The battle of Passchendaele, one of the most senseless battles in human history. Besides all those numbers, the way it happened was almost worse.. The "allied" ordered a big offensive in the autumn, and during that autumn it basically never stopped raining, turning the whole battlefiled into a giant swamp. Many of those that died, died from drowning in the mud and were never recovered. There are reports from soldiers that when they marched forward, they hated when they got some solid footing under the mud, because the only possible reason for that solid footing was because they walked on the corpse of a fellow human..
Welcome to Sabaton. Considering how close we are getting to the holiday I hope that they let you listen to the Christmas truce before too long. Sabaton is a European band which about halfway through their first album started looking into history, and discovered that there was enough material to make songs for as long as they want to make them. Most of their songs are like this one, reminding us of the cost of going to war. Yes they do have occasional heroic theme songs but always and forever the Frontline songs will be ones that remind us exactly how expensive the war was. When they get around to doing Christmas truce with you, and I can only hope kit and Kyra get to watch it as well, I hope they provide tissues.
@@sygmarvexarion7891 I think he just ment 10s of thousands in how you can say fifty two hundred or five thousand two hundred. Means the same just can sound like more or less from the wording
As a Sabaton fan, and military history buff, this song hits home HARD! This song specifically is about The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as The Battle of Passchendaele, it took place between July and November 1917. If you listen closely at the beginning of the song you will hear what sounds like rolling thunder in the background, this is symbolizing the sound of the artillery during this long battle. At the beginning of the offensive by the British Expeditionary Force the German lines were shelled for 10 days (18 July to 28 July 1917) by 4.5 MILLION artillery rounds. That comes out to just slightly over 5 artillery explosions every second! This is where the term "Shell Shocked", which we now know as PTSD, comes from. Although the causality numbers vary depending on which historian you read, there were roughly 250,000 Allied losses and about 270,000 German losses. Which is where the lyric "Half a million lives are gone" comes from. All of this for SIX miles of ground. A great Sabaton song, if you get a chance to listen to it, that demonstrates the courage and resolve of the Belgians (which is where Ypres / Passchendaele is) would be "Race to the Sea" which is about the Belgians flooding the Yser river to hold the German advance and stop them from taking all of Belgium. One last note, this battle took place in the western province of Belgium called Flanders, there is a poem by a Canadian surgeon Lt. Colonel John McCrae called "In Flanders Fields" that he wrote after the funeral for one of his friends (Lieutenant Alexis Helmer) who died at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Sabaton did a beautiful version of this song as the final song of their album "The Great War", it is sung as a hymn by an acapella choir.
ultimately The Canadians, ended this battle in a costly victory for the allies. General Curry, responsible for the passchendaele front and the Canadian Expeditionary Force, predicted about 16000 canadian casualties, we were the tip of the spear in many important battles, and were recognised by MANY generals (triple entente or triple alliance ones) as the most effective fighting force in the war. Canadians pioneered many infantry tactics and inner-rank information spread (every soldier in our ranks knew the battle plan unlike what the other allies did)
Survivors from Paschendale wrote that they slogged through knee deep mud and when they stood on what felt like solid ground they realised they were standing on the fallen...both friend and foe alike
@@FanEAW The contributions of the Canadian forces are often criminally under represented in the current media, for both World War I and World War II. Canada has always fielded some of the top infantry in every conflict they have been involved in, Canada has a rich martial history.
Artillery and machine gun placements existed during WW1, the browning is probably the most famous. It's not really nebulous it is definitely about WW1.
IIRC early machine guns were already used in the US Civil War. They were heavy and needed water cooling, but they pushed brutality of war to a whole new level. Some machine guns of such design are even user in Ukraine right now. If you have a static firing position and plenty of water they can keep firing the whole day and they kill just like when they were designed.
@@JariJuslinThat's the Maxim, and it was designed in the late 1800s. Humanity had muskets during the Civil War, the Gatling gun didn't even exist until America helped modernize Japan.
World War I was practically a slaughter. Incompetence of generals in the confrontation with modern technology. Despite the fact that the front line did not change much, it could kill 50,000 to 1 million people in the battles. At the beginning of the war, the French fought in silver helmets and colorful uniforms. They were visible from a distance against the gray background of the surrounding areas. Sabaton talks about it with real brutality.
It wasn't really incompetence, more a lack of experience. This was the first modern warfare. Before that, for the most part it was armies clasing their heads together in the open field or behind the walls of a fortress like a kid playing with action figures. This was the first time that modern weaponry, industrialised arms industries, the dawn of armored, motorized combat vehicles and large scale mobilisation of giant armies ment that battles could remain in a stalemate for weeks at a time.
@@weybye91not the Napoleonic, the Franco-Prussian war, which is indeed a very fast war, lasting a year, they looked at this, instead of the slog and slaughter of the American Civil War
They ask the question often enough "What's the Price of a mile." The estimated number of men that died during the Battle of Paschendaele is somewhere between 450,000-848,000. The ground gained was a total of SIX MILES. Over the course of some 3 months, 1 week, and 3 days. That's 75,000-141,333 bodies PER MILE. And as far as I know they still find buried bones there. And to further hammer home the nail in this inexcusable waste of human life coffin. This was all part of the THIRD battle of Ypres Literally fighting over ground they had fought over twice before.
I hopped on this video, I was curious. I never listened to Sabaton’s songs and it was one hell of a song to start with. Heart wrenching. Brought tears to my eyes. It even feels close to home. I am a soldier in the Israeli army, and considering my age (19), and the situation here, a thought popped up: this could be me. A dead soldier, the soldier that lost his arm, the shocked German soldier sitting in the mud, shocked. I hope peace will come. War is hell. Conflict is hell.
