French soldiers at Paris in 14 July 1917

French soldiers at Paris in 14 July 1917

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Paris, 1944. Clapagaré, CC BY-NC-SA Libération de Paris

Paris, 1944. Clapagaré, CC BY-NC-SA Libération de Paris

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Fairouz A greeting from my heart to Beirutkisses to the sea and...

Fairouz

A greeting from my heart to Beirut

kisses to the sea and to the houses

to a rock, which is like an old sailor’s face

She is made from the people’s soul..from wine

She is from his sweat…a bread and Jasmines

So how does her taste become? A taste of fire and smoke

Beirut has a glory of ashes

My city has turned out her lamp

By a child’s blood, who was over her hand

She’s shut her door, and became alone in the sky

Alone with the night

Arabic Text:

لِبَيرُوت، مِنْ قََلْبِي سَلاَمٌ لِبَيْرُوت

وَقُبَلٌ لِلْبَحْرِوَالبُيُوت

لِصَخْرَةٍ كَأَنَّهَا وَجْهُ بَحَّارٍ قََدِيمٍ

هِيَ مِنْ رُوحِ الشَّعْبِ خَمْرٌ، هِيَ مِنْ

عَرَقِهِ خُبْزٌوَاليَا سْمِيِن

فَكَيْفَ صَارَطَعْمُهَا طَعْمَ نَارٍ وَ دُخَّانٍ

لِبَيرُوت، مَجْدٌ مِنْ رَمَادٍ لِبَيْرُوت

مِنْ دَمٍ لِوَلَدٍ حُمِلَ فَوْقَ َيدِهَا

أَطْفَأتْ مَدِينَتي قَِنَْدِيلَهَا

أَغْلَقَتْ بَابَهَا

أَصْبَحَتْ فِي المَسَاءِ وَحْدَهَا، وَحْدَهَا وَاللَّيلُ

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Dogfight over the Western Front, WWI. Bettmann Collection

Dogfight over the Western Front, WWI.

Bettmann Collection

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Photo

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howtoseewithoutacamera: by Costas Balafas Partisan girl from...

howtoseewithoutacamera:

by Costas Balafas

Partisan girl from Epirus, Greece, c.1941-1944.

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Pencil on the Western Front The silence spreads. I talk and...

Pencil on the Western Front

The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: ‘Comrade, I did not want to kill you. … But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - …

It is quiet, the front is still except for the crackle of rifle fire. …

'I will write to your wife,' I say hastily to the dead man, 'I will write to her, she must hear it from me, I will tell her everything I have told you, she shall not suffer, I will help her, and your parents too, and your child - '

His tunic is half open. The pocket-book is easy to find. But I hesitate to open it. In it is the book with his name. So long as I do not know his name perhaps I may still forget him, time will obliterate it, this picture. But his name, it is a nail that will be hammered into me and never come out again. …

So I open the book and read slowly: - Gérard Duval, compositor.

With the dead man’s pencil I write the address on an envelope, then swiftly thrust everything back into his tunic.

I have killed the printer, Gérard Duval.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

In Palimpsest

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Roger Schall- Officiers allemands au Cabaret Shéhérazade,...

Roger Schall- Officiers allemands au Cabaret Shéhérazade, Paris, 1940

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Roma, citta aperta (Anna Magnani) Roberto Rossellini (1945)

Roma, citta aperta (Anna Magnani)

Roberto Rossellini (1945)

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treadmill-to-oblivion: Veronica Lake, famous for her long...

treadmill-to-oblivion:

Veronica Lake, famous for her long locks, in a World War 2 safety campaign photograph reminding women of the dangers of long loose hair in munitions factories. Another great e-mail submission.

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Fighting on the Marne, 1914.

Fighting on the Marne, 1914.

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Russia soldiers preparing for battle, WWII

Russia soldiers preparing for battle, WWII

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“Parisians — and untold numbers of refugees from other...

“Parisians — and untold numbers of refugees from other countries, trapped in Paris since the Germans captured the capital in 1940 — pour into the streets on August 25, 1944” via LIFE

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Horst P. Horst: Mainbocher Corset, 1939 In August 1939, on the...

Horst P. Horst: Mainbocher Corset, 1939

In August 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Horst P. Horst took his famous photograph of the Mainbocher Corset in the Paris Vogue studios on the Champs-Elysees. The picture, which marked the end of his work for some time, later became his most cited fashion photograph

Horst had photographed his famous study on the very eve of the coming catastrophe.

“It was the last photograph I took in Paris before the war”, he later recalled, “I left the studio at 4:00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7.00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie. We all felt that war was coming. Too much armament, too much talk. And you knew that whatever happened, life would be completely different after. I had found a family in Paris, and a way of life. The clothes, the books, the apartment, everything left behind. I had left Germany, Heune had left Russia, and now we experienced the same kind of loss all over again. This photograph is peculiar - for me, it is the essence of that moment. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind.”

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II° Conflitto mondiale (novembre-dicembre 1939)

II° Conflitto mondiale (novembre-dicembre 1939)

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A Red Cross nurse writes down the last words of a British...

A Red Cross nurse writes down the last words of a British soldier, WWI.

Paul Thompson

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:That there’s some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England. There shall beIn that rich earth a richer dust concealed;A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,A body of England’s, breathing English air,Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brook 1914

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This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied...

This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers—what was taken, from where, and by whom. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.

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Spitfire WW2

Spitfire WW2

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theincompletenesstheorem: Art Greenspon/Associated PressVietnam,...

theincompletenesstheorem:

Art Greenspon/Associated Press
Vietnam, April 1968

Gelatin silver print

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