1914 - 1945 Guten Tag / Index / Histoire

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

— Edward Grey, July 1914

France, 1918 American troops advancing through a forest shattered by artillery fire during World War I.

During World War I, elephants pulled heavy equipment. This one worked in an amunitions yard in Sheffield.

Injured Indian soldiers of the British Army at the Brighton Pavilion, converted into a military hospital (1915)

havisham:

WWI ‘grave’ revives forgotten battle

"August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon."

—

Franz Kafka

demons:

Going over the top.

Trosly-Loire Lazarett (military hospital) (by drakegoodman)

“Giant listening horns used to listen for approaching aircraft during WWI. Image on display at the Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.”

lostsplendor:

Soliders Returning Home from the Great War, Washington D.C c. 1919 (via)