84 World War I, Isle of Skye
Neil Oliver Podcast
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The Forst Borrold War
The last time the british army had fought in any meaningful encounter was at waterloo. And they walked unknowingly into a war made of machine guns that fired 666 rounds a minute. The volume of material deployed against human beings is unimaginable. It meant these battlefields were mincing machines that men were just marched into and turned into pink mist. But they had no way of seeing it coming. So i'm profoundly affected by the forst borrold war. I think, if that bullet had taken a slightly different path, or if the shell, the things that hurt my gramp and my dad, sdad, if ther'd been any closer to him, ewouldt
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