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Barbed-wire disease' during the First World War – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections
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British Pilgrimage Trust on X: "WW1 barbed wire, from the fields of France. Solid steel core, with rotating barbs. Many thousands of young lads got stuck and torn and shot on it.
Flanders Fields 14-18 - Barbed wire was first invented in the USA in the 1860s to control livestock. It would go on to become one of the enduring symbols of inhumanity of
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World War I: Barbed Wire. /Ngerman Soldiers Fixing A Barbed Wire Tangle On A Battlefield During World War I, 1914-18. Poster Print by Granger Collection - Item # VARGRC0119061 - Posterazzi
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