The Beauty and the Sorrow (84 page)

THE WESTERN FRONT

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. SMS
Helgoland
, Richard Stumpf ’s ship: Bundesarchiv

  2
. A column of Belgian infantrymen on the beach at De Panne, 17 October 1916: ECPAD (Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense)

  3
. Sanctuary Wood, October 1914: IWM (Imperial War Museum)

  4
. View of Kiel, with the naval base in the background, 1914: Ullstein Bild

  5
. A street in Lens: Bundesarchiv

  6
. Fort Douaumont at Verdun under heavy bombardment, 1 April 1916: Ullstein Bild

  7
. British water carriers at Zonnebeke, August 1917: Ullstein Bild

  8
. Beach scene in Boulogne-sur-Mer, May 1918: IWM

  9
. A blown-up bridge at Villers-Cotterêts, September 1914: IWM

10
. Péronne, end of March 1918: Ullstein Bild

11
. Sailors gathering, ready to demonstrate in Wilhelmshaven, beginning of November 1918: Ullstein Bild

EAST AFRICA

  1
. The war reaches Africa, 1914: Bundesarchiv

  2
. German native troops in combat somewhere in East Africa: Bundesarchiv

  3
. The Pangani River in German East Africa: Bundesarchiv

  4
. British native troops of the King’s African Rifles on parade in Lindi, September 1916: Ullstein Bild

  5
. The wreck of SMS
Königsberg
in the Rufiji delta, summer 1915: Bundesarchiv

  6
. A black machine-gun crew under German command somewhere in East Africa: Bundesarchiv

THE EASTERN FRONT

  1
. The mobilising Russian army gathers horses in St. Petersburg, 31 July 1914: Ullstein Bild

  2
. Russian prisoners-of-war on the Uszoker Pass in the Carpathians, spring 1915: Ullstein Bild

  3
. The transport of Russian prisoners captured during the battles of May and June 1915: Ullstein Bild

  4
. Austrian cavalry crossing the Vistula at Praga in Warsaw, 5 or 6 August 1915: Ullstein Bild

  5
. German troops in Minsk, 1915: Getty Images

  6
. View of Elfriede Kuhr’s Schneidemühl, 1917: AWM (Australian War Memorial)

  7
. Red Square, Moscow, October 1917: Ullstein Bild

  8
. A trainload of homeward-bound Austro-Hungarian troops has stopped in Budapest, November 1918: Ullstein Bild

THE ITALIAN FRONT

  1
. An Austro-Hungarian supply column near Santa Lucia, October 1917: Bundesarchiv

  2
. Italian Alpini in their element, 1915: Getty Images

  3
. Austro-Hungarian mountain troops working their way forward in the Alps, 1915: IWM

  4
. Cima Undici, 1916: Museo Storico del Trentino

  5
. Monte Cauriol, 1916: Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto

  6
. An Austro-Hungarian military hospital on Monte Ortigara, 1915: Museo Storico del Trentino

  7
. Italian prisoners-of-war and some of the victorious German troops in Udine, October 1917: Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto

THE BALKANS AND DARDANELLES

  1
. Supplies, the wounded, and swimmers at Anzac Cove, 1915: AWM

  2
. V Beach on the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915: Ullstein Bild

  3
. An Austro-Hungarian supply column in Serbia, October–November 1915: Ullstein Bild

  4
. Captured Serbian troops on their way to surrender their weapons in Montenegro, February 1916: Ullstein Bild

  5
. A German aeroplane takes off for combat, watched by members of the local population in Macedonia, 1915: Ullstein Bild

  6
. A British army camp outside Salonica, April 1916: IWM

  7
. Salonica immediately after the Great Fire, August 1917: AWM

MIDDLE EAST

  1
. Fortifications at Erzurum, 1916: Getty Images

  2
. View over Kut: Ullstein Bild

  3
. Heavily laden British riverboats on the Tigris, 1916: IW

  4
. Jerusalem has capitulated and welcomes the victors, 1 December 1917: Getty Images

  5
. The ruins of Gaza after the fall of the city, November 1917: IWM

  6
. Under fire on the Palestine front: Getty Images

  7
. View of Bursa: Ullstein Bild

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Englund is a Swedish historian, who has received numerous prizes in his own country and whose works have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also been working as a war correspondent in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Englund is a member of the Swedish Academy (which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature) and in 2008 was appointed its new permanent secretary, an office he still holds.

PORTRAITS

1
. Elfriede Kuhr—German schoolgirl, twelve

2
. Sarah Macnaughtan—Scottish aid worker, forty-nine

3
. Richard Stumpf—German High Seas Fleet seaman, twenty-two

4
. Pál Kelemen—Hungarian cavalryman in the Austro-Hungarian army, twenty

5
. Andrei Lobanov-Rostovsky—Russian army engineer, twenty-two