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hacked-wtsdz · 4 months
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Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
And this:
"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"
And this:
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
And this:
“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."
And this:
“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”
And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.
No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.
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theworldofwars · 1 year
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Propaganda made by the allies of WW1 of what could happen to the United States if the Central Powers won.
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queerism1969 · 1 year
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theworldatwar · 7 months
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British soldiers from the Lancashire Fusiliers await the order to advance - Beaumont-Hamel, Somme 1916
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dronescapesvideos · 3 months
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The Red Baron, WWI. Soldiers examine what remains of Manfred von Richthofen's aircraft after he was shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, just days before his 26th birthday, but by then already an aviation legend.
➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/RedBaron
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andromeddog · 1 year
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gas and guns
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two prints from ‘the war’ series (1924) - otto dix
otto dix served in the war of 1914-18 as an artillery gunner in the trenches. the german expressionist recreated the images that he saw in his nightmares in this series of prints, titled ‘the war’. for dix, prints like this were an exorcism of the horrors he saw.
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bantarleton · 4 months
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The Royal Tank Regiment’s Cambrai anniversary commemorations.
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illustratus · 30 days
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The Ravine of Death at Verdun by Ferdinand-Joseph Gueldry
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cimmerian-war-shrine · 6 months
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lilithism1848 · 2 months
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olliemnjones · 9 months
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No End in Sight
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theworldofwars · 6 months
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An officer of the 444th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes his pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a shell of a BL 12 inch railway howitzer. July 1918.
Colourised by Benoit
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George receives flowers from a little girl in his visit to France, during WWI 🥰
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lionofchaeronea · 5 months
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Bully, Bruce Bairnsfather, 1914-18
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From clockwise right, we have:
Hellreigel 9mm submachine gun (text via IMFDB: "As of current knowledge, there was only ever one example of the Hellriegel and it did not survive the war. Its caliber, capacity, operating method, and whether or not it was even a functional weapon are conjecture based on analysis of the photographs and historical context. It is assumed to have been blowback operated with the projections at the rear being a pair of recoil springs, and the large structure over the barrel is thought to have been a leather-wrapped water or oil jacket for cooling. From what little could be known about the weapon from the three images, it appears that the Hellriegel is a large-capacity submachine gun, firing what seems to be a 9mm cartridge. It would make the Hellriegel one of the first submachine guns made in the world by definition of a submachine gun. It wouldn't be referred as a submachine gun at the time, as the term "submachine gun" was first coined in 1921 to advertise the Thompson Submachine Gun; the Hellriegel was referred to as a machine gun (Maschinengewehr) on the image caption. It could feed from straight box magazines, or from a large drum magazine which was not actually connected to the weapon and instead fed the cartridges through a flexible chute. The unusual appearance of this drum magazine led to some assumptions that it was belt fed, however this is not the case with the rounds being unconnected from one another and are propelled along the drum and feed chute by a spring in a similar manner to the Trommelmagazin snail drum used by the Luger pistol. The drum magazine is believed to be able to hold up to 160 rounds while the box mag is limited to 20 or so. It seems to be crew-served, as one image depicts an ammo bearer with a backpack for drum magazines, and its seeming intention to be used as a stationary weapon given its weighted base for the drum and its machine gun name (making it a "heavy" submachine gun of sorts). The provision for a drum but not a bipod however, means it is unclear what exactly the weapon was intended to be used for. All three pictures were taken from the right side of the gun, so what the left side looked like is a complete mystery."
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Tsar tank (absolutely bonkers Russian experimental wheeled tank):
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Hand-dropped bomb runs (commonplace during the war until bomb racks were invented for small aircraft):
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German cavalry with pikes (note the horse gas masks).
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Also this happened:
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