OMG the madness of WWI, When you start identifying the numbers the madness is endless.
- battles that go on for eleven months
- battles that had a million shells dropped
- there was 19 battles of the Isonzo River.. just think about that alone.. you figure by the tenth time it was pointless..
- battlefields that had so much rain entire rail lines disappeared
- due to how many shells every dropped and how poorly they were built there last person to die because of WWI shelling was in the 1950s , a French farmer plowed a un-exploded WWI shell
- and finally in France until this year they are still digging up unexplored ordinance, they even have a name for it “The Iron Harvest”
If you want to get a dipping in WWI , check out The Great War on YouTube. They have a series where they do a newscast style recap of each week of the war.
Then read a World Undone.