You just discovered the HUGE and awesome rabbithole, named Sabaton. A really good first reaction to their songs. Many people already said this, so I just agree with the fact, they are great in telling stories and always make sure to double check their facts, mentioned in the songs. If you check out older and newer songs, you might find quite a variation in styles, regarding the music, but the storytelling will always be amazing! Thank you and greetings from Germany 🙂
I should note that the video in the background of this song comes from the movie "Passchendaele" which shows the Canadian Corps' final operation to take Passchendaele, at great cost I might add. The Canadian Corps gained a reputation during the first world war for being the shock troops of the British forces (as at that time Canada did not yet possess full independence). The final push to take Vimy Ridge is another well known example of the bravery and tenacity of the Canadian Corps. I'll also make mention that while the Canadians ultimately took the town, there were great contributions and many losses from other forces of the empire including British, ANZAC, and Indian forces (India was part of the empire at the time) that deserve to be recognized. As well as French and Belgian allied forces.
If you want something more positive, I highly suggest Race to the sea. If you would prefer a more similar song, Gallipoli are also great. Both are about WW1.
THIS battle is _the_ reason why we have the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. So many of our brothers were never recovered, still to this day buried somewhere out there deep in the soil. And a LOT of them couldn't even be formally identified since they were buried in the mud pretty quickly after death, and without absolute confirmation you couldn't place them on the "Killed In Action" list. They instead went on the "Missing In Action" list. They still deserved a memorial and a gravestone back home, so we created the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to commemorate them and their ultimate sacrifice. And any and all other soldiers killed in battles since that also never made it home - not even to be buried. The UK has it, the USA has it and many other countries have also got at least one or more. It's also why, if you ever go to visit the Tomb, the _highest_ level of respect, reverence and behaviour is expected - because we owe these men an even higher debt than those buried on our lands, _because_ of the fact they didn't even get to have their bodies brought back for their families to bury. That's an extra level of sacrifice that wasn't even their choice to make.
7:23 "It's interesting that they look the same" They are the same... young boys away from home, from their families... dying for a cause they barely understand.
That's a fan made video using clips from movies (about ww1 since that's what the song are about) There in no official music video for a price of a mile, just a lyric video and a live video.
It about WW1 and the third battle of the Ypres or the battle of Passchendaele where half a million British, Canadian and Anzac soldiers died for 5 miles of land
This song is based on World War One and the machine guns shown are the First World War weapons but the Second World War had different gun designs and more automatic weapons etc but it’s mostly based on the price of lives lost during war in general
*Thousands of Feet march to the Beat That's an Army on the March... Long Way From Home Paying the Price in Young Man's Lives* Don't just think about the young US soldiers giving their lives for their country... but, please, spare a thought as well for the Italians unsure of their identity, the Germans fighting for a lost cause because the alternative would be a senseless death, the Soviet soldiers making a sacrifice nobody ever remembers... and that it all started 20 years prior.
Oh boy, Lauren our in for one heck of a rabbit whole with these guys. Almost every single one of their 14 albums (10 studio, 4 live) are written about historical events, mainly wars and significant battles. As for recommendations, just pick any song that they've made, I honestly don't think they have a bad song, some worse than others? Yeah, but no bad ones.
The exact casualties are debated, but it's generally agreed that casualties ("casualty" in the military sense means, dead and wounded) included from both sides came to a total of more 500,000. The British won the battle, securing 6 miles of territory, so that's about 83,300 people killed and wounded per mile. It was pretty horrific and extremely pointless. It's heart-breaking
I’ve been reading a lot of books about ww1 and ww2. That young German soldier just staring at everything in complete shock reminds me so much of one of the storeys that stood out. A young German soldier in ww2 with a machine gun in a trench was playing a deadly game of chicken with a Sherman tank, refusing to give up his ground. Between the Sherman’s cannon bursts he would pop up and pepper away at the tank with the machine gun hoping to get one of the bullets in through one of the slits the tank crew used for looking through. The gunner lost his temper and aimed just before the trench. The shell drove itself into the ground. The trench immediately disappeared in a massive explosion of steam, mud and dirt. When the steam cleared, the German soldier crawled out of the now massive hole in the ground, momentarily stood there like a deer caught in the headlights with a look of shock and terror in his face, dropped his machine gun and stumbled clumsily away. The British soldiers in the Sherman just couldn’t bring themselves to shoot him.
Welcome to Sabaton! These guys are the best historical metal band you will ever find! Almost all of their songs are about events or people from history. They describe themselves as “anti-war, pro-soldier.” Since you’ll (hopefully) enjoy pretty much all of their music. Permit me to suggest: Night Witches (WWII Russian women bomber squadron), Christmas Truce (an amazing WWI Story you have to look up yourself to believe), and Blood of Bannockburn (the last battle of the 1st Scottish war for independence). I was going to stop at three but I can’t fail to recommend 82nd All the Way (the story of a peaceful man who got pushed to the limit during WWI) 82nd is my favorite Sabaton song.
Sabaton is a Swedish band who sing about military history. This song is about the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) where my great great uncle served and was killed in the British army. The joint British-Canadian campaign was a victory for the Allies but it ended in a heavy toll with half a million lives lost for a mere 6 miles. The town of Ypres was also completely flattened by the battle with nearly no buildings standing. Today the town is completely rebuilt to mirror it's former appearance and the battle is heavily memorialized
Sabaton makes historical songs about acts of heroism and compassion, but also of tragedy. They're really good because all their songs and texts are accurate (and they have a second channel where they have videos about the historical background to every song they make), and they sing about heroes of all sides and don't try to present everything as black and white. They can sing about the heroes of the US just as much as about the Soviets or the germans in WWII, but also about battles that have nothing to do with the World Wars. They acknowledge that every soldier regardless of the side they're on is a human fighting for what they believe is right. I learned a lot about otherwise unsung battles(pun intended) from their songs. Plus their songs are just catchy as fuck. A lot of their songs are about the horrors of war too, but a lot are also more uplifting. I can really recommend "Christmas Truce" and "No Bullets Fly"
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As a war time history buff and from Sweden aswell just like Sabaton, most of their songs especially their videos make me choke up and a couple have med me cry outright because of their attention for details and how they are able to put so much emotion behind their lyrics and music. Sabaton is a band that should be played in every history class so the memories of the horrors of the past is kept alive. Lest we forget.
If i may give a suggestion of a awesome Sabaton song check out "En livstid i krig" live in Gothenburg. It is an amazing song, it's in Swedish so use subtitles unless you understand us :)
Watching this and the beatufyl music and guitar solos at same times i see these men dying. Makes me cry and still i need to see this, i have nevr been in a war so i dont know how it feels.
