The Somme

[Skyryder]

There's a History doco on this battle this week sometime. I think it's the History chanel.

The map is from this site.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/Somme/mapsomme.htm

[Hitcher]

I think it's the History chanel.

Chanel No 5?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_somme

[T.W.R]

:sick: A theatre of mass annihilation, no thanks :puke: only time the numbers of human deaths had been replicated since Napoleon & the French got their butts kicked in Russia

[Sanx]

Here's an image to provide you with some idea of what it must have been like, and the scale of the destruction that went with it. It was later than the Battle of the Somme - from the Third Battle of Ypres. The village is (was) Passchendaele. The first pic is an aerial view from before the battle; the second from after. The scale and alignment are slightly different in each photo, but the outline of the village, the roads and the remains of the two major buildings can clearly be seen.

[Albino]

A visit to some of these old battlegrounds is a sobering experience. Particularly harrowing are the cemeteries full of hundreds of thousands of white crosses. It looked to me like every third or fourth cross was labelled "unknown soldier".

[Timber020]

There are to things on earth that makes me relise that man is pointlessly obsessed with needless distructive power and ultimately screwed.

War and GSXR's

[Hitcher]

There are to things on earth that makes me relise that man is pointlessly obsessed with needless distructive power and ultimately screwed.

War and GSXR's

Three things: War, GSXRs, and spelling and grammar...

[SPman]

Three things: War, GSXRs, and spelling and grammar...

Four - there are four things.....

[James Deuce]

I'll go out and come in again.

Did anyone see the Gallipoli Documentary on Maori TV last night? Very well done and and very objective. Narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill.

[Hitcher]

the roads and the remains of the two major buildings can clearly be seen.

Tui poster: “Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl.”

[SARGE]

Four - there are four things.....




http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQI0Xm29To

[SPman]

I'll go out and come in again.

Did anyone see the Gallipoli Documentary on Maori TV last night? Very well done and and very objective. Narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill.


I believe Maori TV have some excellent programs - put the "regular" channels to shame (not that it would be that hard)

[kiwifruit]

I believe Maori TV have some excellent programs - put the "regular" channels to shame (not that it would be that hard)

yep, good docos

[janno]

Here's an image to provide you with some idea of what it must have been like, and the scale of the destruction that went with it. It was later than the Battle of the Somme - from the Third Battle of Ypres. The village is (was) Passchendaele. The first pic is an aerial view from before the battle; the second from after. The scale and alignment are slightly different in each photo, but the outline of the village, the roads and the remains of the two major buildings can clearly be seen.

Holy effin crap! I've never seen anything like that before . . . very sobering.

[janno]

Three things: War, GSXRs, and spelling and grammar...

You are incorrigible, sir! :dodge:

[peasea]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQI0Xm29To


It's been too long since we've seen such brilliant television.
Thank you.