Reaction to SABATON - The Price Of A Mile (Official Lyric Video)

[@Kartoffelkamm]

Someone did the math, but you won't like it: The Allies won 5 miles (8km) of ground, at a cost of 140,000 lives. Every single man that lost his life in that fight moved the frontline by 2 inches (5cm). Your index finger is longer than that. I know mine is twice that long.

[@PeTTs0n88]

And it took about 102 days, leading to an average gain rate/speed of approximately 0,002 MPH. And allied casualties are estimated to be higher, from 200 to 450 thousand. Add to that the ~200-400 thousand German soldiers who lost their lives, and you have 187-346 dead per hour. 24/7 for over three months straight. The World Wars were awful beyond imagining. Yes, there were feats of strength, bravery and sacrifice so that others may live - but it was also an utter slaughter of young men (and untold civilians) on all sides. War is hell. Regardless of the side you're fighting for, it really is hell on earth.

[@hellhoundactual8201]

[Raises hand] I think that might have been me, I remember on one of the Sabaton Videos for this song correcting someone on the Price of the Battle and Distance Gained

[@liamtordoff9974]

I know I'm a little late, but I'd just like to add that after all of that, Passenchendaele was later taken back in a couple days. In the end, we achieved less than nothing.

[@jlawsl]

@@liamtordoff9974 You also have to remember that the whole point of the British general was to literally throw men at each other, knowing that Germany was losing to attrition. I imagine, in his mind, if they took ground it would be good but his overall goal was to grind down the German military by, what many people would consider, inhumane, heartless human waves with no regard for his own losses.

[@azracore3974]

May we forever remember the price we paid for such paltry gains, and never make this mistake again.

[@YellowLantern18]

This really is one of those songs that make you reflect. You get caught up with Sabaton's songs of heroism and acts of bravery and this song is a perfect example of what war really is. Fame and glory can be won yes ,but do you dare look at the cost ?

[@makitasha]

I really like how you put that. It really illustrates how horrific it was for the men on the ground

[@gene1131]

''long way from home, paying the price in young men's lives'' I really like how that line is delivered with the melody, it sounds so tragic.. aaah so much goosebumps

[@YellowLantern18]

@@makitasha I appreciate it thank you, I'd recommend reading The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. He tells it far better than I since he lived it. He was a French/German who was conscripted to fight the Russian during WW2.

[@Templarofsteel88]

They have quite a few songs like this, en livstid i krig (a lifetime of war) to mention one.

[@brigidtheirish]

Especially in a petty, pointless war like WWI that was run by the egos and incompetence of men with outdated tactics.

[@makitasha]

Also, the way Sabaton repeats the first chorus in the second, but changed the “softer” description such as “will” and “rest” to “have” and “die,” it really illustrates the hopeless, horrific scene of the front.

[@hellhoundactual8201]

“Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth their uttermost strength. Soldiers in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in the heart of a hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard. Thus, without waiting to be marshaled, the soldiers will be constantly on the alert, and without waiting to be asked, they will do your will; without restrictions, they will be faithful; without giving orders, they can be trusted. Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

[@madogthefirst]

The battle itself in the song took place it what would naturally be a swamp, it was drained to make room for farmland. With the battle taking place it broke all the safe guards that prevented it from going back to a swamp. Most people think Hell is fire and brimstone, they are wrong; hell is mud.

[@codex4046]

owh yeah, so many soldiers have drowned in Passchendaele, It's something very difficult to imagine.

[@Simpson17866]

@@codex4046 Imagine trying to trudge through mud up to your knees - or your waist, or your chest - and you find something solid to brace your foot against. Imagine not knowing whether it was one of the other guys you were stepping on or one of your own. Until the bubbles came up from your weight pushing the last dead air out of the corpse's lungs. Apparently you learned to smell the difference.

[@eldermillennial8330]

It had been farmland since Charlemagne ordered more farm expansion throughout central Gaul/France. What sucks is that reclamation of that land since 1960 has slowed to a tiny trickle, the morons running France made sure just enough farmland was restored to keep the champagne industry going, and have ignored the rest, liking the political control over people keeping most of them in the cities gives them. Huge swathes of the old battle grounds remain saturated with old bombs fragments, and on rare occasions, an unexploded bomb remains preserved in a layer of clay. Unlikely to still be dangerous, but non zero. There’s a cottage industry of scrap metal salvagers who’ve been slowly doing the work for 50 years, but they make very slow progress, there’s only a few hundred at any one time. It could be 200 years before the French farmlands are restored to 1913 levels.

