Toy soldier

German cavalryman in the snow on the Eastern Front, WWI.

Ernst Jünger, La guerre comme expérience intérieure (1922)

French vintage postcard

French strongman lifting a cannon and three comrades, 1917

war is horrible but i have such a soft spot for photos of soldiers asleep, all huddled together in trenches. i find it wholesome.

Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪

Bischofswiesen Bavaria Germany 🇩🇪

Future 7 victory ace Leutnant Georg Straßer of Jasta 17 in front of his Albatros D.V/DVa(?). Seen here as a Vizefeldwebel which would date the photo between 10 July and 13 August 1917, when he received a field promotion to Leutnant. He was WIA in December 1917 and as far as I can ascertain didn't fly combat again. He survived the war but was killed on 4 December 1925 as a test pilot for Junkers. Sanke card #638, text reads "Our brave battle flyer Vizefeldwebel Straßer"

Aftermath of fighting inside Fort Vaux, Verdun. June 1916

Between 1915 and 1918, the Asiago Plateau was a front that claimed at least 335,000 lives, including dead and missing. Even today, the traces of this tragedy are palpable...

French vintage postcard

A gruesome effigy created by British troops from the bones of a fallen German soldier, during fighting to break the Hindenburg Line, near St Quentin, 1918. The German probably died the previous year during the Battle of St Quentin Canal.

French or Belgian soldier bandaging a wounded Red Cross working dog near Flanders, 1917.

German NCO showing how to throw a grenade and to prepare for its consequences, 1916-18

Carving of Lord Kitchner was the British Secretary of State for War at the outbreak of WWI in 1914. He and 600 others drowned in 1916 when his ship struck a German mine in the Atlantic just off Scotland.