Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Sounds of War

By Drew

Terry Teachout links to a truly remarkable sound clip: a recording of a World War I British gas-shell bombardment. The purpose of the recording was "to preserve the sounds of war before the coming armistice caused them to vanish forever from the face of the earth."

Would that it were so. . .

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