[@skylerdixon6779]

This is definitely one of their saddest songs imo it shows the dark side of war. Also the estimates for the battle of Passenchendaele are between 200k-450k lost for each side. You should check out A lifetime of War or cliffs of gallipoli

[@bevanfletcher6563]

Many of the dead of Passchendale haven't been found as they drowned in the mud.

[@adeptinept3659]

The total losses in WW1 can be estimated between 15 and 20 million, with almost half of the dead civilian. For more facts on the matter, I'd recommend Sabaton's 'The End of the War to End All Wars'

[@SpecterNeverSpectator]

For even more I recommend checking the video of "the fallen of ww2" and "the fallen of ww1"!!!!!

[@TheMightyCrucibleKnight184]

@@SpecterNeverSpectator yo you misspelled "ww2" to "ww3".

[@SpecterNeverSpectator]

@@TheMightyCrucibleKnight184 true I messed it up my bad

[@adeptinept3659]

@@TheMightyCrucibleKnight184 it's okay, that one's for the near future

[@thalastianjorus]

Notice the changes between the 1st and 2nd chorus - 500,000 lives at stake to 500,000 lives are gone. They do that through the whole thing.

[@merrick13]

I just lost my grandfather this morning so I definitely needed this, love your vids man keep it up

[@whatitdodave]

I’m sorry for your lost 😔. I’ve lost several of my grandparents as well over the last 4 years and now I’m only down to two. It’s hard, I know. 😭

[@frankpurvis9189]

@@whatitdodave listen to the end of the war to end all wars please

[@NowLoading247]

Much love, hang tough.

[@frankpurvis9189]

Sorry man if your grandma's still around be there for her she will need all the help she can get

[@mikehall5815]

I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. Brother WE ALL FEEL FOR YOU. There's nothing anyone can say to make you feel better. Just know you're not alone. A lot of us will keep you in our thoughts.

[@tazzermania5079]

Paschaendaele was one of the more horrific campaigns of WW1. Though Brits were able to test some modernized assault techniques against developed German defense in depth, weather & rain was so horrible that after Flanders drainage & landscape had been long destroyed by artillery, soldiers who fell off duckboards w/full equipment on just drowned in the deep mud. That was just getting to the trenches. Much horror in the 3rd Battle of Ypres (that Paschaendaele was part of). Great Sabaton tribute. Keep 'em coming Dave!!!

[@kyriss12]

the biggest reason behind Paschaendaele was that the Prussians had just thrown in the towel, so there was a desperate push to break through the Austrio/Hungarian lines so the allies were desperate to break through the western front before reinforcements from the eastern front could reinforce and overwhelm them. End result you had the allies desperately throwing everything they had at the weakest point of the axis line in a desperate gambit to break trough, and route them before they were over whelmed by troops who had previously been tried op by the Russians.

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

What was terrible to think about is all of this bloodshed was over a 6 mile stretch. 6 miles of land. That's horrifying to think about, and this is coming from a vet

[@kyriss12]

@@BR4IN1N4J4R Not the ugliest battle in the war, but blood per acre probably one of the costliest plots of dirt.

[@petervenkman69]

The estimated number of people killed in WW1 was between 15-22 million, around half of them were civilians.

[@sdslofi1107]

You should check out The Final Solution for another one thats hard to listen to but definitely a beautiful song in its own right

[@generalofchaos5174]

Here in Flanders, we still find leftover artillery shells buried in the ground. Many of which still dangerous. A war that's more than a century old, and yet still has such a heavy presence.

[@percival371]

An ominous reminder

[@merafirewing6591]

​@@percival371 and a possibility to become the last casualty to that war if that shell decides to go off. Which is equally a scary thought.

[@zombieholic]

I had an ancestor who died during first war, his name is on the Vimy Ridge monument.

[@SignedWithBlood]

Sabaton has made me cry twice so far: once with the Christmas Truce (new single) and the Price of A Mile. Just to image how those soldiers died in horrible circumstances for no reason at all.

