Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men and women during the First World War. They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort in the trenches was the rum ration, children who grew up with only one photograph of the father that they would never get to know, women who would sacrifice their girlhood in hospitals yards from the frontline, pinning a brooch on to remind themselves of a past life. Weapons like the machine gun and vehicles like the tank that transformed the battlefield; planes that had barely learnt to be flown entangled in dogfights far above the barbed wire of the frontline; German submarines that stalked shipping across the seas. Through these incredible artefacts, Peter Doyle tells the story of the First World War in a whole new light.
The First World War in 100 Objects
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Beneath Flanders Fields : The Tunnellers' War 1914-18
Disputed Earth : Geology and Trench Warfare on the Western Front 1914–18
Fritz and Tommy : Across the Barbed Wire
Rough Riders : Two Brothers and the Last Stand at Gallipoli
Grasping Gallipoli : Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
First World War Leaders and Commanders: 5 Minute History
The Battle of Loos 1915 : The Poisoned Field
Trench Talk : Words of the First World War
Gallipoli 1915 : The Fight for the Dardanelles Strait