Russell Newton - Trench Warfare - History, Documentary
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
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down in the trenches. For most of us, trench warfare is probably the first thing that comes to mind when we consider the events of World War. And there is a reason for that, since from 1914 all the way to 1917 the trench warfare on the Western front was indeed an omnipresent feature of the war. But for the Germans, this was never the way things were supposed to turn out. The German military's goal was to bulldoze through France in a blitzkrieg style to tech, knocking the French out of the war in a matter of weeks. Although this strategy would work for Adolf Hitler and his Nazis in World War Two, when he sent tanks to bulldoze right through Western Europe in World War, the German drive got stuck in the quagmire of the trenches. By 1915 the Kaiser and his advisers were already greatly dismayed that the wheels of their war machine had ground to a halt, so much so that the leadership were considering all manner of unconventional warfare in an effort to shake themselves out of the Malays