You have opened a whole new world, where you will learn and be educated with the best music possible. Sabaton have taught me so much, I hope you go down this rabbit hole.
I've known this song for a long time, but this is the first time I've ever seen the music video, and it hits even harder seeing the video. I'd love to see more reactions to Sabaton, specifically, I'd like to see Kit and Kira react to En Livstid I Krig (The Great Tour Live In Gothenburg) at some point.
Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. On 6 November, the Canadians launched their third attack on the ridge. They succeeded in capturing it and the ruins of Passchendaele village from the exhausted German
In my teens I was obsessed with reading about the Great War (WWI) and when reading about Passchendalele I as a 14 year old, were horrified of all the people and horses that was just swallowed by the mud because they took one more step.
The Battle of Paschendale (WWI) was the battle where they lost the most men per mile of land gained. All of the battles had huge death tolls, but Paschendale was to muddy they could barely dig trenches or any cover so it was just men vs machine guns for months. It is not a battle Americans typically learn much about because it happened before America joined the war. But it was a battle where the Canadian Forces took the lead and eventually won it.
It is so sad if you think of all the brave soldiers that died back then… they fought for peace without ever seeing it and in the end the war to end all wars ended NOTHING. All those lifes are gone for nothing… but they will be remembered… it doesn’t matter which nation the soldiers where fighting for… in the end they all just where humans that suffered, killed and died for the mistakes of politicians… they all where just humans that wanted to survive and see the peace one more time… it was a generation that lost their future in the blood and the mud of the battlefield
On the topic of what war does to a person's psyche, then look at To Hell and Back about Audie Murphy and his PTSD from war. On a more uplifting note is Knight SGC Archive's Winged Hussars about the Polish cavalry during the siege of Vienna.
Cool goblet. Sabaton really knows how to bring the horrors and stupidity of war to life in their music while also highlighting the sacrifice, heroism, and honor of the people participating. If you want a more uplifting Sabaton song (you will still cry) watch the animated story video version of No Bullets Fly. And if you want a song where you won't know what to expect, I recommend Ayreon - The Day That the World Breaks Down. Good reaction, hope to see more.
the song was specifically talking about the death toll that happened in ww1 due to trench warfare and the snail slow progress of advancement in the war. to break it down what is the price of a mile? : in some battles up to a couple hundred thousand men died taking 100 meters of ground. it's a stalemate at the frontline: again this refers to the almost static combat of ww1 in which both sides were dug in like ticks. gone is the field that was once green: this refers to the massive mortar and artillery barrages that tended to precede an assault of either side it turned no man's land into a quagmire of mud, wreckage, dead bodies, unexploded rounds and discarded weapons of the dead.
They weren't blending timelines together in this song. It was just WW1. We use artillery to this day. And if you can tell fairly well who were British and who were German
finally you found Sabaton! Greates band and war Historian you ever meet! Open you heart and feel that lyrics on all off there song and all is real war stories.
I strongly recommend checking out the Sabaton History channel, either in your own time or as a reaction. They talk about the history that inspired the songs and give a lot of detail
And if you want a song that will still probably make you cry but has a happy story, No Bullets Fly is an amazing song. The video on the Yarnhub channel will give a little bit of the history and the song at the same time
It’s all WW1. The weapons, gear, and uniforms are accurate as far as I’ve been able to determine. Anyone know what a “broom handle Mauser” pistol looks like? There’s one in the video. The Germans wore the “coal scuttle” helmet. The Prussian’s had spikes. Great reaction. You’re pretty too. ❤
The song is about the third battle of Ypres, also known as the battle of Paschendale in 1917 during WW1. 240,000-448,614 allied casualties and 217,000-400,000 soldiers killed on the Germans side. Essentially in total between 457,000 to 848,614 men died on the battlefield. WW1 was the first time that machine guns played a major role. It was also when flamethrowers and poison gas was used extensively. Making it one of the worst episodes in human history. 9,911,000 men roughly where dead by the end of the war. War itself is brutal , savage and should be a last resort. What sabatons videos like this show is the history and reality of warfare. It's not some glorious thing that people have made it out to be. Fact is there are no winners. Only survivors. Additionally an estimated 7,700,000 civilians died as a result of WW1.
At some of the worst parts of the Paschendale frontline, each soldier's death gained each side only a few inches of ground. Less than a foot per young man felled.
It is pronounced Passiondale. The video portion of this is from the Canadian world war 1 movie Passchendaele starring Paul Gross about the battle of the same name, taking place in the fall of 1917. A battle that probably shouldn't have been fought. It started in the spring with British troops assaulting the ridge, they were replaced during the summer by Anzac forces, and eventually they called on the Canadians in the autumn, the only force that had shown the ability to win against entrenched troops, having won at Vimy Ridge on Easter weekend of that year, and also at Hill 70 that August. The Canadians went into action on the 25th of Sept and secured the ridge on Nov 10. The movie is a blend of war action and a love story.
One of the machine guns used in that war was invented by Hiram Maxim at year 1884. It is still used today in Ukraine. Those cannons looked like that in Word War one like those Civilian War cannons. That machine gun with round clip on top is called Lewis Machine gun. It was invented 1911.
Yes, hit the nail on the head, this was about a battle in WWI. The Battle of Passchendaele (In English pronounced Pashon-dale), 300,000 British (and colonies especially Canadian) casualties and 260,000 Germans. The British managed to gain 5 or 6 miles at huge cost of life, only to lose it again shortly afterwards. So the price of a mile in this case is about 100,000 men...well mostly boys really.
They're still finding soldiers, equipment and ammunition from Third Ypres over a century after the battle. Many soldiers were lost to the mud after falling or slipping in, wounded and unwounded alike drowned in the thick and sticky mud. The wounded had the worse of it with many dying to their wounds becoming infected, often many wounded died because help could not get to them in time or the backlog at the dressing stations and field hospitals was too much.
