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Passchendaele |
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Passchendaele a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Take Georges Vanier, a young Montreal lawyer who joined the 22nd Regiment (known as the VanDoos) and served in France with great courage at Passchendaele and Vimy until he was grievously wounded at the end of the First World War. Some thirteen million people died, nine million of them young men, most of them in conditions of almost unimaginable horror; the British in the mud of the Somme and Passchendaele, the French and Germans pounding each other to smithereens at Verdun, the Austrians and Hungarians freezing to death in the Carpathians, the Russians driven forward like cattle on the plains of Poland, the Italians slaughtered in their vain and repeated attacks on the rocky slopes of the Carso. And for the dear souls who delude themselves that studying war at its most absurdly wasteful could some day bring man to study it no more, World War I's great slaughters - Passchendaele, Verdun, the Somme - are hard to beat for sheer, unmitigated senselessness. |
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