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the one of the most, the it's the end of 1915. somewhere in the region of real time, some french soldiers are to distract themselves projecting some films on the war with german. this is how they were caricature and the german ember wilhelm. the 2nd and the german soldiers with their pointy helmets and their super man called of

the just look at this image and read the german army positions in the middle. the town of ad on the river moyes are running through it in the hills all around the french have built 30 or more fords. here to protect themselves from invasion from the east. the musical names. soon all the world will have heard of them. severe vote. the

other side determines the, on this, the german lives on the 2nd image. so the key see, ready to launch in major a sensor, unexpectedly attacking the strongest position. the whole from the wreck in the french won't give up the terminal to without throwing f, as in they got into the panels. first, the,

the emperor or his interest at the task of leading the battle to his own son. this is him addressing his officers. his majesty calls us to the attack he sang. we must see that the sons of germany's will to win as hard as steel, the beginning of the the heaviest mass and force tow it. so the french positions the, it's going to be assigned to the length of which the world has never known before.

i come and call rudy like student's parents the the german troops of what they call stolen tunnels under the hills for cover in one of these verse $22.00 of the team and spoken the whole price. i've got my wife and 3000 cartridges by the door that you get the french on the, the french are still completely unaware. they believe, therefore it's are in foam or of them. especially this one. do a moment the, it's

a state of the art underground city, strong enough to retail any attack. the february 9th that you, the crown prince's shot, the fence, the

construction survive, the failure, ross, thomas,

the, it's like the end of the one lieutenant tells those officers and they're going all we're doing is to learn to say faces before it all goes to have the the backend terrace politicians are in shock the commander of the french forces general joseph shuffle is always saying that they're doing is too well protected for the germans to attack it. and he's even

started to strip the force of their guns and send them north to the summer where he's preparing an assault with the british prime minister of us to put you on the one in the bowler had worn so that he can't afford to lose any french territory, if you evacuate vietnam and sound the retreat, he says, you'll be dismissed immediately along with all of your chief of staff. within hours, an order from those chief of staff is fired off to the troops account on your to fight to the death that says, while of waiting reinforcements. the audit comes to late in just 5 days. the german steam roller crushes all the villages around

about done all the way up to 12 months. right below the fort. it's here at the start showing it to go is 25 years old. is wounded and taken prisoner. the french, the nightmare is only just begun the 25th of february, 4 days after the beginning of the song. now the germans are right up against the enormous fortress, up to 200 yards away from the, supposedly, from some of the items from brandon go without the q u

to the most of the developments. so therefore, the officers from brenda, which was fine with the fund to because the places on the french general is listed on the trial as german church does start to renew it

expresses peace of mind to what you're going to do. this means she likes to her husband at the front to make god and that is peace and with the music of the canons . our future happy. the but francis badly shaken. it's a disaster. above all, it's a humiliation for the troops. all are picturing the germans rolling across the country as they've done half a century earlier, in 1870 if they had done files, for instance to that's what people are thinking. the

put down new character arrives on the scene. to me put down a complete unknown defense strategist to ease hand at the job of defending they had on the lease, arriving at his own for now was just another bit slayer version troops sooner the better snails were friends to suggest men to block the german it already seems like, because the french have been taken by surprise. they just weren't ready.

there's only one room. we're sorry, that's ours. contrast to the german front with its network, a 14 way the new general arrives. this country road becomes we have tons of feel like a secret way. the concepts of relentless pace, 6 to change is the day. the closest fits cuts about the sacred ways, straight into a fixed income,

a se, credit cards. and one of those 12 says a young lieutenant to aaron flood in france, the over the next 10 months french 2000000, 100000. many of these scribe, the children, the, and among these rolling the

dug in within the walls of 2 on the, to determine it seems to me reconstruction the they suffered enormous. their advance has become much more difficult than it was to start with. their exhausted, especially these fragile young 18 year olds. the i'm the 1st to die is funds mach,

one of the greatest german painters of the 20th century. he was hit by a shell. he's realized right from the start, that this is a totally futile battle. all i see, he writes to his wife shortly before his death is the most frightful spectacle the human brain could ever imagine the crown prince, his father. we're the misgivings. the germans have only advanced 10 kilometers in 2 weeks. and there's no breakthrough in sight. but they just keep going. they can't live space the

use of the battlefield next to that the to the right. by the terms the, the artillery place on the west indies, in the 4th special spinning the germans done on the east by the if the germans want to take that, they'll have to destroy those guns. to do that, they'll have to take the 2 to stand in their way. totes 3 or 4 on tech nancy, the deadman.

so let clients name after a body was found there in the 19th century, the every square footage seemed fighting too violent to even contemplate the today and its summit. there's a terrible monument. skeletal figures crying victory. the 6 the the

battle lines to a standstill. the 2 armies are dug in face to face. they will spend months trying to destroy each other. but this is already a victory for the french. as pit time promise. the germans cannot pass the it's time for him to speak the words to make our famous throughout the world. his words at home, the general become a symbol of all france. the man stood up to the terms and the flames. remember

this 25 years later, the country falls to nazi germany in 1940 on deadman until now, however, the boot is on the other foot. as the french put out more flags, the german swell increasingly on heezer. especially the ones who has been captured by the french we've been gravely deceased by our officers rides, young, cause god, not to his mother and other demands. we would like all those gentlemen responsible for the war to come and fight at our side. if they've done so, we would have had peace, long ago. in fact, although the french don't suspected germany is in crisis, the what's the hor seemingly endless.