[@madogthefirst]

Dude Uprising tends to hit me especially "Women, Men, and Children fight they were dying side by side."

[@Doug.Dimmadome]

@@madogthefirst Good call. And i'm not even Polish but that story is SO true. "Still the Allieds turn away..." It explains a lot for now, "23 doesn't it

[@scarletspectre153]

@@madogthefirst ''and the blood they shed upon their streets, a sacrifice willingly paid'' just how bad do things have to get in order for people, children even to willingly face down machinegun fire?

[@MrEvol94]

1916 and swedish version of Livstid i krig gets me

[@SignedWithBlood]

@@MrEvol94 Ah yes...that makes 3 now. 1916 just...man...😢

[@bevanfletcher6563]

I'm a New Zealander, my Grandfather signed up in 1914 when he was 16, he fought at Gallipoli where he lost 2 brothers, a cousin and uncle. Then the following he he fought on the Somme, in 1917 he took part in the battle for Messine and both of New Zealands attacks for Passchendale, the 2nd attack on 12th October in which he was wounded, still ranks as the blackest day in New Zealands military history. My Grandfather recovered from his wounds and returned to his unit and finished the war.he lost another brother during the German Spring Offensive of 1918. Also I lost another member of my family at Gallipoli, so of 7 members of my family who fought in the first World War, only my Grandfather survived.

[@SJ-vc6zn]

You may never see this. In Verdun there were over 5k shells per square FOOT were fired. Thats literal by the way not figureatively. Litterally 5k+ shells hit each individual square foot of the battlefield. Its fuckin mind blowing how much destruction occured in the World Wars.

[@willowgaming4421]

I love this song so much. Canadians were majorly the ones who fought the Germans in that battle and was th most bloody battle of my country, with the failed Raid of Dieppe in WW2. Least we forget, comrades

[@kerlongsjorlejov1945]

They have been playing this during their tours of 2019 and 2020. It's one of their best songs and it shows you on what war does. This lasted for months, a battlefield that was destroyed. Some soldiers even wrote this down. I died in hell, they called is Passchendaele.

[@TexanJet1836]

In WWI, around 6,000 people died a day. My Great-Great Geandfather was also a German soldier in it. Though, he did not speak about it often, atleast from what I have heard.

[@xxxxGreenxxxxDayxxxx]

83,333 lives. That was a price of a mile at Battle of Passchendaele... "Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone"

[@oliversherman2414]

My great great uncle fought and died in the battle of Passchendaele. He served in the British army and his body was one of the many to sink into the mud, never to be recovered. Lest we forget

[@joshuaturcotte6724]

This song was to pay homage to the battles that people think were stand-still or 100% "Static". Attacks were made weekly and often in batches of men selected to charge, not often was it enough men to charge threw the zone and if you look at the History channel for this group, you'll hear some very dark things: some of the men wrote in journals that they couldn't peek over the Trench line to rescue wounded that were unable to move, and due to the topography of the area, the wetlands were mudding over with the worst rain season in history for the area, soldiers sank into the mud and died suffocating. People couldn't think of the reason such a hellish ground was being attacked. The attitude of this was to challenge and contest a weak-point but at the same time pull troops away from the French Front Lines as the fear there was a massive push that could break threw and Paris would be taken eliminating them and making the war impossible for British and allied forces to keep in the land combat any more. So the argument was null and void as the enemy figured capitulating France was more priority and the troops that were sent to bolster the lines, a 6 mile stretch of land, between both sides, combat dead raised to 500,000 men were dead in this small combat campaign. The Hellish landscape where one wrong move men't you would drown in mud (that could be as deep as 4 feet) and blood like many who fell before you. The Mud slowed down troops limiting movement to specific hard land bridges that wouldn't collapse, which is easy to cover with machine-gun fire. Add in sniper tactics of the time, it was a massive loss of life, Sabaton did the math before doing this song to pay homage to the lost, but they also emphasis on the cost of war per battle, this one if you do it properly references per mile it cost 83,333 men roughly per mile (deaths range higher or lower depending on the charge amount, a lot of people said the price of a mans life incomparable, and thus there isn't a actual figure for what it cost for the "price of a mile"). I do believe it was Pashendale where the first bunch of Child Soldiers were seen as well, ages 10 to 15 on both sides filling in the ranks (later transferred to other sectors). War is a man made hell, and knows no equal horror, of which this song tells it straight: The war engulfed a town, the town itself was inside no-mans land and was pounded flat, and not a blade of grass was left from all the combat, areas like this even today show how dreaded the war was, some area was forests, some was flatland, some was hills, it was completely changed by the sheer volume of conflict. Remember those who gave there lives in defense of there country (obv only those who did there job to protect there own and even if they were forced, I appreciate all military vets and there fallen Brothers/Sisters in Arms who did there best, cause they thought they were doing right back then, and we have much more knowledge today to know about what the war is most likely about instead of what politicians convince you it is, and in some cases conflict is unavoidable, and the soon to be soldiers rise to do there best in defense of those they love)

