these are not lines written in dejection

by Art of the Luggage Label

Private Ernest Stambash, Co. K, 165th Infantry, 42nd division, receives a cigarette from Miss Anna Rochester, American Red Cross volunteer at Evacuation Hospital No. 6 and 7, at Souilly, Meuse, France, on October 14, 1918.

[Part of a fictional conversation between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in which their ambivalent attitudes to the War are discussed; and how, in spite of the brutality each despises, neither would call himself a pacifist. This is Owen’s explanation. (This is the ninth book in my First World War-related reading series, “Goodbye to All That”.)]

Germany circa 1946…life goes on

Pertjärvi, 1942.04.17.

German soldiers during Operation Barbarossa, circa 1941

Ernest Hemingway, just prior to the Battle of Teruel during the Spanish Civil War, 1937 by Robert Capa.

Charlie Brooker “2014 is so horrible, nothing can cheer us up. Not even Simon Cowell with a bucket on his head" The Guardian (via mallardaise)

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One of the first shipments of whole blood from the American Red Cross in Nebraska on its way to Korea, 1950

Margaret Hamilton with a stack of printed output from early versions of software for Apollo 8/11, ca 1967

Ronald Storrs on T.E. Lawrence (via weirdsociology)

Maximilian Haidacher