The Price of a Mile - The Battle of Passchendaele - Sabaton History 058 [Official]
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2020
- So tell me what's the price of a mile? The Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 is often remembered as a dismal and dreadful campaign. Fighting over endless mud, waterlogged shell-holes and unrecognizable, bombed out ground, the battle became a slog where everybody was just miserable. Hundreds of thousands of men became casualties for the advance of a handful of miles.
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Do a song about the Somme
@@thedarkestknight2540 Listen to 1916
@@Silviu86syd I did its sad
_"We couldn't understand why, in the name of God, anyone ordered an attack like that over terrain like that"_
That's what happens if your General is sitting comfortably in his command post, completely ignorant of the literal hell you and your brothers-in-arms are going through.
Hey
@Necroglobule The maps the generals had were probably still pre-war. They thought Paeshendale was beautiful fields rather then a quagmire of death.
@@belisarius6949 and here we see why up to date Intel is IMPORTANT =_=
I think I remember reading in a newspaper cartoon from the time this little gem
General to a soldier "What's the difference between training and a real battle?"
Soldier "absence of the general Sir"
@@GayCheesetuber Grimm... might use it as a joke
I like to hear a musician say they are doing research and not just a little.
Regular bands : ugh we partied to hard last night
Sabaton : so we partied hard last night , stole a tank, and wrote a 1000 word paper on infantry tactics on the western front
@@totallynotalpharius2283 "uh 2 Tanks Actually, Wait a minute, no, 3 Actually, Make that 3 Tanks"
@@TheDoctorFromArknights and a boat. A massive boat. Like a very massive boat that is… German? Interesting.
Mmmm. And a plane.
"In a foreign field he lay
Lonely soldier, unknown grave
On his dying words he prays
Tell the world of Paschendale"
Ah, I see... a man of culture.
nice
IRON MAIDEN
Laying Low in a blood filled trench
Coc and ball torture
J.R.R Tolkien was fighting in these Quagmires and it inspired the Black Marshes from Lord of the Rings, which was a horrific Marsh littered with hundreds of deads orcs, elves and humans.
IIRC Tolkien himself denied direct paralels between events of world wars and stroy of his great book, tho yes, some similarities are just strikeing.
The black fields of Mordor kinda looks like the wet muddy Countryside
@@ComissarYarrick yeah he denied it.. still I am not convinced of this.
TheIfifi when you create stuff it is usually based on your memories albit usually subconsciously.
@@michimatsch5862 thats my thought
Sabaton History is officially assigning homework. We've ascended to true history class bois!
Wtf I like homework now
It always has been
@David Irvin poor guy, haven't been 'educated on education' enough yet to know you don't get to pick your lessons, nor do you get to bring in outside materials into your classes lest you be and minimum reprimanded by your peers and bosses and worst sued by the big corporations that own the material you 'stole' to teach people...more freedom in private schooling and tutoring, but good luck finding the market for private school and tutoring help for history.
@@fortusvictus8297 Lol so let him show this to change this shit. In Germany it wouldnt be that hard to show these videos. This would be the most epis homework: Please find out what the price of one mile advancement in ww1 was.
@@Oeggonom yeah, in Germany they can use most things as long as it kinda aligns with the governments plan and teachers have a special right to use copyrighted material for educational purposes
"There's no price for a mile" perfectly sums up the pointlessness of war, throughout human history. I actually printed it on a shirt (although I don't wear it in public any more, as I strongly dislike all those unofficial fake band shirts out there).
Piscator Where’s this greatness I’ve been told? Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻Prost 🍻
The legend himself arrives
SEE CAROLUS RISE! anyway i 100% agree with you
at this point, i'm pretty sure you've reached official level. All that's missing is a partnership
Funny enough war has been one of the main driving force behind societal changes.
"Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone."
Probably one of the most powerful lines in the song..
Love this song.
"All is gone, there is no glory to be won"
"What's the price of a mile?"
Not going to lie: I gagged a little at the part about walking through the bog and knowing that when you felt more solid ground you knew it was a person. Those poor men (on both sides) lived a literal living nightmare. Amazing episode / song ❤
For me it was the entire history section of the final solution video but damn I was almost right there with you.
