Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home; ca. 1940

This photo and other fantastic images can also be found in Anthony Beevor's Second World War. A great read that gives a fantastic overview of the whole war from Europe to Africa to the Pacific.

These reminders are important for future generations (like us) to not take peace for granted, and to remember that it’s easy to clamor for war if it’s someone else’s house and nation that’s about to get bombed, but when the tables are turned and the bomb whizz over your head, this mechanized mass murder, or whatever watered down PC name war-hungry politicians may give it, is a whole ‘nother beast.

This entry was posted on September 9, 2014 by . It was filed under European History, History of Rhetoric, Human History, Images of History, Life under siege, Military Aviation, Modern Warfare, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird, World War Two and was tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

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