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Blueprint for Armageddon by Dan Carlin
5.0
Geniale podcast van Dan Carlin. Een inspiratiebron om de eigen lessen anders te benaderen...
"Blueprint for Armageddon is not just about gratuitously horrifying the audience. It’s not a day of talking only about dismemberment and chlorine gas attacks. Carlin presents the geopolitics, the history behind the history, the accounts of the generals, the politicians, and the common man on the ground into a coherent, well-paced, and incredibly detailed experience that will leave any listener more educated on the war, and hopefully a whole lot wiser."
https://observer.com/2016/12/this-podcast-tells-the-stories-high-school-history-class-forgot/
"The anatomy of the battles of Verdun and the Somme was the same. A battlefield had been selected. Around this battlefield walls were built—double, triple, quadruple—of enormous cannon. Behind these railways were constructed to feed them, and mountains of shells were built up. All this was the work of months. Thus the battlefield was completely encircled by thousands of guns of all sizes, and a wide oval space prepared in their midst. Through this awful arena all the divisions of each army, battered ceaselessly by the enveloping artillery, were made to pass in succession, as if they were the teeth of interlocking cogwheels grinding each other.
For month after month the ceaseless cannonade continued at its utmost intensity, and month after month the gallant divisions of heroic human beings were torn to pieces in this terrible rotation. Then came the winter, pouring down rain from the sky to clog the feet of men, and drawing veils of mist before the hawk-eyes of their artillery. The arena, as used to happen in the Coliseum in those miniature Roman days, was flooded with water. A vast sea of ensanguined mud, churned by thousands of vehicles, by hundreds of thousands of men and millions of shells, replaced the blasted dust. Still the struggle continued. Still the remorseless wheels revolved. Still the auditorium of artillery roared. At last the legs of men could no longer move; they wallowed and floundered helplessly in the slime. Their food, their ammunition lagged behind them along the smashed and choked roadways."
Winston Churchill over de vreselijke slagen bij de Somme en Verdun.
"Blueprint for Armageddon is not just about gratuitously horrifying the audience. It’s not a day of talking only about dismemberment and chlorine gas attacks. Carlin presents the geopolitics, the history behind the history, the accounts of the generals, the politicians, and the common man on the ground into a coherent, well-paced, and incredibly detailed experience that will leave any listener more educated on the war, and hopefully a whole lot wiser."
https://observer.com/2016/12/this-podcast-tells-the-stories-high-school-history-class-forgot/
"The anatomy of the battles of Verdun and the Somme was the same. A battlefield had been selected. Around this battlefield walls were built—double, triple, quadruple—of enormous cannon. Behind these railways were constructed to feed them, and mountains of shells were built up. All this was the work of months. Thus the battlefield was completely encircled by thousands of guns of all sizes, and a wide oval space prepared in their midst. Through this awful arena all the divisions of each army, battered ceaselessly by the enveloping artillery, were made to pass in succession, as if they were the teeth of interlocking cogwheels grinding each other.
For month after month the ceaseless cannonade continued at its utmost intensity, and month after month the gallant divisions of heroic human beings were torn to pieces in this terrible rotation. Then came the winter, pouring down rain from the sky to clog the feet of men, and drawing veils of mist before the hawk-eyes of their artillery. The arena, as used to happen in the Coliseum in those miniature Roman days, was flooded with water. A vast sea of ensanguined mud, churned by thousands of vehicles, by hundreds of thousands of men and millions of shells, replaced the blasted dust. Still the struggle continued. Still the remorseless wheels revolved. Still the auditorium of artillery roared. At last the legs of men could no longer move; they wallowed and floundered helplessly in the slime. Their food, their ammunition lagged behind them along the smashed and choked roadways."
Winston Churchill over de vreselijke slagen bij de Somme en Verdun.