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There were no gun positions; ordinarily we dig our guns in, from two to five feet, but in Passchendaele if you went down you would drown, so we stuck the guns up on the only dry pieces of ground we could find.
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This time around, although there is another onslaught of films with war themes screening at the festival -- which kicks off Thursday night with Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross 'World War I saga "Passchendaele" -- they are being billed as everything but war movies.
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This time around, although there is another onslaught of films with war themes screening at the festival -- which kicks off Thursday night with Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross 'World War I saga "Passchendaele" -- they are being billed as everything but war movies.
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This time around, although there is another onslaught of films with war themes screening at the festival -- which kicks off Thursday night with Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross 'World War I saga "Passchendaele" -- they are being billed as everything but war movies.
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1917: Third Battle of Ypres ends as the Allies capture the Belgian village of Passchendaele from the Germans.
Why Now? 2009
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GROOM: That is the final Battle of Ypres which came to be known as Passchendaele, one of those almost unprounceable words, too many vowels in it but Passchendaele was a little village on a ridge around - the ridge semi-circled Ypres like an amphitheater and the Germans, of course, were occupying the ridge and the British wanted it back because the British were being shelled by it.
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 2002
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The result was the disaster known as Passchendaele, which claimed in four months two hundred fifty thousand casualties on each side.
Patricia A. Ferguson: Fighting on All Fronts Leo Amery and the First World War Patricia A. Ferguson 1993
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The work done by other branches of the service-aeroplane observation, medical corps, engineers and transport-has always appealed to me as being exceedingly good, including the reconstruction by the engineers of the roads in Passchendaele.
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Who would have believed, even half a century ago, that this year's Toronto Film Festival would open with a film called Passchendaele, the film poster showing just a young man standing in mud and filth and rain?
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So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction, the very name "Passchendaele" has become a synonym for military ineptitude and barrenness.
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