Jul
28
A Soldier Statue Is Slowly Melting in London, Marking 100 Years Since a Bloodbath Fought in Mud
Posted in: Uncategorized“I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele. … I fell into the bottomless mud, and lost the light.” This description of a Belgian battlefield by British soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon has long been synonymous with World War I’s Battle of Passchendaele, which began in July 1917 and lasted nearly four grueling months. This…
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