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Duluth Evening Herald – 20 November 1900
Wilhelm Lamszus (1912) The human slaughter-house. Scenes from the war that is sure to come. From the German, translated by Oakley Williams (1913). A horrific, realistic vision of the war to come. Review in The Advocate of Peace (1913) THE HUMAN SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. By Wilhelm Lamszus. Translated by Oakley Williams. With lntroduction by Alfred Noyes. New […]
Frederick Britten Austin (1913) “Planes!” in In Action – Studies in War, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons This short story explores the impact of aeroplanes upon warfare especially on conventional troops. While many writers anticipated conflict between England and Germany, few envisioned the full scale of the war or all of the consequences, and many […]
Barillet-Lagargousse (1885) La guerre finale, histoire fantastique par Barillet-Lagargousse, ingénieur destructeur, membre de plusieurs sociétés philanthropiques et savantes. Barillet-Lagargousse’s The Final War (1885), takes the European arms race of the late 19th century to its logical end: a terrifying deadlock due to the political and social paralysis caused by weapons sufficiently powerful to be seemingly […]
Danrit, E. (1889) La Guerre en Ballon The third book in Danrit’s trilogy La Guerre de demain. Full text (in French) at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b598073;view=thumb;seq=1
Maurice Loir (1895) Naval Battles of the Future Maurice Loir’s (1895) Naval Battles of the Future takes the form of a series of journal entries by a perceptive and philosophical naval officer aboard a French vessel engaged in dreadnought warfare in the Mediterranean. It is a sobering reflection on patriotism, solidarity, and ambition, and a […]