#august 1914

[mote-historie]

George Barbier, L'Arbre de Science (The Tree of Science), Robe du Soir de Georges Doeuillet, La Gazette du Bon Ton, August 1914.

[redarmyscreaming]

Landwher in Antwerp with a painted gun. 1914.

[catsofaugust]

Alright let’s finish this.

[mjwrightnz]

Remembering the folly of humanity

Remembering the folly of humanity

One hundred and six years ago this week, war clouds loomed close across Europe. Austria-Hungary’s 28 July declaration of war on Serbia ended four weeks of tension and posturing. By 4 August the continent was at war – a moment that has gone down in history as a demonstration of the way in which pride, arrogance and folly lead humanity into darkness. In that ‘golden summer’ of 1914, of course, few…

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[caesarsaladinn]

One thing War and Peace and August 1914 have in common is that when the protagonist tries to suggest some common-sense military reform to the emperor’s advisors, everyone in the room bursts into incredulous laughter.

[vandiemenlander]

He had been left without artillery.  His ammunition wagons had vanished somewhere along the way.  There was such a shortage of ammunition that only one machine gun out of four was usable, and there would soon be none for the rifles either.  In the fourteenth year of the twentieth century the Dorogobuzh Regiment was reduced to facing German artillery with the Russian bayonet.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 1914

[caesarsaladinn]

Where is the Solzhenitsyn Fandom

Cuz I need to speculate about Vorotyntsev and Blagordaryov’s clearly gay relationship with someone