The War To End All Wars - Until The Next One

May 18, 2007 7:50 PM

The Great War In A Different Light "Wars can set about vast changes in society, be switching points in history, can be begetters of social movements and the origin of future problems. They are also prime movers in bringing about innovation and new and different ways of doing things and of organizing society."

This is an incredible, multilingual site about WWI. It covers anything and everything, often with paintings and cartoons. You can see an ad for water-purifying drinking straws, volumes of trench humor, and essays on the garbage of war.
posted by lysdexic (9 comments total)

Sounds really, really cool -- sadly, at present I get nothing but image 404s :-/
posted by lumensimus at 9:02 PM on May 18, 2007

These are fantastic! Great post, lysdexic.
posted by katillathehun at 9:06 PM on May 18, 2007

Huh. I don't know what might be going on. I've got a 512K connection and images are taking their time loading, but I do get them. I tried a few other random links and they seem to be loading ok.

They have contact info at the bottom of the index page.

The only other thing I can think of is a firewall setting or someone between you and there is filtering something out.
posted by lysdexic at 9:12 PM on May 18, 2007

Hmm. Some of them seem to work if I look at the source and manually enter the URL, and those I've seen are fabulous :)
posted by lumensimus at 9:38 PM on May 18, 2007

Note to self: emoticons are not proper punctuation.
posted by lumensimus at 9:39 PM on May 18, 2007

the problem is adblock. look at the urls! "Advertisements" whitelist the site or turn off adblock.
posted by quonsar at 9:42 PM on May 18, 2007

Great site. I linked it in a comment and it was posted here.
posted by tellurian at 10:12 PM on May 18, 2007

Damn and double damn! I swear I searched for the site and for the text. Ah well.
posted by lysdexic at 6:25 AM on May 19, 2007

I especially liked the portion about the brothels, etc. (mildy NSFW) -- not because it was titillating (it wasn't particularly) but because it was particularly humanizing.
posted by pax digita at 6:45 AM on May 19, 2007