[@charlestoth3273]

Survivors from Paschendale (which this song is about) 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

[@madogthefirst]

The part they left out is that after a day or 2 those six miles of ground was immediately lost. Half a men gone and 2 days later it went back to business as usual.

[@wietsedehaas8961]

TWENTY MILLION 9.7 Million soldiers and 10 Million civilians.

[@deecap71]

One of my favorite Sabaton songs. The hard driving melody, pushing forward throughout the song, plus a tenderness in Joachim's vocals that we rarely get to experience.

[@rogerhack3750]

Another wave was send in. And another.... And another.... And... another..... Half a million men... Gone.

[@adammlcoch6106]

Their video The Price Of A Mile (Live - The Great Tour - Helsinki) is amazing. The O's at the end add an additional emotional punch.

[@LHWK_RHC]

This song and Cliffs of Gallipoli are the two Sabaton songs that really hit me hard.

[@pihermit7724]

A lot of Sabaton songs are fast paced and get your blood pumping, but I love how they slowed it down for this song. It makes this song feel slow and gritty like how the fighting felt like in the muddy trenches. And that chorus, "Thousand of feet march to the beat." The slow speed of that chorus combined with those words put the image of thousands of soldiers marching together into battle at the tempo of the chorus. It is amazing how they can use their music to bring out the appropriate feelings of the story that they are telling in the song. Some of their other slow paced songs that I really love are "Panzerkampf" and "Wolfpack." I highly recommend checking those out next.

[@Kyoshindo]

Goosebumps and tears, everytime i listen to this song bro. I live in Flanders Fields and my house is about 15 km from Passchendaele. Monuments and scars in the land reminds us everyday of a brutal great war on our lands. Geat video, keep up the good work. Another beautifull but very sad song from Sabaton is "The Final Solution" check it out but keep some tissues by the hand...

[@suntiger745]

Since you were curious about the numbers, I would recommend checking out the Sabaton History for this song, not for a reaction just for yourself. There is indeed a very good reason this song is slower and more somber in its tempo and lyrics. Six miles of ground was taken, and then the counter-offensive took five of those miles back. Price of a mile indeed.

[@mikehall5815]

My father served in WWII on Guadalcanal as a Marine corpsman. This songs lyrics is very powerful. Thanks again Dave great job.

[@Bloodname_Gaming]

The talking about service members at the end of the video made me tear up and cry. I've got some hope for the world now that I don't think I had before, thank you, Dave.

[@Happymali10]

The battle describes a weeks-long ordeal for literally one small town, and a few months later the loosing side recaptured the town in like a few days with minimal casualties.

[@bairdrew]

This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Lotta family died in those trenches. No one knows how many died on either side at this battle, in that relatively short space. There's no agreed figure, and every attempt to tally it comes up different. But it's never less than a quarter of a million, and it's usually closer to half a million for each side. In a space a couple of square miles in size. I sometimes think that if each country has its own personal definition of hell, then Britain's must be those grinding, hopeless slaughters in the trenches of Passchendaele.

