The Price of a Mile - The Battle of Passchendaele - Sabaton History 058 [Official] 

Do a song about the Somme

@@thedarkestknight2540 Listen to 1916

@@Silviu86syd I did its sad

Hey

@Necroglobule The maps the generals had were probably still pre-war. They thought Paeshendale was beautiful fields rather then a quagmire of death.

@@belisarius6949 and here we see why up to date Intel is IMPORTANT =_=

I think I remember reading in a newspaper cartoon from the time this little gem General to a soldier "What's the difference between training and a real battle?" Soldier "absence of the general Sir"

@@GayCheesetuber Grimm... might use it as a joke

IIRC Tolkien himself denied direct paralels between events of world wars and stroy of his great book, tho yes, some similarities are just strikeing.

The black fields of Mordor kinda looks like the wet muddy Countryside

@@ComissarYarrick yeah he denied it.. still I am not convinced of this.

TheIfifi when you create stuff it is usually based on your memories albit usually subconsciously.

@@michimatsch5862 thats my thought

Regular bands : ugh we partied to hard last night Sabaton : so we partied hard last night , stole a tank, and wrote a 1000 word paper on infantry tactics on the western front

@@totallynotalpharius2283 "uh 2 Tanks Actually, Wait a minute, no, 3 Actually, Make that 3 Tanks"

@@TheDoctorFromArknights and a boat. A massive boat. Like a very massive boat that is… German? Interesting.

Mmmm. And a plane.

Wtf I like homework now

It always has been

@David Irvin poor guy, haven't been 'educated on education' enough yet to know you don't get to pick your lessons, nor do you get to bring in outside materials into your classes lest you be and minimum reprimanded by your peers and bosses and worst sued by the big corporations that own the material you 'stole' to teach people...more freedom in private schooling and tutoring, but good luck finding the market for private school and tutoring help for history.

@@fortusvictus8297 Lol so let him show this to change this shit. In Germany it wouldnt be that hard to show these videos. This would be the most epis homework: Please find out what the price of one mile advancement in ww1 was.

@@Oeggonom yeah, in Germany they can use most things as long as it kinda aligns with the governments plan and teachers have a special right to use copyrighted material for educational purposes

Ah, I see... a man of culture.

nice

IRON MAIDEN

Laying Low in a blood filled trench

Coc and ball torture

Piscator Where’s this greatness I’ve been told? Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻Prost 🍻

The legend himself arrives

SEE CAROLUS RISE! anyway i 100% agree with you

at this point, i'm pretty sure you've reached official level. All that's missing is a partnership

Funny enough war has been one of the main driving force behind societal changes.

There's an ancient joke about the Devil seeing a bunch of happy men in hell and in anger asking them why they were smiling. The men just tell him "This isn't the front."

Your great grandfather had to actually live through the swamps of sadness

I am sorry for your loss, and the fact that he had to live through that.

What is so great about war?

For me it was the entire history section of the final solution video but damn I was almost right there with you.

@@nothereneverhere640 I mean, the Final Solution was absolutely horrible and incomprehensibly bad, but I find the events of WWI and battles like this to be more scarring and hellish. Like you are not just fighting humans, but also every aspect of Mother Earth. You don’t know whether or not you will be alive in the next second, let alone the next minute or day. You don’t know if you are going to get blasted to pieces, ripped to shreds by the jail fire of bullets, suffocated to death by gas, crushed by tanks, or drown in the mud. Heck, you don’t even know if you will be able to open your eyes again the second you close them. The mental toll has to be insane, and can definitely be seen in how WWI veterans came out of the war. Hundreds of thousands reportedly suffering from “shell shock”, some of which NEVER recovered, including one of my own ancestors. Like I said, the Holocaust is an absolute tragedy, and I truly hope it never happens again (sadly, I can almost guarantee it will), but personally, I find WWI overall and it’s major battles like Battle of Passchendaele to be even more hellish.

