the Allies achieved a great negative victory; they prevented the domination of Europe by militaristic Germany."
-Dr. Gary Sheffield, King's College.
This is the Story of 1918 - The year that changed everything.
The invention and use of the tools of war:
Machine Guns, Constant Artillery bombardment, Barbed Wire, Tanks, Aircraft, Submarines, Flamethrowers, Grenades, High Explosive... All came down to the suffering of individual soldiers, it becomes painfully obvious why World War One happened the way it did once you see this video...
Some sobering statistics are below...
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 35 million.
