1914-1919

Tsar Nicholas II among his troops during World War I

Leon Trotsky with his bodyguards in 1919

Never Swap Horses When You’re Crossing a Stream An adage often trotted out by political incumbents, particularly during a war or on the eve of a potential war, supporters of President Woodrow Wilson turned “Never swap horses when you’re crossing a stream” (sometimes heard as “Don’t swap horses in the middle of a stream”) into a campaign song in 1916.

A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.  Photographer Unknown

Jewish Chaplan of the Austro-Hungarian Army Conducts Services for Jewish Russian Prisoners, ca. 1914-1918.

(via Colour photographs, WWI | Retronaut)

A Red Cross recruiting poster for nurses from World War I

Lest we forget the Lusitania! 

At 2:10 p.m. a torpedo fired from the U-20 hit the starboard side of the Lusitania. there were two explosions but only one torpedo was fired. 

(via The Pictorial Arts: The Three Slavs)

British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right - in the middle of the two is no man’s land.

Ernest Hemingway and the Oak Park High School football team, November 1915.

The Silent One, Ivor Gurney.

U.S. soldiers of 2nd Division engaged in the Forest of Argonne, 1918. National Archives

WWI carrier pigeon.