Same... i did not pick the right episode to watch while having lunch 🥴

Winterman My respect to you 👍🏻great !!! Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻

I used to have a WW1 veteran talk to my Canadian history about the war. He was quite willing to Vimy Ridge and most of the war but when anyone asked about Passchendaele his eyes would fill with tears and say he had to leave. Towards the end of his life, he was talking about his wife, who died from the Spanish flu, and why he never remarried. He said the he had died at Passchendaele and now his "body was catching up to his soul."

@@old-moose Probably he lost his friend there.

Winterman he problem saw so many horrors and saw many a friends and people dead, mutilated, swallowed by mud, or disappear in the blink of an eye in from an artillery shell.

@@wintermanthenforcer Not one. He was the only one out of 46 boys from the same Newfoundland town alive at the end of the war. (Something I found out from his sister after his death. He could never bring himself to go home after the war.)

Well, not really. That was _that_ war specifically. But trench warfare was really a thing that only existed in WWI. This way of fighting over large fronts to capture territory is an entirely modern construct. It used to be that battles would be fought over just a day. Towns weren't besieged by long term artillery bombardment, but usually just forced to surrender when surrounded and out of food. Technology has vastly outpaced our ability to cooperate.

"Absolute bargain"- Sir Douglas Haig, October 1917

James O'Donnell that is beautiful and cursed at the same time

@@jamesodonnell8290 LMFAO

52 people dead per each METER gained. Jesus.

Or about 52,083 men per kilometer if my math is correct

@@sigma2653 on my Itunes :P

@EmoSigma Fret not. Here's the whole list, in order, as I listen to them: The March to War (always good as the first song) “Sun Tsu says: the Art of War is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life or death, a road either to safety, or to ruin” Sun Tzu Says-Ghost Division Dominium Maris Baltici-The Lion from the North Seven Pillars of Wisdom Reign of Terror Blood of Bannockburn Coat of Arms Carolus Rex Rise of Evil “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” The Art of War “Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Great War Panzer Battalion Screaming Eagles Counterstrike No Bullets Fly Poltava A Ghost in the Trenches Inmate 4859 40:1 The Ballad of Bull “By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march; then, with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.” Unbreakable Saboteurs Panzerkampf White Death Wolfpack In the Name of God Uprising “Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing; therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.” The Nature of Warfare (if listening on youtube, that means finding Cliffs of Gallipoli and pausing right before the piano riff into the song proper. Alternatively, you can probably also just pause before the introduction of the next "lesson" and then play that right before Talvisota. It's not a perfect playlist, but one has to make do.) Midway Gott mit uns Wehrmacht The Future of Warfare Night Witches Killing Ground Shiroyama Cliffs of Gallipoli There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested…” Talvisota 1 6 4 8 Rorke's Drift Back in Control Last Dying Breath “Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.” Union (Slopes of St. Benedict) 82nd All the Way Primo Victoria The Carolean's Prayer The Red Baron Glorious Land Aces in Exile Devil Dogs Smoking Snakes Winged Hussars Swedish Pagans Long Live the King “Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight” The Price of a Mile Sparta Fields of Verdun Stalingrad To Hell and Back Hill 3234 Resist and Bite The Last Stand Angels Calling Diary of an Unknown Solder-The Lost Battalion “A Kingdom that has once been destroyed can never again come into being, and the dead can never come back to life” Firestorm The Attack of the Dead Men We Burn The Final Solution A Lifetime of War Into the Fire Attero Dominatus Hearts of Iron Nuclear Attack Ruina Imperii “Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.” A Secret (basically just for the lesson) The End of the War to End All Wars Dead Soldier's Waltz Light in the Black In Flanders Fields

What does it say about Swedish Pagans?

@@totallynotalpharius2283 they are marching ashore

Now can you put soldier of heaven for “throw your soldiers where they cannot escape, and they will prefer death to flight” or maybe Christmas Truce if that counts

You're welcome!

Gods, yeah this song and the video only make me symapthise even more with those who had to deal with a fate worse than death. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

Wine? Where?

@@PiscatorLager What's the price of it though?

@@PiscatorLager In my fridge ❤️

All time classic.

That was such a great series. Only series on RU-vid I never missed a notification for. Still never gets old to rewatch.

