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I am all for the men getting off. I want them to be told they can get off as soon as they have done the task.

Look, Maxse really cared about the welfare of his men.

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French artisan demonstrates a tree trunk disguise for a trench periscope in Dijon circa 1918

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I want to be careful what I say, yet I don’t think it will have any effect. There are a bout a dozen Machine Gunners among you – I don’t want you to be hurt at what I am going to say, but at the same time if you are not hurt I don’t think we shall get any better. If your resentment has the effect of driving it home, then I shall not mind a bit. In fact anyhow I shall not mind.

oh shit he's gonna rip them a new one

brutal

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Oh General Maxse!

something on your mind bud?

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31/8/18 My dear Maxse, Many thanks for your tracts, which I have read with interest. Yes, I think they supply a long felt want, and will be useful to those want to learn, of course, the moment is not very propitious for training propaganda, as the immediate question is the amount of MG fire which is coming from the quarry in U 13.d.35.70.!

Lieutenant-General Charles Fergusson to the Inspector General of Training Lieutenant-General Ivor Maxse on receiving some leaflets on training during the Battle of the Scarpe.

The corpse of a German machine gunner in his position during the Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line, 2/9/18.

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I love reading through pre-war military journals because occasionally you find someone who had some amazing insight into the future of war based on existing trends, and who absolutely nail much of how WW1 plays out.

Captain Crofton Sankey (what a fuckin English name) was one of these guys. A captain in the Royal Engineers and expert on Fortifications Sankey wrote a short article in a 1909 edition of the Royal Engineers Journal.

Looking at the Russo-Japanese War he picks up on the exact trends that defined WW1 five years later.

Pretty spot on there Crofton my old lad. So what'll happen then?

Yep that's pretty much how it goes.

Industrialised more than civilised, but otherwise yeah that's shockingly prescient.

And then you draw completely the wrong conclusion from it all. Spot on with how it will change the battlefield but completely wrong with what that means for war more broadly.

I can't really blame him for the conclusion, Jan Bloch on the other side of Europe had pretty much the same ideas, but goddamn were they both wrong on this point.

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I send you a very interesting photograph showing how the concrete dam across the Yser was shot away by a 15" Howitzer. It is pretty accurate shooting and it may interest your friends of the War Cabinet. Hugh Trenchard to Frederick Maurice - 2/11/17.

Pretty good for such a big gun, but it did also take them five days.

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gotta say, i think the germans generally had better cartoonists

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not very funny, but goddamn death looks sick in the glasses and coat

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that's just a cool picture

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i just like the depiction of the UK as a sea lion

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gottem

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because it's cool to do

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is that so?

thank you sir arthur hort

the english aristocracy is a joke

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The usual ‘local warfare’ about which you read in the newspapers – that is all – but one cannot help rather resenting the slighting way in which we are all now beginning to talk about these small happenings. Men have to display the same qualities of courage and endurance, and undergo the same kind of discomforts from shell fire and machine guns and bombs, in these little shows as in the big battles! Men get wounded and killed just the same – but we have become ‘large’ in our ideas and so we only sing the praises of the brave when they are killed in thousands.

Captain Cuthbert Headlam to his wife Beatrice, 20/4/1916.

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