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4 days ago · A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780198794554; 304pp.; Price: £20.00. Historically, wars have always witnessed reports of ghostly sightings and visions. However, the First World War is of particular interest as such phenomena occurred in a more modern ...
1 day ago · Photo by Ernest Brooks. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military ...
3 days ago · Battle of Verdun, World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.
5 days ago · First, as stated in our introduction to Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War, one purpose in developing these two collections was to highlight the work of a diverse group of scholars building in different ways on Micale and Lerner’s Traumatic Pasts, and to move the conversation forward with analysis of new sites and ...
4 days ago · Resident Evil Outbreak, known as Biohazard Outbreak in Japan, is a survival horror video game with online playability for the PlayStation 2. Initially released in 2003, it was developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and was the first entry in the Resident Evil video game series to feature cooperative gameplay and online multiplayer support, although online support was not available for the PAL ...
4 days ago · Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...
4 days ago · This online collection is drawn from three primary sources: The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings, a volume published by the New York Times shortly after the armistice that compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" supplements of 1914-19; Sunday rotogravure sections from the New York Times for 1914-19; and Sunday rotogravure sections from the New York Tribune ...
