![]() There they stood, quite overpowered by emotion, and all of them with cap in hand. The French left their trenches and stood on the parapet without any fear. From everywhere, throughout the forest, one could hear powerful carols come floating over “Peace on earth-” The Christmas candles were burning brightly, and were renewed again and again. That night I was with a company that was only five paces away from the enemy. Not a shot was fired the French had ceased firing along the whole line. “0, thou blissful, 0, thou joyous, mercy bringing Christmas time!” Hundreds of men were singing the song in that fearful wood. We had decorated the tree with candles and cookies, and had imitated the snow with wadding.Ĭhristmas trees were burning everywhere in the trenches, and at midnight all the trees were lifted on to the parapet with their burning candles, and along the whole line German soldiers began to sing Christmas songs in chorus. We had procured a pine tree, for there were no fir trees to be had. ![]() There was a moment in Part III that broke me:Ĭhristmas in the trenches! It was bitterly cold. Dan Carlin freely admits that the truth is difficult to ascertain and frequently engages in armchair psychology.īut it’s all in the interest of telling the story well and trying to come to terms with it. Drawing on multiple print sources and quoting (with citation) liberally, the listener gets a sense of what the war meant for the governments and generals as well as the common people involved in it. It’s like a history lecture by your favorite instructor ever. The podcast, this series anyway, is great. Not as visceral, nor as visually documented as World War II, and not something anyone I knew remembered with clarity. But the Great War was something awful that happened a hundred years ago when my grandparents were barely children. I have some sparse history, broad enough to comprehend the scope of world affairs and specific enough in areas to have strong opinions. It’s all interconnected, see.Īnyway, the entire six podcast series “Blueprint for Armageddon”, about World War I, was recommended. What I’m in, what I’ve been in for most of my life, is more like a warren or a wild burrow. People talk about going down the rabbit hole. ![]() Okay, by the writer’s notes for three pages of a comic book. In between audiobooks and coming off a Spotify binge, I was turned on to Hardcore History. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora’s Box of violence engulfs the planet. The Planet had not seen a major war between all the great powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History “Blueprint for Armageddon” ![]()
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