In combat it's hard to tell who is on what side at a glance. Once the uniform is covered in mud, dirt, sand, whatever, who is to say the person you shoot isn't on your side back then. Nowadays they've figured out ways to help with this issue, but there are still blue on blue situations so it isn't completely fixed.
I am once again requesting for Kit (and maybe Kira) to react to En Livstid i Krig (preferably the live version from Gothenburg) also, he should make sure to have captions on
And let the Sabaton Army descend! But seriously, this is an amazing band and no matter what song you pick, you won't be disappointed; there isn't room for my full song suggestion list so I'll just say: Night Witches
Hello, is my first time watching your reaction and i liked it. Some facts as i know them, im not a professor or anything but i do know some things. This song is about the battle of Passiondale where one side won and moved forward about a mile and 500 thousand died combined, so the price of a mile is 500 thousand toung men. And yes this is WW1
The battle of Passhendale was in the least as brutal as verdun if not more. Lasting about half as long with around the same casualties. The battle was fought on ground that due to heavy rain became a bog. One of the most haunting recallings from a soldier is that in the night when it was quiet they could hear the gurgling of wounded soldiers on no mans land who where drowning in the mud.
Nah in my mind, verdun was far worse. Yeah technically the casualty levels compared to duration arent even close, Passhendale was definitely worse in that case, however Verdun was a literal non stop shit show for 300 days. Atleast in the case of Passhendale they managed to captured the village however briefly, Verdun wasnt even intended on being captured. meant only to serve as a distraction against the allies and force them to spread their troops thin, the battle of verdun actually cost the germans so many men that they had to start sending reinforcments to keep the ally forces focus on it. Eventually it got so bad that the german commander in charge was forced with no other choice then to actually aim to take the fortress because the losses were so great and the amount of reinforcement now having to come in just to keep their numbers up, that if he didnt have something to show for it he would absolutely be killed. So now in far to deep to be able to retreat, he continued pushing his troops to attack the fort, only for him to continue suffer defeat as his forces were continuously held off. To make matters worse, the french declared that 406 sq mile area uninhabitable afterward
btw......i forgot to mention.......the pan helmets are the alies....and the darth vader helmets are the germans...(sorry for mention that....but if you look close...the german helmets have a lot equal to the darth vader helmet.....darth vader from star wars)
Passchendaele, the never ending battle that ultimatillay cost 16000 canadian lives to end, while the french and english troops werent able to advance prior to our arrival.
World War One was a tragedy of monumental proportions. It was the meeting of old outdated battlefield tactics combined with the new technology of the industrial age.
By doing so,e very rough math- 250,000 Allied losses for six miles of ground gained equates to over 40,000 men killed per mile, or something close to 8 people per foot of ground. That is the price of a mile
The attack removed the Germans from the dominating ground on the southern face of the Ypres salient, which the 4th Army had held since the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.
Do check out Christmas truce the band members act in the video and is based on WW1 when both sides stopped fighting to play games etc. Also the animation No Bullets Fly video is another great video worth a look.
This was about Passchendaele WW1. Sabaton is very historically accurate. They are fantastic story tellers and really bring realistic history to life. As previously mentioned check out "no bullets fly" to see how realistic this really is. Then delve into into the rest of their history book. Not just do they weave and tell our history they are musically at the top of the field
The third battle of Ypres (Battle of Paschendale) WWI both sides the Allies and Germans lost an estimated, although disputed, 500,000 men on both sides in 3 months
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The battle of Passchendaele, one of the most senseless battles in human history. Besides all those numbers, the way it happened was almost worse.. The "allied" ordered a big offensive in the autumn, and during that autumn it basically never stopped raining, turning the whole battlefiled into a giant swamp. Many of those that died, died from drowning in the mud and were never recovered. There are reports from soldiers that when they marched forward, they hated when they got some solid footing under the mud, because the only possible reason for that solid footing was because they walked on the corpse of a fellow human..
@Adam Patterson Perhaps, but I'm just gonna throw out a wild guess here that there weren't 700 000 of them there.
or the pommies who went to the somme, 24,000 dead in just 12 hours
@Adam Patterson Wait, you were AT Pelilu?
@Adam Patterson dont think the marines deserve a bit of honor which sabatons sings about here -.-
Wasn’t this battle also a big fuck up that this campaign ended up being a HUGE DISASTER and cost the lives of thousands and millions of men?
Welcome to Sabaton. Considering how close we are getting to the holiday I hope that they let you listen to the Christmas truce before too long. Sabaton is a European band which about halfway through their first album started looking into history, and discovered that there was enough material to make songs for as long as they want to make them. Most of their songs are like this one, reminding us of the cost of going to war. Yes they do have occasional heroic theme songs but always and forever the Frontline songs will be ones that remind us exactly how expensive the war was. When they get around to doing Christmas truce with you, and I can only hope kit and Kyra get to watch it as well, I hope they provide tissues.
I hope I get to watch it too. I love that story. Even that one chocolate commercial about it makes me cry, haha!
Hrrm, Swedish band.. 😁
@@ChicagoReacts Devil dogs, Red baron, Attack of the dead men,Hellfighters these songs are beautiful
And make sure to do the animated story video of Red Baron.
Even the "heroic songs" speak of the high price, look at "To Hell and Back".
If I recall correctly, by the end of the campaign the victors only gained a mere 6 miles.
That's literally in the lyrics. "6 miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone"
Germans regained it back in few days. Thats the end to this story which makes it even more tragic. Tens of thousands life lost for literally nothing.
@@decimusdecius7858 Tens? 500,000 soldiers died on both sides. Almos as much as the dead of the American civil war, in just one area of the war.
@@sygmarvexarion7891 I think he just ment 10s of thousands in how you can say fifty two hundred or five thousand two hundred. Means the same just can sound like more or less from the wording
As a Sabaton fan, and military history buff, this song hits home HARD!
This song specifically is about The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as The Battle of Passchendaele, it took place between July and November 1917.
If you listen closely at the beginning of the song you will hear what sounds like rolling thunder in the background, this is symbolizing the sound of the artillery during this long battle.
