100 years of style in 100 seconds

5 Responses to 100 years of style in 100 seconds

1. Clary says:

   July 8, 2014 at 9:23 am

   It is a lot of fun! And the buildings behind show the progress in materials and style too.
   I don’t know if you are into WWI, but today 100 hundred years ago, British families began receiving telegrams telling them about the 19 thousand relatives dead at the Somme a week before.

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   • sheila says:

     July 9, 2014 at 9:53 am

     Clary – I just finished Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings, so yes, I have had WWI on the brain these days!!

     and Ugh, the Somme. Horrifying.

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2. Clary says:

   July 8, 2014 at 9:36 am

   Sorry, 98 years ago. The battle of Somme was in 1916.

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3. Clary says:

   July 9, 2014 at 12:41 pm

   It seems like a good book, we’ll se if it’ll become a classic later. Thank you for expanding my library!
   You’re interested in totalitarism as well, so maybe you know what Hitler did at the WWI. He was a dispatcher runner, meaning the most dangerous job there, running from hill to hill to give messages under bombs exploding all over the place. Meanwhile he would be rumming on German foes, i.e. Jews and Marxists. He was wounded and I can imagine his humilliation when he was informed at the hospital about German capitulation.
   I could picture him as a young man drawing in Berlin, but it was a surprise to learn about his dangerous and very often successful job as a dispatcher.

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4. alli says:

   July 9, 2014 at 7:01 pm

   Did you happen to catch the History Channel’s big special on the men of that generation? “World Wars”? It was great because it captured a LOT of that, how the horrors of the trench affected Hitler especially. If you’re an expert, its probably a little high school for you, but I really enjoyed it. How the two conflicts were really just one thing has always been fascinating to me but the “cool down period” between is usually so glossed over in books.

   Worth checking out.

   http://www.history.com/shows/the-world-wars

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