1. The Great War: Photo Gallery

2. 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.

3. Road to War

4. Funeral for Franz Ferdinand

5. Tsar declaring war in Russia

6. Canadian Troop Train Leaving

7. Recruits in London

9. French Troops Marching (1914?)

10. Life in the Trenches

11. Germans digging trenches

20. Australian soldiers in a trench in Flanders

21. Aerial view of Verdun

23. No Man’s Land

28. Canadian stretcher bearers plodding through a battlefield in Flanders, 1915  

32. Forests

33. Australian troops on a duckboard track through Chateau Wood
Australian troops on a duckboard track through Chateau Wood. Third Battle of Ypres, 1917

38. On a walk through the Argonner Wood, near Verdun, 1998: shells between the leaves

39. Paintings

45. Gas

50. German soldiers fleeing from a cloud of their own gas

51. Soldiers

53. 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.

57. Hitler as a Corporal in the Great War

58. The feared telegram - "Deeply regret to inform you...

62. “VERDUN !” - The winner !