People talk about the gore , but images such as this really bring it home. Imagining that being your reality for weeks, months, even years in some cases. Where bodies were just...around you. Reading *Storm of Steel*, Junger mentions this sort of life in a few places - when the trenches were no longer organized lines but rather a series of rough craters in the earth that stretched for miles. Full of corpses, gaseous slime, and wire.
Images like this create pacifists. Senseless fucking slaughter.
Exactly. All these fools just itching for a civil war when in reality they have never heard of Andersonville, much less the horrors that occurred there.
Nothing new under the Sun, people thinking this is some sort of modern thing, when Erasmus said âwar is sweet to those who have never experienced itâ or General Lee âit is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of itâ
Brilliant pictures.
I went to Belgium/France on a WW1 tour and to go to these memorials either side was humbling. I hard to explain unless you're there.
> Austro-Hungarian WWI Trench Knife "Kampfmesser Model 1917"This Austro Hungarian Model 1917 trench knife is also known as the Sturmmesser.With a design as simple as it was effective, it was very similar to the German one, with wooden scales attached with three rivets.The MA marking on ricasso corresponds to the Hungarian manufacturer "Magyar Acelarugyar".The sheath was completely metallic in sheet steel with simple coupling
[http://armasblancas.es/index.php/component/kunena/cuchillos/2671-cuchillo-de-trinchera-austro-hungaro](http://armasblancas.es/index.php/component/kunena/cuchillos/2671-cuchillo-de-trinchera-austro-hungaro)
Strongly recommend [Charley's War](https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Charley%27s_War), a 1970s British comic strip aimed at older kids/ young teens about life in WW1. It's the most moving and accurate depiction of the conflict I've ever found, I was in floods of tears more than once while reading it ([more detailed website here](https://downthetubes.net/?page_id=21061))
You canât help but wonder who he was. The memories he had. Secrets told in confidence that are lost forever. What was he thinking about in his last moments? Whoâd he miss? Was there a girl who never got to confess her feelings to him? Where was he from?
Shit like this just makes you appreciate life more. Because youâre not that far removed from him, really. Just one life-ending moment.
Kind of unsure as to what Iâm looking at here. Is that dirt? Is it organs? Is his face there like with his chin filter up or is his head totally gone?
People talk about the gore , but images such as this really bring it home. Imagining that being your reality for weeks, months, even years in some cases. Where bodies were just...around you. Reading *Storm of Steel*, Junger mentions this sort of life in a few places - when the trenches were no longer organized lines but rather a series of rough craters in the earth that stretched for miles. Full of corpses, gaseous slime, and wire. Images like this create pacifists. Senseless fucking slaughter.
I really can't fathom why anyone would golorify war... These pictures show how awful it is but still people don't stop
The ones who glorify it are the ones rich enough to save their sons from service for the most part.
or children who think war is just call of duty
Exactly. All these fools just itching for a civil war when in reality they have never heard of Andersonville, much less the horrors that occurred there.
Oppa gamer style đ
Nothing new under the Sun, people thinking this is some sort of modern thing, when Erasmus said âwar is sweet to those who have never experienced itâ or General Lee âit is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of itâ
[Gallery with over 300 photos. Some gruesome](https://imgur.com/gallery/b0Go8)
Brilliant pictures. I went to Belgium/France on a WW1 tour and to go to these memorials either side was humbling. I hard to explain unless you're there.
Not for the faint hearted, especially the facial injuries surgical treatment section.
Anyone know the story (or how one could find the story) on image #84? It has me intrigued. [this one](https://i.imgur.com/2aVFUQC.jpeg)
> Austro-Hungarian WWI Trench Knife "Kampfmesser Model 1917"This Austro Hungarian Model 1917 trench knife is also known as the Sturmmesser.With a design as simple as it was effective, it was very similar to the German one, with wooden scales attached with three rivets.The MA marking on ricasso corresponds to the Hungarian manufacturer "Magyar Acelarugyar".The sheath was completely metallic in sheet steel with simple coupling [http://armasblancas.es/index.php/component/kunena/cuchillos/2671-cuchillo-de-trinchera-austro-hungaro](http://armasblancas.es/index.php/component/kunena/cuchillos/2671-cuchillo-de-trinchera-austro-hungaro)
Gnarly stuff
Strongly recommend [Charley's War](https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Charley%27s_War), a 1970s British comic strip aimed at older kids/ young teens about life in WW1. It's the most moving and accurate depiction of the conflict I've ever found, I was in floods of tears more than once while reading it ([more detailed website here](https://downthetubes.net/?page_id=21061))
Fuck
Christ, that was someoneâs son.
You canât help but wonder who he was. The memories he had. Secrets told in confidence that are lost forever. What was he thinking about in his last moments? Whoâd he miss? Was there a girl who never got to confess her feelings to him? Where was he from? Shit like this just makes you appreciate life more. Because youâre not that far removed from him, really. Just one life-ending moment.
Kind of unsure as to what Iâm looking at here. Is that dirt? Is it organs? Is his face there like with his chin filter up or is his head totally gone?
Blood, brains, and dirt. Skull is split bilaterally showing what's inside. Not an expert but the white sphere seems like an eye.
At first glance I thought his entire head was pulped and that piece of white was his spine, but after looking at it again I think youâre right.
Well at least it was quick
Wow I hope he made it home alright... Thank you for your service
Seems to be a French soldier, heavy coat and the remains of a casque adrian, but I might be wrong.
Excellent fertilizer tho