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  2. Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War (exhibition)

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    The exhibition "sets author Terry Deary's words and artist Martin Brown's visuals alongside the Imperial War Museum’s collections" to tell the story of the First World War. [1] The Trench Action Station interactive allowed participants to "explore the terrible conditions in the trenches through feely boxes, and smell to experience what ...

  3. Trench nephritis - Wikipedia

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    Along with other trench diseases such as trench foot and trench fever, trench nephritis contributed to 25% of the British Expeditionary Force's triage bed occupancy and was the major kidney problem of the First World War. [2] [8] The condition led to hundreds of deaths and 35,000 British and 2,000 American casualties.

  4. Western Front (World War I) - Wikipedia

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    Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...

  5. World War I - Wikipedia

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    Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."

  6. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War I - Wikipedia

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    Ottoman trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea at Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, by American Colony Jerusalem (edited by Durova) Sheep club poster at Sheep farming , by Breuker & Kessler, Co. (edited by Durova )

  7. Historiography of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Among the major subjects that historians have long debated regarding the war include: Why the war began; why the Allies won; whether generals were responsible for high casualty rates; how soldiers endured the poor conditions of trench warfare; and to what extent the civilian home front accepted and endorsed the war effort. [3] [4]

  8. Role of geography in World War I - Wikipedia

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    The brutal conditions, geographic landmarks, and outbreaks of disease as well as location helped in bringing the defeat of the Central Powers. After the war at the Treaty of Versailles, Austria-Hungary was broken up into two separate countries, and much of the German landscape was given away to France, Poland, and others.

  9. Trench rats - Wikipedia

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    Journal of the Western Society for French History. 47. ISSN 2573-5012. "The trenches and trench warfare", World War One, Cambridge University Press, pp. 198–203, retrieved 2022-03-18. "Trench Rats Facts & Information | Free GCSE Worksheet". School History. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2022-03-18. "Voices of the First World War: Trench Life".