la bête noire

nprfreshair:

itsjohnsen:

‘In 1915 (photographer) Leon Gimpel befriended a group of children from the Grenata Street neighbourhood in Paris who had established their own “army”. He began to visit them regularly on Sundays, helping them to build their arsenal from whatever was to hand, providing direction in “casting”, and recording with his camera the army’s triumphs over the evil enemy, the Boche.’
- Australian War Memorial

Tomorrow: a conversation about WWI with historian and writer Adam Hochschild.