Directed in 2011 by Zack Snyder (Justice League, 2017) and produced by Warner Bros, “Trenches” is a very short animated film loosely inspired by 2011 fantasy film Sucker Punch.
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DEAR MISS KOPP (Amy Stewart) The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and abroad in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie.
A collection of WWI resources. New relieses of historical novels set in the 1920s and 1930s
Starting immediately after the end of the Great War, travelling to the war zones along the Western Front flourished, especially from the Commonwealth countries. Ex-servicemen and families alike travelled to the places of war to find the graves of their loved ones and commemorate them. But this soon turned into a profitable form of tourism…
That experience of the front defines the youths that took part in WWI. Their souls, their behaviours, the way they saw the future, everything was heavily impacted. Among the many things they had in common was the inability to express their war experience.
November 11, 1918, 11:00am. The Great War ends. Europe and the entire world involved in that cataclysmic war may finally dream of homecoming, and living a normal life again. They soon discovered there was no going back.
The role and the expectation of women had already started to change at the end of the 19th century. WWI hugely accelerated that process. With men away at war, women took up most of the work of men in all fields, and not all of them were ready to renounce it when men returned from…
Veterans needed to be reinserted into civilian life, be offered new opportunities, and very often, they needed to be demobilised in the soul, as well as the ways of life. It was not an easy path. But they were in such great numbers after the war that no political party could ignore them.
“Over by Christmas”. It’s what everybody thought when the war broke out in August 1914. It was not to be. Unexpectedly, the armies came to a stalemate on the fields of Flanders. Unexpectedly, the war turned into the destruction of lives, towns, landscapes, wildlife on an industrial scale. Unexpectedly, it was going to be four…
Trench life defined the life of millions of men in that war. It was also its great failure, the reason why armies came to a stalemate, turning a war that was supposed to last a few months into a four-year-long terrible butchery.
Before WWI, the concept that trauma could damage a person’s mind and emotions was practically inexistent. Even with its many shortcomings, the high number of servicemen and women who suffered from what was called shell shock allowed a new concept to emerge: that wounds could be other than physical.
Although the radio (or as it was initially called, the wireless) was invented at the end of the 19th century, it found its first significant use during WWI. Radio transmission was still very unreliable, and on the battlefields, soldiers preferred other forms of communication. Yet its wartime employment ushered in the larger peacetime use.