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re: 100 Years Ago Today The World Went Mad
Posted on 7/28/14 at 4:18 pm to illuminatic
Posted on 7/28/14 at 4:18 pm to illuminatic
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Isn't there a Darth_Vader containment thread for this already?
Tell me where you are and I'll send the cops over to free you from whomever has kidnapped you and forced you to click on this thread.
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Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:21 pm to Darth_Vader
If you think the Western Front was bad, read up on the Italian Front. Trench warfare at 12,000 feet. Avalanches as an offensive weapon.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:38 pm to GetCocky11
It was truly the shot heard around the world. Some teen kills some arch duke that 98% of the world never heard of, I damned if I can remember why, then over next 50 years two world wars, several genocides and 100 million plus are dead. Europe begin its decline and America it's rise to power. I think that was the point.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:58 pm to TutHillTiger
I recently stumbled across this BBC documentary on the war, and it might be the best I've seen. It really goes into the background of the great power rivalry and the social and economic revolutions going on at the time (industrialization, German unification and the French loss of Alsace Loraine, etc). Germany basically just said YOLO, we've got this Schlieffen Plan, and a war now is better than a war later, squeezed between France and a fully industrialized Russia.
Don't let it's age (from 1964) turn you off:
YouTube
Don't let it's age (from 1964) turn you off:
YouTube
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:59 pm to Darth_Vader
My Great Grandfather fought in WWI
I actually have a letter he mailed to my Great Grandmother during conflict.
It says:
Dearest Gertrude,
WWI is going great! Anyone that tries to pas this shite off as some bloody monumental historical event is probably a mom jeans wearing pussy.
Hope all is well. We're about to have a Ping pong tournament, so I gotta run.
All of my love,
Bob
I actually have a letter he mailed to my Great Grandmother during conflict.
It says:
Dearest Gertrude,
WWI is going great! Anyone that tries to pas this shite off as some bloody monumental historical event is probably a mom jeans wearing pussy.
Hope all is well. We're about to have a Ping pong tournament, so I gotta run.
All of my love,
Bob
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:04 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
Supposedly, my great grandfather brought back a shell as a memento, which his family used as a doorstop in their home. When a cop friend found out over dinner that they didn't know whether it was live or not, the next day they had to go sink it in the Mississippi River.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 7:05 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:12 pm to Darth_Vader
Hey Darth, a question. Do you think Austria-Hungary got a raw deal out of the peace? I mean, it wasn't the most stable empire to begin with, but to have their regional war with Serbia metastasize into a global confrontation as a result of Russian and German mobilization (arguably at no fault of their own), I wonder if it was necessary to cut the empire apart at Versailles.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 7:51 pm to Macphisto
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Macphisto
Thanks for that link. Great stuff.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:12 pm to Macphisto
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I recently stumbled across this BBC documentary on the war,
Awesome series that I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD.
I've been reading a lot of WW1 books recently. Just got done reading To End All Wars by Hochschild and Great Britain's Great War by Paxman (great book).
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:16 pm to Tear It Up
Hitler getting pumped
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:20 pm to Darth_Vader
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Darth_Vader
For the record.
Great topic.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:20 pm to TexasTiger90
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Pvt. Henry Tandey, who supposedly came face to face with a young Adolf Hitler on the battlefield, had him in his rifle sights, and let him live?
If true, funny how such a seemingly small decision and act of intended goodwill caused the deaths of millions and damn near genocide of an entire race.
Wonder how the world would look today had he pulled the trigger?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:56 pm to LucasP
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It really is hard to imagine a worse hell than trench warfare. frick all that noise.
Off topic: I have a Winchester Model 1897 12ga, and I read somewhere that U.S. soldiers would use them to shoot German grenades out of the air before they could land in their trenches! Talk about pressure with being a good shot - you and your buddies lives literally depended on it...
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:46 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:35 pm to RDOtiger
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Off topic: I have a Winchester Model 1897 12ga, and I read somewhere that U.S. soldiers would use them to shoot German grenades out of the air before they could land in their trenches! Talk about pressure with being a good shot - you and your buddies lives literally depended on it...
Well I'm not sure they were skeet shooting potato mashers out of the sky, but the model 1897 was on of the most effective close quarters trench weapons of the war. The Germans were absolutely terrified of it.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 11:10 pm to Darth_Vader
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Well I'm not sure they were skeet shooting potato mashers out of the sky, but the model 1897 was on of the most effective close quarters trench weapons of the war. The Germans were absolutely terrified of it.
Damn right! Back in the day it was considered a heck of a turkey gun. But, because it's full choke with a tight pattern, it left little margin for error when shooting grenades in midair (just something I read in a rifle magazine) - up close, I couldn't imagine the damage it caused on the Germans.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 11:21 pm to RDOtiger
My family line on my dad's side comes from Canada into Maine. My great grandfather's draft card reports his occupation as "Woodsman."
A real frontiersman. I believe he didn't have to go due to being the only able bodied man of the family with no one to support his wife and kids if he died.
A real frontiersman. I believe he didn't have to go due to being the only able bodied man of the family with no one to support his wife and kids if he died.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 7/29/14 at 8:23 am to Darth_Vader
Great thread.
Any recommendations on a book on the topic that I could get an audiobook to listen to on my drive to and from NC next week?
Any recommendations on a book on the topic that I could get an audiobook to listen to on my drive to and from NC next week?
Posted on 7/29/14 at 8:26 am to Darth_Vader
Please change thread title to "100 Years and one day Ago Today The World Went Mad"
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