At the beginning of the offensive by the British Expeditionary Force the German lines were shelled for 10 days (18 July to 28 July 1917) by 4.5 MILLION artillery rounds. That comes out to just slightly over 5 artillery explosions every second! This is where the term "Shell Shocked", which we now know as PTSD, comes from.
Although the causality numbers vary depending on which historian you read, there were roughly 250,000 Allied losses and about 270,000 German losses. Which is where the lyric "Half a million lives are gone" comes from.
All of this for SIX miles of ground.
A great Sabaton song, if you get a chance to listen to it, that demonstrates the courage and resolve of the Belgians (which is where Ypres / Passchendaele is) would be "Race to the Sea" which is about the Belgians flooding the Yser river to hold the German advance and stop them from taking all of Belgium.
One last note, this battle took place in the western province of Belgium called Flanders, there is a poem by a Canadian surgeon Lt. Colonel John McCrae called "In Flanders Fields" that he wrote after the funeral for one of his friends (Lieutenant Alexis Helmer) who died at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Sabaton did a beautiful version of this song as the final song of their album "The Great War", it is sung as a hymn by an acapella choir.
ultimately The Canadians, ended this battle in a costly victory for the allies. General Curry, responsible for the passchendaele front and the Canadian Expeditionary Force, predicted about 16000 canadian casualties, we were the tip of the spear in many important battles, and were recognised by MANY generals (triple entente or triple alliance ones) as the most effective fighting force in the war. Canadians pioneered many infantry tactics and inner-rank information spread (every soldier in our ranks knew the battle plan unlike what the other allies did)
Survivors from Paschendale wrote that they slogged through knee deep mud and when they stood on what felt like solid ground they realised they were standing on the fallen...both friend and foe alike
@@FanEAW The contributions of the Canadian forces are often criminally under represented in the current media, for both World War I and World War II.
Canada has always fielded some of the top infantry in every conflict they have been involved in, Canada has a rich martial history.
Same
This song uses the battles at Paschendale to demonstrate one of the lessons from the Art of War. The intro narration is the text from the book
Artillery and machine gun placements existed during WW1, the browning is probably the most famous. It's not really nebulous it is definitely about WW1.
I think you meant the Maxim machine gun, which was used by basically every nation
@@dhamon45 Correct; Brownings designs didn’t start arriving until late in the war with the M1917 mg, BAR, etc.
IIRC early machine guns were already used in the US Civil War.
They were heavy and needed water cooling, but they pushed brutality of war to a whole new level.
Some machine guns of such design are even user in Ukraine right now.
If you have a static firing position and plenty of water they can keep firing the whole day and they kill just like when they were designed.
@@JariJuslinThat's the Maxim, and it was designed in the late 1800s. Humanity had muskets during the Civil War, the Gatling gun didn't even exist until America helped modernize Japan.
World War I was practically a slaughter. Incompetence of generals in the confrontation with modern technology. Despite the fact that the front line did not change much, it could kill 50,000 to 1 million people in the battles. At the beginning of the war, the French fought in silver helmets and colorful uniforms. They were visible from a distance against the gray background of the surrounding areas. Sabaton talks about it with real brutality.
It wasn't really incompetence, more a lack of experience. This was the first modern warfare. Before that, for the most part it was armies clasing their heads together in the open field or behind the walls of a fortress like a kid playing with action figures. This was the first time that modern weaponry, industrialised arms industries, the dawn of armored, motorized combat vehicles and large scale mobilisation of giant armies ment that battles could remain in a stalemate for weeks at a time.
Europe didt learn the lesson from the Amarican civil war, since all European nations thought it would be like the napolionic wars
@@weybye91not the Napoleonic, the Franco-Prussian war, which is indeed a very fast war, lasting a year, they looked at this, instead of the slog and slaughter of the American Civil War
Half a million lives for six miles.
HALF. A. MILLION.
A million men died in the first *month* of that war.
Use math and that's ...
83 333 dead per mile!
They ask the question often enough "What's the Price of a mile." The estimated number of men that died during the Battle of Paschendaele is somewhere between 450,000-848,000. The ground gained was a total of SIX MILES. Over the course of some 3 months, 1 week, and 3 days.
That's 75,000-141,333 bodies PER MILE. And as far as I know they still find buried bones there.
And to further hammer home the nail in this inexcusable waste of human life coffin. This was all part of the THIRD battle of Ypres Literally fighting over ground they had fought over twice before.
I hopped on this video, I was curious. I never listened to Sabaton’s songs and it was one hell of a song to start with. Heart wrenching. Brought tears to my eyes.
It even feels close to home. I am a soldier in the Israeli army, and considering my age (19), and the situation here, a thought popped up: this could be me. A dead soldier, the soldier that lost his arm, the shocked German soldier sitting in the mud, shocked.
I hope peace will come. War is hell. Conflict is hell.
You just discovered the HUGE and awesome rabbithole, named Sabaton. A really good first reaction to their songs. Many people already said this, so I just agree with the fact, they are great in telling stories and always make sure to double check their facts, mentioned in the songs. If you check out older and newer songs, you might find quite a variation in styles, regarding the music, but the storytelling will always be amazing! Thank you and greetings from Germany 🙂
I should note that the video in the background of this song comes from the movie "Passchendaele" which shows the Canadian Corps' final operation to take Passchendaele, at great cost I might add. The Canadian Corps gained a reputation during the first world war for being the shock troops of the British forces (as at that time Canada did not yet possess full independence). The final push to take Vimy Ridge is another well known example of the bravery and tenacity of the Canadian Corps.
I'll also make mention that while the Canadians ultimately took the town, there were great contributions and many losses from other forces of the empire including British, ANZAC, and Indian forces (India was part of the empire at the time) that deserve to be recognized. As well as French and Belgian allied forces.
If you want something more positive, I highly suggest Race to the sea. If you would prefer a more similar song, Gallipoli are also great. Both are about WW1.
Ooh, thanks! I would love something like that
This is a suprise to be sure, but a welcome one
PRIMOOO VICTORIAAA!!!!!!
