jake+topley



This that this is scary because this weapon shooting into a trench would probably have done a lot of damage.
 * 210mm Italian trench mortar**



This shows how much damage was done to the cities in which the war was fought.
 * Ruined buildings at Chateau Thierry**



This is scary considering it just adds another way a solider could of died in the war.
 * Machine gun mounted on an aircraft**

It was shocking to see how many horses it took to pull just a single artillery.
 * 12-horse team pulling heavy artillery**

**German troops holding first-line trench on the River Aisne** To be on the first line was probably scary because they were the first in the war and had to stay in the trenches which were horrible conditions.

**Sinking of the German battleship Bleucher** This is a crazy photograph because i could imagine what was going throught he soldiers minds while they were the bottom of their ship while it was sinking.

**British soldier and German prisoner carrying wounded German prisoner** This is a scary photograph because, I couldn't imagine what it would of been like to have to carry your friend on a stretcher and being a prisoner of war.

**German soldiers camped in a cave in France** This shows how tough it was to be a solider in the war and how tough a solider had to be.

Being a nurse or doctor in the war, you would have seen some terrible things.
 * Hospital room scene**

**Hillside encampments** This picture is shocking showing that the living conditions that soliders had to go through were terrible, living on a hill side and having only a tent as your shelter.

**Funeral procession of Archduke Franz Ferdinand** This photograph is interesting considering that the assasination of the Archduke sparked the war.

**Old woman and her cow, displaced by the war** This is a sad photo showing that the soldiers weren't the only ones who had struggles because many civialians were displaced by the war and left with nothing.

**"The end of a great German ace"** I saw this as a very gruesome picture showing how brutal war really is.

**Wife of soldier** This photo is sad to me because the soldier had to go into war and leave his wife with a chance never to see her again.

**British dead in captured trench** This is another gruesome photo showing how terrible war can be.

**German aerial photograph: Fort Douaumont, Verdun after the German bombardment** I thought this was an interesting photo showing how much a bombardment destroyed a city from an aerial view.