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Article: Passchendaele not worth a drop of blood.(World War I)
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- Esprit de Corps
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- August 1, 2004
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By the time the first conscripts reached the front in the fall of 1917 the war had become a long, murderous nightmare with no end in sight. The Canadian Corps had been at the front for over two years and had fought some of the worst battles of the war. The men lived lives that no one at home could comprehend and so they simply did not describe it in their letters. Their lives would become even more miserable as the Corps was ordered to take Passchendaele, a village in the Ypres salient whose very name would become synonymous with misery.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's objective was to break through the Ypres salient and seize the German-occupied Channel ports. ...