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don't. nice. 16 august. the 1st, 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 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 to just look at this image and read the german army positions in the middle. the town of that time, the river moyes are running through it, and the hills all around. the french has built 30 or more forts 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 image. so prince the t or the greatest ready to launch in major a sensor, unexpectedly attacking the strongest position, the whole for the reckoning. the french won't give up the terminal to without throwing emphasis. they got into the panel 1st the,

the emperor or his interest in 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 is as hard as steel, the beginning of the the heaviest mass and force quotesoft differential

positions the it's going to be assigned to the length of which the world has never known by some and called rudy like student's parents, the, the german troops of what they call stolen tunnels, under the hill for cover in one of these verse 20 year old team in spoken the whole sites. 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 repel any attack. the february 9th that you, the crown prince's shot, the fence, the

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fire 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 yourself is always saying that

they're done 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 into 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. if you have done your to fight to the death that says while of waiting reinforcements, the,

when it comes to late in just 5 days to german steamroller 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 now the germans are quite up against the enormous fortress, up to 200 yards away from the supposedly, from some of the items from brandon. the sites go the curio

to the most of the developments. so therefore the brand which was fine with the font to because the places on the french general electric on the trial as germany of

a church does start to renew it. expresses fits of light to what you're going to do. this means she writes to her husband at the front. may god grant us peace and look the music of the cannon's tale. our future happiness, the 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. the ease handed the job of defending via the lease, arriving this ultra key for now was just another bits later version troops suit the wasn't matters now. so francis suggest to block the german it already

seems like because the french have been taken by surprise. it just worth reading. there's only one side that's showing ours contrast to the term in front with its network. a 14 way assist. the general arrives, this country road becomes red ones and feel like a secret way. the sunsets are relentless pace. 6, just a day. the

fits cuts about the sacred ways split into a fix becomes a secret cars. the and one of those trucks has a young lieutenant to very flooding the over the next 10 months. french 2000000, 100000. many of these describe the children, the end among rolling the

duck in within the walls of 2 or more to determine it seems to me reconstruction the they suffered enormous horses. 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 mock, 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 surface of we're misgivings. the germans have only advanced 10 kilometers in 2 weeks and there's no breakthrough inside but they just keep going. the camp living space

the here, so the battlefield next to that the, to the right. by the germans, the, the artillery place on the west boys in the 4th special spinning the germans done on the east by the if the germans wanted to take that, don't have to destroy those guns. to do that, they'll have to take the 2 pills which stand in their way, coats, 3 or 4 on deck mans here.

the deadman select wired its 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

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

this 25 years later, the country falls to nazi germany in 1940 on dead man's hill. now, however, the boot is on the other foot. as the french put out more flags, the germans grow increasingly on easy, especially the ones who has been captured by the french. we've been gravely deceased by our officers writes young cause god not to his mother. know their demands. we would like all those gentlemen responsible for the war to come and fight at our side to say done so. we would have had peace, long ago, the insect,

although the french don't suspected germany is in crisis the . what's the war, seemingly endless? some politicians are starting to question the sense of it. peace demonstrations by spreading. this is one in berlin, on the 1st of may, in the middle of the fact of the van don't far left. the politician con, leak. next. as her ring the crowd down with the government, he says, down with the war right after he speaks, he's jail the french to different the

one of the troops have been holding out on that man. so it's almost returning to normal. almost as the battle was actually being the civilians seem getting on with their lots of fun. some no idea that $60000.00 men have already died if they're 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 to the battle of the french. this river the all, 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 being welcome by the president of the republic. the journalists have been invited to an english correspondent rights at that time, one feels an intense satisfaction. it would seem investor,

the friendship stood alone against german. everyone knows that the germans, so the ground to the hold does of no further strategic importance. still carry on. a statue buys in stoughton, that's the, the, the,

the french counter attack comes on the 22nd of may. the troops prove themselves that to the 4th, think of band and the but they were just, there is a dubious one. they're generally getting the 4th one to help them break down the risk which the french was the front line and get us the gets a disaster. 5000 dead wounded. were taken prisoner and all

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

desk monitor the oss on either side of the front to swing 200000 french against 800000 germans or duncan certification system. it's on a rotation system. 10 days on the front, on 10 days on the 2nd then arrest the we are in the

line again. and that's where captain dan view is when he writes, if you like an animal being herded into the wine, 60000000 shell, it's the toyota department. most of the allowance 3 is kind of the time with nobody, even notice and there's no glory slot with dangerous shots are still waiting to atlanta

some that the filters, the general service from franklin high head of the german army orders his men to have

another go with fair john the he wants to turn down the french and stop them from supporting the pillars further north on this, on the no one is really committed to the attack though, starting from the crown prince. for him, the battle no longer makes sense. in my heart the kaiser son more right. i was totally opposed to this offensive but my how to of a waters. so i forced myself to appear completely confident the between the 4th a still in german hands and the 4th still held fine. the french once more the landscape burns

this reconstruction based on an aerial scan of the battlefield. ready shows the network of trenches, the thousands of shell craters dawning, 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 or munitions for several days now. and every day, 8 souls of shells rained down on their completely cut off france as watch it's

here from 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 were needs flame throwers in hand to hit the on both sides fighting for glory and survive on the eventually the exhausted french surrender and the germans, they've just been trying to kill with him from military honors,

the put all just end the heading to the way to the next to the next for there on the horizon. some fee, the from this walk promissory, which the scale of a month later on the 11th. and you can begin to feel that victory is within the distance that i see better and it's the

never get there. they're fine with the 10 seconds fail in a village now wiped off the map for the was taken. and then we've taken a dozen times just 2 weeks. the, it's the very image of the whole battle to work with was the 2 sides have been fighting for 6 months over a 100000 man or dan the like many of his comrades. 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 of the french. they told them they were defending their country, and they believed it. then they saw it wasn't working. whose fault is all this? the many people blame the man who was sent in to generation in countries. young man. to dawn, the august counties as fucking time replaced, the

general's plan has been a total failure. the allies have been advancing on the song since early july. the minute they have done or needed elsewhere. and now romania has declared war on germany. so fucking china is packed off and there is a punishment. and he's replaced by 2 generals from the eastern front ethics. we wouldn't off impala fund hindenburg. hindenburg on the left will become president of germany after the war. he's the figure who in 1933. the point 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 are resent, 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 capture about the german french finally managed this time the prince's troops surrendered in dreams. 140000 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, the 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, these fathers taken bravery to the very limits they left behind thousands of or sons. and they would ask, was a glorious this battle or was it just absurd? the oh, that was a century ago of the trauma of the great wars longest battle, the

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