Haunting Photos Bring The Great War Back To Life
War I, the 4-year conflict that cost the lives of millions of soldiers
and civilians from all parts of the world.
Starting in 1914, The
Great War plunged Europe into darkness, turning parts of the continent
into a swamp of death, destruction and misery. Soldiers died by the
hundreds of thousands in kilometers-long trenches, bombardments leveled
entire cities and towns and thousands were forced to flee their homes or
battle hunger and poverty if they remained behind.
One hundred
years after the beginning of the war, photographer Peter Macdiarmid
revisited some of the key locations of the conflict. He overlaid his
pictures with shots taken during the war years, bringing the haunting
conflict of 1914 to 1918 back to life.
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In the first picture, a man stands near the town hall of
Vareddes, France, on March 12, 2014. In the second photo, German troops
are taking a rest on the steps of the same building during the first
battle of the Marne in 1914. (First photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Images. Second photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty
Images)
Roger Viollet / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
The colored photograph shows people walking near the Place des
Heros in Arras, France, on March 14, 2014. The black and white picture
shows the town hall and the belfry on the square in ruins. (Color print
by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Black and white print by Roger
Viollet/Getty Images.)
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The first photo shows a parked car near the former Episcopal
Palace in Verdun, France, on March 11, 2014. The second photo shows a
French soldier in what's left of Verdun after a German bombing in 1916.
(First photo by Peter Macdiarmid. Second photo by
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.)
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In the first image, people stand at Trafalgar Square, London, on
March 17, 2014. In the second image, London street urchins dressed as
soldiers with paper hats and canes as guns stand in Trafalgar Square in
1919. Behind them is a notice declaring "The Need for Fighting Men is
Urgent." (First photo by Peter Macdiarmid. Second photo by Topical Press
Agency/Getty Images)
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In the colored image, cars are parked at the former railway
station building in Roye, France, on March 12, 2014. In the black and
white image, soldiers stand outside the ruins of the railway station in
1917. (Colored photo by by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Black and
white photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
Apic / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
In the first image, traffic runs from the Basilica of Notre-Dame
de Brebieres in Albert, France, on March 13, 2014. The second image
presents a view of the basilica with the tilted statue of the Virgin
after a shell hit the tower in 1915. (First photo by Peter
Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Second photo by Apic/Getty Images)
Photo12 / UIG / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
The first image shows people walking near the Cathedral in Reims,
France, on March 11, 2014. The second image shows the cathedral of
Reims during a bombardment in April 1917. (First photo by Peter
Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Second photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images.)
Lt. J W Brooke / IWM / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
In the colored photo, trees surround the Somme canal on March 12,
2014 in Frise, France. In the black and white photo, British solders of
the Royal Garrison Artillery working party carry duck-boards across the
frozen Somme canal at Frise in March 1917. (Colored photo by Peter
Macdiarmid. Black and White photo by Lt. J W Brooke/ IWM via Getty
Images)
Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger Viollet / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
In the first image, cars are parked near the Place de la
Concorde, Paris, on March 12, 2014. In the second photo, German
airplanes wrecked by celebrating crowds on the day of the restoration of
Alsace-Lorraine are left on the square, Nov. 18, 1918. (First photo by
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Second photo by Maurice-Louis
Branger/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
Paul Thompson / FPG / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
The first image shows a gated barrier that runs near Scotland
Yard on March 17, 2014 in London, England. The second image shows a
large crowd of men responding to a call by the War Office for married
men aged between 36 and 40 to become munition workers. They gathered
outside the Inquiry Office at Scotland Yard in 1917. (First photo by
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Second photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty
Images)
Hulton Archive / Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
The first photos shows parked cars near Les Halles on the Grote
Markt in Ypres on March 10, 2014. The second photo shows Les Halles
almost completely devastated by bombing in 1915. (First photo by Peter
Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Second photo by Hulton ARCHIVE/Getty Images)
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