WWI-Trench warfare (1 Viewer)

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I really like to see, one day, some new series of WWI. Something like dirt mud trench battles, Germans X Allies Circa 1916.

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I collect historical kits as they have unusual figures and vignettes.Andrea Miniatures has a kit of 3 figures in gas masks with a trench section and barbed wire.The only trouble with these they can be quite high and have to be painted.Colorado Miniatures has this kit at $149 and they are usually the most reasonable on prices.These figures are 54mm.www.coloradominiatures.com
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Dix was man who was proud to join the army and serve his country until he saw the reality and horrors of war.He survived and did a series of paintings showing these horrors.His paintings was banned at some shows and when the Nazis took over they did not allow him to paint on this subject.
Mark
 
It reminds me of a book i saw many years ago that was banned around the same time.It was called something like the 'Casualty' book or the 'Red book',it showed the true effects of Shell fire on human bodies in WW1.It was full of the most appalling,shocking pictures i've ever seen in my life and i can understand why the powers that be wanted it banned.Even all these years later these pictures are not even on the web,they were indeed frightening stuff.

Rob
 
All wars are terrible but can you imagine being in those filthy trenches seeing all this,not knowing if you would ever see home again, those men must have thought that they were truly in hell.
Mark
 
Mark, thank you for those web links, they are very graphic and interesting.

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Rob-- I know the book you are talking about, I owned a copy of it some 30 years ago but got rid of it. It became too much of a struggle to look through it. The photos were absolutely the most horrific illustrations of what modern weapons were capable of doing to the human body that I have ever seen and hope to never see again. Letting such a publication into general release would have been devastating to moral. This would have been a war stopper. -- lancer
 
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Rob-- I know the book you are talking about, I owned a copy of it some 30 years ago but got rid of it. It became too much of a struggle to look through it. The photos were absolutely the most horrific illustrations of what modern weapons were capable of doing to the human body that I have ever seen and hope to never see again. Letting such a publication into general release would have been devastating to moral. This would have been a war stopper. -- lancer
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Absolutely Lancer,i fully understand what you mean.The photos were truly breathtaking in their horror,on top of this if i remember rightly there were few written pages so it was page after page of the most horrendous images.I think you did the right thing in getting rid of it,i have never seen any book so difficult to look at.

Rob
 
I will never forget those jawless and faceless injured. Worst memories. -- lancer
 
I think it may have been called 'Covenants with death' (but i maybe wrong)at the back it had a wax page and a warning that the following pages contained the worst photos.The one pic that will always stick in my mind is of the French soldier who had been advancing in no mans land and had been cut in half by a shell,his upper half remained upright on the ground whilst his lower half was completely missing.True warning of the real cost of war.

Rob
 
A war of the most horrible possibilities. 19th century sensibilities meet the new weapons of the 20th with no chance of understanding or coping. A mere bullet wound would be welcomed. What a fate to blunder into. -- lancer
 
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