Sunday, December 7, 2008

Battle Of The Somme

Some footage from the Battle of the Somme.
Not sure how reliable the annotations/statistics are, but worth the watch just to see what life at the Somme was really like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv5gBa9DQs

I TRIED to embed the video...and failed because my computer seems to be having another temper tantrum...

1 comment:

ghostgum said...

The images are quite arresting - the look in the soldiers' eyes is like disbelief or he is not really sure what the rest of the war will entail. You can just imagine what it would have been like adding the rain, rats and the incessant sound of shells and of course death. Not sure about the quotation on the presentation about war - what do others think?