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Title: What was worse? Somme or Verdun
Post by: Chomper98 on March 16, 2013, 07:26:27 PM

What was worse?

Title: What was worse? Somme or Verdun
Post by: Malte279 on March 16, 2013, 07:44:38 PM

How would you even want to measure that? What do you mean by worse? How can the fates, the death, the suffering of hundredthousands be measured? What insight could we gain by labeling one or the other worse than the other?

Title: What was worse? Somme or Verdun
Post by: Littlefoot Fan 93 on March 24, 2013, 04:26:50 PM

I can't say which was worse because in both cases; a good element of battle tactics employed by the comanders were first developed by the Roman Army nearly 2000 years earlier! Roman battle tactics were becoming outdated by the American Civial War and it was only after WW1, did battle tactics begin to change to meet the demands given by the development of Light Mchins Guns.

Title: What was worse? Somme or Verdun
Post by: LoyfeCycleProtector on March 24, 2013, 04:36:01 PM

You mean all the Somme battles combined, or are you talking about a particular battle in the Somme campaign? I don't know about bloodiest, but my vote for the most horrifying was the Third Yrpes, Paschendeal. I also hear Stalingrad was pretty wretched.