[@randallstephens8273]

Passchendale was as bloody and futile as Verdun. The fields of Passchendale are green now but the scars of World War 1 still remain. The soldiers at Passchendale literally died in the mud. Used to, soldiers would fight throughout the day and at night they would allow each side to collect the dead or wounded but with all the rain, soldiers literally would drown while taking cover or they would sink deeper into the mud as lines shifted battle after battle. The stalemate lasted for months! Literally it was a game of give and take for both sides. You gain 100 yards, you lose 50yrds, you gain 50yrds, you lose 100yrds. No one was truly victorious at Passchendale. Now, The Unkillable Soldier which Sabaton fought at Passchendale as well where he fought many times pulling pins off grenades with just his teeth as he threw with his right hand since he didn’t have his left. Also, the movie, Passchendale starring Paul Gross is very good and gives you an idea of just how bad it was getting. Yeah there’s some fiction in there was well but it’s as close as you can get Hollywood wise. Also, if you are ever in Columbus, Georgia and visit The National Infantry Museum, you can get a small taste of trench warfare as you walk through the World War 1 exhibit

[@nzstump0152]

Passendale was New Zealands hardest losses, most remember Gallipoli, but we lost 1 percent of our population at Passendale, it's our Alamo or Somme

[@jaybirdjargon]

I had relatives who fought in WWII, none that I know of in WWI. But my maternal grandfather was a bomber, my maternal great uncle served in the navy, and a great uncle by marriage fought at Normandy and landed on the first day and was wounded. By the end of the day, he was the last surviving member of his platoon. I don't know how he dealt with that much survivor's guilt. War never changes. It's hell no matter the time. Whether it was the Battle of Kadesh all the way up to the conflicts going on in 2021.

[@Historylord15]

The Solo of this song is where real men cried

[@evhw]

For example, I just had a brief look in the records, following my paternal grandfather's side of the family, since we have such a unique surname that there's only one family bearing it in the world. I found 5 family members confirmed to have fallen, in various places in Europe (Czechoslovakia, Russia, Poland), and I know for sure my great grandfather served and survived. So that makes 6 people at least, just from that side of the family.

[@tristandodd4806]

I cry every time I listen to this

[@godfatherofbloedniss]

One of thier strongest and hard hitting Songs. Alltime favorite together with Union and Angels calling

[@Bludngutz]

Courage in the face of despair. True bravery.

[@saxoDK_1600]

this was the war of technology, never seen before in 1914. new ways and faster ways of killing invented, really sad how almost a whole generation lost in just four years. also the Show you were trying to name on prime was The man in the high castle :)

[@chrisgertz8250]

Need to do the title track to this album- the art of war. Great tune. Great album all around. Keep the ride going! History lesson continues..

[@Misagh_H]

My 2nd favorite sabaton song after “unbreakable”. Thanks for the reaction brother.

[@GlobalOutcast]

In the whole album, the quotes the lady gives at the start (and somwtimes end) of the songs are actual quotes from the book "art of war"

[@matteocervesato6372]

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[@lovrosedej7655]

The decision between sleep or a Dave Sabaton video is a pretty easy one When you say they repeated the verse lyrics to really hammer home the point, while it also does that i think the main point of it is to represent how nothing changed, every day was just the same death and destruction and for all that carnage still nothing changed. Hence the "Whats the price of a mile" because at the end of the day the casaulty numbers were astronomical but the frontlines were the same as they were that morning

[@bryaneagon3059]

When you mentioned that you felt torn between enjoying the song, but in the context of the lyrics it's kind of difficult. If it helps you to reconcile the conflict, the way I see it is like this. What happened, happened. What's done is done. Sabaton has a talent for writing music about true militarily historical events as we both would agree, but it's the tone in which makes it enjoyable. They look at history and say "this deserves to be remembered" so they write a song that is poetic, emotional, moving, and LOUD. Not only that, but they have this weird knack for writing a song like this one that is loud and somber simultaneously. The lyrics in this song is a little bit more matter of fact than poetic, but the facts don't need to be polished up to sound more tragic than they speak for themself.

[@paulm.5826]

"The Man in the High Castle" could be the show you were thinking of. Also, Sabaton's live music video for "Attack of the Dead Men" is pretty interesting.

[@elssir1537]

My grand-grand-grandfather was fighting and died in WWI. All what was left was a photo of him in his uniform taken few days before he and his battalion marched to the western front, and a wife with 2 years old kid - my grand-grandfather. it is weird to look at the photo and imagining he had to suffer all these things. Tragedy of WWI is that there were no good vs bad guys. It was just men thrown into hell on earth for no reason.

[@polheg1]

Had a great grandfather and great uncle who fought in WW1. Both survived.

