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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2013

Jay Winter
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Yale University, Connecticut
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This chapter points out the power of photographs in three sets of images to convey global war not as convention but as unusual, out of the ordinary, strange. The first shows photographs of dead bodies during the 1914-18 war. The second facet of the war which photographs highlight is the sheer variety of landscapes of battle that soldiers and sailors faced for fifty-months of combat. The freezing-terrain shows the white war on the Kosturino Ridge on the Macedonian front. The air war created new possibilities in which fighting took place. The third way in which photographs can introduce people to the radically new character of the First World War is by showing the extent to which the deployment of new weapons and new tactics challenged the laws of war. Flame-throwers were chemical-weapons, but much more radical weapons were introduced early in the war.
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Print publication year: 2014

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  • Plates
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675669.030
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  • Plates
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675669.030
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  • Plates
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675669.030
Available formats
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