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Trophée des Alps
PHOTOGRAPHER: GLENN VAN DER KNIJFF
The Great War
Sadly, the
joie de vivre
of the belle époque wasn't to last. Within months of the out-
break of WWI in 1914, the fields of northern France had been transformed into a
sea of trenches and shell craters; by the time the armistice had been signed in
November 1918, some 1.3 million French soldiers had been killed and almost one
million crippled. A trip to the battlefields of the Somme or Verdun provides a chilling
reminder of the unimaginable human cost of WWI.
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