Romanticizing Difference: Identities in Transformation after World War I

[Russians in Bjelovar hospitals during and after World war I].

The Great War was the beginning of the settlement of the Russian population in the town of Bjelovar in war conditions, most often as prisoners of war directed to the treatment of the military or civilian hospital. Thus, in Bjelovar during the Great War died 71 members of the Russian people, principally the soldiers, prisoners. Some were later permanently inhabited, founded by his family and wor...

World War I: an air war of consequence.

On December 17, 1903, the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the world's first successful airplane, following this with the first military airplane in 1908. (The 1908 Flyer was built by the brothers in response to a 1907 requirements specification for a 2-place aircraft capable of flying at 40 mph and able to be broken down and transported in a horse-drawn wagon. Technically, since it cras...

French Neurologists during World War I.

The Great War accelerated the development of neurological knowledge. Many neurological signs and syndromes, as well as new nosological entities such as war psychoneuroses, were described during the conflict. The period between 1914 and 1918 was the first time in which many neurologists were concentrated in wartime neurology centres and confronted with a number of neurological patients never see...

Images of Propaganda: World War I and World War II Posters

America's entry into World War I on April 6, 1917 created an immediate need for a large-scale, nationwide publicity campaign such as this country had never before mounted. Posters played an important role in this endeavor and gained widespread use as instruments of propaganda. In the days before the development of electronic media, governments of fighting nations used this eye-catching, visuall...

Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I