some politicians are starting to question the sense of it. peace demonstrations are spreading. this is one in berlin, on the 1st of may, in the middle of the back of the van don't. far left a politician come the next as her rain, the cloud down with the government. he says down with the war right after he speaks, he's jail. the french 2 different the one of the troops have been holding out on that man. so it's almost returning to normal almost as if the battle actually won. the civilians

seen getting on with their lots of fun. some no idea that $60000.00 men have already died of that done and more are dying there at the rate of one every 2 minutes. by the spring of 1916, the germans are desperate for a rapid end of the battle. on the french drain, the and they'll get their wish after 3 months of shilling, and though it has been virtually destroyed, but the germans still haven't broken through. and the town itself empty now with

all its inhabitants is still in the hands of the french. it's clearly a success for the french. any war of attrition. a stalemate represents a victory sending. the final soldiers are still being blown to smithereens, delegations arriving from all over the world to celebrate the resistance of a nation. this is the future king of serbia, an ally of france. thing. welcome. by the president of the republic, the journalists have been invited to an english correspondent price. as we have done, one feels an intense satisfaction. it would seem, most of the

friendship stood alone against john. everyone knows that the germans. so the defense of this man to the hold does of no further strategic import. still carry on for a statue bias. and that's the, or the,

the french counter attack comes on the 22nd of may. the troops themselves to the 4th, think of band and the but they were just as a dubious one. they're generally getting. the 4th break still reach the french. it was the front line and get it to the it's a disaster. 5000 dead wounded. were taken prisoner and all

for nothing the, the survivors live back to their positions. among them, luis mother shy, who writes. jewel moore has been taken last re taken the wounded look ghastly. one of them is crying, mommy and my little girl. it's madness. we're wrong that the the, the

best slaughter be awesome on either side of the front to swing. 200000 french against 100000 germans all are dug in bond. servatius says troops on our rotation system. 10 days on the front line. 10 days on the 2nd interest packet, the we are the online account. and that's where captain data view is when he writes, if you like,

an animal being herded into the wine, 60000000 shelves, the toyota on the board. but most of the allowance of 3 is kind of the time with nobody. even notice there's no slot the nature of their plans are still waiting to atlanta the much

some that the, [000:00:00;00] the general service from slinking high head of the german army orders is meant to have

another go with feds on the people instead of 10 down the french and south them from supporting further north on this on the no one is really committed to the attack so that even the crown prince for him, the battle no longer makes sense. in my heart the kaiser sun will right. i was totally opposed to this offensive. but my hand to a bait borders so i forced myself to appear completely confident the between the 4 to to still in german hands and the fortune still held find the french once more. the landscape

burns. this reconstruction, based on an aerial scan of the battlefield, shows the network of trenches the thousands of shell craters. darting the landscape, the germans descend into the ravines, climb back up the hills and eventually in circle the 4th of the inside of the 400 french. they've had no water and warm munitions for several days now. and every day saw some shells, rain down on their completely cut off. france as watch it's here

on the 4th of june, that one of the most famous episodes of the battlefield dawn takes place. when the germans managed to breach the ford to a tunnel the trench waiters for names flame throwers in hand to hit the on both sides fighting for glory and survival. the eventually the exhausted french surrender and the germans, they've just been trying to kill with them from military honors,

the put on just, and that's not the heading to the way to the next to the next for there on the horizon. some fee, the from this book promissory, which the scale of a month later on the 11th. so you can begin to feel that victory is within the distance that i see that term. and it's the

never get there. they're fine with the sensor. fail in a village now wiped off the map. floozies is taken and then we've taken a dozen times just 2 weeks. the, it's the very image of the whole battle. to go away with the 2 sides have been fighting for 6 months over a 100000 man or dan the like many of his comrade. oh no, it's fine. a young writer feels has been sacrificed by his temper and his generals the war has been going on to the rights to his wife. just one more push. they keep telling us. in march they sent in april,

in may. in june the reinforcements arrived. even younger man, the, the infantry struck at the very heart at the french. they told them they were defending their country and they believed it. then they saw it wasn't working. the piece paint is all this many people, blank person. she was sent an entire generation in the countries young man to dawn, the august the kaiser s fucking time replaced.

the general's plan has been a total failure. the allies have been advancing on a sunday since early july and then at that time are needed elsewhere. and now remaining is declared war on germany. so fucking, china is packed off and there is a punishment. he's replaced by 2 generals from the eastern front. you wouldn't go off and poly fun hindenburg. the engine block on the left will become president of germany after the war. he's the figure who and 1933 bullet points at all. hitler, chancellor of germany for the time being though easier to put an end to a battle that was supposed to be decisive for germany. but instead a work french patriotism. no.

the but this is found on, so it never ends. for the french, it's no longer a battle. it's already become a legend, an x, a central struggle for their country survival. things are different on the sun where a murderous british and french offensive. it's been going on since the 1st of july . but that's just a joint operation with the british. so it's having

a little impact on public opinion in france or the countries collective memory. you know, it's here fresh. once they're present, they say they want to secure the region. what they really want is between september and december general has brought in the big guns. they fire one time shelves, the size of an 8 year old child. does they like to say

the latest news? the cap schrupo at the german french finally managed this time the prince's troops surrendered in dreams. $140000.00 germans have died at that time. and another 190000 have been wounded.

all in a battle that did nothing. to effect the course of the war, the french losses were even heavier. 160000 dead, and 210000. but the french got their victory. tactical news, the humiliation all behind them now. and when the snow is con, december of 1916. the battle is officially over $300.00 days of fighting. it would take another 8 months to win back the forest of cool and dead man's hill and another 2 years for the war to end

the soldiers these husbands, his father's had taken bravery to the very limits they left behind thousands of or friends and they would ask was a glorious this battle or was it just absurd? oh, that was

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