THIS battle is _the_ reason why we have the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. So many of our brothers were never recovered, still to this day buried somewhere out there deep in the soil. And a LOT of them couldn't even be formally identified since they were buried in the mud pretty quickly after death, and without absolute confirmation you couldn't place them on the "Killed In Action" list. They instead went on the "Missing In Action" list. They still deserved a memorial and a gravestone back home, so we created the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to commemorate them and their ultimate sacrifice. And any and all other soldiers killed in battles since that also never made it home - not even to be buried. The UK has it, the USA has it and many other countries have also got at least one or more. It's also why, if you ever go to visit the Tomb, the _highest_ level of respect, reverence and behaviour is expected - because we owe these men an even higher debt than those buried on our lands, _because_ of the fact they didn't even get to have their bodies brought back for their families to bury. That's an extra level of sacrifice that wasn't even their choice to make.
7:23 "It's interesting that they look the same"
They are the same... young boys away from home, from their families... dying for a cause they barely understand.
3:00 Yes, we do this to protect you, if we have to.
We know it will suck
the scenes are from the movie Passchendaele 2008
The movie that was used to create the video seems to be named Passchendaele, and that's also what the song was about.
That's a fan made video using clips from movies (about ww1 since that's what the song are about)
There in no official music video for a price of a mile, just a lyric video and a live video.
It about WW1 and the third battle of the Ypres or the battle of Passchendaele where half a million British, Canadian and Anzac soldiers died for 5 miles of land
10+ albums of History taught with Metal to go - Sabatonic Metal.
This song is based on World War One and the machine guns shown are the First World War weapons but the Second World War had different gun designs and more automatic weapons etc but it’s mostly based on the price of lives lost during war in general
*Thousands of Feet march to the Beat
That's an Army on the March...
Long Way
From Home
Paying the Price in Young Man's Lives*
Don't just think about the young US soldiers giving their lives for their country... but, please, spare a thought as well for the Italians unsure of their identity, the Germans fighting for a lost cause because the alternative would be a senseless death, the Soviet soldiers making a sacrifice nobody ever remembers... and that it all started 20 years prior.
Oh boy, Lauren our in for one heck of a rabbit whole with these guys. Almost every single one of their 14 albums (10 studio, 4 live) are written about historical events, mainly wars and significant battles. As for recommendations, just pick any song that they've made, I honestly don't think they have a bad song, some worse than others? Yeah, but no bad ones.
Yes, two of the darker ones are Inmate 4859 and The Final Solution. They have some nods to their predecessors.
You must see Sabaton with
En livstid i krig, live Gothenburg, with CC!!
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Thank you
The exact casualties are debated, but it's generally agreed that casualties ("casualty" in the military sense means, dead and wounded) included from both sides came to a total of more 500,000. The British won the battle, securing 6 miles of territory, so that's about 83,300 people killed and wounded per mile. It was pretty horrific and extremely pointless. It's heart-breaking
The video came from the Canadian movie "Passchendaele". (pronounced passion-dale).
The weapons used were those in use at the time in 1917.
I’ve been reading a lot of books about ww1 and ww2. That young German soldier just staring at everything in complete shock reminds me so much of one of the storeys that stood out. A young German soldier in ww2 with a machine gun in a trench was playing a deadly game of chicken with a Sherman tank, refusing to give up his ground. Between the Sherman’s cannon bursts he would pop up and pepper away at the tank with the machine gun hoping to get one of the bullets in through one of the slits the tank crew used for looking through. The gunner lost his temper and aimed just before the trench. The shell drove itself into the ground. The trench immediately disappeared in a massive explosion of steam, mud and dirt. When the steam cleared, the German soldier crawled out of the now massive hole in the ground, momentarily stood there like a deer caught in the headlights with a look of shock and terror in his face, dropped his machine gun and stumbled clumsily away. The British soldiers in the Sherman just couldn’t bring themselves to shoot him.
Do Christmas Truce by Sabaton at some point (preferably closer to Christmas) it’s amazing
The song others have pointed out I'd specifically about Passchendale in WW1, but this scene specifically is from a movie called Passchendale
Welcome to Sabaton! These guys are the best historical metal band you will ever find!
Almost all of their songs are about events or people from history.
They describe themselves as “anti-war, pro-soldier.”
Since you’ll (hopefully) enjoy pretty much all of their music. Permit me to suggest: Night Witches (WWII Russian women bomber squadron), Christmas Truce (an amazing WWI Story you have to look up yourself to believe),
and Blood of Bannockburn (the last battle of the 1st Scottish war for independence).
I was going to stop at three but I can’t fail to recommend 82nd All the Way (the story of a peaceful man who got pushed to the limit during WWI) 82nd is my favorite Sabaton song.
Sabaton is a Swedish band who sing about military history. This song is about the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) where my great great uncle served and was killed in the British army. The joint British-Canadian campaign was a victory for the Allies but it ended in a heavy toll with half a million lives lost for a mere 6 miles. The town of Ypres was also completely flattened by the battle with nearly no buildings standing. Today the town is completely rebuilt to mirror it's former appearance and the battle is heavily memorialized
Sabaton makes historical songs about acts of heroism and compassion, but also of tragedy. They're really good because all their songs and texts are accurate (and they have a second channel where they have videos about the historical background to every song they make), and they sing about heroes of all sides and don't try to present everything as black and white. They can sing about the heroes of the US just as much as about the Soviets or the germans in WWII, but also about battles that have nothing to do with the World Wars. They acknowledge that every soldier regardless of the side they're on is a human fighting for what they believe is right. I learned a lot about otherwise unsung battles(pun intended) from their songs.
Plus their songs are just catchy as fuck.
A lot of their songs are about the horrors of war too, but a lot are also more uplifting. I can really recommend "Christmas Truce" and "No Bullets Fly"
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As a war time history buff and from Sweden aswell just like Sabaton, most of their songs especially their videos make me choke up and a couple have med me cry outright because of their attention for details and how they are able to put so much emotion behind their lyrics and music. Sabaton is a band that should be played in every history class so the memories of the horrors of the past is kept alive. Lest we forget.
If i may give a suggestion of a awesome Sabaton song check out "En livstid i krig" live in Gothenburg. It is an amazing song, it's in Swedish so use subtitles unless you understand us :)
History buff, yet you have a Ukraine flag as your pfp. If you knew history, you wouldn't be rooting for them.