[@thenotsodiscretewolf2098]

Art of war is such a good read. So there some amazing quotes from that book like "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. "

[@anklebiterwoodworks2818]

Always love how genuine your reactions are. I know i am a latecomer to your channel, but I enjoy seeing other's reactions to this group who I only recently found. My grandfather on my dad's side served in the Navy in WWII. My younger brother served in the Army in Iraq and Kuwait, his striker hit by an IED and 6 young men that he literally grew up with, called our mom "Mom", she saw them as her kids, too, only my brother and his CO survived the blast. Mom does not know it was when my brother was in Kuwait--and he requested I not share that tidbit with mom after showing me the pics of the aftermath. When I found out about this incident from when he served (was 2002-2006) and saw the pics, I realized how little mom knew about it and just how close I came to losing my brother years before I actually found out. Those kids that were lost, I was a few years older than and had been there as they grew up and were part of our family. Props for the mad respect for the fallen. You get it. And I can tell by your expression and words that you do. You have relatives that served? It is almost as if you KNOW.

[@whatitdodave]

I did. My late step father served and I have a couple of great grandparents that served as well.

[@madogthefirst]

The art of war is all about beating your enemies in such a way that a battle would be a mere formality.

[@jameslafontaine198]

Yes yes yes. Not enough people react to this song. Imo their best song. Yeehaw \m/

[@5taunch]

After my family going back into out ancestry I have found out that three direct family members were killed in WW1

[@TeganRhodes]

I had a great grandfather in WWI. he was in an anti-aircraft unit, heavy artillery. luckily he only saw a little bit of action before armistice was called, and came home.

[@skylerdixon6779]

Their history channel they give an estimate of the actual price of a mile for the battle. Its like 7500 dead for every square mile i think

[@zachstoner]

75 thousand from the Sabaton history video. The actual math comes closer to 83 THOUSAND men per mile during the battle

[@skylerdixon6779]

@@zachstoner i didnt even realize i forgot a 0 lol

[@makitasha]

This is one of my favorites from Sabaton! A couple others that have been stuck in my head lately are The Final Solution and Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

[@Vicpa111]

History is mather of lives!!

[@lucretialee3691]

If you haven't yet, check out Sabaton's history channel - The Price of a Mile - The Battle of Passchendaele - Sabaton History 058 [Official] - KZbin You will sadly learn far more than you would ever want to, like the price of a mile in Passchendaele worked out as 75,000 lives for each mile.

[@picholasido155]

At the beginning with the quote about throwing your own soldiers into an impossible situation, I think Sun Tzu had an opposite kind of quote. One about always leaving an avenue of escape for your enemies to take

[@olivinator]

the quotes go together, leave your opponent an escape route while denying your own forces an escape.

[@dangerouswitch1066]

Awesomeness

[@fallenknighttyler8695]

My family has a long line of military service. My dad was a Seabee (naval engineer) during the end of Vietnam. Great uncle was Green Beret during Vietnam. Grandfather on my dad's side in the Air Force during the Korean War. Grandfather on my mom's side survived the Attack on Pearl Harbor and later was on the same ship the Japanese signed the surrender.

[@dragonstarv8154]

Another thing I noticed is that is you’re at 225,000 subscribers and if I’m not mistaken that was just almost half of the casualties on the allied side that lost 275,000. And I mean that as in British, New Zealanders, Canadians, French. Not to mention some casualties were not found due to men drowning in mud making them unretrievable so that means it could still stack. The sad realization in the song is “6 Miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone.”

[@declandorsey9662]

always love to see sabaton on the channel

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@redthehero3387]

This is one of my favorite songs by them, it has a good tune and all, but while it's not badass like some of their other songs it is the reality of war and is a wake-up call that more people need.

[@Angel_423]

This whole album is called the art of war and all the songs start with a qoute

[@diosyntaxa]

Thinking about the lives lost, that's kind of the point. They like the expression lest we forget, and we really mustn't forget

[@hannehammer4603]

Thanks for your true words, Dave! The song shows once more the sensenessless of all wars. When I heard it live for the first time, I got even more goose bumps.

[@rainmanslim4611]

My great grandfather fought on the western front. He passed before I was born but apparently he had a few war trophies including a Luger, a German stick grenade and a tattered German empire battle flag he kept under his bed. Apparently he never spoke about the war... I can't blame him.

