Watched "They shall not grow old" a Peter Jackson Documentary on WW1.

I still can't believe how Serbian killing an Austrian started a series of events, which led to an entire Generation of New Foundlanders dying in France, fighting the Germans
There are tonnes of books, movies, videos, documentaries, TV shows about WW2.

But there is actually very little about WW1. A war which had similar human causalities as WW2.

This documentary goes a long way in addressing that.

It's truly an epic watch.
Particularly amazing is the part concerning the Battle of Somme. What I consider the worst battle in modern era.

A battle in which Soldiers were ordered to carry a 70 kg bag and walk towards the enemy, while they fired on you with Machine Guns and Artillery.
More than 57,000 British and 8000 Germans became casualties on the First day of the Somme.

Yes one day of the Somme killed and injured more British Soldiers than Korean, Falkland and Crimean wars combined.

That was the scale of the fight
While we are at it, General Douglas Haig, may you rot in hell for eternity
P:S: The Documentary is on Netflix

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