What's the price of a mile?
83,333 men
That's the price of a mile
Watching this and the beatufyl music and guitar solos at same times i see these men dying. Makes me cry and still i need to see this, i have nevr been in a war so i dont know how it feels.
You have opened a whole new world, where you will learn and be educated with the best music possible. Sabaton have taught me so much, I hope you go down this rabbit hole.
I've known this song for a long time, but this is the first time I've ever seen the music video, and it hits even harder seeing the video.
I'd love to see more reactions to Sabaton, specifically, I'd like to see Kit and Kira react to En Livstid I Krig (The Great Tour Live In Gothenburg) at some point.
Btw, Sabaton is a Swedish heavy metal bad from Sweden, they perform songs about historical figures and events
Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. On 6 November, the Canadians launched their third attack on the ridge. They succeeded in capturing it and the ruins of Passchendaele village from the exhausted German
In my teens I was obsessed with reading about the Great War (WWI) and when reading about Passchendalele I as a 14 year old, were horrified of all the people and horses that was just swallowed by the mud because they took one more step.
the film is called Passchendaele a Canadian made movie
Nice reaction! its allways nice to watch people dealing with the first shock and then work on finding out what happened back then ;)
The Battle of Paschendale (WWI) was the battle where they lost the most men per mile of land gained. All of the battles had huge death tolls, but Paschendale was to muddy they could barely dig trenches or any cover so it was just men vs machine guns for months.
It is not a battle Americans typically learn much about because it happened before America joined the war. But it was a battle where the Canadian Forces took the lead and eventually won it.
I have danced to this song many times 😂
It is so sad if you think of all the brave soldiers that died back then… they fought for peace without ever seeing it and in the end the war to end all wars ended NOTHING. All those lifes are gone for nothing… but they will be remembered… it doesn’t matter which nation the soldiers where fighting for… in the end they all just where humans that suffered, killed and died for the mistakes of politicians… they all where just humans that wanted to survive and see the peace one more time… it was a generation that lost their future in the blood and the mud of the battlefield
On the topic of what war does to a person's psyche, then look at To Hell and Back about Audie Murphy and his PTSD from war. On a more uplifting note is Knight SGC Archive's Winged Hussars about the Polish cavalry during the siege of Vienna.
Cool goblet. Sabaton really knows how to bring the horrors and stupidity of war to life in their music while also highlighting the sacrifice, heroism, and honor of the people participating. If you want a more uplifting Sabaton song (you will still cry) watch the animated story video version of No Bullets Fly. And if you want a song where you won't know what to expect, I recommend Ayreon - The Day That the World Breaks Down. Good reaction, hope to see more.
"A man fights, not because he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him."
plz loook at SABATON - En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg) with subtile. its about the 30 year war from a solders view
I almost glad she didn’t see the last message on screen about the the enemy offensive capturing it back because that would of hurt even more
the song was specifically talking about the death toll that happened in ww1 due to trench warfare and the snail slow progress of advancement in the war. to break it down
what is the price of a mile? : in some battles up to a couple hundred thousand men died taking 100 meters of ground.
it's a stalemate at the frontline: again this refers to the almost static combat of ww1 in which both sides were dug in like ticks.
gone is the field that was once green: this refers to the massive mortar and artillery barrages that tended to precede an assault of either side it turned no man's land into a quagmire of mud, wreckage, dead bodies, unexploded rounds and discarded weapons of the dead.
One of the deeper songs by Sabaton is Shiroyama. It’s about the last stand of the Samurai.
i can't bring myself to headbang or do anything else than being overcome with melancholy and overall be filled with grief
They weren't blending timelines together in this song. It was just WW1. We use artillery to this day. And if you can tell fairly well who were British and who were German
The soldiers in this video are Canadian. It's future from the film Paschendale, which focuses on a Canadian soldier. It's really good.
finally you found Sabaton! Greates band and war Historian you ever meet! Open you heart and feel that lyrics on all off there song and all is real war stories.
I strongly recommend checking out the Sabaton History channel, either in your own time or as a reaction. They talk about the history that inspired the songs and give a lot of detail
And if you want a song that will still probably make you cry but has a happy story, No Bullets Fly is an amazing song. The video on the Yarnhub channel will give a little bit of the history and the song at the same time
It’s all WW1. The weapons, gear, and uniforms are accurate as far as I’ve been able to determine. Anyone know what a “broom handle Mauser” pistol looks like? There’s one in the video. The Germans wore the “coal scuttle” helmet. The Prussian’s had spikes. Great reaction. You’re pretty too. ❤
The song is about the third battle of Ypres, also known as the battle of Paschendale in 1917 during WW1.
240,000-448,614 allied casualties and 217,000-400,000 soldiers killed on the Germans side.
Essentially in total between 457,000 to 848,614 men died on the battlefield.
WW1 was the first time that machine guns played a major role. It was also when flamethrowers and poison gas was used extensively. Making it one of the worst episodes in human history. 9,911,000 men roughly where dead by the end of the war.
War itself is brutal , savage and should be a last resort. What sabatons videos like this show is the history and reality of warfare. It's not some glorious thing that people have made it out to be. Fact is there are no winners. Only survivors.
Additionally an estimated 7,700,000 civilians died as a result of WW1.
Begin from one of the sadest songs made by Sabaton... Respect.
Personaly... One of my favourites
ye this is Sabaton for you.
Showing the good, the bad, the ugly and the monstrous side of history and people who lived it
At some of the worst parts of the Paschendale frontline, each soldier's death gained each side only a few inches of ground. Less than a foot per young man felled.
And the Grim Reaper put down his scythe and mounted the harvester, for it was war.