@@nothereneverhere640 I mean, the Final Solution was absolutely horrible and incomprehensibly bad, but I find the events of WWI and battles like this to be more scarring and hellish. Like you are not just fighting humans, but also every aspect of Mother Earth. You don’t know whether or not you will be alive in the next second, let alone the next minute or day. You don’t know if you are going to get blasted to pieces, ripped to shreds by the jail fire of bullets, suffocated to death by gas, crushed by tanks, or drown in the mud. Heck, you don’t even know if you will be able to open your eyes again the second you close them. The mental toll has to be insane, and can definitely be seen in how WWI veterans came out of the war. Hundreds of thousands reportedly suffering from “shell shock”, some of which NEVER recovered, including one of my own ancestors.
Like I said, the Holocaust is an absolute tragedy, and I truly hope it never happens again (sadly, I can almost guarantee it will), but personally, I find WWI overall and it’s major battles like Battle of Passchendaele to be even more hellish.
Same... i did not pick the right episode to watch while having lunch 🥴
"I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele"
There's an ancient joke about the Devil seeing a bunch of happy men in hell and in anger asking them why they were smiling. The men just tell him "This isn't the front."
"Passchendaele, 1917... No-man's land. Not a great place to be."
What is so great about war?
Now THAT'S war: unforgiving, grim, brutal and ruthless. That's why we need Sabaton. They don't let us forget.
Well, not really. That was _that_ war specifically. But trench warfare was really a thing that only existed in WWI. This way of fighting over large fronts to capture territory is an entirely modern construct. It used to be that battles would be fought over just a day. Towns weren't besieged by long term artillery bombardment, but usually just forced to surrender when surrounded and out of food. Technology has vastly outpaced our ability to cooperate.
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Winterman My respect to you 👍🏻great !!! Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻
I used to have a WW1 veteran talk to my Canadian history about the war. He was quite willing to Vimy Ridge and most of the war but when anyone asked about Passchendaele his eyes would fill with tears and say he had to leave. Towards the end of his life, he was talking about his wife, who died from the Spanish flu, and why he never remarried. He said the he had died at Passchendaele and now his "body was catching up to his soul."
@@old-moose Probably he lost his friend there.
Winterman he problem saw so many horrors and saw many a friends and people dead, mutilated, swallowed by mud, or disappear in the blink of an eye in from an artillery shell.
@@wintermanthenforcer Not one. He was the only one out of 46 boys from the same Newfoundland town alive at the end of the war. (Something I found out from his sister after his death. He could never bring himself to go home after the war.)
The story about drowning in the mud resonates with what my great-grandfather said. He fought a Ypres and died in 1985.
On his death bed in hospital he was crying about leaving horses to drown in the mud there. That was his most vivid memory of his life.
Your great grandfather had to actually live through the swamps of sadness
I am sorry for your loss, and the fact that he had to live through that.
“Read the Art of War and see how it relates”
Ha. I’ve literally done this for every single historical Sabaton song, from _Primo Victoria_ to _End of the War to End All Wars_
I’ve even got a custom playlist for this.
Let me tell you, it’s difficult to not just throw every song from the Last Stand into the “throw your soldiers where they cannot escape, and they will prefer death to flight” section
@@sigma2653 on my Itunes :P
@EmoSigma Fret not. Here's the whole list, in order, as I listen to them:
The March to War (always good as the first song)
“Sun Tsu says: the Art of War is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life or death, a road either to safety, or to ruin”
Sun Tzu Says-Ghost Division
Dominium Maris Baltici-The Lion from the North
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Reign of Terror
Blood of Bannockburn
Coat of Arms
Carolus Rex
Rise of Evil
“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.”
The Art of War
“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
Great War
Panzer Battalion
Screaming Eagles
Counterstrike
No Bullets Fly
Poltava
A Ghost in the Trenches
Inmate 4859
40:1
The Ballad of Bull
“By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march; then, with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.”
Unbreakable
Saboteurs
Panzerkampf
White Death
Wolfpack
In the Name of God
Uprising
“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing; therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”
The Nature of Warfare (if listening on youtube, that means finding Cliffs of Gallipoli and pausing right before the piano riff into the song proper. Alternatively, you can probably also just pause before the introduction of the next "lesson" and then play that right before Talvisota. It's not a perfect playlist, but one has to make do.)
