The Great War (2014)
The Most Pointless Battle of WW1? - Passchendaele 1917
S12 • E4 Apr 11, 2025 22m
For more than three long months in 1917, Allied and German soldiers fought tooth and nail over a battlefield churned into a sea of sucking mud and shell holes by the guns. Hundreds of thousands were killed and wounded, some of them drowning in the soupy ground — for Allied gains of just a few kilometers. So why did the Battle of Passchendaele happen at all, and was it the most pointless battle of the First World War?
