With the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I approaching, we explore two very different WWI-related articles.
Visual reminders. Writer and former Voice editor Christina M. Frey highlights some of the more significant movies set during World War 1. “Films offer us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in an era long gone, to understand what it was really like to fight during the First World War.” Saturday Night at the (Old) Movies—We Will Remember Them: World War I Films, November 20, 2009.
I’ve looked at war from both sides now. Writer Zil-E-Huma Lodhi looks at the factors leading to the outbreak of various 20th century conflicts, and their lasting global effects. “World War One ruined the existing global economy and brought upon us The Great Depression (1929-1939) but World War Two set the path for greatest economic boom of our times. ” War Kills More Than a Body, April 16, 2003.