Midway
Gott mit uns
Wehrmacht
The Future of Warfare
Night Witches
Killing Ground
Shiroyama
Cliffs of Gallipoli
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested…”
Talvisota
1 6 4 8
Rorke's Drift
Back in Control
Last Dying Breath
“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)
82nd All the Way
Primo Victoria
The Carolean's Prayer
The Red Baron
Glorious Land
Aces in Exile
Devil Dogs
Smoking Snakes
Winged Hussars
Swedish Pagans
Long Live the King
“Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight”
The Price of a Mile
Sparta
Fields of Verdun
Stalingrad
To Hell and Back
Hill 3234
Resist and Bite
The Last Stand
Angels Calling
Diary of an Unknown Solder-The Lost Battalion
“A Kingdom that has once been destroyed can never again come into being, and the dead can never come back to life”
Firestorm
The Attack of the Dead Men
We Burn
The Final Solution
A Lifetime of War
Into the Fire
Attero Dominatus
Hearts of Iron
Nuclear Attack
Ruina Imperii
“Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.”
A Secret (basically just for the lesson)
The End of the War to End All Wars
Dead Soldier's Waltz
Light in the Black
In Flanders Fields
What does it say about Swedish Pagans?
@@totallynotalpharius2283 they are marching ashore
Now can you put soldier of heaven for “throw your soldiers where they cannot escape, and they will prefer death to flight” or maybe Christmas Truce if that counts
The technical price of a mile:
“6 miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone.”
So 500,000 men / 6 miles = ~83,333 men per mile.
"Absolute bargain"- Sir Douglas Haig, October 1917
James O'Donnell that is beautiful and cursed at the same time
@@jamesodonnell8290 LMFAO
52 people dead per each METER gained. Jesus.
Or about 52,083 men per kilometer if my math is correct
Drowning on land must be an especially terrifying way to go
"6 miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone." That's one of the saddest lines in any song in my opinon. It always makes me teer up, because I know this was a real event, not something made up. Those were real men on both sides suffering in a pointless war.
agreed, it really depicts the senseless slaughter of young men, it's difficult to imagine what those soldiers went through.
it was hell on Earth and those that survived were never the same again, they lost a part of themselve on those battlefields.
This episode really had an impact on me. Indy's passionate way of storytelling quite well raised my blood pressure and made me remember how disgusting it feels when your shoes are soaking wet, and yet it is unimaginable how these men, being constantly wet for the rain and mud, kept going on despite all the death around them. The price of a mile was unthinkable, incomprehensible and still true.
Sabaton History, I thank you for another great history lesson (even though it left me craving for wine)!
You're welcome!
Gods, yeah this song and the video only make me symapthise even more with those who had to deal with a fate worse than death. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Wine? Where?
@@PiscatorLager What's the price of it though?
@@PiscatorLager In my fridge ❤️
In a foreign field he lay,
Lonely soldier unknown grave,
In his dying words he prays,
Tell the world of Paschendaele.
Relive all that he's been through
Last communion of his soul
Rust your bullets with his tears
Let me tell you 'bout his years
Laying low in a blood filled trench
Kill Tim 'til my very own death
On my face I can feel the falling rain
Never see my friends again
Smell the fear and the feeling of dread,
Soon be time to go over the wall,
Rapid fire and the end of us all.
"This is modern war" - a quote from Indy Neidell at The Great War
All time classic.
That was such a great series. Only series on UA-cam I never missed a notification for. Still never gets old to rewatch.
@@williamjeffersonclinton69 Right now, I'm watching The Great War. After I finish this great show, I will continue with Between Two Wars and finally World War 2
@@percamihai-marco7157 that is a solid plan there. Between Two Wars is another great series as well. Enjoy.
Story about the battle of Paschendale: One of the dead was one Ellis Evans who came from north Wales. He had sent a poem into a national competition known as the "Eisteddfod". He won and of course when his name was called he didn't appear. In honour of this man a black shawl was draped over the chair giving that Eisteddfod the name of "Eisteddfod y gadair ddu" or Eisteddfod of the black chair.
"did you read the book Doug ?"
"I wanted to but Conrad ate it"
Shit dude I see you all over the place.
It was this song that made me research my families involvement in the war. Turns out I had many family members in the Great War, my great grandfather fought with the Army Cyclist Corp 1916/17 in Egypt and then finished the war at the Somme with the Royal Engineers. Thankfully a lot of them came home. Even my grandmother didn't know where they were or what they did, none of them talked about it. I'm told a cassette tape exists of my cousin interviewing my GG-father about the war, but I have never heard it.
I can't listen to this song with out the tears falling. If you want to know more about the war, please... please... watch "They Shall Not Grow Old" by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings director). Color footage and actual recounts from the veterans of what it was like from the start to the end. It was a different time and they did what they did because no one knew of any other way.
