On a related note, for anyone interested in World War I, I'd recommend listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-h

On a related note, for anyone interested in World War I, I'd recommend listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ He's currently doing a series about WW1 called "Blueprint for Armageddon." The way he describes the war, you really get a sense of the hell that the soldiers were in, and he touches on this bit about how the soldiers on either side could identify more with each other than with their superior officers.