Marching on Tanga. With General Smuts in East Africa
War memoir by British medical officer. This book became a bestseller and went through several editions, shaping impressions of the war in East Africa in the minds of the British public.
Achiel Van Walleghem, De oorlog te Dickebusch en omstreken
Achiel Van Walleghem, a local Catholic priest residing in Dickebusch and Reninghelst, just west of Ypres, kept a diary from August 1914 up until a few years after the war. With an…
Messter advertisement from 1918
German advertisement for Messter-Film GmbH, which was part of the government-sponsored Ufa concern. The advertisement was published in the Dutch film magazine De Bioscoop in early 1918.
A Maori Forester and a French Woman in Conversation
An official photograph of a Maori forester interacting with a local French woman in March 1917.
De overweldinging van België by Lambertus Mokveld (advertentie)
Advertisement for De overweldiging van België by the war correspondent Lambertus Mokveld. It states that this is the first and only book by a trustworthy eyewitness of the German invasion…
Farbzeichnung im indischen Stil von Hand eines Kriegsgefangenen, im Vordergrund Mahabirji, im Hintergrund Dronachal Parba aus dem Fotoalbum des Otto Stiehl
These three drawings made by Ganga Ram Gurung in spring 1917 in the Halfmoon camp are preserved in one of the photo albums of Otto Stiehl at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin. They…
Wounded examining their trophies. Advance East of Arras. September, 1918
This photograph depicts wounded Canadian soldiers behind the Canadian advance east of Arras in September 1918. They are showing trophies to each other, including a pistol in the hand of the…