What is the price of a mile? Too damn much!
alot of my family were mercenaries or soldiers dating pretty far back our avergae life expectancy was to around 30 at most 40 during the 1900s
Lyrics of this song really got me.... Six miles of ground has been won,
Half a million men are gone
That puts a knot in my gut
This is the song that introduced me to Sabaton... I was listening to Passchendaele by Iron Maiden one night and UA-cam suggested this song. After this and checking out a few more songs, I ordered Primo Victoria through Carolus Rex that night (Heroes was still a month or two out from being released).
...and the rest is history!
...and the rest is history!
...and the rest is history!
... and the rest is history!
... and the rest is history!
When the unspoken rule about not shooting at stretcher bearers was mentioned, I kinda had to smile, as it showed a glimpse of humanity within hell
I felt the same way, but then I felt horrified by the accounts of the soldiers hearing their comrades drowning in the mud. I can’t imagine how traumatic that must be...
I have been waiting for this one. I have seen this song on Wacken, Graspop and in Antwerp, a month ago now. The background of that song was amazing.
One of the older songs and yet, one of the more haunting ones.
I am happy you played it there and the background during Antwerp, that was just. My breath was taken away.
It's also in my home country and I really want to visit the museums and all.
Two years ago, there was one focus on it and the battle during the summer. For the answer.
There is no price for a mile.
It was my favorite song since I started listening Sabaton in 2013
This song made me cry when I first heard it years ago and to this day, I still get choked up every time I hear that riff. Love the video. Seriously, you guys deserve so much more acknowledgement for what you guys do. Love the attention to detail and the passion. Thank you for everything you do. 🤘
you're welcome!
Always happens to me as well. Quite a few Sabaton songs choke me up.
Hey!!! You are not alone!!! Liebe grüße Alex🤘🏻
If only Sabaton had been putting emotional depth in to history (they call it writing songs) back before I retired; I would have had a way to get my students to feel history.
Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone
And as the men crawled the general called
And the killing carried on and on
How long?
What's the purpose of it all?
What's the price of a mile?
The first time I heard this song, I was not interested in ww1 or ww2 - as a 17-year-old smug teen who cared mroe about medieval shit. And that part of the lyrics was the moment I realized they were talking about people. Not about some political shit, but about a price paid in death.
I researched Passiondale after that and it became one of my favorite songs. It still is 13 years later. I am happy they are playing it live again.
I listen to it every time I am whining about something insignificant - it sobers me up.
Fucking hell I wasn't ready for this episode. But it's okay I like my coffee with tears in the morning. haha
One of the greatest sabaton songs
this is the quite emotive, strong and (unfortunatelly) almost forgotten song from older album.. good job you reminded it to us! (and played it on concerts!) I've beet to Paschendaele and seen those battlefields.. cant imagine the horrors that used to happen there...
I'm a New Zealander, my Grandfather signed up in 1914 when he was 16, he joined up with his 2 older brothers, a cousin and Uncle, they all ended up at Gallipoli, where all but my Grandfather were killed, 1916 saw him shipped to France with the rest of the New Zealand Division, where he fought on the Somme, the next year he fought at Messine and took part in both of New Zealands attacks for Passchendale, the 4th October which was rated as a success and the 12th October, which even today is regarded as the blackest day in New Zealands history, it's New Zealands biggest loss of life in a single day, most were killed in the first couple of hours. My Grandfather was wounded, but recovered and was back with the Division to defend against the German Spring Offensive of 1918, where he had another brother killed, my Grandfather survived the War. Of my Great Grandmother's 4 sons only my Grandfather survived, including my Grandfather's cousin and Uncle, 6 had gone off to fight and only he returned. I also had a relative on my Father's side killed at Gallipoli. New Zealands 60,000 casualties of whom 19000 were killed,look small compared to other Countries, but when you realise that at the time New Zealands entire population was only 1.1 million, it was a devastating loss, especially as we were still a new Country who needed resilient men to help build our Country.
Imagine how hard it was there when everyone stopped shooting at stretcher parties just because everybody was seeing them as the only way out of that hell.
I have learned more about Passchendaele from a metal band than I did when I was in high school in Canada, where the second battle of Passchendaele is very important. Thank you
YES WE ASKED AND WE RECIVED!!! Price of a mile is my favorite song and I'm happy you are going over the history of it. I'm hoping you play it when you come to grand Rapids michigan.
