Passchendaele 360

"I died inwards hell – they called it Passchendaele."

 - Siegfried Sassoon

This calendar week marks the 100th anniversary of the get-go of the Battle of Passchendaele, the First World War drive that lasted from from July to Nov 1917.

The opening onset of the battle took identify inwards heavy rain. In this heavy downpour the depression lying province was churned upwards yesteryear the men, horses, equipment in addition to heavy shelling in addition to the province became a ocean of thick mud. Through this clinging mud the men had to onset High German concrete automobile gun emplacements. Many of those who weren't killed yesteryear the High German guns drowned inwards that clinging mud.

It is impossible to imagine Sassoon's 'hell' or the reality faced yesteryear the Allied soldiers. You tin dismiss all the same sense a pocket-size business office of the horror in addition to hell of Passchendaele yesteryear viewing the Royal British Legion's 360 bird videos of Passchendaele. Passchendaele inwards 360 includes a serial of 360 bird videos which endeavor to bring something of the reality of the battle for those immature soldiers far from home.

The videos combine first-hand well accounts, diary excerpts, in addition to archive cinema in addition to photos. You tin dismiss picket the videos on a desktop reckoner simply for the sum virtual reality number they should live viewed amongst Google Cardboard or whatever other type of VR set.