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TheCautiousCelt
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Last Online: 10 Hours Ago 19:49
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Somerset
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The Great War.
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Soldier's Lunch A French soldier at the Place Royal in the city of Reims, France Picture made in spring 1917. The German army repeatedly attacked the old city of Reims. Shells brought heavy damage to the medieval buildings and to the famous cathedral. France sent thousands of soldiers to the city to defend it. Many poilu's had to find billets in the ruins. They ate and washed in the streets. The photograph above is an autochrome color picture. This photocolor process was invented in the beginning of the 20th century by the Lumière brothers. We have 250 color pictures from the Great War: many of these original autochromes and others artificially tinted.
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The Heritage of the Great War / First World War 1914-1918. Graphic color photos, pictures and music
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him"--G.K Chesterton.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.--Friedrich Nietzsche.
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