DOCUMENTS
Ad in New York newspaper for Lusitania.
The original 'Zimmerman Telegram' in code.
LITERARY AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
Poetry
Diary entries and personal observations
PHOTOGRAPHS
The skeleton of a soldier found in a trench.
A soldier "hanging on the wire".
Scene posed to depict a charge across no man's land.
German soldiers trying to get through barbed wire.
An aerial view of a poison gas, flame and smoke attack by the French.
Court martial of Black-American members of the 24th infantry regiment.
A trench along the Western Front.
George Patton beside a tank.
German-Americans being deported.
Black American "Buffalo" soldiers of the 367th Infantry.
A scene inside a German submarine.
Americans rally to support their troops.
Men who lost arms and legs during the war.
British soldiers dressed up for a skit.
Zulu warriors are shown entertaining British soldiers.
A typical British trench during a lull in the fighting
The night sky over no man's land
A stretch of no man's land along the Western Front.
Women preparing belts of bullets for machine guns.
Water-filled fox holes and bomb craters.
Even the horses had to wear gas masks.
A shell explodes in no man's land.
Men who were victims of one of the poison gases.
A mail call in one of the front line trenches.
Members of Russia's "Battalion of Death".
A 'sap trench' in no man's land.
Physical evidence of the destruction on a battlefield.
Horses and men swallowed up by the mud.
The bodies of soldiers killed in the trenches.
Machine gunners with gas masks.
German soldiers advancing through a cloud of poison gas.
A French soldier who became a "man without a face".
A typical British trench in the rainy season.
Woman putting the final touches on a gas mask.
Kitchen helper preparing a meal while wearing a gas mask.
American Red Cross lice disinfecting station.
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