The last Atlantic entry about the centennial of the beginning of WWI

[likethebeer]

Showing contemporary photographs of the sites in Europe. In addition to the continued evidence of shelling, there are photos of lots and lots and lots of unexploded ordinances that farmers are still finding (and skeletons of soldiers characterized for most of a century as MIA):
http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/century/

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[dyvan.livejournal.com]

thanks for linking to these, has been a fascinating (and often tragically depressing) collection of photo essays.

World War I in photos in the Atlantic

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

You're welcome - the man who put this together did a nice job of dividing it up.

My "interest" in WWI puzzles me sometimes (definitely a love of the Dada art movement pushed me there). But that's because the horrors of WWI were overwhelmed, I think, by the horrors of WWII. And rediscovering them has been a continual shock (maybe it highlighted them that much more).