Passchendaele reveals how weather, terrain, and evolving tactics tested modern firepower in a costly, decisive attritional battle.
The Battle of Passchendaele lasted 99 days, yet a single mile of advance often required months of brutal fighting.
More American artillery shells were fired in 1917 than in any other month of the war, yet Americans didn’t officially arrive until mid-1917.
Mud claimed more lives than German shellfire, with soldiers sinking waist-deep and drowning in peat-rich quagmires.
Feldpost messages reveal trenches stank of decaying horses, rot, and rain-soaked uniforms long before enemy shelling intensified.
Passchendaele reveals how weather, terrain, and evolving tactics tested modern firepower in a costly, decisive attritional battle.
The Battle of Passchendaele lasted 99 days, yet a single mile of advance often required months of brutal fighting.
More American artillery shells were fired in 1917 than in any other month of the war, yet Americans didn’t officially arrive until mid-1917.
Mud claimed more lives than German shellfire, with soldiers sinking waist-deep and drowning in peat-rich quagmires.
Feldpost messages reveal trenches stank of decaying horses, rot, and rain-soaked uniforms long before enemy shelling intensified.
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