Sabaton - Fields Of Verdun | EPIC VERSION

Sabaton's Fields Of Verdun with orchestral arrangements.

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To Hell And Back written by Sabaton.
Orchestral arrangements by Louis Viallet.

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"In 1916, The Battle of Verdun (known as Operation Judgement by the Germans) was the longest single battle of the war lasting for 303 days. The first day of the battle began with a 10-hour bombardment of over 1 million artillery shells by the Germans, the rumble of which could be heard almost 100 miles away. The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area for so long devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both sides. Rain combined with the constant tearing up of the ground turned the clay of the area to a wasteland of mud full of human remains. Shell craters filled with water, becoming so slippery that troops who fell or took cover in them could drown if they couldn’t climb out.

Defensive positions were gained and lost on a daily basis and neither side could maintain the upper hand; the village of Fleury changed hands sixteen times and by the end of the battle was deemed uninhabitable. Eight other nearby villages were erased from the face of the earth that year. The nine martyr villages of the Verdun ridge were officially designated as “villages that died for France,” six of which remain uninhabited.

Due to such costly battles along the western front, France was forced to conscript men up to the age of 45, fathers and sons fought and died side-by-side in Verdun. At great cost and under the rallying cry “They shall not pass!” France successfully defended Verdun from the Germans. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war with over 700,000 combined casualties." Sabaton, Fields of Verdun


Art credits : Péter Sallai
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