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World War I was the first modern global military conflict which took place in Europe between 1914 to 1918. Archaic military tactics met modern industrialized warfare for the first time, resulting casualties on a previously unimaginable scale. Men rotted in the mud, then were sent to face massed machine gun fire, modern artillery, tanks and [...] World War One trench art was not only created by soldiers during the actual campaigns in Europe, but also by local residents of the surrounding regions after the war. The economy of the region was shattered after the war and many local folk collected the scrap metal from the fields and fashioned it into battlefield [...] |
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