@@williamjeffersonclinton69 Right now, I'm watching The Great War. After I finish this great show, I will continue with Between Two Wars and finally World War 2

@@percamihai-marco7157 that is a solid plan there. Between Two Wars is another great series as well. Enjoy.

agreed, it really depicts the senseless slaughter of young men, it's difficult to imagine what those soldiers went through. it was hell on Earth and those that survived were never the same again, they lost a part of themselve on those battlefields.

Relive all that he's been through Last communion of his soul Rust your bullets with his tears Let me tell you 'bout his years

Laying low in a blood filled trench Kill Tim 'til my very own death On my face I can feel the falling rain Never see my friends again

Smell the fear and the feeling of dread, Soon be time to go over the wall, Rapid fire and the end of us all.

Shit dude I see you all over the place.

That puts a knot in my gut

I felt the same way, but then I felt horrified by the accounts of the soldiers hearing their comrades drowning in the mud. I can’t imagine how traumatic that must be...

...and the rest is history!

...and the rest is history!

...and the rest is history!

... and the rest is history!

... and the rest is history!

alot of my family were mercenaries or soldiers dating pretty far back our avergae life expectancy was to around 30 at most 40 during the 1900s

And a complete myth...

Death Korps of Krieg- Happy gas mask sounds

**Stalin:** "I'll take 40!"

you're welcome!

Always happens to me as well. Quite a few Sabaton songs choke me up.

Hey!!! You are not alone!!! Liebe grüße Alex🤘🏻

If only Sabaton had been putting emotional depth in to history (they call it writing songs) back before I retired; I would have had a way to get my students to feel history.

Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone And as the men crawled the general called And the killing carried on and on How long? What's the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile? The first time I heard this song, I was not interested in ww1 or ww2 - as a 17-year-old smug teen who cared mroe about medieval shit. And that part of the lyrics was the moment I realized they were talking about people. Not about some political shit, but about a price paid in death. I researched Passiondale after that and it became one of my favorite songs. It still is 13 years later. I am happy they are playing it live again. I listen to it every time I am whining about something insignificant - it sobers me up. Fucking hell I wasn't ready for this episode. But it's okay I like my coffee with tears in the morning. haha

Germans: Don't try it

It was my favorite song since I started listening Sabaton in 2013

@Col. Commissar Ibram Gaunt for everyone that wasn't a general, aye

And Jesse. I forgot about Jesse

Cool! Have you seen Indy's other channels as well? TimeGhost History and World War Two!

@@SabatonHistory yes i do watch them aswell and absoluty enjoy them

You're welcome!

We probably will.

@@SabatonHistory Thanks bros!!!

Wasn't 7734 just a "typical" Power Metal Song, basically ridiculing the genre, because of the nonsensical lyrics and yet still the music sounding badass and epic, so a bit self-ironic, since Power Metal is the original background of Sabaton? If you mean it really well, I guess you could call it an homage :D

@@SabatonHistory I'm also confused with Claws of an Eagle part of Aces in Exile.

@@Battleship009 Ace In Exile talk about the Allied air force during the battle of Britain. What I mean by Allied air force is : 1- The Polish air force 2- The Schecolovakia air force 3- The Canadian air force You have different reasons for being in exile: 1- "Exile means to be away from one's home being threatened with imprisonment or dead upon return". Polish and Schecoslovakia 2- You can be in Exil if you are voluntary, I means if you are voluntary to go fight in a foreign country for a foreign country that's mean you are in exile. Canadian Sorry for my english, it's my second language.

As another Canadian, I really dislike his poem. Prefer “Suicide in the Trenches”

Do you know his other channels? ru-vid.com and ru-vid.com

I'm glad you liked the episode!

It was for the defence of liberal democracy. For the defence of small nations to live in peace without being invaded. For the defence of free trade against a militaristic, aggressive foreign power. Things worth fighting for actually.

No it doesn't. But here's a comment!

@ Sabaton History Prost Sabaton History, I hope you are all safe out there. Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻Dankeschön für das ❤️

Yeah - the ijzeroogst is still going..

Also watch the one about the attack if the dead mem because that's covers chemical warfare

Cheers!

That will be great!

Hope you liked it!