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World War I in Photos: A Century Later (45 photos)

June 28, 2014, marked the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Assassin Gavrilo Princip fired the first shot in what was to become a horrific years-long bloodbath. However, after the sound of gunfire was silenced on Armistice Day, the deaths continued to mount. Revolutions spawned in Russia and Germany, arbitrary redrawing of national borders set the stage for decades of conflict, harsh reparation demands inspired the rise of Nazi Germany and the onset of World War II. The first World War continues to kill to this day - in March of 2014, two Belgian construction workers were killed when they encountered an unexploded shell buried for a century. Bomb disposal units in France and Belgium dispose of tons of discovered shells every year. Though the events of World War I have now fallen out of living memory, the remnants remain – scarred landscapes, thousands of memorials, artifacts preserved in museums, photographs, and the stories passed down through the years – stories of such tremendous loss. I’ve gathered photographs of the Great War from dozens of collections, some digitized for the first time, to try to tell the story of the conflict, those caught up in it, and how much it affected the world. This entry is part 10 of a 10-part series on World War I.

Tree limbs surround the World War One Canadian Memorial, also known as the ‘Brooding Soldier’ in St. Julien, Belgium on March 7, 2014. The statue is a memorial to the Canadian troops who died in the first gas attacks of the First World War in 1915. (AP / Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/11/world-war-i-in-photos-a-century-later/507341/