Why, this was a love battle - there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. “No, he didn’t - he just invented mass butchery. “General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.” You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.” You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. “Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. The thunder of the mogul hordes filled my ears as I listened to Wrath. Media Review Listening to Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon, I noticed he repeated an apocryphal anecdote, that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand hinged on a sandwich. The smell of the rotting corpses filled my nose as I listened to Blueprint For Armageddon. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.” Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon has 7 factual errors in the first 20 minutes. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. It took the British a month to walk to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. “See that little stream - we could walk to it in two minutes.
Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler What would Apaches with modern weapons be like Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras This isn't academic history (and Carlin isn't a historian) but the podcast's. Here read by Dan Carlin as part of his brilliant Hardcore History: Show 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IV In 'Hardcore History' journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his 'Martian', unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
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