Pershing Lecture Series - Verdun: The Bleeding of Nations - Richard S. Faulkner

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  @buckfaststradler4629 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Excellent talk -  although it was touch and go whether the French language would survive it

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• PA

  @paultaylor5774 · 3 years ago

  What a talented and enthusiastic presenter in total control of his subject

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• OL

  @OldPiePung1969 · 4 years ago

  Prof. Faulkner - I always enjoy your lectures.

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• WI

  @willo7734 · 2 years ago

  really excellent talk and an engaging speaker!

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• AL

  @alanmclean6690 · 3 years ago

  My middle name is Verdun, which I inherited from my father. In some way it got me to be intrigued by all history.

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• DI

  @Digmen1 · 7 years ago

  Its great to see a presentation where we can see the screen as well as the lectern.

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• MA

  @marchess286 · 2 years ago

  Thank you

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  @mattstakeontheancients7594 · 5 years ago

  Been watching this entire series and have learned a ton. Didn’t know there was a WW1 memorial in KC. Definitely worth visiting and thanks for posting these videos. Never realized the lost of life inflicted during this war and how little land was really fought over. Pure attrition. So much death and caused after effects all over the world.

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• FA

  @Fallup30 · 10 months ago

  The Lt Colonel who warned about the poor state of French defences was called Emile Driant … not Emile Durant!

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• AL

  @alabamaoffshorefishing · 4 years ago

  I lived in KC for 40 years and visited the WWI museum several times. It is a very cool place and definitely worth stopping at if you have the opportunity.

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  @christianfournier6862 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Great lecture; in-depth knowledge and crystal-clear delivery from Dr Faulkner. I was impressed by the description of the “four systems”: in French present memory, the success of aviation in obtaining supremacy over the battlefield is not emphasized enough (the exploits of aviator aces are, but not the collective success which de Rose had engineered). <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; Just two small errors to be corrected: <br>•–the “Voie sacrée” traffic was not one truck every 25 mn but actually every 2 mn (24 hrs / 700); might even be 1 mn if there were 700 trucks for moving the troops and 700 trucks for moving the supplies (as the lecturer suggests). Photos of the times show the trucks bumper to bumper: according to some reports, it was 6’000 trucks that were moving day &amp; night along the “Voie sacrée”: that would mean the passage of a truck every 15 seconds. <br>•–the Spanish-Arab word “noria” literally designates a wheel with buckets attached which brings water from a well; It aptly depicts the traffic on the “Voie sacrée” but also the succession of troops on the frontline: 70 of the 107 Divisions (which the French army was made of at the end of 1916) have participated in the battle of Verdun. &nbsp; &nbsp; __ .

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  @patrickduckwald3524 · 4 years ago

  Very thoroughly explained. I appreciate that. Not boring. It’s a must listen!

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