You're welcome!
As short as the art of war is I’d love nothing more than to literally have that lady do a literal whole audiobook version of the art of war. It’s like an hour.. the art of war is also like an hourish… make it work guys.
Sabaton history is my absolute favourite youtube channel because it mixes my two favourite things sabaton and history
Cool! Have you seen Indy's other channels as well? TimeGhost History and World War Two!
@@SabatonHistory yes i do watch them aswell and absoluty enjoy them
As Count Dooku once said, I've been looking forward to this.
The one story that will forever haunt me about about Passchendaele was when Arthur Currie estimated his attack would end with 16,000 Canadian casualties. The Canadian Corps suffered 15,654.
*80.000 men dying for one mile*
WWI generals: I see this as an absolute win!
Death Korps of Krieg- Happy gas mask sounds
**Stalin:** "I'll take 40!"
At last, he broke down, and wept. “Good God,” he sobbed. “Did we really send men to fight in that?” General Kiggell, Haig’s Chief of Staff
lions led by donkeys.
And a complete myth...
Joakim: "There's gonna be a test on that."
Me: Challenge accepted. 🤘😁🍺
I was introduced to Sabaton with 40:1, but it was this song, along with Cliffs of Gallipoli, that catapulted the band to one of my all time favorites. Damn, those pictures just... no words.
13:30 the scariest thing is, high command would've accepted far, *far* more. A mile of land is more valuable than any amount of men lost to take it, ofc
@Col. Commissar Ibram Gaunt for everyone that wasn't a general, aye
Was at the Western Front earlier this year, such a beautiful part of the world, while touring I gained that foreboding sense of dread as I entered a place where so much suffering had taken place, but there was one place that haunts me the most, that would be Polygon Wood, while walking down that narrow path, I could feel the ominous gaze of long dead soldiers, I could hear the explosions the gun fire and in some instances the yelling of men and it was raining that day.
I even told my tour guide about that, all she said was, you're not the first one.
I want to go there again, but not alone, Polygon Wood after my tour in Janurary is a part of the Western Front still scares the shit out of me.
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Germans: It's over Britain, I have the high ground!
British: You underestimate my power!
Germans: Don't try it
Hearing Price of a Mile live is an incredible experience. When the guitars stop and it's just Hannes drumming and Joakim and the crowd clapping to the beat, it really does hit you. This happened. These men were sent over and over in countless waves against each other and only ever claimed 6 miles of ground as a prize. More men died during this offensive than there are people in my city.
‘The price of a mile’ has to be the most creative name I’ve ever heard
My grandfather was a soldier who fought for Ypres, he was wounded outside of Passendale and that was his war. I went over in 2017 for the 100 year celebration of the battle and found the people of Ypres extremely friendly and still thankful for the sacrifices made by the soldiers who fought for their freedom. If you're ever near southern Belgium go to Ypres and visit the Menin Gate (and Tyne Cot and Messine too if your a Kiwi) and stay for a last post ceremony, at 8pm every night. A must do. I would like to see a Great War channel special about the different war memorials and cenotaphs that have been erected , the Menin Gate would be a great start Indy, Flo, Sparticus and the crew!!
And Jesse. I forgot about Jesse
I found this song on UA-cam in a mixed homemade music video some years ago and fell in love with this music and your band. The song really emits the misery of Passchendale just like McCrays' poem In Flanders Fields.
As another Canadian, I really dislike his poem. Prefer “Suicide in the Trenches”
This was a great episode, Indy is an incredible story teller, I got such a vivid picture in my mind thanks to him
Do you know his other channels? ua-cam.com/users/worldwartwo and ua-cam.com/users/timeghosthistory
On the way home, replay Price of a Mile again and again (as usual).
Comes home, turns on pc, finds this...
I'm a happy man.
This was the first song I heard from sabaton, one of my friends posted it on his fb. From there on I was hooked with the band, its a great song about a terrible battle, even that I love the song cant stop thinking about all those young mens. Lets hope never again the price of a mile is gonna be so terrible. Great video guys btw, have a good week
This is an episode I've been waiting for... and goodness me, it's impressive! The song has always been very emotional, both in music and lyrics, and this history episode only adds to it. Had to look away from the images at times. It's unbelievable what was designed by men behind desks, that the men in the fields had to obey to... There's no price for a mile.
I'm glad you liked the episode!
