World War I in 100 Objects by Doyle, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents 100 Objects Nations to War

1 • Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car 2 • The two kaisers: Kriegs-Erinnerungs-Karte 3 • The Triple Entente: patriotic badges 4 • Austrian Feldkappe 5 • Pantalon garance 6 • Pickelhaube 7 • Iron Cross 8 • Propaganda Cross 9 • Kitchener poster 10 • Liverpool Pals badges

The Soldier

11 • “Les Poilus” postcard 12 • Russian furazhka 13 • Canadian insignia 14 • Khaki uniform 15 • Puttees 16 • Lebel rifle 17 • “Butcher” bayonet 18 • German identity disc 19 • Ottoman belt buckle 20 • U.S. field equipment 21 • Austrian water bottle 22 • French field kit 23 • Field dressing 24 • Adrian helmet 25 • Colt 1911 26 • Trench coat

First Moves, 1914

27 • Mosin-Nagant rifle, Tannenberg 28 • Short Magazine Lee–Enfield 29 • Taxicab of the Marne 30 • Cloth Hall, Ypres 31 • “Our Indian Troops” Scrapbook 32 • Christmas gift 33 • French 75 34 • Vickers machine gun

Developing Trench Warfare

35 • A-frame 36 • Barbed wire 37 • Gallipoli trench sign 38 • Trench periscope 39 • Minenwerfer 40 • Shell shards 41 • Death card 42 • Mills bomb 43 • The Wipers Times

The War Deepens and Expands, 1915–16

44 • Trench art ring 45 • War maps 46 • Croix de Guerre 47 • “Rising Sun” badge 48 • “Iron Crescent” 49 • Kukri 50 • Russian imperial insignia 51 • Gas helmet 52 • Loos soccer ball 53 • Alpine crampons 54 • Austrian howitzer 55 • On les aura! poster 56 • Douaumont Ossuary 57 • Tyneside Scottish cap 58 • Lochnagar Crater 59 • Gallantry medals 60 • Wolseley helmet 61 • Legion of Frontiersmen badge

Plumbing New Depths, 1917–18

62 • Trench club 63 • Grabendolch 64 • Cavalry sword 65 • Tank mask 66 • Karl Truppenkreuz 67 • Chinese Labour Corps badge 68 • Canadian identity bracelet 69 • Lemon squeezer hat 70 • Pillbox 71 • Mark IV tank 72 • Wound Badge 73 • Stahlhelm 74 • Demarcation stone 75 • Glade of the Armistice

War at Sea, in the Air

76 • USS Texas 77 • Naval Reichskriegsflagge 78 • Royal Naval Division badges 79 • SMS Emden relic 80 • RFC cap 81 • Aerial photographs 82 • Immelmann, Meine Kampfflüge 83 • Dardanelles forts 84 • Lusitania medal 85 • Albert Ball’s grave 86 • SPAD XIII 87 • Zeppelin fragments 88 • Royal Marine “necessaries” 89 • Torpedo badge 90 • HMS Vindictive

At Home

91 • Iron for gold 92 • Glasgow food poster 93 • “Munitionette” model 94 • Hospital mementos 95 • Telegram 96 • CWGC grave 97 • Prosthetic limb 98 • Inter-Allied Victory Medal 99 • Borne de la Terre Sacrée 100 • Menin Gate

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