this is so insightful ! i agree that there really is nothing war is good for, and the educational purposes that you mentioned are really interesting - the links you attached are definitely something I'll be watching a few of, to ground my own knowledge and to feed my curiosity 😮
thank you for this amazing and super insightful ramble ! such a pleasure to read 😁
Fascinating thoughts and good links. Curiously we've found, on @HistoryExtra YT channel, that our WW2 films with the amazingly knowledgeable Laurence Rees haven't done as well as other topics. We think because we fell foul of YouTube algorithm issues with the word 'Nazi' in the titles
My father fought in WWII, but he never spoke about it. As a young child, I’d ask him what it was like, only for him to gently change the subject. When I was about 14, I tried again. He didn’t look at me, but I saw a distant expression in his eyes, and I never asked again. What’s it good for? I suppose we need to ask: What’s worth fighting for? Is anything worth dying for? Perhaps freedom or loved ones—but the cost is always profound.
Agreed, there’s always a cost. My grandad Arthur who served in the British Royal Artillery, had his lungs wrecked in 1918 from a poison gas attack on the western front. He survived, but never really recovered. My dad served in the British 14th Army from 1944-47 in Malaya, Burma etc. He wasn’t physically wounded but contracted malaria which never left him really.
My mother’s father was exposed to a poison gas attack in WWI. He survived but died young when she was a kid. Don’t know much about him other than he was Scot fighting in one of the regiments.
this is so insightful ! i agree that there really is nothing war is good for, and the educational purposes that you mentioned are really interesting - the links you attached are definitely something I'll be watching a few of, to ground my own knowledge and to feed my curiosity 😮
thank you for this amazing and super insightful ramble ! such a pleasure to read 😁
Fascinating thoughts and good links. Curiously we've found, on @HistoryExtra YT channel, that our WW2 films with the amazingly knowledgeable Laurence Rees haven't done as well as other topics. We think because we fell foul of YouTube algorithm issues with the word 'Nazi' in the titles
My father fought in WWII, but he never spoke about it. As a young child, I’d ask him what it was like, only for him to gently change the subject. When I was about 14, I tried again. He didn’t look at me, but I saw a distant expression in his eyes, and I never asked again. What’s it good for? I suppose we need to ask: What’s worth fighting for? Is anything worth dying for? Perhaps freedom or loved ones—but the cost is always profound.
Agreed, there’s always a cost. My grandad Arthur who served in the British Royal Artillery, had his lungs wrecked in 1918 from a poison gas attack on the western front. He survived, but never really recovered. My dad served in the British 14th Army from 1944-47 in Malaya, Burma etc. He wasn’t physically wounded but contracted malaria which never left him really.
My mother’s father was exposed to a poison gas attack in WWI. He survived but died young when she was a kid. Don’t know much about him other than he was Scot fighting in one of the regiments.