"Why World War I cultivated an obsession with insects" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2019 9:10 p.m. PST |
""The soldier is no longer a noble figure," observed the war poet Siegfried Sassoon while serving on the Western Front. "He is merely a writhing insect among this ghastly folly of destruction." It is little surprise that Sassoon turned to insects to express the plight of the World War I soldier. Many did. Bugs – both real and metaphorical – came to shape the way people thought and wrote about the experience of war, and this prompted a surge of popular interest in insects more generally…."
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| Tango01 | 23 Jun 2019 3:51 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2021 4:13 p.m. PST |
Not only in WW1… Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
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