This should be interesting. My friend's brother in law played a German gunner in the movie (he's a munitions special effects guy and gets the odd non speaking role). World War 1 is just fascinating. And Passhendale was just one of the most awful battles during the war. I've read that they basically were fighting over a near-swamp - veer off the planks and you'd sink into the quagmire. Apparently even now, bones from WW1 casualties are still coming to the surface on occasion because the ground is that soft.
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