Can't help it but to feel the chills of this melody, the true horrors of war can only be imagined by those of us lucky enough to never have fired a gun or March in a uniform (Costa Rica has no army).
This is an extremely underrated song. Its honestly in my top 3 Sabaton songs, if not #1.
Wow thanks for thats great episode.
Im wondering if you will do an episode about 7734, im quite confused with the lyrics...
We probably will.
@@SabatonHistory Thanks bros!!!
Wasn't 7734 just a "typical" Power Metal Song, basically ridiculing the genre, because of the nonsensical lyrics and yet still the music sounding badass and epic, so a bit self-ironic, since Power Metal is the original background of Sabaton?
If you mean it really well, I guess you could call it an homage :D
@@SabatonHistory I'm also confused with Claws of an Eagle part of Aces in Exile.
@@Battleship009 Ace In Exile talk about the Allied air force during the battle of Britain. What I mean by Allied air force is :
1- The Polish air force
2- The Schecolovakia air force
3- The Canadian air force
You have different reasons for being in exile:
1- "Exile means to be away from one's home being threatened with imprisonment or dead upon return". Polish and Schecoslovakia
2- You can be in Exil if you are voluntary, I means if you are voluntary to go fight in a foreign country for a foreign country that's mean you are in exile. Canadian
Sorry for my english, it's my second language.
0:38 "is over France i have the high ground" Germany 1917
This episode is the first to haunt me and I've watched most of them. The way he describes knowing the difference between mud and corpses, the difference in smell of Tommies and Gerries... it's mind opening.
At Passchendaele, the price of one mile of ground was 83 300 men. 48 men for every yard of ground.
I love how Joakim sings Passchendaele.
I cry every time I watch this.
Was wondering if there was an Iron Maiden inspiration when choosing the Paschendale battle as reference, since they wrote a song about it in '03. Both songs can make anyone really think and reflect the horror that was a Great War Battle field, far away from the romantic look of the war that is sometimes given to it.
Great episode as always! Can't wait for next week's one.
in my opinion, one of the most underrated songs from sabaton.
honestly, I don't know how Joakim sings it without his voice cracking
I listen to sabaton because I like how power metal sounds big and awesome, in the same way that the battles they talk about are big and awesome. Panzerkampf almost sounds like the tanks are battling all around you and in Price of a Mile, you can hear the thousands of boots marching towards half a million deaths
The song that introduced me to Sabaton. Still gives me chills when I'm listening to the intro riff.
PERFECT TIMING!
Thanks so much, I am having a presentation about the Cruelty of battles in WW1, THANKS!!
Also watch the one about the attack if the dead mem because that's covers chemical warfare
“Laying low in a blood filled trench Kill time 'til my very own death On my face I can feel the falling rain Never see my friends again" - Paschendale by Iron Maiden
Credit: Rotting Jacko for the concept of using song lyrics by Maiden
The great war was really hell, thank you for this epizode about this legendary song❤️🔥
You're welcome Eric!
💕🤘😁
My great grandfather, who was first generation polish, got gassed twice at the battle of Paschendale, he died in 1952 because of the lung problems he suffered at the battle. This video and the song really show the true grit of war without any glossing over or glorification, just the grim, raw and bloody truth. And i can respect that because not enough people nowadays know the sacrifices of our forefathers. Keep doing what you are doing Sabaton and Indy, even in sadness the stories are worth telling so they are never repeated again.
I did wait for !!! It’s so sad ... my greatest respect for all this soldiers, they did pay with their lives. Where’s this greatness I’ve been told ? ( Ruhm & Ehre ) Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻
@ Sabaton History
Prost Sabaton History, I hope you are all safe out there. Liebe grüße Alex 🤘🏻Dankeschön für das ❤️
6:20
My heart just broke and a fountain of tear came out of my eyes.
Interesting that both bands, Sabaton and Iron Maiden, made a song about the same event: Passchendale. So horrific and grim it was.
One of their best songs
One of the first Sabaton songs I ever heard and the one I think of first when I think of Sabaton. War is hell.
Horror is the only word to describe this insanity. Never again
Now I know why WWI was depicted as forever muddy, rainy, and bombed or shelled out fields in most media
Thank you. This is my favorite Sabaton song and I was hopeful that you would eventually get to it. This battle is infamous for the shear amount of mud and how horrible it was for the allies.
I have nothing but praise and appreciation for this song. It does a wonderful job of showing how pointless this whole battle was. If theirs no movie about this battle. Their should be.
