Weird War One Taylor PeterPevná vazba
"Friendly Aliens and the British Army." "The Women Versus the Submarine." These strange scenarios may seem to come to us straight from science fiction, but both were in fact bold and attention-getting…
Specifikacia Weird War One Taylor PeterPevná vazba
"Friendly Aliens and the British Army." "The Women Versus the Submarine." These strange scenarios may seem to come to us straight from science fiction, but both were in fact bold and attention-getting slogans to encourage support for British involvement in the Great War. And bizarre propaganda posters are by no means the only curious or confusing memorabilia from the war. There are also pigeon parachutes, military-grade fly swatters, and tickle sticks.For Weird War One, Peter Taylor has scoured the archives of Britain's Imperial War Museum, which holds one of the leading collections of materials related to World War I, to compile this fascinating encyclopedia of eccentricities. Some of the entries are amusing, like the story of a ventriloquist's dummy that boosted men's morale in the trenches and, later, saved its master's life. Others inspire awe, such as the cunning
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