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hand-to-hand combat in the forts of Verdun that--and it goes,
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simply goes on, and on, and on.
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And there's now the revisionist interpretations of the Battle of
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Paschendaele--don't write down Paschendaele,
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it's impossible to spell anyway-- that, say, well if they'd redefined
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the idea of the creeping barrage, and if they'd managed to just take
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one hundred yards, and hold that, and then the next one
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hundred yards, et cetera, et cetera.
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But increasingly-- it was just clear,
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it was obvious to the soldiers and it was clear to most anybody that
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there wasn't going to be a breakthrough,
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but the High Command, the German High Command,