[@Two-EyedShockwave]

Half a million men are gone Half a million mothers crying Half a million friends grieving Half a million children fatherless Half a million hearts stopped Half a million men are gone This was from a comment on that very video

[@eggisfun4217]

Love it!

[@AskiFin]

Never fully surround your enemies, then they have a reason to fight for their life -Sun Tzu (in vid is just variation on the other side)

[@westlethegreat6388]

83333 per mile. That's how many lives it took in this battle. 500000 lives divided by 6 miles.

[@mjolnir_swe]

Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone 😢

[@Dutch.van.der.tinkle]

This is the battle of Passchendaele this is where Canada first saw action in World War One. fun fact the Canadians were known as storm troopers of World War I. They were so efficient in killing Germans. They never took prisoners and they were told that they cannot kill wounded so instead they would make sure to kill them before they could surrender also, many of them did not care so the killed the wounded and many generals of the Canadian army Actually bragged about the ruthlessness of their soldiers. Also, the Geneva convention is highly put in place because of Canadian World War I soldiers in the world war one truce of Christmas of the second year when Canada first showed up they shot to Germans in the head when they were trying to show the truce and then threw over canned food. Eventually they threw over grenades which were already pulled within those canned food, and when the soldiers ran up to grab it, they would open fire whatever food they had grabbed, it would blow up and kill them.

[@maulla6372]

50-60 million deaths (civils and military) estimated 1914-1918

[@penitamani6794]

I'm sad that this song only has 1milllion views I thought it be popular

[@evhw]

I think it would be very hard to find someone whose family has lived in Europe during the 20th century, and no one has served in the WWI. In my country, every little village has got a memorial in the center, with the names of the fallen. The people who have remembered them are long gone, but you can tell by their surnames if they were your relatives or not.

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

My grandfather was a finnish war child refugee to Sweden during ww2. Edit:i onlly found out his real name when i was 21 and long after he was dead of a brain tumour unfortunately.

[@SachshoT]

Around 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded during WW1. That includes both soldiers and civilians.

[@percival371]

Whats funny is i just noticed, you never hear the true end of the song, it just fades away. Just like how so many men never saw the end of the war.

[@IdleDrifter]

JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was heavily influenced by his time in the Great War. You can see its echoes in the Dead Marshes and Mordor. That the characters only find peace and heal after the battles are long over.

[@Templarofsteel88]

The quote at the start is from sun tzu’s book the art of war.

[@Briselance]

Ever did the songs about Pegahmagabow, about Simo Häyhä (White Death), and about Albert Séverin Roche (The First Soldier)? They are pretry good. :-) Aces in exile is one of my personal favourites too. :-)

[@eli4528]

To get an idea of casualties, there are two videos you should check out: "The fallen of WWI" and "The fallen of WWII"

[@RavetsU]

Awesome reaction, again! I would love to see you react to some King 810 songs. Fat around the heart and Alpha & Omega are so, so good.

[@Ching_Wally]

Hello from Paschendaele

[@HumanityYeah]

Combat deaths: 7-9 million, other non combat deaths: 2-3 million. Civilain deaths: 10 million. Wounded: 20 millions.

[@PetterVessel]

One of my favorite Sabaton songs. Check out fanmade videos of this song on KZbin. Passchendaele was really a "Meat Grider". Lest we forget

[@magical_Crossong]

I love your deep voice

[@ARCAlpha12]

Approximately 40 million casualties, both civilian and military, with about 15-20 million of those being deaths on all sides (estimated 9.7 million military and 10 million civilians). People talk about world war 2 a lot, and things were truly awful in that war as well, but WW1 was over 100 years ago, and a lot of people don’t truly understand how much more horrific that war was, because of lethal weaponized gas, constant trench warfare, regular attacks via napalm-essentially everything that was done in Vietnam, but dirtier, because technology and sophistication weren’t as advanced then and we just wanted a constant method to kill the other guy in any way possible. And the fact there was almost no progress on either side for months meant these men literally went through hell and died for virtually nothing a lot of the time. WW1 makes you wish we didn’t glorify war like we do these days.

[@DoreidenKishi]

Listen to this just makes want to watch the film Passchendaele has one of my favourite final battle scenes and is insane

[@jayzandstra1830]

Ya should check out "sabaton- wehrmacht" its a big banger,and its video is pretty badass to watch.