This song is one of the only ones I've heard that can move me to tears all by itself. The lyrics of the bridge have a way of expressing the pure futility of it all. It's hard to put the feelings this song brings to me in words...
Finally. Some good flipping context on UA-cam
Wow Indy...I thought I got used to your detailed and very...close-up descriptions about the horrors of war during the Great War series, but this one literally hurt me. That hit in the middle of my empathy. And I meant it as a compliment.
And about the song, as the last 2 minutes of it is the chorus over and over I always felt it represents the endless suffering (crawling...I wouldn't call it a march) of these young men.
Reading the Art of war is on my bucket list, these quarantine times will be excellent for that. :)
What i love about this channel is the variety of episodes, like you get one episode about feudal Japan and then one about the first world war. Thumbs up!
Cheers!
as someone who lost two people at Passchendaele on the first day this always haunts me to think how they thought during this battle
The music gave me the feeling of all those young souls crying about this question, "what's the price of a mile ?" and the chorus felt like those same souls talking about what happend on all those miles in desperation, powerfull and extreme sensetive song, those who have a high sensibility for art mixed with a history like this, certanly got goosbumps.
Passchendaele looms HUGE in Canadian history. It's where Canadian troops showed what they were made of. European farmers are still pulling Canadian boys out of the mud. And what was it all for?
It was for the defence of liberal democracy. For the defence of small nations to live in peace without being invaded. For the defence of free trade against a militaristic, aggressive foreign power. Things worth fighting for actually.
As someone who lives in Ypres (Vlamertinge) and who's family has lived in Ypres municipality, including Passendale (Passchendaele), for over 150 years, hearing "The price of a mile" at the "sportpaleis" in Antwerp during "The great war" tour was truly a special moment. Thanks for the legendary songs guys! And Indy, keep up the great history lessons brother!
New Zealand's darkest day on a battlefield: The Battle of Passchendaele, which was also known as the Third Battle of Ypres.
Officially 843 New Zealanders died and over 1700 were wounded in just the first few hours of October 12th 1917, as allied troops tried and failed to take the village of Passchendaele in Belgium.
The battle eventually claimed the lives of nearly 2000 New Zealand soldiers. The country's population at the time was only 1.5 million.
I thought schools closed for a fortnight here in Greece due to coronavirus,but we have homework from Joakim. Truly a great time to pass the days.
Stretcher bearing is quite hard. We did a bit for our wilderness medicine course and it took most of the evening. You generally need at least 6 bearers so you can swap out people as they become exhausted. Their advice on it was to avoid having to do it if at all possible because it was such a pain.
With 80 000 lives for each mile, the men both paid the price and paved the roads...
There's a street in my hometown (Winnipeg Manitoba) that was renamed Valor Road in honor of the half dozen canadian soldiers that lived on that street who served at paschendale and were posthumously awarded the victoria cross for gallantry on the battlefield.
Did some quick math, please correct any errors.
An average adult male is 5'9". A mile is 5,280 feet. Lined head to toe, to cover 1 mile of ground, you would need to lay 77 men. For 6 miles, that becomes 460. (I'm rounding up) At 75,000 men per mile gained (using Joaquim's number instead of Indy's), the allied forces spent over 163 times that many lives.
FINALLY
THEY DID MY FAVOURITE SONG!
Hope you liked it!
I grew up less than an h away from Ieper, we went to the graveyards several times with school. At those moments, as a kid, you don't fully understand the horror of what happened there. Now, as a grown-up, this song somehow always feels like a punch right in the feels. Now I only can begin to understand what kind of absolute hell hole the 'Flanders Fields' were. Never again.
This is just one of many reasons why Sabaton is my all-time favorite band. You guys do intensive research on the subject matter and tailor your songs to fit. You also keep Wikipedia in business. I can't speak for everyone, but when I first started listening to you guys, I hit up Wikipedia every time. Please never stop. Keep up the good work, guys! 🤘😁🍺
Does commenting early on a Sabaton HIstory video mean you get a like? If anything still an awesome video, never disappoints!
No it doesn't. But here's a comment!
oh i've been waiting for this one. WHo needs sleep, sabaton history is on
just imaging to be in that hell... pure nightmare...
price of a mile is like angels calling and union. a song you can listen to for ages and it not get booring. one of the masterpieces sabaton made
This is the first Sabaton song I heard and I instantly loved it!!!