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The Trench Warfare of World War I
- The History and Legacy of the Great War's Primary Method of Combat
- Narrated by: John Skinner
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 04-27-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: Charles River Editors
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $6.95
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Publisher's Summary
"God would never be cruel enough to create a cyclone as terrible as that Argonne battle. Only man would ever think of doing an awful thing like that. It looked like the abomination of desolation must look like. And all through the long night those big guns flashed and growled just like the lightning and the thunder when it storms in the mountains at home. And, oh my, we had to pass the wounded. And some of them were on stretchers going back to the dressing stations, and some of them were lying around, moaning and twitching. And the dead were all along the road. And it was wet and cold. And it all made me think of the Bible and the story of the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. And I'm telling you the little log cabin in Wolf Valley in old Tennessee seemed a long long way off." - Alvin C. York
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The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across No Man's Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are all too true, they hide the fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly evolving throughout the war as all armies struggled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.
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- carrie
- 12-14-15
Misleading title
Should've been titled "weapons of wwl"
My mind kept drifting as I was listening and thats never a good thing when listening to an audio book.