The Great War: Photo Gallery
4. Germany attacks Russia, but knows that it will also have to fight France, so it attacks France THROUGH Belgium 3. Russia attacks Austria and mobilizes against Germany 5. Britain is convinced to join to defend Belgium, so it sides with France and Russia. 1. Assassination 2. Austria Attacks Serbia with Germany’s support.
Road to War
Funeral for Franz Ferdinand
Tsar declaring war in Russia
Canadian Troop Train Leaving
Recruits in London
French Troops Marching (1914?)
Life in the Trenches
Germans digging trenches
Australian soldiers in a trench in Flanders
Aerial view of Verdun
No Man’s Land
Canadian stretcher bearers plodding through a battlefield in Flanders, 1915
Forests
Australian troops on a duckboard track through Chateau Wood Australian troops on a duckboard track through Chateau Wood. Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
On a walk through the Argonner Wood, near Verdun, 1998: shells between the leaves
Paintings
Gas
German soldiers fleeing from a cloud of their own gas
Soldiers
This picture shows a French corporal proudly posing for the camera This picture shows a French corporal proudly posing for the camera. French and allied newspapers bought the picture and without any reserve told the public that the boy had joined the army when he was 14 years old, that he was wounded and that he had won the French Cross of War.
Hitler as a Corporal in the Great War
The feared telegram - "Deeply regret to inform you...
“VERDUN !” - The winner !