Chicago Reacts is reacting to Sabaton. Prepare for varying amounts of crying, cheering, and back and forth emotions.
i think it is.. old stuff depicted... but i loved your articulation of your though process. thank you for the commentary
They have another channel Sabaton History, that goes into the history of their songs. Another to check out
It is pronounced Passiondale. The video portion of this is from the Canadian world war 1 movie Passchendaele starring Paul Gross about the battle of the same name, taking place in the fall of 1917. A battle that probably shouldn't have been fought. It started in the spring with British troops assaulting the ridge, they were replaced during the summer by Anzac forces, and eventually they called on the Canadians in the autumn, the only force that had shown the ability to win against entrenched troops, having won at Vimy Ridge on Easter weekend of that year, and also at Hill 70 that August. The Canadians went into action on the 25th of Sept and secured the ridge on Nov 10. The movie is a blend of war action and a love story.
One of the machine guns used in that war was invented by Hiram Maxim at year 1884. It is still used today in Ukraine. Those cannons looked like that in Word War one like those Civilian War cannons. That machine gun with round clip on top is called Lewis Machine gun. It was invented 1911.
Yes, hit the nail on the head, this was about a battle in WWI.
The Battle of Passchendaele (In English pronounced Pashon-dale), 300,000 British (and colonies especially Canadian) casualties and 260,000 Germans. The British managed to gain 5 or 6 miles at huge cost of life, only to lose it again shortly afterwards.
So the price of a mile in this case is about 100,000 men...well mostly boys really.
They're still finding soldiers, equipment and ammunition from Third Ypres over a century after the battle.
Many soldiers were lost to the mud after falling or slipping in, wounded and unwounded alike drowned in the thick and sticky mud.
The wounded had the worse of it with many dying to their wounds becoming infected, often many wounded died because help could not get to them in time or the backlog at the dressing stations and field hospitals was too much.
In combat it's hard to tell who is on what side at a glance.
Once the uniform is covered in mud, dirt, sand, whatever, who is to say the person you shoot isn't on your side back then. Nowadays they've figured out ways to help with this issue, but there are still blue on blue situations so it isn't completely fixed.
I am once again requesting for Kit (and maybe Kira) to react to En Livstid i Krig (preferably the live version from Gothenburg)
also, he should make sure to have captions on
And let the Sabaton Army descend! But seriously, this is an amazing band and no matter what song you pick, you won't be disappointed; there isn't room for my full song suggestion list so I'll just say: Night Witches
Hello, is my first time watching your reaction and i liked it. Some facts as i know them, im not a professor or anything but i do know some things. This song is about the battle of Passiondale where one side won and moved forward about a mile and 500 thousand died combined, so the price of a mile is 500 thousand toung men. And yes this is WW1
The battle of Passhendale was in the least as brutal as verdun if not more. Lasting about half as long with around the same casualties. The battle was fought on ground that due to heavy rain became a bog. One of the most haunting recallings from a soldier is that in the night when it was quiet they could hear the gurgling of wounded soldiers on no mans land who where drowning in the mud.
Nah in my mind, verdun was far worse. Yeah technically the casualty levels compared to duration arent even close, Passhendale was definitely worse in that case, however Verdun was a literal non stop shit show for 300 days. Atleast in the case of Passhendale they managed to captured the village however briefly, Verdun wasnt even intended on being captured. meant only to serve as a distraction against the allies and force them to spread their troops thin, the battle of verdun actually cost the germans so many men that they had to start sending reinforcments to keep the ally forces focus on it. Eventually it got so bad that the german commander in charge was forced with no other choice then to actually aim to take the fortress because the losses were so great and the amount of reinforcement now having to come in just to keep their numbers up, that if he didnt have something to show for it he would absolutely be killed. So now in far to deep to be able to retreat, he continued pushing his troops to attack the fort, only for him to continue suffer defeat as his forces were continuously held off. To make matters worse, the french declared that 406 sq mile area uninhabitable afterward
btw......i forgot to mention.......the pan helmets are the alies....and the darth vader helmets are the germans...(sorry for mention that....but if you look close...the german helmets have a lot equal to the darth vader helmet.....darth vader from star wars)
Sabaton is the perfect history teacher. RIP to all those brave souls who fell in the Great war.
See’s WW1 soldiers.. immediately “*le gasp* oh no this is gonna be sad” I don’t know why but that really got me
The price of a mile in this battle was 86000 men dead for each of the 6 miles gained, which were promply lost again, one giant waste.
Passchendaele, the never ending battle that ultimatillay cost 16000 canadian lives to end, while the french and english troops werent able to advance prior to our arrival.
World War One was a tragedy of monumental proportions. It was the meeting of old outdated battlefield tactics combined with the new technology of the industrial age.
9:00 THey Mention Pashendale whichwas a palce of a reather bloody WW1 battle
The good news is it's all quiet on the western front
The thing about WW1 it started as 19th century war and ended as 20th century one. Also put the final death nail in the idea of noble gentile war.
Do a recation, Sabaton- The unkillable soldier, the video with the nurses face. SO powerful
*3 seconds in*
"Oh no..."
Yeah, Sabaton do that.
By doing so,e very rough math- 250,000 Allied losses for six miles of ground gained equates to over 40,000 men killed per mile, or something close to 8 people per foot of ground. That is the price of a mile
You didn't factor in the dead of Germany, another 250,000.
That was the battle of passchendaele
She was flabbergasted
380160 inches in 6 miles, around 500000 dead missing and wounded in the battle(middle estimate).
This is about the battles around passiondale france.in world War 1
The attack removed the Germans from the dominating ground on the southern face of the Ypres salient, which the 4th Army had held since the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.
Do check out Christmas truce the band members act in the video and is based on WW1 when both sides stopped fighting to play games etc. Also the animation No Bullets Fly video is another great video worth a look.
This was about Passchendaele WW1. Sabaton is very historically accurate. They are fantastic story tellers and really bring realistic history to life. As previously mentioned check out "no bullets fly" to see how realistic this really is. Then delve into into the rest of their history book. Not just do they weave and tell our history they are musically at the top of the field
Watch Sabaton History price of a mile to hear about this battle details and the making of the song
Lifetime of War from Sabaton would be amazing next reaction. Or Last Stand from them.
which version, cause damn, both hit pretty deep
The third battle of Ypres (Battle of Paschendale) WWI both sides the Allies and Germans lost an estimated, although disputed, 500,000 men on both sides in 3 months
WW1 (Battle of Passchendaele and Third Battle of Ypres)