Christopher Nevinson, 'The harvest of battle' (1919)

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A focal point in time: the Christmas Truce of 1914. What if the soldiers had forced an end to the Great War, and changed history forever?

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This post's featured image is a Victorian vision of Peace on Earth, which would gain whole new significance in such a timeline.

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Christopher Nevinson, 'La patrie'

The sombre picture with the title 'fatherland' (in French) depicts wounded soldiers in a military hospital.

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Coming across this take, I tend to agree, in as much as I am getting some World War I vibes from this lockdown era; like WWI it's a futile, pointless, suicidal struggle dominated by a grim grinding bleakness, where the only victor is the cackling demons of statolatry, and the people of the world, the *whole world*, lose. We can and we must do better.

brownstone.org/articles/is-thi

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Reading up again today about the Zone Rouge, the forbidden lands on the Western Front that are *to this day* unfit for habitation. At the current rate of cleanup it'll take 300-700 years more to restore it. That ought to be accelerated drastically.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rou

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Interview with Nancy Cramer: 89-Year-Old Author Makes History by Writing Serbian History—Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast selfpublishingadvice.org/nancy &video

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