Landships II

TinCanTadpole · Legend

German photos - uniforms, etc

Rectalgia · Legend

But ALL airmen quaffed champagne and got drunk while ALL infantry suffered a living hell in the trenches. Great pictures though - and the journalist is better than the sub-editor presumably responsible for the headline.

James H · Legend

Stephen - you might not be familiar with the Daily Mail. Your critique of the headline is appropriate. The Mail has a remarkable ability to devise heads that are somewhat, if not entirely, at odds with the rest of the article, the purpose being to manipulate every story to make you so frightened of everything that the only way to save yourself is to vote Conservative. There may well be an Australian equivalent. This is one of its less malicious examples.

One would have hoped, though, that the Mail might have learned to pay more attention to detail when it comes to stories about WWI photographs, ever since they printed the well-known fake of the gas-masked German mg crew in a water-filled shell hole. I am surprised to read that "it is not known" where the photo of the bombed bridge was taken. My hunch is that it was taken on August 11th, 1917, between 10.30 and 12.45, on the River Styr, in Poland.

Excelsior1 · Major

...very restrained of you, James. I'd say the Mail is a reactionary rag read by ageing bigots with nothing between their ears. In short: junk.

And that's me being restrained, too.

Rectalgia · Legend

Sounds like my sort of rag biggrin "Between June and December 2011 it had an average daily readership of approximately 4.371�million, of whom approximately 2.803�million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.596�million in the C2DE demographic." (Wikipedia)